Her Story
About Erika
My career has spanned 12 years in education across various settings. I started with high school level career education on high school campuses, then moved into digital learning for career project management and business. I worked for Stride for 8 years, where I coordinated special events for students and teachers across Texas and nationally, helping them with career guidance and program information. Throughout all of this, I've always handled marketing work, both for the organizations I worked for and now for my own business. I eventually transitioned into entrepreneurship, founding Faith-led Home Pro Build, where I lead digital programs for people who want to project manage their home construction on their own land. My typical day involves collaboration emails with Christian-based founders and building material companies, recording educational videos and mini-courses, strategizing with contractors, and directly connecting with my customers to support them through their building journey. I also founded the Bible Study Mom podcast, which reaches people nationally and internationally, helping them rebuild their relationship with God, their children, and their families. I'm also an author - my book 'Chapters of a Lifelong Love' was published in April and is carried in Barnes & Noble and various philanthropy-based locations. The book supports my mother, who went through a double lung transplant, with all profits going toward her medical needs.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Erika
01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The greatest piece of advice came from my father, and it's that there's more time than there is life. This has been so insightful for me because sometimes we want to do every single thing we possibly could, and we always feel that we're running out of time - we're so busy and so rushed. But he reminds me to pace myself, because you only have a certain amount of life. You've got to do your career, but you also have to do your personal life and enjoy your family, your kids, your home, because time is going to keep going. Even if you're on a set schedule, your life is going to come to a place where you no longer can do what you used to do. So you can't stay so busy wanting to reach every single milestone on a timeline - you need to pace it at God's timing and also what you can reasonably do as a human, and still be able to enjoy your family and take care of yourself and your health.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
For other young professionals that want to be entrepreneurs or are interested in doing online businesses and education, I would say to try to gather as many skill sets as they can, and not to feel behind because they can't right away go and open their business and reach the metrics they want or the amount of money. It's okay to balance both things - to have a regular job while you build up money and put in a little bit of extra hours to try to build up your business. It's okay to do both simultaneously, but also not to have so much fear that if you go on your own at some point when you see that it's already working, the fear that it may stop working. If you just trust the process and keep trying really hard to keep working on the idea that you have, and you keep learning and sharing it with people, you have to tell people about it. The way I learned with my business is when I posted it once, I thought everybody would start rushing to me, and I realized, no, I have to allow people to know about me and know about my business. They can't find me if I'm hiding. So that's my message to young people - they can't find you if you're hiding. Even if you're a little bit shy, start where you can, maybe just text on social media or emails, and then eventually you'll feel comfortable enough to try different avenues to get your business noticed.
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