Hayley Luckadoo is a serial entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and big dreamer who took a hobby business born out of a college dorm room and turned it into a successful multi-business success story. She runs completely on Dr. Pepper, and if it comes in pink you better believe she wants it. Now she spends her days dreaming up new ways to help creatives everywhere take risks, grow their business, and achieve their biggest dreams.

In today’s new episode, Hayley shares with us her journey ending her engagement, dropping out of college, to becoming an accomplished entrepreneur. It’s a story of becoming, and turning setbacks into blessings.

Hayley was definitely a logistics-minded child. She organized everything, things have always been straight and color-coded, and she was never lacking creativity. She started planning parties and formals in college, and then hit that age where everyone she knew started to get married, so after a series of pretty unfortunate events, her wedding planning business, Fairytale Pursuits, was born out of a dorm room, and grew quickly. Within 6 months she had a full-fledged business, and her life completely changed. She found something she was great at, continued it for the next 5 years, and enjoyed it even more when she got to plan her own wedding, and married her husband, Luke, in January of 2016.

Less than two years later, she was helping some fellow pros out with the marketing side of their businesses, and they told her that she had a talent for it. In no time she had a second business. What is now Luckadoo Media Co, their digital marketing company, was more successful than she could have ever imagined, and is their most profitable business to date. Since then, she’s added coaching, courses, podcasts, and she’s found her biggest passion in motivational speaking. She realized that speaking, and specifically motivational speaking, is her biggest passion and where her heart is. It's where she knows she can make the biggest influence and it's the part of her business that she loves most.

“I love getting to remind myself of everything that I’ve overcome, so that I know in the future that I can overcome absolutely anything that comes my way. I truly believe that when we share stories about our past, our dreams, our goals, and what we’ve overcome, we build connections and community around those stories. I love sharing what I’ve been through, and the crazy ride that I’ve been on so far.”

— Hayley Luckadoo

Tune in on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bZHrtjAzbksbLWNaak1NM

Tune in on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-of-inspiring-joy/id1510488632

To connect with Hayley and her work visit her website https://www.hayleyluckadoo.net and on Instagram @hayleyluckadoo Facebook @hayleyluckadoo Twitter @hayleyluckadoo and her Podcast, Females on Fire, here

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