From Anxiety to a Willing Student
“Anyone can start a business just as anyone can dream about success, but only the willing student can build a business that inspires and prospers.” – Tawanda Chirenda
Hi, my name is Tawanda Chirenda. I am a business coach and founder of Becoming a Willing Student® Entrepreneur Program. The quote above has become my entrepreneurship mantra. Feel free to adopt it if it makes sense to you too. I founded Becoming a Willing Student because as a former young entrepreneur who struggled with entrepreneur anxiety, I saw firsthand the need for authentic business coaching for entrepreneurs everywhere.
I used to think passion was enough to grow your business, go through life as an entrepreneur, and succeed with your team. I was wrong, very wrong. I discovered the hard way that you need strategy. I discovered you need to learn how to lead yourself first before you can lead anyone else. I am now a Willing Student and I am on a mission to teach others what I have learned and what I am still learning.
I still have my passion. In fact, I am more passionate now than I have ever been my entire life. I am passionate about empowering entrepreneurs to take control of their businesses and lives the right way. Yes, there is a wrong way to go about it. I know a lot about that. I want every entrepreneur to inspire and prosper and become who they want to be.
The struggle I went through as an entrepreneur inspired me to create Becoming a Willing Student, a business coaching program for smart, passionate and compassionate entrepreneurs who want more from their businesses and their lives.
Becoming a Willing Student is for caring entrepreneurs who want more focus, clarity and confidence in their businesses and in their lives. If you want to live your purpose, aligned with your values and according to your strengths, Becoming a Willing Student is for you.
I am building this movement for committed and passionate entrepreneurs like you. I believe in authenticity. I believe in inspiring the human spirit. I believe in igniting passion in others. I believe in creating true and lasting impact. I believe in building a high-performance team around you. I believe in authentic entrepreneurship.
I will be honest. I am also doing this for a younger version of myself. I wanted to build a program to teach you things that my mentors couldn’t teach me early in my entrepreneurial journey. I want to teach you things that I wish someone had taught me earlier. What I needed the most when I was a young entrepreneur was a coach who could challenge me to go deeper than I had gone before and I found out the hard way.
I am not saying it was all my fault. I am saying I didn’t know. A great man told me the other day that it’s called “unconscious incompetence.” We don’t know what we don’t know. I want to change that. I want authentic, high-quality business coaching to be accessible to every entrepreneur who needs it, sooner rather than later.
I want to be your coach and then watch you take control of your business and your life with a grin on your face. I feel like each time I write these words there is a younger version of me that’s healing. So, forgive me if I seem to go on and on. I am learning to lick my own wounds and I want to teach you how to lick your own wounds too. The truth is, we are all recovering from something.