Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Dawn Henderson. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Dawn, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Parents play a huge role in our development as youngsters and sometimes that impact follows us into adulthood and into our lives and careers. Looking back, what’s something you think you parents did right?

My parents are awesome. My father died in 2014 from cancer, and I feel like he has continued to take care of his baby on the other side. I watched my mom have a really fun career. She worked really hard, pursued a few degrees and took care of everyone all of my life and she still does it! My dad grew up completely different than my mom and had to really hustle to get to where he was so the values they instilled into my siblings and I, and their views on life were a lot different, but we honestly got the best of both worlds. I grew up knowing how to be tough, but gentle at the same time. My dad was really big on telling me he never wanted me to depend on anyone for anything, so he made sure I knew how to hold my own, and he was extremely big on loyalty and protecting everything and everyone he loved. He would put his life on the line for anyone he considered family. My mom taught me how to take care of my family and how to achieve any goal I wanted. I have so much of the both of them in me. I may be a spoiled brat, but I work so hard and I have so many goals, it always shocks me when I knock them out, and I love all of my people with my entire heart, unconditionally. I just want to fully live in my purpose and enjoy my family and everything I do and accomplish in life. I want to be proud of myself and whatever I build for myself and my family when I look back 30 years from now.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

In 2017, I was a new mother and I was in the property management industry. At the time I had a lot of experience in making my own skin and body care products and I was known for having a remedy for almost anything. I shared that I had made too much of a body scrub on Facebook and I was going to give some away, and I had a lot of people inquire about it so I made more. The requests didn’t stop and within a month I had to create a website and from there my business went viral and the rest is history. I formulate holistic self care products for the entire family for anyone who wants quality products without all of the harmful additives. I’m also in the real estate industry selling new construction homes and managing properties for single family home owners. At this point in my career, I am most proud of the fact that I am still going, still setting goals and knocking them out with how insane the world has been over the last two years. I’ve made it through this stressful pandemic, and we’re going into year 5. I know that I’ve partnered with some huge brands and I’ve accomplished so much along my entrepreneurial journey, but I really am just thankful that I’m still going strong.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to learn how to stop trying to put myself in this box that social media creates for entrepreneurs. Everyone, including other business owners try to tell you how you should speak publicly, they try to tell you how to react, respond, and I am just not with that anymore because it’s just not me. When you come to terms with being a public figure, the hardest part of that is learning how to watch people say whatever they want about you publicly just to tear you down and for no other reason than that, and you have to pick and choose you battles, but being human you don’t always know which battle to choose. I don’t go out of my way to fit in that box anymore. I don’t care what anyone thinks about me, I don’t care to overshare or even post too much anymore because I just value every inch of my privacy. 5 years ago I felt like I had to share everything about myself and my business on every platform, and that may have been fitting at the time so that I could build my brand, but it came with a lot. So now, I’m just me and I don’t care who feels a way about it.

Can you talk to us about how your side-hustle turned into something more.

Making my own skin care products was my hobby, that turned into a side hustle, and then the universe forced me to build a brand out of it. Social media plays a huge part in how my business grew and scaled to where it is today because that is where my brand started. That’s where I started my journey with Macy’s and even landed some big publications in Vogue, Tatler, and Cosmopolitan. Those are definitely some of the key milestones.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.sweetdorganics.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/sweetdorganics
• Facebook: Facebook.com/sweetdorganics
• Twitter: twitter.com/sweetdorganics

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