Into The Wild 60. How To Be a Successful Entrepreneur and Homeschool Your Kids with Chantal Richard-Mercier
Hey you wild women!
My next guest is mother of 2, military wife, a self-taught and published photographer/artist/writer, an Independent Consultant and District Manager with Arbonne. Her photography and entrepreneurial journey began as a means to stay home with her baby. Seven years later, she continues to home school her two children, while working on her soon-to-launch mentoring program and her social marketing business.
In this episode you will learn about:
- Where Chantal is from and her upbringing.
- Why you need to put your head down and keep moving forward.
- Chantal's mission to find freedom.
- Embodying your vision.
- Utilizing your intuition and trusting your gut to make decisions for you.
- Establishing strong client boundaries.
- How Chantal's photography journey has changed her approach to business and motherhood.
- Creating an organic photography experience.
- Intuiting when there is a moment that needs capturing.
- How and why Chantal chooses her photography subjects.
- Storytelling through photography.
- The balance of home schooling her children and running a business.
- Teaching the basics and feeding the passion.
- Finding a teaching approach that works for your children.
- Utilizing self-care and grounding yourself.
- Chantal's scheduling tricks.
- The importance of being gentle with yourself.
- Defining what education means for you and your children.
Public Shoutouts:
- Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
Resources:
- Website: https://www.chantalrmercier.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chantalrmercier/
What it means to be a wild woman:
"A wild woman, she destroys the labels and the boxes that have been placed upon her by herself and others, and she just does whatever the F she does." - Chantal Richard-Mercier
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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.
She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.
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