Mentorship · Houston, TX
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Hands-on weekly working sessions. Real accountability, not a video course. For founders who have moved past the watching-content phase and want a working relationship with someone who has done the work.
Mentor · Houston, TX
Marcia L.
Smith.
Founder, Businestry. Houston-based business credit, structure, and funding mentor. Twelve-plus years guiding entrepreneurs from idea to fundable file.
Working principle
Most owners aren't blocked by what they don't know — they're blocked by what they don't do. Mentorship is the part that makes the work happen on time.
§ 01 · How it works
A working relationship. Not a video course.
The clients who get the most out of mentorship share three traits: an active business (LLC formed or about to be), they treat the weekly call as a real meeting, and they're willing to do the unglamorous compliance work — Texas Public Information Report, Beneficial Ownership Information, address-and-phone audits across the bureaus — that most owners skip.
If you've watched 200 hours of YouTube and still haven't filed your LLC, mentorship isn't the right starting point. Take the $597 Proper Business Structure track first. If you've filed but the work has stalled, mentorship is the unblock.
The weekly working session.
- Application + 30-minute diagnostic call to scope current state and goals.
- Weekly working sessions, focused on the highest-leverage next action.
- Async support between calls for compliance filings, credit applications, lender questions.
- Texas-specific compliance (TX Comptroller PIR, BOI under the Corporate Transparency Act).
- Business credit profile audits across Dun & Bradstreet, Experian Business, Equifax Business.
- Funding stack reviews — LOC, SBA, business credit cards, real estate products.
- S-corp election decision support, payroll setup if relevant.
- Resource library — vendor lists, application scripts, document templates.
Owners ready to do the work. Not researchers.
Founders with an active or imminent LLC. Side hustlers crossing the LLC threshold. Credit-repair graduates moving into business ownership. Real estate operators scaling past four doors. Service-based business owners ready to separate personal and business credit. Women and minority entrepreneurs navigating WBE / MBE / HUB certification.
The common thread is willingness to do the work in the right order. The level of revenue you have today doesn't matter.