{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Creating The Job You Want with Sarah Kendrick","description":"Brian chats with RHEA Services founder and \u201caccidental business owner\u201d Sarah Kendrick. Sarah started her career as a music therapist for children and adults with developmental disabilities but later realized the need for care and support in the bereavement process while helping her family after the death of her grandma. Bringing together the skills she developed during her years as a therapist, she founded RHEA Services to simplify the life transitions pre-planning and estate closure processes. On the episode, Sarah walks listeners through her journey of becoming an entrepreneur, including the struggles that turned into stepping stones. She also shares how she\u2019s iterated and developed RHEA Services by listening to the needs of her customers and reads a blessing for business owners. Episode Highlights Mission-driven businesses make the world better. Sarah says mission-driven businesses do work that makes the world better than it is now. She started her mission-driven business, RHEA Services, in 2020 to help families and small business owners gather essential information in case something were to happen to them. \u201cYou\u2019re the only person who knows what\u2019s in your head, which is usually a good thing, but it gets troublesome when you are the one person who knows all of your most important pieces of information.\u201d she said. \u201cI help people basically make a map of that information so that if something happens, somebody knows where to go and look and get what they need.\u201d She stumbled upon her line of work after reading an article about a woman in her 40s who struggled with the \u201cbusiness of death\u201d after her husband died of cancer suddenly and unexpectedly. She immediately knew that helping families with the administrative pieces of losing a loved one was exactly what she wanted to be doing, but she couldn\u2019t find another business doing that kind of work. \u201cI am very much an accidental business owner, and I think that\u2019s sometimes how mission-driven businesses start,\u201d she said. \u201cThey see a problem and what they can do to help that problem. That was my situation.\u201d Your customers will tell you what they need. Listen to them. The type of administrative work that Sarah set out to do in 2020 is just a small portion of what RHEA Services offers today. While Sarah didn\u2019t intentionally set out to grow her business, it has naturally evolved as Sarah uncovers her own needs and listens intently to customers\u2019 needs. \u201cI am hearing what people need,\u201d she said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean that I have to just do whatever people want me to do, but if it feels right to me, too, that\u2019s a really lovely way to honor their faith in me.\u201d Being a business owner is exciting and terrifying. Sarah describes herself as the type of person who prefers predictability and a schedule, which is not the life of a business owner. As she\u2019s created and grown her business over the past three years, she\u2019s learned to adjust her mindset about being an entrepreneur. She may never love the lack of predictability, but she\u2019s grown to like the challenge of solving problems. \u201cBeing a business owner is exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying, and I am far more open to it than I ever was before,\u201d Sarah said. \u201cI\u2019m more capable than I thought I was, and I\u2019ve developed this newfound confidence in myself.\u201d Resources + Links RHEA Services: Website, Instagram, Facebook Sarah\u2019s Social Media: LinkedIn Brian\u2019s Social Media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook About Brian and the Mission Driven Business Podcast Brian Thompson, JD\/CFP, is a tax attorney and certified financial planner who specializes in providing comprehensive financial planning to LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs who run mission-driven businesses. The Mission Driven Business podcast was born out of his passion for helping social entrepreneurs create businesses with purpose and profit. On the podcast, Brian talks with diverse entrepreneurs and the people who support them. Listeners hear stories of experiences, strength, and hope and get practical advice to help them build businesses that might just change the world, too. ","author_name":"Mission Driven Business","author_url":"https:\/\/btfinancial.com\/podcast","html":"