How and Why I Started My Businesses
With thoughts of helping stay at home become work at home moms, I created and designed Moms in Slippers to do just that.
The Closed Door
After being terminated from my position as program coordinator of the Internal Medicine Residency Program I went home and stayed home. Determined to start my own business I began typing and transcribing various reports and term papers for professors and students.
Magic Fingers, as I was called at my place of employment, was birthed and I was excited. Right after its birth I discovered the gift of design. My days at the hospital taught me much more than just typing a schedule. It taught me that I had infinite potential to get wealth. What I did not know was that wealth had been in me all of my life.
During my time in the Department of Medicine I was told that I would be responsible for typing up the residents’ monthly schedule. On a typewriter. If I made a typo I would have to get white out or tape to correct my typos. Unacceptable to me and beyond time consuming, I decided to type the schedules on the computer not knowing anything about the computer.
Lessons Learned.
Even though I had no clue as to how to use a computer or how type a schedule on the computer, much less in portrait or landscape form, I was committed to making the schedules look professional and easier to read than the antiquated method that was in place. The other secretary was totally against me making this change, but I felt it was necessary. It was then that world war 3 broke out, but it was also right then and there that my whole new amazing world of doors started opening up for my good. People who worked in the hospital started coming to me for my computer expertise and I was elated to share my knowledge with them. Even some doctors inquired about my computer savviness. I was doing typing work for doctors at home and was making a lot of money. So when I was terminated from my job because of the major changes had taken place I welcomed the close door. I had just lost my father and my young school-aged children needed my presence at home.
Starting To See Clearly
When I was let go from my position I collected unemployment for almost a year. This gave me ample time to figure out what I was going to do with my life. I knew working for someone else was not an option for me until I was forced to find work due to my inconsistencies running my business. I took a job at an elementary school doing absolutely nothing which paid me $11.95 an hour. This was extremely difficult for me because I was accustomed to being home, but hubby and I had just bought a new home and we needed the money. I can honestly see why some people get divorced over their financial struggles. I thank God that this was not in His great plans for my life.
I worked this embarrassing and demeaning job for a year and quit. I just could not continue driving to a job that had no substance. I decided that I was going to start, grow, work and promote my business like never before. That was until depression crept in. I was so down and out that I didn’t know which way too turn. Most of my adult life has been me trying to find my way. First of all let me say this. I had no faith in myself, in God, my skills nor my abilities, but this was because I had no idea what faith meant. I never heard the word faith growing up even though I attended Sunday School and church on a regular basis. I don’t think my friends knew anything about having faith.
Slowly Building my Businesses Through Faith
I grew up in a very loving Christian home with two of the most phenomenal parents ever to grace my life and this planet. The neighbors and their children adored and loved my mother and father as did I. Let me tell you that having faith in God is imperative to your life if you have plans to soar forward in your business.
Back to my depressed state. I was too depressed to do anything in terms of running my business although I had a reservoir of resources available to me I was just down from not being able to generate the kind of money I envisioned. I desperately need to have income flowing into our home.
Now in our new home with a $2000 mortgage I had to get this thing called my life together. It was then that I started to piece together Cyndi’s Digital Palette which quickly became Cyndi’s Light Work Designz. I started getting calls from customers, but it was totally and completely opposite of what my goals were for my design business. I was trying to sell art work, but customers wanted me to create works of art for their businesses such as headers, buttons and even website design and I was happy to do it.
Getting My Wealth
I realized my design business had the potential to be greater. I saw the potential to have fountains, not streams, pouring from and into my design business for years to come. It was then that I opened up a few online stores as well as tee shirts stores. I did very well with my online businesses and I was/am and have always been grateful because you see, throughout all that I have done and been through I have learned how to use my God given gifts to bless others. I love to share my business savvy with other women and young teenage girls. I love being able to share priceless information that is of great value to others who have plans of starting a business. I think it’s important to share what God has gifted us. It’s important for me to give from my heart, truth and sincerity. This is the reason God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs was founded. I wanted to share my own life and business experiences with you because I believe in my heart that it will be to you amazing, life changing and business building lessons.
Let me tell you that I absolutely love what I have been called to do which is to bless, warm and transform women’s lives while helping them to erect buildings and create and design businesses in a profound and impactful way. For me business is more than just your regular social media, email marketing, newsletters and every other normal business component that can drive traffic to your website and make you money. I will always believe that business is all about writing masterpieces, speaking encouraging words into your mind allowing them to sink deep into your heart while clothing and feeding your entrepreneurial spirit you work to build your empires. It is also about journaling. Oh the importance of journaling. It is you writing in your journal those things that have given you the power and positive mindset that promises to take you into greater while being awesome women of God and doing phenomenally brilliant things that can shape and hold up your business on a firm, rock solid foundation where God has placed His name and can never be shaken.
And so Moms in Slippers came into existence as did Magic Fingers Secretarial Services and from there Cyndi’s Designz followed and now Beauty and the Face, Love for the Skin, my new line of body butter cream in addition to my blogs that thrive and have their being. Now, with a new year and season preparing to make its entrance into our lives I am excited to give you a little more when the time presents itself to prayerfully gift to you. I hope you accept it.
As one of the greatest entertainers told Miss Katherine, his mother, he was filled with music, I too am filled with so much wealth I have to use it and as I use it I just keep getting more. How I balance it all is another story for another new brand.
Be blessed.
Cynthia Boyer
