When Tianna and I got started in our Virtual Assistant career, the mindset shift to a business owner was never made. We made the shift to working for ourselves, making our own hourly rate, choosing what clients we work with and making our own hours. But we never completely made the transition to being a business owner.

So when we had women coming to us, asking if we could teach them how to become a Virtual Assistant and work from home like we did… We would, and it would take up hours of our day. Taking time from our client work and our kids. For free.

I remember being at a much needed date night with my husband and having a woman I was “coaching” calling me over and over and my husband questioned the worth of someone who while it may have been unknowingly, was taking advantage of me offering to help. He pointed out that people literally pay for “coaching” like I was offering for free but it never really crossed my mind to bring turn it into an income.

When Tianna came into my life and I shared with her how I’d love to coach women, she had shifted into the business owner mindset more than I had…and said, “Let’s do it.”

Still, when we got onto a call with our soon to be business coach (who we paid for), Apoorva Pande…we realized even more so how far from a business owner mindset we were! And on this week’s Mother Together episode, we talk with Apoorva about how lacking our mindset was then and how important it was to change that.

A good mindset is a necessity for any type of growth. Business or no business.