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Meet a Jane: Yvette Parker
Posted on March 23, 2010 - Filed Under Meet a Jane, Merry Jane, Success Tips for Jane
Yvette Parker is the owner of Empowerment Mineral Designs, which launched in 2003 as a Fair Trade and Conflict-Free Diamond jewelry company. The stones Yvette uses are hand-selected and designs are one-of-a-kind and limited production. Empowerment Mineral Designs became a fine jewelry company in 2005 and in 2009 after introducing their Men’s Couture Cuff Link Collection. Yvette began her professional career in the management field. Parker has served as a Director of Public Relations, Director of Operations and Director of Development for both non-profits and for-profit organizations, and became a respected Strategic Advisor. Parker continues to lend her expertise to non-profits seeking development strategies. Her company designates charitable partnerships annually.
Yvette’s drive to be an entrepreneur began in her late teens. She successfully launched several businesses: Collegiate Couturier, Total Business Management, Vestbo, Barnet and Company, Arts Management Ltd. and her current project Empowerment Mineral Designs. She started her current jewelry business, “To design, return to my love of stones and incorporate my metaphysical studies.” Her greatest rewards from business ownership are “Satisfaction in accomplishment overall – customer, personal, professional.”
After taking the free Which Jane Are You? assessment at www.JaneOutoftheBox.com, Yvette discovered that she is a Merry Jane. “I have been successful in integrating my business life and personal life into my life as a whole. The two balance and do not conflict. Business challenges do not overwhelm me and I look forward to each new day. I am and have been a good self-starter and focused so I have learned to set real goals and stick to them and I am seeing that bear fruit. I have more to accomplish and look forward to those triumphs.”
Gather around Merry Janes! Here is Yvette’s advice for you:
- Write your goals down – both personal and professional – give them a date by which you want to achieve the goals – this can be year, month or day.
- Write down the action steps necessary to accomplish your goals and specify what you want – need salespeople? Make that an action step and specify how many.
- Put your signature at the end of your goal list. This makes you accountable to yourself and believe it or not enables you to envision your goals being accomplished.
- Remember, you merely have to commit to the goals – don’t worry about how they will get accomplished because opportunities you don’t know about will come to you.
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I’m not surprised when I see mumpreneurs (as we spell it in Australia) in action. Working mums have great insights into markets gaps and my experience of running my own business while raising my small son has been that when you’re not chained to the computer all day (because you can’t be – there’s so much else to do!) there is plenty of time for thinking and strategising. This makes the time I do spend at the computer (my main distribution channel and where I capture my blogs and book content) so much more effective. Good luck on all the mums for giving it a go… and I hope we’ll continue to see the rise of mumpreneurs into the future leaders of our businesses and communities.