How Building a Business Helped Me Discover Myself

I didn’t start a business because I had a perfect idea.

I started because I needed to do something.
Something that mattered.
Something that felt like mine.

What I didn’t expect…
was how much of me I’d find in the process.

The Lie of Building for Success

We’re told that building something—whether it’s a business, a brand, or a legacy—is about the outside world. About customers. Clients. Market fit.

And yeah, all that stuff matters. But if that’s all you focus on, you end up with another mask. Another role. Another version of yourself that you built for approval—not alignment.

That’s where I was headed—until I hit pause.

Because every time I tried to create something “sellable,” I lost myself again.
And every time I returned to something real, something rooted in truth—it flowed.

Business as a Spiritual Mirror

What I didn’t realise at first was that this whole process—branding, writing, designing, deciding—was showing me exactly who I was.

It showed me where I was still performing.
Where I was still chasing.
Where I was still trying to prove I was worthy of success.

And it showed me where I wasn’t free yet.

Every time I sat down to write about what I believed… I had to actually ask myself what I believed.

Every time I built a framework for someone else… I had to face whether I was living it myself.

Uncovering the Truth Beneath the Idea

Empowerment & Elevation wasn’t a product.
It was a reflection.

It forced me to examine my relationship with power, with growth, with pain, and with truth. It made me question everything I’d learned about success and realise how much of it was built on fear.

It became a container for healing.
And so did The Dayz of David.
And so did every page, post and offer I created.

They weren’t just expressions of a brand.
They were revelations of my own shadow.

If You Let It, Creation Will Change You

People talk about product-market fit.
I talk about soul-message fit.

If you can align what you create with what you believe—what you’ve lived, what you’ve earned through experience—you don’t have to fake a thing.

The process of building something real will call out your contradictions.
It will test your identity.
It will ask if you’re really about the life you say you want.

And if you’re honest, it will change you.

This Isn’t Just Strategy—It’s Self-Reclamation

So no—this isn’t just about a website.
Or a coaching offer.
Or a clever hook.

This is about reclaiming parts of yourself that got lost when you were trying to survive.
This is about turning inward so you can offer something outward that actually carries weight.

Building a business didn’t just give me a way to live.

It gave me a way to come home to myself.

Next in the Series:

Episode 4 – “The Empowerment & Elevation Blueprint”

A behind-the-scenes look at how I created a brand that wasn’t about impressing others—but about staying true to what matters most.