When I was growing up, my mum used to comment on m ability to move on quickly from an issue or challenge I faced. She would have understood if I still moped around or wore a long face but I just couldn’t do that. I absolutely refused to spend time mourning a situation that I couldn’t help or change.

My philosophy was to learn the lesson and move on. Sometimes it wasn’t the easiest thing to do especially after a breakup or a huge disappointment. I however learned to learn from my mistakes and never repeat them.

When my husband handed me an itty bitty dollhouse when we were to get married, I was deeply seriously disappointed as I saw all my plans for a grand house go out of the window like smoke. The house was that bad. But then I realized that I may not have gotten my dream house but I could make it liveable. Successfully doing this made clients out of my visitor and I eventually launched an interior design firm a few years after. 

It solidified to me how important your disposition is towards your challenges. 

So when I found myself homebound in 2016, ill, nursing a prem baby, broker than a church mouse, I was reminded that it was possible to make diamonds from coals, proceeded to take charge of the things I could change – which was to find a way to make money from home while I waited on God to heal me.

That was the start of my virtual assistant business. A few years ago, I began to think about other women who were in situations similar to mine, some couldn’t work outside the home because their husbands forbade them to, others just didn’t know what to do and because of this I began to coach & teach, showing women how to build profitable work from home businesses, but dearer to m heart are the ladies who couldn’t afford the courses and training and for them, I designed the tech platform ANNE RUTH MARIE where women can go to access FREE premum Virtual Assistant Training.