This is the first edition of Ready, Not Worried — a semi-regular newsletter I’ve been meaning to start for a while.

If you know me personally, you know Anthelo is truly purpose-driven, grounded in the intention to support the art of entrepreneurship by helping creatives, women, and people of color — people like me and you.

I can't express how grateful I am to share this with you as I continue to build Anthelo and the community to come.

Hello friends,

It’s been a crazy time for a while now and I hope you’re finding your own version of harmony in the chaos. Times like this reinforce the need for reflection. As I do, I’ve decided my thoughts have some merit and could be worth sharing. From now on, I’ll be making a concerted effort to reflect and share more openly with the people I’m connected to. If you’d like to stick around and see what happens — that’s great news because you’re on the email list. If not, I promise not to take the unsub personally.

In either case, I cannot express how grateful I am for you to have witnessed and been a part of this somewhere along the way. I don’t know for sure if I was born a leader or if I chose to be one, but as I embody the growth I create through my business, I find myself in a continued battle between two distinctly different feelings.

The first is complete terror. I truly don’t know what’s coming next. I have a vision and I believe with everything in my body, that the clarity and capacity required to make it happen are building slowly each day I move forward. Still, that leaves a current status of unknowns, calculated risks, and pure tenacity fueling my best guess at success.

But then I do what I do, and I pull all the pieces together to assess the potential in front of me. Irrefutable evidence of steady and consistent effort comes together and I’m left awestruck in gratitude.

I had no safety net when I decided to go out on my own and sell my ideas for myself. People told me of the risks, how much easier it’d be to slide back into a corporate role, that I didn’t have the basis or the runway to dive into entrepreneurship. Thankfully, I had a few stand out friends who reminded me of all I’d already done.

If I hadn’t spent years prior getting to know myself, I may have let fear stop me. Instead, I knew what I was capable of, what I’d already overcome and accomplished all on my own. I could do this. Now, I’m more in awe and more motivated than ever to see what I do next — even if it’s a little scary.

I created Anthelo because I believe in something bigger than myself.

I know that there are human centered businesses out there, I know there are dynamics that can be regulated, I know there are leaders who chose integrity over ego, I know we can build bigger companies better than they’ve been built before and I know people can live happier lives.

Anthelo is committed to creating value that means something. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for reading and I hope you stick with me.

Love always,

Jazmyn