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freedom . That ’ s what Free . is about .
MADE : Love it ! What excites or scares you the most about your new business venture ?
VW : What excites me is the potential it has to really create a movement . When I say movement , do I want it to be successful ? Of course I want it to be successful , but at the end of the day , I really want people to live it , wear it and be it . It ’ s not just a name . I want people to be free . There is something so satisfying about being free and not waking up with anything heavy on you anymore . I lived that life for a long time . Now , I am free .
What scares me is that I don ’ t really know what I ’ m doing . I say that and I ’ m kidding , but I ’ m not kidding . I ’ ve researched a lot in these last four months about how to start a business ,
SET YOURSELF FREE . how to grow a business , but what scares me is failure . That ’ s what kept me from doing it before all these years because I always talk myself out of it . I always feel like , what if it doesn ’ t work ? What if it fails ? That failure has scared me for the last 10 years . I ’ m not going to lie — it still scares me to this day . However , I ’ m not going to give it anymore play . I can ’ t feed into that anymore . I have to try . I don ’ t want to live my life with any regrets or what ifs . Everything I ’ ve done , I ’ ve taken risks and so far they ’ ve paid off . Moving to Chicago and being in a helicopter doing traffic reporting on a city I knew nothing about from Flint , MI , that was a risk . Moving to Roswell , New Mexico and not knowing a soul there and stepping out on faith in TV was a risk . I ’ m no stranger to the risks life brings so I don ’ t know why I let failure scare me out of Free ., but I ’ m not going to do it anymore .
If you want to live your best life — free from the past , your fears or anything keeping you from being your highest self , check out these tips on being free from Val Warner .
BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF .
" I think that if we were honest with ourselves as women , we wouldn ’ t get into some of the situations we get into because we like to see things a certain way when they ’ re not actually that way .”
ALLOW YOURSELF TO MAKE MISTAKES IN LIFE , BUT LEARN FROM IT AND THEN MOVE ON .
" Here ’ s the thing about free — when I decided I was going to do it at that point , I was so free and so happy . Have there been bumps in the road since then ? Absolutely . There been moments since then where I thought , “ Gosh I don ’ t feel free .” I had to allow myself to realize that there are going to be bumps in the road and that doesn ’ t mean you ’ re not free at your core . You ’ ve got to make some mistakes , learn from them and hopefully not repeat them .”
TRY TO MAKE IT A LIFESTYLE .
" We talked about making mistakes , not holding yourself to that and coming back to that freedom . Try not to let those things that threw you off before keep you there and keep you stumbling back . Try to make it a permanent lifestyle . It ’ s such a rewarding feeling to not have to deal with drama and just deal with whatever your freedom story is .”
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