When Danielle Tate got married in 2005, it took her 13 hours to change her name. Way too long! The experience prompted her to start MissNowMrs.com, so other brides wouldn’t have to suffer through the tedious process. To do this, Danielle researched name-changing laws and rules in all 50 states, and came up with her unique three-step, 30-minute online service.
Through the company’s unique service guides, brides answer a series of questions. Their answers are used to auto-populate all of their state and U.S. government name-change forms, as well as notification letters for all of their creditors, and then the service supplies detailed filing instructions for each form/letter.
Since launching, MissNowMrs.com has assisted more than 200,000 brides in their transition from Miss to Mrs. Danielle has also founded the MarriedNameGame.com, the original proprietary name change algorithm to determine your ideal married name, and GetYourNameBack.com, an online service dedicated to helping women get their name back after divorce.
Since leaving her medical sales job to start MissNowMrs.com, she has definitely learned a thing or two. Today, she is sharing a few of those things:
1.Take the big risks now. You probably don’t have a mortgage or family to consider. It may feel like leaving a “decent job” to follow your dream or start a company is insane. Do it. You may fail, but you will learn so much in the process of failing that will help you be successful in your next venture or job. On the flip side, you may succeed and inspire others to take the risks that permanently change their young lives for the better.
2. Your failures are really opportunities in disguise. I’m not going to lie. Failure hurts deeply, but if you have the strength to weather it and look at it as an opportunity that is presenting itself you will be successful in life. Instead of wondering why something bad happened to you, look for what needs to change in your life or what you were freed from. I would not be an entrepreneur or CEO without having first failed at getting into medical school.
3. See the world. Experiencing other cultures, and ideally living in a few of them will give you a much greater sense of the world as a whole. It will also help you connect and interact with other people in ways your non-traveled peers cannot. You don’t need to travel first class, you simply need to travel outside your country and comfort zone. Living in Budapest in my early twenties completely changed my worldview and has come up in more conversations than I could count, both professionally and personally.
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