Fail. Then Fail Again. Actually keep failing till you’re not afraid of the word anymore.

When we lost money in Kish+Co, I stopped taking risks.

I hadn’t run a business before, so while I saw the profit that could be made, I hadn’t seen the hard side of it.

And it came crashing on me.

Most of all, I blamed myself.

I was brought up on the “no excuses” philosophy.

And sure, it was my first time, there was a GFC in the making, our business had grown rapidly and we had grown with it. Sure. There were other factors.

But as far as I was concerned. I had failed.

Big time.

I withdrew.

I did the done things.

Mail outs. Networking. E-newsletters.

I did it all.

But I did it all blah.

It wasn’t very Kish at all.

Kish is a little kooky. She’s a little crazy.

She’s got more balls than me. And she isn’t afraid to be blunt when the occasion calls for it.

But that Kish was buried under failure.

It took a few friends in my life to help me bounce back up.

Bernadette was one of the first to talk to me about it.

It started sinking in.

I started to shake shit up.

I posted my most corporate client some cookies.

I put a “dancing hawaiian lady” stamp on envelopes.

The blog posts started to have more real content.

Kish+Co started to evolve.

Hey, I even said “No” to a client or two!

I really believe, failure is a good thing.

If you’re failing, you’re learning.

And business often feels like more failure and set backs, than success.

Now I know, if I’m failing, I’m on my way there.

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I surely (truly, madly, deeply) hope this was beneficial to you. 
Take from it what resounds with you and leave the stuff that doesn’t.

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We are Kish+Co and we do a whole lot of stuff. 
If it involves conversations around growing your company and designing to these conversations, then we’re on board.

Kish works with companies to help them get more >> whatever that more may be.