Lindsay Trees

I attribute my success to just figuring it out and not waiting until I knew everything. I had to pull myself up and rebuild my life in my 40s after a horrific divorce that ripped everything from me. As a single mom with no child support, I did whatever I could - I was a realtor, a teacher, I opened my own boutique, and I made $20,000 selling my best friend's product out of my classroom after she was on Shark Tank. I learned to be resourceful and to shift wherever I was getting paid. When I met my husband 7 years ago, we were both starting from scratch, but it took us being together to make this happen. It's the perfect yin and yang - he has the clinical brains and I have the business skills from wholesale, retail, e-commerce, and social media. He had the ideas for over 20 years but didn't know how to get it manufactured, build a website, or promote it. I brought all of that to the table. We've built something global by combining our strengths, and while we're still climbing, I'm so humbled when I see the people who are buying our product and using it to regain their mobility.

The best advice I've received is from Cody Sanchez: while everybody else is trying to make the perfect plan, I'm gonna build it, I'm gonna fail, but I'm gonna learn, and I'm gonna do it again, and then I'm gonna do it better. Don't wait until you know everything - do it now, and you're gonna mess up, and your business might fail, and that's okay. You're just gonna try to figure it out, and you're gonna do it again. I also believe in learning on somebody else's dime. I tell my kids who are in college right now to get out, graduate, get that paperwork, start working in that corporate world, and learn everything that you can. Build a nest egg, and then you can start out on something for yourself. I want them to learn to sign the front of the check and not the back of the check.

Do it. I believe very much in learning to sign the front of the check and not the back of the check, and you need to figure out what you need to do to make that happen. I would not have been able to be where I am - and we're still climbing, don't get me wrong - had I not started my own little boutique 10 years ago after being a realtor and a teacher and doing everything as a single mom to build and grow for my children and create the life that they deserved. Don't wait until you know everything. Do it now, and you're gonna mess up, and your business might fail, and that's okay. You're just gonna try to figure it out, and you're gonna do it again. While everybody else is trying to make the perfect plan, I'm gonna build it, I'm gonna fail, but I'm gonna learn, and I'm gonna do it again, and then I'm gonna do it better. Also, learn on somebody else's dime. Get out, graduate, get that paperwork, start working in that corporate world, and learn everything that you can. Build a nest egg, and then you can start out on something for yourself, because I want you to sign the front of the check. I want you to be able to build something and leave a lasting impact.