Hasta La Creative!

If I could step into a DeLorean doubling as a time machine and talk to my younger entrepreneurial self, I’d set the flux capacitor to summer 2003 — exactly five years before I opened the doors to Zulu Alpha Kilo.

The heart-to-heart between the older and younger me would go something like this. “You’ve been thinking about starting your own shop for a long time,” the wiser me would say. “You’re going to keep feeling that entrepreneurial itch for years, so why not scratch it now? Quit your job. Remortgage your home. Don’t waste another day.”

Maybe if I had heard that then, I wouldn’t have waited until I was 41 years old to start Zulu. But as we celebrate our 10th year in business, I know now the hardest part of my entrepreneurial journey was simply making that critical decision to quit and take the leap. After I did, a colleague gave me a goodbye card that read, “Leap and the net will appear.” I had no idea how much truth and insight there was behind that line until I started my agency. Now that I had made the decision to start an agency, I still had no idea how I’d go about doing it. The universe does have a funny way of compelling you to figure out the rest along the way.

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