This week marks a milestone for me - the first time I saw a book on wrote listed for sale on a publisher's web site. ( :
I connected with Lived Places Publishing last year. They were looking for entrepreneurial stories as part of their Emergent Entrepreneur collection, and I submitted a book proposal. 12 months later, the book has been completed, edited, and now published!
The book tells my side of the story of the entrepreneurial journey founding The Meeting Place on Market in 2003, and continues the journey through to today. It feels like an appropriate time to publish this book because Downtown Lima has been experiencing a significant increase in development.
I've grown so much through this entrepreneurial journey, through many, many mistakes, through building relationships with hundreds of people through the years - who worked for the business, supplied the business, partnered with us, were customers, etc.
A few of the biggest lessons I've learned:
1. Be transparent about your goals and who you are, and don't reinvent your business or yourself every time someone disagrees with you.
2. Remember that relationships are the most important aspect of life and of business, and celebrate them even as your to-do list grows to 100 tasks long.
3. Miracles happen and God answers prayers about business just like He does in life. (Otherwise, we would have closed many years ago).
4. Give opportunities for people work out of their strengths, not their weaknesses (including myself!)
5. Find what makes you and your business unique and lean into that.
I'm thankful that my business partners have toughed this journey out with me for more than 20 years, and that they were open with me sharing this story! My husband, Kevin Brogee, and my parents, Greg and Ruth Ann Stover.
The book is included as part of a collection that is purchased by universities worldwide, and also available for individual sale to students/ individuals.
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- Jennifer Brogee
