Your guide to a Better Life - Joslyn Curley
Posted: January 10, 2023
What's your business, and who are your customers?
Dione Counseling is a private mental health counseling practice designed to help, guide, and assist you in navigating through life's daily challenges in an effort to understand that Life Gets Better. It is my goal to help individuals feel fulfilled, healthy, and empowered within a confidential, safe, and trustworthy environment. My clients are predominantly adolescents and young adults, couples, and families.Tell us about yourself
I first began to dream of my own business while an undergraduate at the University of Houston when I created a minority male calendar for sale. It was my first business venture, although it never flourished, and it inspired me to dream big and set higher expectations. I would further find that spark of entrepreneurship when I completed my Master's degree at Prairie View A & M University, and while there, the instructors encouraged me to complete additional credits for the Licensed Professional Counselor licensure. This leads me to Private Practice.What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
My greatest accomplishment is assisting the mentally challenged young population in understanding that their lives can get better.What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?
The hardest part is attempting to do it all myself without delegating leadership roles within the practice and trusting those who have the same enthusiasm for the business brand as myself. It is, for this reason, I'll be searching for a personal assistant soon.What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
- Find a mentor with a vast experience (at least ten years in) that offers insight on resources such as an accountant (for tax purposes), retirement savings, staffing, branding, etc.
- Become as knowledgeable as possible about what your company offers and extend that into possibilities for additional goods and/or services. Diversification is essential.
- Network, network, network!