E33 How to tap into your creativity and use this to start your dream business, with Charlotte Jenkyn

The My Journey to Fearless Podcast

Welcome to episode 7 of the “How She Did it” mini-series where I’m interviewing 8 inspiring women who have kindly agreed to share their stories about how they found their passion and purpose, started their businesses and left their day jobs.

Today I’m speaking to Charlotte Jenkyn and Charlotte is telling us about the journey she’s been on over the past year. We talk about how she was unhappy in her job, how she became aware of the idea that she could work for herself - which is something she hadn’t ever considered before, and how she was finally pushed to breaking point in her job and had to make the decision to leave. Charlotte is on a really exciting journey and she’s shown huge courage over the past year to choose her own path and follow her dreams. I know you’ll find her story really inspiring!

Timestamps

2:17: Charlotte explains how her entrepreneurial journey began when she was feeling a bit disheartened in her day job. She was questioning whether she had chosen the right career so she started her first business on the side of her job - just as lockdown hit!

4:17: Charlotte started to learn about mindset, personal development, and passive income, and her thinking started to change. She started to wonder whether a 9-5 was for her. The entrepreneurial switch was flicked on in her brain!

5:37: If you’re unhappy in your job try looking at life in an opportunistic way instead and find out about all of the possibilities that are open to you.

6:25: Charlotte threw herself into personal development and listened to every podcast people recommended, and every book too! She wanted to learn as much as she can and set off on her journey of self-discovery.

7:37: Charlotte began to dislike the new job she had started and she knew that she needed to decide whether this career was what she wanted to be doing - she was starting to have doubts. She started to listen to her thoughts about starting a business and wondered if she could work for herself instead.

9:22: Charlotte started a travel blog and tried to find out how to monetise it, and thought she could make money from this alongside her network marketing role.

10:17: having a creative outlet alongside your day job is such a great thing to do - as so many jobs don’t allow us to be creative.

11:02: Charlotte reached a breaking point in her day job and had to make a decision on whether to stay or to go. There was a voice deep down inside of her that said you can’t do this anymore.

12:17: As soon as you get breathing space from your job things start to become clearer and you can make decisions and see the bigger picture. Hitting this breaking point pushes us to decide what we want.

13:17: When Charlotte turned 30 she felt like she was questioning everything - and what she wanted her future to be. She felt she couldn’t get the life she wanted with the job she had.

15:02: Charlotte started to just dream more and she realised she had been surprising her creative side and had followed a path she was almost told to follow by society. Climbing the corporate ladder wasn’t what she was interested in doing. It didn’t give her control over her life. She wanted the freedom to express herself.

16:47: Charlotte wants to travel the world and having her own business will allow her the freedom to do this.

17:35: Charlotte pivoted her business ideas, left the network marketing company, and decided to create a course instead! She didn’t like the cold messaging that came with network marketing. She wanted to do something that was more authentic, more her.

19:27: Charlotte started to create her own brand and learn everything she needed to know about starting a business.

20:07: Charlotte shares about her new course to help people travel more around their 9-5 jobs. Charlotte traveled abroad 8 times in 2019 - within the leave she had in her day job. She was being really smart with her time and money. She wants to show other people how to do it too!

21:37: Travel makes people feel good. It’s a great source of wellbeing and can be so beneficial to our mental health too.

26:02: Charlotte shares her biggest piece of advice for you if you currently feel stuck in a job that makes you miserable or affects your mental health.

28:42: You need to believe in yourself because you can do incredible things! Don’t give up on finding what you are passionate about.

31:25: Charlotte shares that her biggest fear is not feeling enough, and what she’s doing to overcome this.

32:07: Charlotte is always working through her money blocks too - such as it’s hard to make money, and you can’t spend too much or it will run out, or why would anyone pay for her help.

35:32: How you can connect with Charlotte and find out more about her course.

Links

Follow Charlotte on Instagram (and send her a message to find out more about her course)

Check out Charlotte’s quiz to find out which word describes how travel makes you feel

Grab your free tools to help you discover what your perfect business idea is