It’s Our Belated Birthday! Clink!
Clink! It’s our birthday!
On January 13, 2022, Doerr&Co. LLC turned one year old! Hurray!
The day itself actually passed without much fanfare. In fact, I turned in a book that very day. So there was some fanfare, but it was very specific to that three-years-in-the-making project (which I’ll write about soon). But that impending book deadline paired with Covid childcare closures eclipsed almost everything else for a good part of a month (especially self-care, I might add). So the person who wrote about the value of celebrating and recognizing milestone anniversaries completely forgot/marginally recognized her own milestone anniversary. And one year is most definitely a milestone, especially in pandemic reality.
But this passing over of an important business milestone shows the reality of this self-employment work. The content I create for my business always takes a back seat. My clients’ milestones are most definitely a priority. They are, of course, paying me to keep those milestones in mind as I write about their story. But carving out the time to do all of the same things I do for others for my own business, always feels like it comes as an afterthought.
That all being said, I do want to sit for a moment and celebrate this milestone one year and almost one month after I officially launched Doerr&Co. While I knew I had something from the months of planning I put into the business plan before I launched, it’s still a leap of faith to jump fully into entrepreneurship. Was I going to be able to find the kind of clients that I wanted to work with? Would people connect with my vision for the work that I’m doing? There are always questions that hover in your mind when you take a risk like this. This past year showed me that I did have something there, that my vision does stand out from a standard communications business. The beauty of doing work rooted in a strong vision is that it inevitably leads you to connections that also have a similar vision. And that is something to celebrate!
I’m incredibly proud of what I’ve built with an amazing community of people supporting me and working alongside me. It’s been a helluva year for parents and, well, for the world. I can honestly say that I have the best clients. I love the people I get to work with, I love that their vision for the world is aligned with mine, and I love that I get to learn about a whole bunch of people and projects that are literally changing the world.
So even though it’s almost a month late, I would like to celebrate this milestone. When we do a toast in my family, we say “Clink!” So, cheers to one years of Doerr&Co.!
CLINK!