Meet Ashton Henry

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Ashton Henry. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Ashton below.

Ashton, we’re so excited for our community to get to know you and learn from your journey and the wisdom you’ve acquired over time. Let’s kick things off with a discussion on self-confidence and self-esteem. How did you develop yours?

When it comes to social media – I feel like confidence to show up makes it harder. But there are two things that have helped me to be more confident.

1. Is mindset. I think part of the problem with self esteem issues is just the way we talk to ourselves. We listen to the voice that says we aren’t good enough, or that no one will care. But that’s simply not true! We have value that we bring to the table and if you don’t share it, you’re with holding something that could really help someone else.

2. Practice. The other half is just doing the damn thing! If you continue doing something over and over, you get better, you learn, and you improve. It naturally helps to build your confidence as time goes on.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I have always been in marketing and design. I started out freelancing my way through college and then went to work in some corporate jobs. After working for other people, learning a lot about process, I began to realize that I wanted to venture out and try doing my own thing.

I started by just talking about it. I think that’s something a lot of people hold back on out of fear. But I just went ahead and put myself out there. I went on social media and kind of just said ‘I AM OPEN FOR BUSINESSES, HIRE ME”! haha, and that is how it took off.

I started by focusing on Branding and Websites. When I would do the branding, I would also show how their branding could come to life on social media, with some examples, and then one of my clients came back and said “can you just do this for me?” and so I did.

I quickly learned that I had a knack for bringing branding to life on social media and my business naturally morphed into a social media agency.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Persistence. Listening Creatively . Self Assessment.
I think a big quality that helped me grow my business, was that I just kept going. Someone early on said that the most important thing is just keeping it alive, and so that is what I have done.

Creativity is a big part of what makes my business work – I am in the business of design after all. But I think a really big way that the creativity comes into place is how i Listen to the client and turn their visions into reality. That mixed with my ability to keep the bigger picture in mind, I am a resource for business owners that have big dreams and want to see that come to life.

The other skill I learned from College, which is a self assessment. I know the importance of checking in. Is the process still working? Can we automate this? Are we doing something that doesn’t really matter to the client? How can we improve.

I think that if you’re starting out, put time on the calendar to check with yourself. Making time to make sure you’re working on the most improant parts of your business is a big part of what helps you improve.

We’ve all got limited resources, time, energy, focus etc – so if you had to choose between going all in on your strengths or working on areas where you aren’t as strong, what would you choose?

I think in the beginning when you are starting out, you have to work on improving areas that aren’t your strength. Whenever possible, hire the right person for the job. However, sometimes doing it yourself makes you qualified to bring in the right people.

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