We were lucky to catch up with Torrey C Butler recently and have shared our conversation below.

Torrey C, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What do you think it takes to be successful?

Find your purpose! Love what you do and do what you love. The first step in being successful is to set goals. Simple, written goals are key. I call them daily wins. They will eventually add up and get you to the next level. The small things are often overlooked but they create the foundation for everything to come. The next step isn’t as easy. Accomplish them.
Easier said than done, I know. Well here is where we get to the meat and potatoes, and it’s a simple phrase that encompasses every achievement and shortcoming you’ll face on your journey. Never give up! That’s the key. That’s the punchline.
If you have a dream or vision that you’re passionate about, believe in yourself to make it happen and see it through. Own your vision because someone else’s dreams depends on you accomplishing yours. Even flowers need rain to grow.

Torrey C, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I’m an award winning author, writer, storyteller and founder/CEO of Scribble. I enjoy creating new things, and most importantly positively affecting lives. Now, I introduced all of the titles not to wow the crowd, but to stamp the concept that you can accomplish whatever it is you want, with hardwork and faith. Writing, even entrepreneurship were things I stumbled across a few years ago. Majority of what I learned about life, wanting more and trying to strive for higher derived from my upbringing of not having much. I witnessed my immigrant mother do her best with the little she had. I didn’t understand it at the time, but the necessity to become someone great was being created.
In 2020, I self-published my first book titled “Where Do I Go from Here?” A memoir I wrote to talk about my different experiences growing up, in hopes to motivate and inspire others.
During my writing process, I quickly discovered that the writing world was difficult to navigate. The resources, the information, the how to’s, connecting with other creative minds and all. Thus, leading me to founding Scribble, a social networking service designed for authors, writers and creative minds to network and connect. Available on the App and Google Play Store.
With all of this, the one thing I’m most proud of is being able to display an example. A different example of what you could be and accomplish. And every beginning in entrepreneurship doesn’t start with “once upon a time.” Every story is different, but what you decide to do in each chapter depends on how bad you want to change the previous.
The goal isn’t to live forever, it’s to create something that will.

Can you talk to us about how your funded your business?

I founded Scribble in 2021, during the terrors of COVID. In my abundant leg of research, I started to get momentum in figuring out how I was going to make this happen. My first thought was to try and find an investor. After emailing a handful of them, their assistants rather, I found myself either with no response at all for several months or a response saying “no thank you.” My next thought was to reach out to venture capitalist companies, but then I quickly realized it didn’t work like that. As months passed, it was definite that no one was going to take this leap financially with me. So, I jumped off by myself.
I took a few dollars a had saved up and invested it all into the the initial version of the mobile application, Scribble.
After being on the market for a few months, I figured someone would see what I was doing via social media or perhaps stumble across the idea and help me. But again, I learned it doesn’t work that way.
From there, I reached back into my personal accounts and invested more into the technology advancements that will provide users more features.
Summary, I refuse to wait on anyone to see the value in me or my visions. Sometimes that means taking matters into your own hands, making it happen someway, somehow. Sooner or later, it’ll pay off.

Do you have any insights you can share related to maintaining high team morale?

Understand your team’s strong points. Put them in positions that are not only valuable to the company, but to them for their personal and professional growth. Remember how you felt when you worked under someone. How lazy they were. How much they didn’t care about you. Don’t be that person and you’re already ahead of the game.

Contact Info:

• Website: torreybutler.com
• Instagram: @butlerthedon
• Facebook: facebook.com/torreycbutler
• Linkedin: LinkedIn.com/in/torreycbutler
• Twitter: @butlerthedon
• Other: scribble @butlerthedon