How Lacking The Proper Qualifications Can Make You The Best

Many Romance Writers
have English degrees.
I’m a business babe.
I took ONE solitary
English course at University.

When I first started
in the Romance Novel Business,
I was self-conscious about this.
I revised my stories (products)
more times than others did.
I hired the best editors
I could find.
I didn’t want anyone
to find out my ‘secret,’
to use this gap
in my education
as a reason not to buy my books.

As a result,
the quality of my books
are VERY high.
This self-consciousness
has made me very good.

Amy Freeman,
high school drop out
and co-founder of
Spice & Tea Exchange,
shares

“It [her lack of eduction]
was a hidden secret
I carried around
—something I never
started to disclose
until this year, actually.

Looking back,
I don’t know
if things would have been different
if I’d been honest.

I do know that
it drove me
in whatever I was doing.

I had to be very good
because I always knew
that someone with an education
could take my job
from me
at any moment.”

You can overcome
a lack of qualifications
for many roles
(not all)
with hard work,
intense study
and the right partners.

Don’t let it stop you.