What Chase Your Brave Means To Me
Pinch me…maybe twice just so I can be sure. I did it. With a grateful courageous heart, I stepped out in a big way to go after something truly amazing!
Wow.
I didn’t wait until I had it all figured out. Worry and stress didn’t over take me. I didn’t allow myself to get trapped in the “How on earth will this work?” and the “What about this?”
I listened.
What started as a whisper continued to get louder. At times, I wanted to turn around and say “Repeat that” when I knew I was being told to step out in a bold way…just to make sure I hadn’t heard wrong.
And then, I did it.
I started a movement. Not just a movement in me but a movement for you, too!
I want you to Chase Your Brave every step of the way.
My purpose is always to encourage women to step into their power and believe in themselves in a way that they haven’t before. I want to show moms how they don’t have to sacrifice the precious moments with their children in order to build a 6 figure (and beyond!) network marketing business. With the right network marketing training systems, methods, mindset and support, your goals will not just be lists on paper. They will manifest right before your eyes.
I want to show you how to be brave, bold and a little bit crazy. You do not need to choose either/or, but rather you can live a life of both/and. I am excited to support women regardless of where you live, or what home based business or network marketing company you’re with. I am excited to help you avoid stumbling around as you build your business by showing you how to learn from my mistakes!
Can I tell you a little story about how God works? Let’s go back over a decade so you can see how crazy awesome God’s plan is!
How I learned to Chase my Brave
After leaving a teaching job when my first son was born, I quickly found myself home with 3 little ninjas ages 3 and under. Can anyone out there relate?! A friend from church introduced me to a network marketing company that I hadn’t heard of before. I jumped in, loved it, and made great money in spite of having no experience in any sort of sales or knowledge of the industry. The cool thing was that I got to teach, encourage, coach, inspire just like I had as a teacher, but just on a much bigger platform.
I LOVED it, but once again God made it clear after a while that that was not my stopping point.
A huge opportunity came to work with a company new to the network marketing industry. I wasn’t sure I wanted to pursue another venture, but I was nudged by something inside of me to take a look. It was a little crazy. Thirty minutes after reading about this company, I found myself in a truck driving with 2 of my little preschoolers on an 11 hour road trip to go “check it out”.
This sounds like a movie, but our truck broke down outside of a prison where there had been a prison breakout! So, the cops literally came and picked us up and took us to a hotel. My boys will never forget that!
I jumped in to this new company after it became clear that this was the next brave that God was asking me to chase.
I quickly built to the top of the company taking thousands on the incredible journey with me.
My team was bigger than ever before, and I was being pushed by a mentor who knew how to just throw me into situations where I would grow. I cringe as I remember the time he put me on stage in front of the largest crowd this shy girl had ever spoken in front of! He said, “No worries,
no stress, you’ll do great! But you better deliver, you better kill this…oh and don’t go a second over your 30 minutes!”
Lol…I guess as they say what doesn’t kill ya makes ya stronger. I got out on that stage and did it! My leadership skills refined so much in company #2.
A New Kind of Chase Your Brave
Nothing could have prepared me for what it felt like when it went out of business unexpectedly. My only option was to trust that everything I had been allowed to go through up until this point had served a purpose.
You see, all the while I was chasing these mountains in network marketing, my husband and I were building a traditional business, suffering through several miscarriages, and building a home. Life was happening, too. It’s funny how life doesn’t pause while we
pursue our dreams and chase after our brave.
I took some time off from network marketing because the next brave move wasn’t business related it was family related. I promise to tell you all the miraculous details of that in a later blog post!
God blessed us with our 5th baby (and only girl!) during this break from the network marketing industry.
He grew me, my heart, and leadership in so many other ways. It wasn’t long before he opened another door and asked me to chase after the biggest brave yet!
After an extensive interview process, I was offered an opportunity to work for a network marketing company that was pushing to go beyond a billion dollars in yearly global sales. It was a dream that had been placed on my heart several years prior that I had been waiting for. It is crazy to reflect on my journey.
First, I started in classroom of students, then had a large team of people in company 1, a substantially larger leadership role and team in company 2, and now this corporate position where I would teach, train, mentor and support a whole company of people on an incredible field development team!
Wow! Who am I that God would call me to lead like this? There is a quote that says our talent is God’s gift to us, and that what we do with it is our gift back. I cling to that when I question some of these “brave leaps”. I cling to the truth that I am doing exactly what He’s asked me to.
The Next Chapter of Chase Your Brave
This all leads me to the next chapter of the story! I get to chase after something very brave in a whole new way. God started whispering to me again. And truthfully, I kind of didn’t want to listen.
I mean I had a good thing going. I worked on the corporate side of network marketing with a field of distributors I loved! My friends in the field were incredible and meant the world to me! But the whisper got louder, and the signs became so abundantly clear.
The Lord continued to say “More…there’s more for you to do, more ways for you to lead and serve”. I wasn’t scared of doing something brave, but I had to really come to terms with the fact that I wasn’t at the finish line in this race. I was only just beginning to scratch the surface of what I could do to support and empower women.
You see, over the years I had seen how much network marketing women needed support when juggling kiddos, home life, and the desire to build a strong business from home. I saw them continue to try and “figure it all out”. They often suffer feeling like there must be something wrong with them. God just continued to speak to me and work on my heart telling me that I wasn’t meant to just help one certain team, or even one specific company right now. I was to offer up my talents, that came from Him in the first place, to anyone who needed support, accountability, coaching, and vision. He was asking me to leave the known, the secure paycheck, the familiar faces, to go out on my own. I needed to chase my brave again.
Chase Your Brave...now that requires trust!
He assured me that He would work through me and in me just as He always has.
So, that’s how this all came to be, and I couldn’t be more excited, humbled and driven to be able to come along side women and show them how to crush it every step of the way.
I am here to help you Chase Your Brave. I am here to support YOU on this journey called life, motherhood, and business. My purpose here is to show you how you don’t have to choose between family and business. You can have both and never miss a moment.
Are you ready to Chase Your Brave?
Aspen is a Success Coach and Network Marketing Expert. As a mother of 5 incredible kids, her passion is empowering and equipping women to reach their financial and business goals while thriving in motherhood, never missing moments with their families, and chasing after what makes them brave.