YFE is honored to have Devani Freeman as our YFE Seattle rep for August. She will be at all of our events in August and is your point of contact to meet other YFEs while at the event. She is incredibly welcoming and is well connected within our area, so be sure to connect with her at one of our three events over the next two weeks. Don’t live in Seattle? Connect with Devani online and be sure to stay tuned for YFE events coming your way. Find out more about YFE IRL meetups here.
Devani represents Synergy and is the owner of Purl Media Solutions, a new online marketing firm for small businesses and solo-preneurs.
Find Devani online:
Website: www.DevaniFreeman.com Twitter: @DevaniFreeman Facebook: www.Facebook.com/DevaniFreeman & www.Facebook.com/DevaniF
What is your business all about?
I provide online marketing and social media solutions for small businesses and solo-preneurs. I offer website design, Social Media coaching, Social Branding, SEO, email marketing and more.
I am also a business developer for a high quality wellness products focused around heart health and all around well being. I recruit and train others on how to live a healthier lifestyle while supplementing their income.
What does your background look like?
Right out of high school I attended beauty school and became a Hairstylist. I spent over 6 years in the beauty industry. I started to realize that hair was not a job that would provide me the retirement I needed. I got a position in sales for a marketing firm and fell in love with not only sales but online marketing and social media. I this time I was also introduced to network marketing and my current mentor.
Why did you start your business, launch your first product, or build that community in the first place?
I started my business because I knew that in order to really control your future you need to work for yourself and also have multiple income streams. Growing up my mom was a homemaker and my dad worked 9-5 job 6 days a week. I barely saw him. He was exhausted on the weekends. Fast forwarding to the future neither of my parents have much to show, specially with the economy they have gone through some major struggles. I never want to have to go through that. Specially at an age where you should be retired. When I learned about the network marketing business model and how I can control how much I make and help others to do the same I was amazed. It is truly a business of people helping people.
What are your favorite things about being young, female and entrepreneurial?
I am in control of my own future, I have time freedom, I am unique as a lot of girls my age have not event considered starting their own business. I feel that I have a gift to share to really help other girls to become more powerful in life to help our economy.
Do you have mentors or people you admire that you think of when making business decisions?
Yes! I follow and admire Ali Brown, Marie Forleo, Robert Kiyosaki and a few others.
What have been the advantages of being young and female while building your business?
I have put myself out there a lot with social media and video marketing and the response has been great as people feel comfortable with me being young and a female. It has helped with standing out among my peers.
What are the disadvantages you’ve faced, if any?
Sometimes people don’t take you seriously. You can get brushed aside or ran over so sometimes we have to be more assertive then we like to be.
What is your advice for a young, female entrepreneur just starting out or in the research stage?
Anything is possible, specially with the power of social media & the internet. Research and find out what your passionate about. Pick a brain of a serial-preneur and learn about different business models. Research via google and Facebook. You want to find something that provides you the ability to leveraging your time so you are not trading dollars for hours.
What is your drink of choice?
Martini’s
What can we find you doing when you are not working on and in your business?
Something related to fitness with hiking, Pure Barre or working out in my living room! Shopping, spending time with girlfriends. I also love to cook, always looking for new yummy healthy and organic recipes
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Hi! met you at the Womens Org Meeting at the Columbia Towers, and have been following you guys since! Great articles, keep em coming.
I enjoyed the writeup on Robin Roffer, and forwarded it to me and my girlfriends. I wanted to take a stab at “your personal mission statement”…so here goes:
Always have at least one goal that you’re working towards at all times — a career goal, an athletic achievement, an award, a leadership position, a skill level, a personal achievement. It’s important to feel like you’re challenging yourself and working towards something at all times, even in the most ordinary, mundane and/or sometimes uneventful daily efforts. –Danielle N. Vardaro
Thanks Danielle!!
shoot! i commented on the wrong article. sorry :(
I think i was still in the first few entries with the time stamp. good articles up here!
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