The Entrepreneurial Soft Life Workshop Series

Are you a woman entrepreneur or small business owner who is busier than ever but short on stamina?  Do you feel pressured to make up for time lost as the world took a pause? Are you a woman desiring to turn your hobby or passion into a full-time business without draining your energy?  Does the desire to leave a legacy for your family sometimes feel like a burden rather than a privilege?

In this post-pandemic entrepreneurial culture, there is an even greater need to maintain work-life harmony.

Harmony or Balance?

If you could snap your fingers, how many times would you clone yourself?  One, two, or ten times?  Living the life of a “solopreneur” is not brag-worthy.  Community connection, pivoting, growth mindset, emotional intelligence – these are all necessary investments to keeping your sanity while growing a profitable business.

In this post-pandemic society, women entrepreneurs are reeling from being society’s shock absorbers of trauma, grief, heaviness, and disbelief while struggling to keep themselves from drowning.  Innately purpose and goal-driven, you are pressured internally and externally to make up for a lost time.  And your nervous system is screaming for a break from the expired hustle culture.

If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it should be that our professional and personal lives are interdependent. As an entrepreneur, your psychological well-being is directly related to business.  When faced with anxiety and depression, are you more prone to make risky decisions?  Or, do you tend to become stagnant and immobile, stuck in a state of analysis paralysis?  Achieving both balance and harmony helps you navigate the high demands of self-employment and business ownership.

Before the days of blurred time and space, work-life balance (an even distribution of time management) was readily recognized and accepted.  Leaving work problems and ideas at work at the end of a workday was conceptually achievable.  In a quarantined society, the separation of time and space became a thing of the past.  Even with top-notch coping skills (dedicated workspace, routines, communicating with family members, etc.) the side effect often felt anything but balanced.

This year, 2023, is the year of growth.  It’s time to reset and many entrepreneurs feel pressured to hit the ground running with little regard to how our minds and bodies are still reeling from the past two years.  Now more than ever, work-life harmony, is in high demand.  Creating a rhythm and flow makes easing into the new normal less frustrating.

The Struggle Is Real…But Not Necessary

Living a peaceful “soft” life (where professional goals and personal wellness align) is more than a day at the beach.  Are you a first-generation women entrepreneur? How do you live a life of luxury and wealth without the funds to do so?  Are you just plain exhausted trying to juggle life with the demands of running a business?

When you embarked on the life of an entrepreneur or small business owner, committing to riding the struggle bus was likely not what you imagined.  Inconsistent customers, struggling to price your services, or feeling constantly exhausted – that is NOT the business.  It doesn’t have to be this way.

Soft Life Tools

We are heading into the second half of 2023. Leaders, specifically women entrepreneurs and small business owners, are researching ways to increase customer and employee engagement without breaking the bank or running out of stamina and motivation. Contrary to what a quick Google search or TikTok video may tell you, the fix is more than simply returning to your “Why”. You need tangible, personalized solutions.

It starts with raising your EI (Emotional Intelligence), having a Growth Mindset, and Curating Care (personal wellness).

Living a soft entrepreneurial life starts with investing in yourself – mind, body, and soul. In this 3-Weekend Series, women entrepreneurs and micro business owners will be presented with business essentials for driving growth with a natural flow.  

You will learn how to:

• Lead with Emotional Intelligence
• Manifest Abundant Living
• Free Yourself from Competition
• Claim Your Presence in the Room
• Exude Quiet Confidence that Naturally Attracts Business
• Ride the ebbs and flows of entrepreneurship and micro-business ownership
• Melt into a guilt-free self-care zone.

Who Is This For?

This 3-weekend workshop series will benefit three groups:

• Women-owned micro businesses concerned about keeping their employees engaged while growing a sustainable business.
• Women entrepreneurs frustrated by inconsistent customers, pricing their services and products, or finding work-life harmony.
• Aspiring entrepreneurs looking to make their great resignation less scary and more attainable.

We know you believe in your product and service. It’s time to get your customers to rock WITH and FOR you!  That’s how you achieve an entrepreneurial soft life.

WIIFM (What’s In It For Me?)

This progressive workshop series is designed to build on your natural strengths and abilities while preparing you to Dream BIGGER.

You will be better equipped to:

• Learn ways to invest in employee experience (EX) without breaking the bank.
• Align your business with core values and interests.
• Operate in your strength zone and preserve your energy.
• Naturally become a money magnet.
• Nurture yourself from the inside out (mind, body, soul).

Choose Your Package

The Workshop Series runs for three consecutive Saturdays.

Executive Package

Experience all three days of engaging activities, empowering talks, food, music, and more.

Saturday, June 24

• Emotional Intelligent Leadership
• Cultivate a Growth Mindset
• Soothe your Spirit
• Vision for Success
• Exclusive: Customize your handbag

Saturday, July 1

• Abundant Living Mindset
• Envision-Engage-Empower
• Design Your Deep Dive
• Literary Authorship Kickoff

Saturday, July 8

• Curating Care
• Literary Authorship Roundup
• Handbag Naming Soirée
• Pitch Competition

Entrepreneur Package

This package includes access to June 24 and July 8 ONLY.

Saturday, June 24

• Emotional Intelligent Leadership
• Cultivate a Growth Mindset
• Soothe your Spirit
• Vision for Success
• Exclusive: Customize your handbag

Saturday, July 8

• Curating Care
• Literary Authorship Roundup
• Handbag Naming Soirée
• Pitch Competition

Aspiring Leader

This package includes access to June 24 ONLY.

Saturday, June 24

• Emotional Intelligent Leadership
• Cultivate a Growth Mindset
• Soothe your Spirit
• Vision for Success

Meet Your Instructors – We Are Living a Soft Life

Lacetia Walker is an educator with over three decades of experience teaching K-12 and post-secondary students.  She has coached and developed educators, and administrators, along with corporate and organization leaders across the nation including Indigenous American Reservations.

Lacetia is the creator of the “Brain that Beauty” Social-Emotional Project and the PUSH Female Mentoring Initiative, both designed to improve self-care and the self-esteem of young women, through project, place, and problem-based learning and show its connection to mental health.  She is an optimist, avid tennis player, speaker, author, national trainer, educational consultant, and instructional coach.

LaQuita Fergerson is the founder of  On Q Coaching and Consulting LLC (formerly Coach Q Simone LLC). She has an eclectic background as it relates to working with people of different cultures, backgrounds, and industries.  After a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and going through a divorce, she went on a journey to heal and reinvent herself, finding love for herself and a new, loving husband along the way. Working to the point of burnout served as the catalyst for LaQuita to quit her twenty-year Accounting career in 2018.   

As the first and only CDC® Certified Divorce Coach woman of color (WOC) in Michigan, she prides herself on creating a space for healing and empowerment for women fighting barriers. LaQuita is the creator of “Bounce Back Queen”, a trauma-informed coaching program for divorce resilience. Using cognitive-behavioral, skills training and psychoeducational techniques in recovery and healing, she empowers and transforms individuals, business owners, corporations, organizations, and schools.

LaQuita is a blogger, intuitive empath, professional ballroom dance instructor, youth mentor, speaker, trainer, consultant, and trauma-informed Brain Coach.