(Never Released) My Entrepreneurial Awakening in Baltimore

This episode was actually recorded earlier and never released.I was supposed to post it back when I first attended my first women’s small business networking event, mental health panel, and pitch competition in Baltimore, but I held onto it for some reason.Listening back now, I’m honestly glad I did.Because this episode captures a real moment: the exact point where my mindset around entrepreneurship, networking, business, and my future started shifting in real time.In this episode, I talk about:feeling stuck between creativity and survivalrealizing I needed new rooms and new people around mewhy my business ideas kept “crashing”the importance of proximity, networking, and momentumhow one email unexpectedly opened a door for mewhy “being denied is knowledge”learning to ask questions instead of pretending I already know everythingThis isn’t polished. It isn’t perfect. It’s a real-time audio journal from the beginning stages of figuring things out.And honestly, I think that makes it more meaningful.So here’s the episode I never posted. The episode that almost stayed in my drafts forever.— Kiana Hughes