The more I focused on my books, the more I saw business owners around me change. When I broke into speaking, things went from, “Here’s the theme, so speak on this,” to, “Hey, have you written a book about this? If so, we want you to come to speak on it and bring it with you.” God was using my obedience in writing to not only build, but also to bless my business. I saw 7 figure earners going back to their husbands and asking for forgiveness after throwing their accomplishments in their faces. I heard about mothers-to-be using their maternity leaves to write out a plan to launch their own businesses. Other Christian women business coaches were buying my books to share with their audiences and clients. Non- profits were requiring the women they helped to go through my Boot Camps. Mothers were giving their struggling daughters my books to get back on track, graduate on time, and have a vision afterwards. My own daughter used my books to write reports on what it meant to be a Christian business woman. Since September 2015, I have been blessed to pen, record, and publish over 150 print, audio, and digital books. And it was all because I did what God told me to do – I started writing again. Each one of my books is its own entity within my business, especially “Girl, Go Eat A COOKIE!...and then handle business!” Now, God has given me a base to work from…. I rebranded and became Professionally Sassy, LLC because it was necessary. I didn’t understand why until a month later. In September 2019, He blessed me to walk back into a 1200 square foot building I couldn’t afford when I first started. This building houses my books, my office, my event space, and a space for women to come and work on achieving their goals. They see my bookstore as a place of hope because there they can get prayed for, questions answered, visions written and made plain, and do what God has put in their heads and hearts to do. That’s my ministry and I’m sticking to it!
“Hey, Ladies! What do y’all do to earn extra money,” was the question that launched my coaching business. I will never forget the 15 women who reached out to me because they couldn’t believe that I built a consulting business with a psychology degree and years of experience in the classroom. I took those women through the very material I’d learned from and I watched some stay the course and some fall away. Those 15 women were the group that God used to bring me to where I am now. I started Tammie Terrell Mompreneur Coaching in September 2015, but God had ONE more test for me. Que Dr. Phil….Now, this was something I didn’t normally watch but I did this for one week and I was immensely angry at what I saw—girls not wanting to tell who date raped them, girls, who lied their way through life, and more. I was so incensed that I grabbed my journal and started writing similar stories on the same issues and addressing them from the Bible. That became my first published book, right after the launch of my business. The writing was what God was leading me to do, so when I hear someone say that authors aren’t business owners, I’m one of the first to throw a literary punch. I know and have lived what God can do with writing. My first business book, The Virtuous Business Woman: Inspired by Proverbs 31, got me into trouble with a lot of stoic Christians because she was supposed to be the model wife and mother…nothing else. Not to me, she wasn’t…. This woman was the quintessential entrepreneur and seeing that in her shifted everything I knew about business! Que my business coach… After that book came out, she challenged me to come out from among everybody in the coaching industry and separate myself using my books. She had no clue of the battle that God and I fought for that book to see the light of day, but that’s another story for another day. I became a book-based coach, but the books weren’t those that people were reading. Instead, they were the ones that I was writing. My goal was to help women to see that life wasn’t standing in their way. I wanted them to realize that life was playing monkey in the middle with their dreams because they were too busy excusing away God’s greatness in their lives.
Tammie Polk Tammie T. Polk is a married homeschooling mother of 3 girls from Memphis, TN. She is also the author of over 150 books and 40 planners, speaker, trainer, life and business coach, and bookstore owner. Business Website: http://www.professionallysassy.me Speaker Website: http://www.tammieterrellmompreneurs.com Order Her Books http://www.amazon.com/author/tammiepolk
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