Taking Big Risks: How Small Steps Build Big Confidence

Because I truly believe that in business ownership, at one point or another, something is going to ask you to take a risk.

Something at some point is going to require you to do something, to make a choice, to make a decision without knowing what's on the other side.

And I think that's why entrepreneurship is this really, really special journey where, quite honestly, not everybody succeeds.

I think it's because people either get scared of the risk or they take too much of a risk and it doesn't always work out.

But I think getting comfortable with that is part of this journey.

And if you can get really good at taking a calculated risk, I always think that the payoff can be so, so great as I've experienced.

But the behind the scenes is really hard.

So as I was completing this interview, one of the questions that came up was like, what are some of the defining moments of your career? So I really, there's really just two, two really, really big ones.

So the very first one was when I graduated university, I went to McMaster University, shout out in Hamilton, Ontario, home of the Arkells, okay, also home of Katrina Owens.

One day, you guys, when I am a famous Canadian singer, there's going to be all this like random content of me floating around on the internet talking about opening for the Arkells and how much I love them.

And like, it's going to be epic.

And then we're going to have to put that into the documentary, I think.

But I digress.

That's a risk that I think we'll talk about in a little bit because I think my singing career probably fits into this journey somehow.

But when I graduated university... like any good graduate does, I knew I had to get a job.

So I just started applying to jobs like across Canada, I really wanted to work in the sports industry.

So basically, any entry level marketing job in the sports industry, I was the gal applying for those.

So I applied for jobs in the golf industry.

I mean, I was interviewing with like teams in the CFL, which is the Canadian Football League for all your international friends.

I actually interviewed for a job with Hockey Alberta, which is like a branch of Hockey Canada.

And I honestly thought I would think I was going to get that job, but I got my job with the PGA.

They offered it to me first.

So I just took whatever the first thing that came to me was.

And honestly, the job So the job with the PGA is what I eventually got.

And I was like, never been to Vancouver before, but sounds like a fabulous place to live.