Trisha’s advice for people who want to start their own businesses:
•Your responsibility is to be clear about your vision. Then you can
ask others to help.
•There is a lot of assistance out there for entrepreneurs if you look
for it: I learned bookkeeping from a volunteer group of retired accountants.
•Surround yourself with people who support you. A lot of people said I
was crazy to start my own business as a single mom. But I had a few people
who believed in me.
•Be okay with the knowledge that you won’t know how to do everything
right away and trust that you can learn.
•Create a “mastermind group” – 2 or 3 people who are willing to
have you bounce ideas off them every few weeks. I kept my group going for 10
years.
•Realize it will be hard, and accept that.
