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stuff, didn’t really resonate with them so
I knew that even though I love the brand
Lucky B, it had started to close a few
doors for me in my next evolution, and I
didn’t want to just hold on tightly to that
brand for no reason. It was like: “Oh. If
it’s shutting this door, and this door, and
this door, but that’s my next evolution
then it’s time to let that go.” So, I think
the vision’s coming together.
I’ve always loved and followed Oprah
my whole life, but that doesn’t mean
that I aspire to be on TV, or to have
that big an influence, because I want
to figure out what that means for me. I
want to serve a lot of people but I don’t
necessarily want to be famous, if that
makes sense. So I’m still figuring that
out. But my bigger vision’s always about
empowering as many women across the
globe as possible around their money,
because I know that that has such a
positive impact on the planet when
women have more money. So, it’s just
made me bring that stuff a little bit more
to the center of my business rather than
it being a private goal.
Kharisma: Awesome. That’s pretty
amazing. And I really love where you’re
going with your new brand. So what
would you say to a woman entrepreneur
who’s been wanting to make a shift of
scale or scale the business to a different
level, but has been doing something that
has worked - like you’ve experienced
- and is afraid to pull the trigger. What
would you say to her?
Denise:
It doesn’t have to be all or
nothing. I think that’s important as
well, is that you don’t have to blow up
your whole life and your whole business.
Keep what’s working, and just tweak
a few things as you go. It’s totally okay
to evolve. It’s totally okay to change and
grow.
And I mean, you look at Madonna, right?
She’s changed her image every couple of years, but the core of Madonna is still the
same. Sometimes, the outward stuff changes and that’s okay.
The other thing I want to say is that not everyone goes on the journey with you.
People who liked you at the start of your journey, some of them will evolve, as in,
they’ll go along the journey with you. Other people they’ll just go, “You know what?
She was in my life for a season,” and they’ll leave. And you can’t be afraid of that
because all you can do is just get truer and truer to who you truly are and that’s
going to feel really great.
Kharisma: That’s awesome. Is there anything that may be presented to you that you
may not be open
to consider?
Denise: Y e a h .
I always filter
things through,
like,
how
I
want to live
my life. I’ve
got two young
children. I want
to have more
kids. And so
there’s certain
opportunities
that I could do
but they would
make my life a bit harder. So I often say ‘no’ to travel, and I say ‘no’ to speaking gigs
and things like that, because they just don’t fit in my current lifestyle. And it’s the
same with things like doing TV. I really don’t aspire to get up at four o’clock every
morning to be in hair and makeup to sit on a morning TV show. That stuff just does
not interest me at all. And also, I think my introvert side does not like it either. Yeah.
So I’m okay to saying ‘no’ to stuff these days, but I think sometimes I should say ‘yes’
a little bit mor