Sweaty palms. Your mind is meandering about, picking up a thought here and looking it over before moving onto another thought. You’ve been hard at work forging your startup…your own business…your entrepreneurial dream.

But things are tough right now. Not only has it been a while since you’ve seen a paycheck made out to your name, you are in the middle of a COVID19.

The role-model box that you’ve might have been putting yourself into, could be stopping you from becoming the next successful entrepreneur!

Now, there several different kinds of role models. Some of them exist in real life. Like, maybe, your parents or your siblings or school teachers or even a childhood friend. Some of them live only on the cinema screen...or they are real people you have never met. These people seem to have it all – they have everything going for them – and you admire them for that.

But then there's another kind of role model. It can be a somewhat blurry picture in our head...the collection of things we have told ourselves we HAVE to have to be successful.

Are we really that conditioned to be who we think we need to be - more than who we actually are, that we don’t pursue our dreams… just because you are a man or a woman?

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