Tara Baker A little under 2 years ago, Tara proposed to her then girlfriend, Arlia. Arlia said yes. The first thing Tara and Arlia did was venture out to find wedding planning inspiration yet quickly found a heteronormative wedding industry. So, they created Dancing With Her, the world’s first (and only) print and digital publication dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ women in love.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Going in without that education behind me in terms of business, I’d spent time at university studying sociology so something very very different to business but also helpful I guess in terms of people and learning how people work so I think that was the biggest challenge going in was just believing in myself” …[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
None Specific
Favourite Quote:
“Don’t ever be afraid to ask, there’s no harm in asking questions”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google – Search the world’s information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you’re looking …
- Asana – Easily organize and plan workflows, projects, and more, so you can keep your team’s work on schedule.
- Airtable – Airtable works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power of a database to organize anythin
- Grammarly – Millions trust Grammarly’s free writing app to make their messages, documents, and posts clear, mistake free, and effective
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Celebrate your wins because I think that that’s something that we probably don’t do that as much as we should, it’s hard to stop and slow down and take it all in and know what’s happened and especially moving forward knowing that you’ve been able to achieve something however small that is it doesn’t need to be a giant sale or an amazing award”…[Listen for More]
More About Tara Baker:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Grace allows for questions … and is the answer!” Evinda Lepins
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tara Baker:
“You get knocked down and people tell you you can’t do things or what you’re doing isn’t going to work for X Y and Z and it’s probably something that I’ve really learned that when you start a business all these people tend to have all these opinions about what that should look like and how that should run and whether they have a business themselves or not they have these opinions and you need to be able to stand up for yourself and get knocked down but then stand back up”
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