We were lucky to catch up with LaTara Hardnett recently and have shared our conversation below.
LaTara, appreciate you joining us today. Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?
My mission is to be become a better version of myself everyday. If I had to choose a person i look up to it would be myself other than God. So many times we worship idles. I worship Latara. I know there is no way that i can work this hard and lose. In the words of lil Baby who am I going to lose to? Everyday i want to go further and higher. I want to positively impact someone in someway and for someone to say ai didn’t give up because of you. I want a single mother to say because of you I did so everyday I am creating a moment.
LaTara, 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?
Losing my mother at a young age I worked at a local Mental Health. It was there I found my passion with youth and began taking time with high risk youth, it was later that job led to a locals school system Auburn City where I am employed STILL. My passion to help children was my purpose driven life. I later was pregnant and delivere the most amazing young lady Laila. That is where I realized God loved me so much that he gave me Laila. Being a mother changed my life. I couldn’t put up with things I use to. I left the worst relationship ever and never looked back. I found a purpose. Being a single mother with a limited support system i created a comment sold Facebook group selling clothes. I sold them out of my trunk! Meeting people until I opened a pick up office, then I became a store front owner. They’re serving women and having conversations with them and seeing the interaction with them serving them clothes that fed the soul. Soul ties. I then became a realtor. I felt like home is where it all begin. Helping people start a life or grow into a bigger home because of me is the American dream. My life is so much bigger than me.
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
Losing my mother. Do you know how hard it was to wake up in the morning in a home my mother built and worked hard for knowing she would never return. I constantly had to pick myself up and constantly hear if you don’t live for something LaTara you going to die for nothing. I worked hard always gave abs always will . Then there was laila.my one and only daughter. I realized so much of my mother being a mother. I realized I could not give up when I was tired, hurt, sad or defeated laila was watching. Laila is watching even at LSU she is still watching
Can you talk to us about how your funded your business?
So Eula Mae’s my boutique named after my mother is a comment sold Facebook group. I am a some proprietor. I do not have any funding loans. I work to pay for Eula Mae’s. Being the first and only women’s boutique is difficult. So many people pass by it and walk away because they don’t know and instead of stopping and asking a lot of people stick to what they know. Afraid to venture out. Very difficult but that name Eula Mae’s the legacy the meaning humbles me and make me go harder and harder every day.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://m.facebook.com/groups/171300033361109?ref=share
- Facebook: LaTara Hardnett
- Supermom link: http://thesupermom.org/2023/latara