So I've reached a point in my apprenticeship where my preceptor has given me permission to reach out and start bringing clients to us. Which is great and good. I feel so stoked that she believes in me. Trust me, if she didn't, I wouldn't have this green light! But what no one tells you is that it is hard to start. Finding clients, creating your "brand", encouraging mamas and being able to keep up your home life (and jobs if you have them!) is work. Work that will pay off, but will never get easier. So I've been setting here for the last 7 hours working hard at getting envelopes stuffed with a letter telling locals about me and midwifery, brochures and business cards. The taste of glue is so thick on my tongue that I cannot even use the Starbucks to cover it up anymore.
I know that each one of these letters brings me that much closer to clients, to getting my paperwork signed off and to having my CPM, which is the goal after all. Among other ideas, I'm basically talking to every. single. mother. I meet in any store, fast-food restaurant or bathroom-even the zoo (seriously, on my family vacation this past week I probably stopped 4 moms to make sure they know they have options in childbirth!). Having business cards and flyers on hand at all times and dressing where I'm cleaned up but do not look like I'm not an average mom who just happens to be a birth worker.
It will pay off. It will pay off. It will pay off.....
