About Me
I'm a single mother who went from public housing, public assistance, and constant overdrafts to owning her own home, starting a business, a ministry, and a non-profit. By faith, I fought my way through the fear of failure to pursue dreams that seemed unattainable. |
about me
Hey, I'm Carica and I am happy you found your way here because this may be the start of a beautiful relationship! I have had an obsession with entrepreneurship since childhood. I ran a babysitting and errand service in our apartment complex in middle school. I started a typing and editing service in high school. I sold and delivered dinners to beauty salons and barbershops after I got my driver's license in eleventh grade. It was no surprise when I switched from being a biology to business major my second year of college.
Five years post college, I began a side hustle as a small business consultant. I used what I learned in school and what I was learning in corporate America to help small business owners and entrepreneurs with growing and scaling their businesses. I saw a need. Many business owners and entrepreneurs had good businesses and great ideas, but lacked the expertise to advance them. I noticed their was a fear that accompanied their uncertainty, as well. This was all to familiar to me and I began to coach and consult on a personal and professional level.
Five years post college, I began a side hustle as a small business consultant. I used what I learned in school and what I was learning in corporate America to help small business owners and entrepreneurs with growing and scaling their businesses. I saw a need. Many business owners and entrepreneurs had good businesses and great ideas, but lacked the expertise to advance them. I noticed their was a fear that accompanied their uncertainty, as well. This was all to familiar to me and I began to coach and consult on a personal and professional level.
This is my story
College graduation day with baby girl and my uncle.
I became a single mom my last year of college and that bomb dropped hard. It nearly took the wind out of me. I didn’t want pity nor did I want to be viewed as a failure. Working hard through college to end up a single woman with a child before marriage and a job, screamed failure to me. As a result, I developed and struggled with the fear of failure due to disappointment and rejection.
I built a tough exterior that reflected an “I can do it myself” attitude, to combat the possible repeat of pain and heart ache I experienced.
I spent years stuck in this funk and it spilled into several areas of my life: professionally, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. I was afraid to be disappointed, afraid to disappoint, and afraid of being rejected. I didn’t want to fail in an area I planned to succeed in, again; therefore, I didn’t do anything to pursue dreams and desires I had in my heart. Instead, I stayed in my bubble of comfort and familiarity. I became a business consultant, helping small businesses expand their efforts and their network but I was too afraid to go after my own. I empowered women to pursue their dreams, but I sat on mine. I watched and supported folk's ministry, but wouldn't support the gift God gave me. Things had to change. I had to change.
I built a tough exterior that reflected an “I can do it myself” attitude, to combat the possible repeat of pain and heart ache I experienced.
I spent years stuck in this funk and it spilled into several areas of my life: professionally, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. I was afraid to be disappointed, afraid to disappoint, and afraid of being rejected. I didn’t want to fail in an area I planned to succeed in, again; therefore, I didn’t do anything to pursue dreams and desires I had in my heart. Instead, I stayed in my bubble of comfort and familiarity. I became a business consultant, helping small businesses expand their efforts and their network but I was too afraid to go after my own. I empowered women to pursue their dreams, but I sat on mine. I watched and supported folk's ministry, but wouldn't support the gift God gave me. Things had to change. I had to change.
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I'm a business school graduate, business consultant, an empowerment coach, evangelist and minister of dance. I'm the president and founder of Women of Color Entrepreneurs Network and the non-profit Not By Sight Outreach. I'm a laugh out loud, straight talking, proud single mom who believes all things are possible, if you believe and work for it.
For over 10 years, it has been my passion to empower individuals who are ready and focused to overcome the fear that hinders personal, spiritual, emotional, or professional growth. I teach tactics and strategies to turn business and life dreams into reality. I am outreach and ministry driven and walk firmly by faith trusting God's word and encouraging other's to do the same.
You don't have to stay in the state you are in. If I relied on my own strength, I’d still be a fearful, unsure single mom, with constant overdrafts, relying on public assistance and public housing to help sustain my needs, dreaming of the life I desired but fearful to step out on faith to achieve it. I faced my insecurities and began to view them as stepping stones and not boulders trying to crush me. I learned to fuel the fear of failure into motivation to pursue the dreams of my heart. I trusted God's word and replaced fear with faith.
God has created you for greatness and has deposited vision and a purpose for your life you are capable to achieve!
For over 10 years, it has been my passion to empower individuals who are ready and focused to overcome the fear that hinders personal, spiritual, emotional, or professional growth. I teach tactics and strategies to turn business and life dreams into reality. I am outreach and ministry driven and walk firmly by faith trusting God's word and encouraging other's to do the same.
You don't have to stay in the state you are in. If I relied on my own strength, I’d still be a fearful, unsure single mom, with constant overdrafts, relying on public assistance and public housing to help sustain my needs, dreaming of the life I desired but fearful to step out on faith to achieve it. I faced my insecurities and began to view them as stepping stones and not boulders trying to crush me. I learned to fuel the fear of failure into motivation to pursue the dreams of my heart. I trusted God's word and replaced fear with faith.
God has created you for greatness and has deposited vision and a purpose for your life you are capable to achieve!
