Acquanetta Williams

I attribute my success to finding my purpose and knowing my why. When you're in your purpose, you can see the process and the steps. I look at my past and realize that God built me through all my trials - dealing with alopecia since I was a kid, being bullied, missing so much school, going through a bad divorce as a single mom. He told me that's why He put me through this, that's how He built me to be who I am. I always ask God why I have such a compassion to help women, to help them prosper, to coach them and mentor them, when they were so mean to me. And He said because that's why I put you through this. When trials come at me now, it's okay, because I know I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, so I'm gonna continue doing what I'm gonna do, and I'm gonna get over that, and it's just gonna make me stronger. We have to elevate, we can't stand in the same place. My life is serving Him, even with the other ventures that I do - the wig business, marketing, website building - all that I do is done under Him.

The first thing I would ask her is why. Why do you want to start this business? Because that is the most important thing. If you don't have your why, then you're just starting something. Are you starting it because you saw somebody on social media? Are you starting it because your family's pushing you into it? Why do you want to do this? That's my first question. Then I would talk to them about what it takes to be a business owner. It is not easy being a business owner, because you've got to finance that puppy, you gotta do this, you gotta do that. So your mindset has to be correct, because you could say all day long that this is what I'm doing, this business is for me, then down the road you're like, oh no, it wasn't. How do you go from that to that? That's why you have to know your why, because your why keeps you moving in it. I was thinking about letting my wig business go a year ago, but then this lady brought in her daughter who had alopecia, and that little girl was me. She reminded me of me, and God gave me my why again. You have to know your why.

The most important values to me are truth, love, and walking right. My mentor Pastor Julie Zaragoza kept me accountable to being straight and honest. During my time of singleness after my divorce, my thing was I wanted to honor God, and I wanted to stay celibate, and I wanted to walk right by Him. When I met my husband, I told him I'm celibate, if we're gonna do this, we're gonna date, you're going to church, you're doing this, and that's the way it is. My mentors helped me become the woman that God wanted me to be. Because of the bad divorce I had gone through, I had promised God that if He preserved my heart because it was so broken, that I would serve Him for the rest of my life. And that's what my life is - my life is serving Him, even with the other ventures that I do. I have a compassion to help women prosper, to help them find their purpose, because if we don't find our purpose, we're just stuck.