THE 30 DAY SELF MADE CHALLENGE
You need to understand what works for you.
30 days to uncover how your strengths, interests, experience, and actual life could come together in something you build for yourself and is meant for you. You will come out excited and hopeful for your future, with clarity that you haven’t felt for years.
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YOU MAY SEE YOURSELF HERE
The shared problem isn’t a lack of options. It’s not knowing which options belong to you.
WHAT THE 30 DAYS ARE FOR
The 30 Day Self Made Challenge is an identity-shift experience designed to help you understand yourself well enough to make better business decisions.
Over 30 days, you’ll look closely at:
This isn’t about waiting for a perfect idea to arrive.
It’s about finally having enough honest information about yourself to recognize what deserves a closer look.
GET ON THE EARLY LISTYour dream life isn’t found in a list of trending business ideas.
WHAT WE’LL MOVE THROUGH
Before deciding where you’re going, we’ll get honest about where you are. What you want. What isn’t working. What you’re tired of pretending you should want. What you actually need.
You’ll look beneath job titles and hobbies to uncover the experience, interests, strengths, evidence, and patterns already running through your life. We’ll uncover limiting beliefs that were never yours, conditioning that keeps you stuck, and your bravest vision for your life.
We’ll go over what every person needs to become truly free and successful, including my own formula for freedom and success that can be applied to any business or dream.
You’ll take what has been uncovered and begin shaping it. You’ll practice letting an idea, message, or direction become visible enough to respond to and learn from. We’ll test the tiny whispers of hope, giving them shape, words, and vision. By the end, you’ll feel excited and hopeful, with a clarity you haven’t felt in years.
You don’t have to commit blindly. You need a direction you understand well enough to test.
WHAT BEGINS TO CHANGE
You will know what to prepare for, how to achieve your dream life, and feel ready and hopeful for what’s to come. You will finally feel excited and prepared for the work you’re about to do.
You will understand why you’ve had the experiences you’ve had and what they can lead to. You will discover little gems and gifts sitting inside of you that can help you on your journey. You will connect the pieces, see the patterns that derail you, and recognize the conditions where you thrive. You will be able to bring your strengths, interests, experience, and real-world value together into directions worth exploring.
You will understand how others achieve success and how you can get there, too. You will have a clear mind map of what it actually takes and be ready to take those steps.
You will leave with a clearer filter for what fits, what doesn’t, what deserves your time, and where to go next. You will know what to do now, not only in your work but in your everyday life. You will be able to recognize what aligns with you and what doesn’t, so you can start working on your first few inspired ideas.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT BECOMING SOMEONE ELSE
It means knowing yourself well enough to stop building from comparison.
It means recognizing what is yours, understanding what it will require, and deciding whether you are willing to do that work.
A business that fits you will still ask you to learn, sell, be visible, solve problems, and do uncomfortable things. The goal is not to avoid effort.
The goal is to stop spending your effort becoming good at a life you never wanted.
WHY I CREATED THIS
“It took me 22 years and all kinds of businesses to understand this. I want to help you see it before you spend years building something that was never right for you.”
ELENA, FOUNDERWORLDSCHOOLING JOURNEYS, DAILY MOM, EVERY AVENUE, MELODY LANE
I’ve built businesses in publishing, travel, education, and other industries while raising my daughter and creating a life with room for family, travel, and more than one version of me.
Some businesses fit me far better than others.
I’ve learned that an opportunity can be real, profitable, and completely wrong for the person trying to force herself into it. I’ve also learned that difficulty doesn’t automatically mean the idea is wrong. Sometimes you need to build a skill. Sometimes the daily reality of the work is showing you something important.
That distinction took me years of building, trying, changing direction, and paying attention to understand.
The 30 Day Self Made Challenge brings those questions to the beginning, before you pour yourself into another direction simply because it worked for someone else.
I didn’t need one more person handing me the “right” answer. I needed a way to understand my own patterns, trust what I saw, and build from there. The 30 Day Self Made Challenge is the process I wish I had when I was trying to figure out what came next.
“It took me 22 years and all kinds of businesses to understand this. I want to help you see it before you spend years building something that was never right for you.”
ELENA, FOUNDERWORLDSCHOOLING JOURNEYS, DAILY MOM, EVERY AVENUE, MELODY LANE
BE THE FIRST TO KNOW
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FAQ
No. The challenge is designed for women who have no idea what they would build, women with too many ideas, women who already have a business but feel unfulfilled or trapped by it, and women who have already tried or built things that never truly fit. You are not expected to arrive with the answer. Discovering what is already in you is part of the challenge.
This challenge comes before the full business-building process. It helps you understand yourself, recognize what you have to work with, and begin identifying directions worth exploring. This is knowledge you will be able to carry with you for the rest of your life and apply not only to business, but to every decision you make. Once you understand yourself in this way, you can begin to build a business.
Self-Made Way Part 2 then continues into evaluating practical business possibilities for you and helping you build the one you choose. I am considering structuring it as a challenge as well to help more people get through it. Either way, you will have help and support after you finish this challenge.
You may, but I am not going to force you into choosing a business simply so you can say you picked one by Day 30.
By the end of the challenge, you will understand yourself, what you have to work with, the life you want to create, and the conditions in which you thrive. You will begin bringing your strengths, interests, experience, and real-world value together into business directions that are actually worth exploring.
For some women, one direction may become very clear. Others may finish with several strong possibilities and a much better understanding of what fits, what does not, and what they need to explore next.
The goal is to give you clarity you can carry into every business decision that follows. Self-Made Way Part 2 continues from there by helping you evaluate practical business possibilities and begin building the one you choose.
Those experiences are not wasted. They give us something real to examine. You’ll look for patterns in what excited you, what repeatedly drained you, what you may have been forcing, and why certain businesses never felt right even if they looked good on paper. Understanding those patterns can completely change what you choose next.
You don’t need any business experience. We begin with you: what you want, what you already bring, how you want to live, and what you may be overlooking in yourself. The business knowledge can come later. First, you need a better understanding of what you are building from.
Join the waitlist and you’ll be among the first to receive the date and full details when enrollment opens.
COMING SOON
You don’t need another business idea to copy.
You need a clearer understanding of what is yours, what it could become, and what you’re willing to build.
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