Keeping Your Sanity as a Solopreneur, Part Three: Be Multipassionate
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Welcome to Part Three of the Keeping Your Sanity as a Solopreneur series. In Part One, we tackled mindset by busting some common myths about transitioning from employee to self employed, and in Part Two I shared some of my current tools and processes that help me run my business. Today, let’s discuss what happens when you think you have too many ideas (aka being multipassionate.)
What does it mean to be “multipassionate”?
The term “multipassionate entrepreneur” was coined by Marie Forleo. As someone who has worked on Wall Street, as a dance choreographer and fitness trainer for Crunch Fitness, a life coach, and more, Marie knows a thing or two about having multiple strengths and passions that she’s turned into revenue streams.
I jokingly tell people that my business started as a blog. When I started blogging in 2011, all I cared about what sharing my opinion on feminism, reproductive justice, and women and girls of color. By the time I started entertaining the idea of working for myself, I had added more of my voice as a social worker, program designer and evaluator into my blog pieces.
I started following Marie and other influencers like Rosetta Thurman of Happy Black Woman, Rachel Rodgers of Hello Seven, social media coach and trainer Natalie Gouche, and more. I also looked into my inner circle to gain inspiration from my friends Chanel Jaali, Taja Lindley, Miriam Zoila Pérez, and Arielle Loren. I even joined Marie’s B School program, and had the chance to join a mastermind group led by web designer and brand strategist Kriss Rowly. Each of these people have built a name and brand around multiple passions.
I saw the most obvious benefit of being multipassionate: I can a business and life around the things I care about most. Also, having multiple passions can lead to generating multiple streams of income for my business. But what I learned was that, while the idea of being multipassionate was exciting, I felt a little all over the place.
So, I inadvertently created this process to help me to identify how to make it all come together (or do some downsizing):