Shelley Willingham on Clubhouse

Bio

📈 Serial Entrepreneur and Investor
♟ Business Strategist
📺 Frequent on-air contributor to CNBC
⚡️ Featured in FORTUNE, DiversityInc, Black Enterprise, Entrepreneur, Business Insider
📍 Founder, Vision and Passion International
📍 Founder and Chief Business Strategist, Douglas Alexandra, digital marketing and brand activation firm
📍 Creator, The Signature Event Profit System
📌 Marketer
📣 Speaker
🏆 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion (she/her/hers)
🙌🏽 Mentor and Motivator
💕💚AKA
🐏 Tar Heel
💕💙 Jack and Jill Mom
❤️ Lover of Life and ALL the lessons

Life has a funny way of blowing up all your plans. In 2007, my whole world was turned upside down.

My once very successful business was no more. No more clients, no more staff, no more office space, and no more money. Oh....and my marriage was falling apart.

I accepted a job I was starting out of necessity because I had no other options. This new job wouldn’t be paying me nearly what I was earning before. Certainly not enough to sustain the lifestyle that I was used to living. Don’t get me wrong, I was grateful for the income...but I still felt very defeated.

I told myself I would only work there for 12-24 months. I was there for 5 painful years. I had to rebuild everything from nothing. Talk about a humbling experience.

If anyone had ever told me that those experiences would lead me to building a life that I love I would have never believed them. But here I am...Shelley 2.0. Sometimes you have to reinvent yourself.