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Entrepreneurs
Dr. Minette Riordan
After a decade in the publishing industry, Minette realized that
what she loved most was coaching creative women entrepreneurs with
big dreams on how to build a profitable lifestyle business.
But making the switch wasn’t at easy as she thought it would be!
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n summer of 2012, my husband and I made
a dramatic change to our lives – we uprooted
ourselves and our two kids after 13 years in the
Dallas, TX area and relocated to sunny Santa
Barbara, CA. I sold my publishing company
and started over – new friends, new business,
and only a vague idea of what I wanted to do next.
Moving our family from Texas to California was hard.
I can still remember my kids crying on that last day of
school as we prepared to leave the only home they had
ever known. I remember standing in my empty house
and thinking, it’s not our home anymore… but all the
challenges, tears and changes were worth it.
It was a challenge to start over. My identity as the
owner of Scissortail Publishing was crystal clear
for over a decade, I knew who I was and
what I needed to do every single day
to grow my business. I had a staff
to support me and great mentors
and advisors.
Suddenly, I didn’t have the words to
describe what I was doing or how I
wanted to help others. I didn’t have
a team to bounce ideas off of and
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