You do not need to keep guessing your way through business.
You started your business because you had a vision for the life you wanted to create for yourself & your family, not a burning desire to understand P&Ls, operations, taxes, and everything else that comes with running a business.
I teach entrepreneurs how to build the strong business that will support their dreams, because business is hard enough. Understanding yours shouldn't be.
FINANCIAL LITERACY • KEYNOTE SPEAKING • EDUCATION WORKSHOPS • COLLEGIATE & TEAM INSTRUCTION •ENTREPRENEURSHIP • BUSINESS SETUP
You Decided To Build A Business For A Reason.
You wanted to create more freedom, take care of your family, and turn something you're really good at into something that could actually bridge the gap between your life now and the life you dreamed about.
And then somehow you also became the bookkeeper, manager, scheduler, HR department, salesperson, decision-maker and — congratulations — the world's most underqualified personal assistant to yourself.
Now you're lying awake wondering if you saved enough for taxes, why your calendar is full but your bank account isn't, and are racking your brain trying to find out the illusive business secrets that everyone else seems to know.
I am here to change that.
Learn With Mendy In Person or Online
Workshops. Webinars. Online Resources. Classes. Speaking engagements. Conversations.
Business education for people who would rather understand business than pretend they already do. I teach the three most important topics every business owner needs to understand: business setup, financial literacy, and operations.
SPEAKING & TRAINING
Perfect for teams or organizations with 1099 contractors
Bring Mendy In To Teach & Speak
Looking for an educator who can make business easy to understand?
Mendy teaches business and entrepreneurship in classrooms, companies, workshops, conferences, and communities with practical, real-world education people can immediately understand and apply.
PROGRAMS & EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Perfect for founders and entrepreneurs to learn on their own
Learn From Mendy
For you if you're running a business, preparing to start one, or realized you need some more business education.
Explore Mendy's programs and educational resources designed to help you understand what's happening behind your business.
Meet Mendy Applegate
Business Development Specialist & Speaker
Founder of Honey Do-Checklist, Creator of the HDC Academy
Adjunct Collegiate Professor
I have spent years working & consulting inside businesses, not just talking about them.
My career has taken me from Corporate oil and gas accounting and operations to small business virtual assistant services, bookkeeping, speaking, business education training, to now I have the honor of being a collegiate adjunct professor.
Throughout all of my careers, I noticed the same issues again and again: business owners were building businesses without ever being taught how they actually work.
Today, I help entrepreneurs, students, organizations, and emerging professionals understand the business behind business that too often get buried or never taught at all.
I understand that knowing how to do the work and knowing how to run the business are two completely different skill sets and I'm on a mission to help business owners know both.
Classrooms. Conferences. Companies. Communities.
BUSINESS EDUCATION BUILT FOR THE REAL WORLD.
Mendy brings practical business education into the rooms where entrepreneurs, professionals, leaders, and business owners are learning. Her teaching style is less lecture, more casual coffee chat with a bunch of "oh, I get it now!" moments.
Whether she's teaching a semester-long course on Entrepreneurship at a local college, teaching CE credits workshops for professional development, speaking to hundreds from a stage, or breaking down Accounting 101 for a room of entrepreneurs, the objective stays the same: make the information useful enough that people can do something with it afterwards.
Potential topics include entrepreneurship 101, business foundations, accounting fundamentals, time management and delegation, business review, or how to prep for next year. Looking for a specialize topic? Let's chat
WANT TO KEEP LEARNING?
You don't have to be sitting in one of Mendy's classrooms to learn from her.
Explore practical business education created for entrepreneurs who are ready to better understand the business they're building.
STEP 1 — LEARN WHAT'S WORKING & WHAT'S NOT
Business Blueprint Assessment + 1:1 Review
Start here. We'll assess your business, identify what's working and what's missing or can be improved, and sit down together for a private 1:1 review of your individualized results.
You'll leave knowing where your business stands and what deserves your attention next so you can hit your goals.
STEP 2 — NEED TO FOCUS ON A SPECIFIC AREA?
Business Workshops
& Webinars
Learn the business skills nobody ever taught you. Watch Boss Moves 101, Accounting Unplugged, and checkout the resources & individual courses! Real-world business education that actually makes sense and is focused on the one thing you need support with most.
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STEP 3 — WANT HANDS ON EDUCATION?
The HDC Business Blueprint Playbook
The practical guide to protecting, strengthening, and running the business you've worked so hard to build.
It walks you through the pieces of running a business that most of us had to figure out the hard way like: contracts, money, systems, customers, employees, time, growth and all the other stuff nobody mentioned when you decided to start a business. It can be used on it's own or to supplement the HDC Academy.
STEP 4 — ARE YOU READY TO BUILD IT ALL?
HDC Academy Business Course
This course is taught at universities throughout Oklahoma City and supporting the next generation of entreprenuers.
Ready to stop crossing your fingers & hoping you set your business up correctly? The Academy walks you through every major area of business ownership with step-by-step lessons, tools, templates, and industry referrals so you can get the support you need! This is where confidence gets built.
“One year of HDC Academy has been more valuable to our business than a traditional business degree.”
“HDC Academy helped my employee understand why we do what we do — and that changed everything.”
"You’re the best! Thank you for taking the time and explaining everything to me! It’s not so scary after all!"