# @lissaliss_84 on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZbCR6lpTgZ
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-10T22:48:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Mellisa Jenkins, Digital Products+IG Growth (@lissaliss_84) — https://gondola.cc/lissaliss_84

## Caption

This is the part nobody talks about.👇

I started my entrepreneurial journey in 2012 determined to make it work.

No coach. 
No mentor. 
No strategy. 

Just me, my credit cards, and a whole lot of hustle going absolutely nowhere.

I spent years investing in everything except the right thing. 

Charging. 
Spending. 
Trying every business idea out there. 

And all I did was dig myself deeper into debt until three different financial advisers told me the same thing:

“File for bankruptcy.”

I felt like a failure. 
I felt like maybe entrepreneurship just was not for me. 
So for the next three years I stopped completely. 

I just worked. 
Paid my bills. 
And tried to move on.

But something in me would not quit.

In 2019 I came across an organic post on Instagram that stopped me cold. It was from a business coach with a global network of women entrepreneurs. 

I did the interview for her coaching program and I almost talked myself out of it. Money was tight. I was still living paycheck to paycheck.

But my mindset had shifted.

I stopped asking if I could afford it and started asking what it was costing me to stay stuck.

I made a 2K investment. After completing the program, within 60 days I made it all back and then some selling coaching programs and trainings to women all around the globe. 🌎 

That one decision changed everything. 🙌

The moment I stopped trying to do it alone was the moment everything shifted.

I want that for you too. 😉

P.S. - Have you signed up for my Free 5-Day Challenge yet? Early birds get a special gift from me! 🎁 DM me or drop “READY” in the comments and let’s get you in!

#FemaleEntrepreneur #WomenInBusiness #InvestInYourself #EntrepreneurMindset #NeverGiveUp

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investinyourself, femaleentrepreneur, nevergiveup, entrepreneurmindset, womeninbusiness

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