04/13/2026
Hey everyone ✨
For anyone new here, I wanted to share a little about my story and how I became the person I am today.
I grew up in a pretty average household. My parents always made sure we had what we needed, but we definitely didn’t have all the extra things a lot of other kids had. And growing up, that bothered me more than I’d like to admit.
I cared way too much about fitting in. I compared myself to everyone around me. I printed out UGG labels and stuck them on the back of my Walmart boots because I was embarrassed they weren’t real. I pretended to have a phone because I didn’t want people to know I didn’t have one. Those things may sound small now, but when you’re young and insecure, they feel like everything.
I always had friends. I played sports, cheered, stayed involved, and was even student council president in middle school. From the outside I probably looked confident, but truthfully, I spent a lot of my younger years feeling like I wasn’t enough.
When I turned 16, my mama told me if I wanted to drive, I needed to get a job. So I did. And from then on, I paid my own way. My car, my insurance, my phone, my bills. At 17, I moved out and started figuring life out on my own.
And I’ll be honest, nothing has ever been handed to me.
No one gave me a blueprint for business. No one taught me how to start one. No one in my family had done it before. I had to figure it out through trial and error, failure, long nights, stress, doubt, and just refusing to quit.
But I knew one thing for sure: I never wanted to live a life where I had to constantly worry if I could afford groceries, miss opportunities because I didn’t have the money, or depend on someone else to take care of me.
So I worked. Hard.
And now at 22, I’ve built businesses I’m proud of, I have customers who support me faithfully, and I’ve created stability for myself that younger me could only dream of.
I’m not sharing this to brag.I’m sharing it because I know what it feels like to compare yourself to everyone else. I know what it feels like to think other people are ahead because they started with more. I know what it feels like to wonder if you’ll ever get there.
If that’s you, please hear me when I say this:
Keep going.
Where you start does not determine where you finish.What you grew up with does not define what you can build.And just because it hasn’t happened yet does not mean it won’t.
Be patient. Be disciplined. Stay hungry. Trust God. Work hard.
You are capable of creating a life bigger than you ever imagined.
All glory to God for making me the woman I am today. ✨
-Nat🫶🏻
