Melissa Beasley is a natural skin care formulator, the founder of Love-Essential Skin Care, and the mother of two amazing boys. After a toxic marriage led to a devastating divorce she and her boys moved in with her parents and she started the process of rebuilding. She started making skincare in her parents’ kitchen as a way to support herself and her boys, and Love-Essential Skin Care was born. She still manufactures products for Love-Essential Skin Care, and creates custom product lines for spas and salons, but now she has a bigger mission. She uses the skills she learned while rebuilding her own life to help other women rebuild after abuse and divorce have torn them down. It is her dream to see women become completely free from the burdens of their trauma and create a life of vitality and joy.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Melissa’s Coaches
- J.K. Rowling
- Gene Monterastelli
When business started difficulties overcame:
“one was financial. When I started my business I was living with my parents, I had two small children and I was going through a really contentious divorce… Compounded on that was just tons of beliefs about myself that even though I was a relatively strong Southern woman I had really had a lot of that chipped away. And so, trying to sell yourself and put yourself out there and tell people to buy what you are selling when you don’t believe in yourself is hard. And having those belief issues affect going and finding funding, asking for funding”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Empathic Mastery: A 5-Step System to Go from Emotional Hot Mess to Thriving Success Book by Jennifer Elizabeth MooreFavourite Quote:
“I will make it work”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Formula Botanica is the world s leading accredited online Organic Cosmetic Science School. Their online courses teach you how to formulate organic cosmetics
- Tapping Q & A – Stop Self Sabotage & Have The Life You Want – Tapping Q & A with Gene Monterastelli
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“do your inner work because you can know the perfect strategy and never do it. And we are really, really good at talking ourselves out of doing the things we need to do to grow our business like calling a contact or calling someone to ask them if they would like to carry our products. And so clearing those inner fears of doing that work… Are you doing the things that you do out of love for yourself or out of some sort of should that you have from the world? Because it’s out of obligation to somebody else building a business is hard and it takes a lot of work and if you are not doing it out of some sense of love and joy for yourself it’s hard to show up to that work every single day. And so keeping in mind why you want to do this is something that is really important”…[Listen for More]
More About Melissa Beasley:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You reach a point where you don’t work for money.” Walt Disney
Other Quotes From the Chat with Melissa Beasley:
- “we are building a lifestyle not a business”
- “if I could go back and have more confidence in myself and have more trust in myself and maybe even willing to make some mistakes knowing that I could come out of the other side having learned and still move forward I think that I could have moved forward”
- “to not stop… Because there are ups and downs… Be willing to backtrack, be willing to take some side roads to do what you have to do to go for the goal that you want”
- “how I deal with change; and I think that part of it is been able to look at something that has gone wrong or looks differently than I thought it was going to and be frustrated for a second and then take a deep breath and say okay ‘I will make it work’. And I think those words are so empowering because it puts you in a position of not being a victim, it puts you in a position of saying this is hard and I don’t know exactly how this is going to work right now but I will make this work”
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