Two Out of Three Visionary Women are Impacted

As I look around at all the incredible businesses owned and operated by women, I am filled with pride. I see the hard work, the long hours, the challenges, and the sacrifices it takes to run a business.

For women, the journey can be even more challenging. In addition to running a business, we often juggle caring for our children, cooking, laundry, and so much more. Even if we outsource some of these tasks, the expectations remain high.

Yet, despite these challenges, we persevere and make things happen—or do we? Why do I ask this? I know all too well that many successful women find themselves overworked, overwhelmed, and often overlooked.

One day, you might find yourself asking, "How did I get here?" I know because I asked myself that same question years ago.

I had run a successful arts and entertainment business, was on a first-name basis with Hollywood movers and shakers, brokered several multi-million dollar deals, and everyone thought I was on top of my game.

But what they didn't know was that I was broke and broken. My marriage of sixteen years was falling apart. I was in debt, with no savings, living paycheck to paycheck. I struggled in my relationships with love and money. Then, one day, a friend asked me a question that changed my life: "Angela, what do you want?" Such a simple question, yet for someone who had spent her life fulfilling others' expectations, I had no answer. No one had ever asked me what I wanted.

I realized I didn't know what I wanted because I didn't know who I was. Despite my success or my image of success, I was lost.

This was a defining moment for me. A defining moment is when you are willing to let go of who you are not, step into your most powerful space, and become who you were born to be.

Shortly after that conversation with my friend, I went through a divorce. I found myself a divorced mother of three, navigating the world on my own. It was a dark and desolate place, asking, "How did I get here?"

In that dark place, I discovered the root of much of my pain: my non-existent relationship with my biological father. My mother and father split when she was pregnant with me and later divorced. My mother raised me alone until she remarried when I was 14. I discovered that a female gets her identity through her paternal relationships. She seeks significance in the wrong places when that relationship is flawed or non-existent. If not addressed or dealt with, she will carry this unrecognizable pain in her life and her work.

Our pain will never heal until we heal our misplaced sense of identity. This realization began my journey of retracing my life beyond my mother's womb to discover who I truly was.

I was the woman who appeared to have it all together. People respected me and wanted my life, but little did they know I was suffering.

I refused to live that way any longer. I found my truth and healed my misplaced sense of identity. I forgave my father and myself. I didn't use my fatherlessness as an excuse because I understood that my father had his own story. While I wasn't responsible for his story, I recognized he couldn't give me what he was incapable of. This knowledge helped me move forward and accept the apology I would never receive. I took 100% responsibility for my own healing.

Today, I am married to an amazing man of almost 22 years. We have a blended family of five adult children and six wonderful grandchildren.

I run a successful business and have experienced true success. I learned that my worth is not based on what I do but on who I am. I am not defined by my work and business. I no longer hide behind the busyness of being an entrepreneur. I operate with the philosophy of doing less and being more.

I understand what it is like to hide behind the need for business success. Now, I know I can have success in other areas of my life, too. I don't need to grind and hustle to feel good. I run my company with sustainable and profitable business strategies and models. This gives me more time to focus on my relationships, marriage, family, health, and spiritual life. I learned that I can have a life and a career that matters.

I meet many women who are successful in business but are in pain. Pain is loud and carries undeniable energy. Much of that pain is rooted in their father-daughter relationships. I have spent the past 15 years working with women who struggle with these relationships, many unaware of the issue because it’s a muted, hidden pain. Visionary women often cover it up by staying busy and organizing their lives around serving others, avoiding deeper self-examination.

Through my Beautiful Awakened Daughters Project?, I aim to help and support those who serve women and girls to identify what's missing in the lives of their clientele. You can't serve these women adequately if this issue of fatherlessness is not addressed because two out of three females are impacted by it. If we don't address this missing element, it will manifest as patterns of thought and behaviors that cost happiness and healing. I urge you to address this issue and help them.

Through our Journey to Being Process? curriculum, we have helped women worldwide redefine who they are, reclaim their worth, and rewrite their life narratives. We invite you to get trained and certified in our groundbreaking work to transform lives by adding it to your approach and offerings.

When we focus on both the transactional and the transformational, we awaken women. And as the Chinese proverb says, "When sleeping women wake, mountains move." Join me on this mission and accept this invitation to become trained and certified in this process so we can awaken her and awaken humanity. Learn More: https://www.badproject.net/fatherless-daughters/