Reader,

I feel really invigorated to share a message I don't see enough women entrepreneurs talking about:

Sales as activism.

Sales as resistance.

Sales as the antidote to what is going on in the world.

As Kamala Harris put it, "This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves." 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The problem, as I see it is this:

As women, we're playing too damn small.

Reader, money is power.

For good or for bad we live in a capitalist society and MONEY is the currency of power.

By playing small in business, you are giving your power away.

I am sick and f*cking tired of hearing women say that they don't want to charge for their work because they want to "help people".

It is this exact attitude that causes women to perpetuate the cycle of being oppressed and powerless in our society.

While women are conditioned that we should give our work away for free "out of the kindness of our hearts"...

...men receive no such conditioning.

This is not by accident.

This is by design.

You have a RESPONSIBILITY to make money if you want to change the world.

So if you woke up today and wondered, "What the hell can I do???" my first action for you is this:

STOP PLAYING SMALL AND START MAKING AS MUCH MONEY AS YOU CAN.

Charge good money for your work.

Pay good money to work with other women.

Here's a reel I posted today with this pep talk:

I love you.

And I want to be clear that this message is for you no matter who you are.

Because one of the lessons that hit me in the face today is how if people aren't making enough money they don't have the ability to worry about anything else.

Call me an optimist, but I just don't know any other way of being.

I refuse to give up.

Lots of love,

Courtney