Inspiration -- Madam C. J. Walker: "I Promoted Myself Into Business..."

Madam C. J. Walker

You cannot get debt relief if you do not have a money strategy.

This post was presented to inspire you to promote yourself into a make money online from home business.

Therefore, Madam C. J. Walker is a woman that all single moms should study.

In 1993, I attended broadcasting school in Indiana, where I saw a documentary about her, and visited her factory that has become a renown museum and mixed-use center that spans a city block.

To me, she is the pure essence of a single mother who chose to blaze her own trail to business success and debt freedom.

She started out doing menial jobs, but she decided to "promote herself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations... I have built my own factory on my own ground."

Talk about breaking through economic barriers.

Can you imagine the difficulty she faced and endured pulling herself up out of poverty?

I cannot pretend to think that she did not need debt relief as well.

When I start to feel that things are not going right or, not happening fast enough, I think about Madam C. J. Walker for a reality check.

Then, my courage is renewed to walk through fire and on water to reach my goals.

If you have never heard of Madam C. J. Walker, I would like to introduce her to you through a New York Times Obituary, which briefly tells her life story:

May 26, 1919

Wealthiest Negress Dead

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

In 1917 Madame Walker completed at Irvington, on the banks of the Hudson, a mansion which cost $250,000, and since then had made her home there. The house, which is one of the show places in the vicinity, is three stories high and consists of thirty or more rooms. She had installed in this home an $8,000 organ with furnishings, including bronze and marble statuary, cut glass candelabra, tapestries, and paintings, said to be of intrinsic beauty and value.

OBITUARY

Mrs. C. J. Walker, known as New York's wealthiest negress, having accumulated a fortune from the sale of so-called anti-kink hair tonic and from real estate investments in the last fourteen years, died yesterday morning at her country estate at Irvington-on-Hudson. She was proprietor of the Madame Walker hair dressing parlors at 108 West 136th Street and other places in the city. Her death recalled the unusual story of how she rose in twelve years from a washerwoman making only $1.50 a day to a position of wealth and influence among members of her race.

Estimates of Mrs. Walker's fortune had run up to $1,000,000. She said herself two years ago that she was not yet a millionaire, but hoped to be some time, not that she wanted the money for herself, but for the good she could do with it. She spent $10,000 every year for the education of young negro men and women in Southern colleges and sent six  youths to Tuskegee Institute every year. She recently gave $5,000 to the National Conference on Lynching.

Born fifty-one years ago, she was married at 14, and was left a widow at 20 with a little girl to support. She worked as a cook, washerwoman, and the like until she had reached the age of about 37. One morning while bending over her wash she suddenly realized that there was no prospect on her meager wage of laying away anything for old age.

She had often said that one night shortly afterward she had a dream and something told her to start a hair tonic business, which she did, in Denver, Col., on a capital of $1.25.

In a few years she had accumulated a large sum, and invested in real estate in the West and South and in New York State, nearly all the property greatly increasing in value. She then owned a $50,000 home in the northern part of this city, which some years ago she gave to her daughter, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson, associated with her in business.

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