478: Chelsea Stevenson: How To Embrace Your Identity, Your Art and Your Defiance
Chelsea Stevenson is a professional henna artist, business strategist, and homeschooling mom of three based in Baltimore, MD. With a focus on brand positioning and sustainability, she teaches henna artists and other creative, niche service-based entrepreneurs how to build vibrant, profitable businesses doing what they love (and getting paid more for it!) through her brand, Hennapreneur. She believes above all things that there is power in the legacy we leave and that this legacy is built every single day. When she's not working with her clients and students, you can find her shamelessly indulging in a good Netflix binge or whipping up something tasty in the kitchen!\nChelsea and I are in a membership community for entrepreneurs.\xa0From her very first post in the group I knew I wanted to get to know her.\xa0She is so brilliant and funny and as real as they come.\xa0I know you\u2019ll adore her as much as I do.\nListen in to hear Chelsea share:\n\nWhat inspired her 30th birthday bucket list to really conscientiously enjoy the life she\u2019s built\n\nWhy she chose to homeschool in order to honor her children\u2019s identity and create a safe place for them to experience their identity without being othered\n\nHow she has embraced defiance and what that has looked like\n\nWhy she is building her own table instead of trying to find a seat at someone else\u2019s\n\nHow she\u2019s breaking cultural norms with her art and her work\n\nWhy she shifted her professional work from social work to henna artist with only $32 to her name\n\nThe truth about making money from your art\n\nHer legacy around \u201cexcellence is not optional\u201d\n\nWhy you need to share your art with the world (and charge real money for it)\n\nLinks mentioned:\n\nSign Up for my Purposeful & Profitable Podcasting Workshop\n\n\nCheck out Chelsea\u2019s Henna Boutique\n\nCardamom & Clove on FB\n\nCardamom & Clove on IG\n\nLearn about Hennapreneur\n\n\nHennapreneur on FB\n\nHennapreneur on IG\n\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices