Welcome to another social stories episode, where each week our community of business builders share stories of key moments and evolutions within their own business building journey.
This week the community are answering the curly question of "How did you finance your business?"*
An epic one, and a bit of a risk by me as I could have had crickets and ended up filling your ears with just my stories and ramblings, but there were some brave people out there willing to lift the lid in support of others by dropping their stories into the DM’s.
We hear about bootstrapping, pre-orders, profit reinvestment for years on end, refinancing, seeking investment and taking big risks.
The unknowns around money can be such a blocker in your business creation or scale up, with what we don’t know and are too afraid to ask sometimes being enough of a reason not to do it, so let’s take the weirdness out of money chat and lay it all on the line in the spirit of lifting each other up.
The brave humans building their businesses and sharing these stories offer so much valuable insight - wherever you're at in your business building journey this episode is guaranteed to reignite your passion for the hustle and support you through your own building blocks.
We're doing this every week - to get involved make sure you're following Unemployed & Afraid on IG and LinkedIn to grab the weekly question, and simply submit your story via a voice note in the DM's.
See you on the socials.
*We are not financial advisors and are not offering financial advice, these are just personal stories based on their experience.  
Big thanks to those who contributed:
Bobby Seaford
Bonnie Orbison
Vanessa Richardson
Grace & Marie
Alex Nash
And those who did so anonymously.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.