Today we’d like to introduce you to Bianca Berry.
Hi Bianca, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I think the first road you walk down before you become an entrepreneur is the, “ I’m tired of this, something has got to change road”.
I literally just got tired of working so many jobs and missing out on living and my family. I got tired of being denied for everything. I got tired of operating out of a place of lack, knowing that my passion was way bigger than what I was currently enduring.
But it’s one thing to be tired, it’s another thing to use it to motivate you to make a decision. So the next step I took was massive action.
I used money I really didn’t have to invest in franchising a business as a credit referral agent in 2018. And as of January 2022, I donated my traditional job back to the community to work this business full time.
But honestly, the biggest blessing is to be able to see how many lives my business impacts. 2019 marked 400 years since slavery began in America. And my business is giving out the reparations to so many of my brown brother’s and sister’s by means of homeownership, investments, and starting businesses just by teaching what we weren’t taught— financial literacy.
I’m also now collaborating with women and going on tours teaching financial literacy in cities that don’t have access to information on how to build generational wealth. It’s a super lit feeling.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
a smooth road? That is laughable. It has absolutely not been smooth. Actually rather bumpy. It takes hard work, long hours, grit, patience and risks.
My biggest struggle in this journey has not been too many external factors, it has been the internal one. Myself having to constantly fight my own brain and inner voice that is telling me “you don’t deserve this.” “You are doing too much.” “No one likes you.” That’s tough, man.
I had days where I had to force myself out of bed and say “how many people can I help today?” Although all night my own thoughts of inadequacy and self-doubt kept me up.
No one talks about those moments where your mental health can fail you at any time and any place and you literally have to fight for your life.
In 2020 I had to pause on business and ground myself again. We were going through a pandemic, I just got married to my business partner, we were blending a family of 3, I lost myself spiritually and I was pregnant. My mental health was declining rapidly and I was having nervous breakdowns.
Through much personal work behind closed doors and help from my husband, I was able to pick myself back up.
I kept telling myself I wanted to start my business up again but was embarrassed. My husband reassured me there was nothing to be embarrassed about and this time, I was starting from experience. That changed the game for me and ever since then I’ve been running and saying no to anything that does not align with what I want in life for me, my husband and our four babies.
There are still moments where I’m driving the mental struggle bus but my support system, prayer, therapy, and positive self-talk goes a long way.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Bank On Bee?
I named my business Bank On Bee ™️ because I wanted my clients to know they can trust me. I’m the girl who cheers for the underdog. The girl you can depend on. As a credit referral agent, I think that is super important to build trust because finances can be a vulnerable spot. Clients have to know that you really want what’s best for them, their family, and their future.
But what sets me apart from other credit agencies is I get to the root of why my clients have to be my clients in the first place. I teach my followers that financial wellness is self-care. So that means healing your current relationship with money. Teaching them how accountability and self-worth stretches over into our finances. In my assessments with my customers and getting to know them, we have a conversation about their current financial climate, identify what has impacted their current money behaviors, and rewrite their money stories or behaviors into more thoughtful and empowering ones.
My brand also teaches women and moms how to live a balanced, soft life within the will of God. Money has to have its place. It can’t be a god to you. When it becomes a god, you become a slave to it. And that doesn’t sound happy or healthy at all being that it is not an active force.
So “build that business boo, but be balanced too” is my message to my followers.
If you had to, what characteristic of yours would you give the most credit to?
God is who I contribute to my success. I pray a lot over my business more than I did before. I pray that God increases my faith and holds my hand every step of the way. I don’t want a life or lifestyle without Him. And whatever I achieve, I want for him to get the glory. Like it truly is not about me, it’s about how can I honor Him in my passion for people, in my strategies, in my dress, in the way I show up, and in building relationships with people.
I put my spiritual routine first. Because without the self-development and without accomplishing His will as priority, my business would be building in vain.
Pricing:
- Free Credit Healing Assessments
Contact Info:
- Email: bankonbee@gmail.com
- Website: bankonbee.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/bankonbee?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bankonberry
