October 8, 2014
Mother Mastermind: 5 Lessons on Career and Leadership from Tina Knowles
Lesson 3: Use your adversity as motivation to do something about your situation.
After having her first child, Knowles admitted to her marriage going through a major rough patch. With motherhood on her plate, a rocky marriage and no form of her own income, Knowles took matters into her own hands and started her own salon.
She went to beauty school and started a small salon in her house to help build up her clientele. Eight weeks after Beyoncé was born she said that she took her to her grandmother and said, “Listen, you have to keep her because I have to open this business so I will never be in this position again. I will never be totally dependent on someone.â€
“The adversity of me having this bad marriage caused me to go do something about my situation,” added Knowles.