She didn’t know it yet…✨

Sundays with Anna | Newsletter #22

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Hey hey, Anna here 👋

I saw one of those TikTok trends the other night — you know the ones with the soft music and text that starts with:

“She doesn’t know it yet…”

And then it hits you straight in the gut.

She doesn’t know it yet… but this is the last time she’ll do this thing she thought was just a phase.

She doesn’t know it yet… but this moment will quietly change her life.

It got me.

Because all I could think about was her.

Not the Anna you know now.

But the version of me who got kicked out of school at 16. 🙈

The girl who felt like she’d already blown her shot.

She didn’t know she’d go on to become a qualified bookkeeper.

That she’d work ten years in finance, saving every cent to travel the world with Russ. ✈️

She didn’t know she’d come home, newly pregnant, wondering how to build a life that didn’t involve returning to the office.

She didn’t know she’d start sewing baby clothes on the kitchen table.

Those clothes would become Global Bambino, sold at local markets with a newborn strapped to her chest.

She didn’t know it yet…

But one day, she’d want her weekends back.

That she’d take her business online.

She’d discover Shopify and fall head over heels for what was possible.

She didn’t know she’d start House of Cart, help other women do the same, and become someone who now says out loud:

“I help entrepreneurial mums turn side hustles into full-time, freedom-filled businesses.”

She didn’t know.

But she showed up anyway.

And if you’re in your own version of that moment — tired, unsure, trying to make something stick while juggling a million things at home…

Maybe this is what you need to hear:

You don’t know it yet…

But you’re building something big.

It won’t always look shiny.

It won’t always feel like it’s working.

But one day, you’ll look back and realise:

That market stall…

That handmade order…

That email you sent with a toddler climbing your leg…

It mattered.

It was the beginning of everything.

So keep going.

You’re not behind.

You’re becoming.

So let me ask you:

What would you say to the “before” version of you — the one just starting out?

I’d love to hear it. Just hit reply. 💛

Big love,

Anna

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