“What would you do if you had to start all over – no client list and no lead sources?”
We did it successfully, but it was not without pain!
In the fall of 2016, our dreams were shattered when my unborn daughter’s heart was found to be a “blob” sitting in her chest.
Her heart was beating, but once out of utero, we weren’t sure what her life would become.
Sensing the gravity of the situation, our Doctor carefully patted me and said there was nothing you could have done to avoid this, and there was nothing you did to create it.
In the blink of an eye, our life had changed. We had one bouncing baby girl, one thriving career, and one thriving business that owned our home, and we felt like we were living the “American Dream.”
We faced the challenge of keeping this baby alive long enough to endure heart surgery.
Her heart was not the only challenge on the table, but it was, by far, the one that changed our lives.
Unless you have been there, it’s hard to imagine the emotional impact of this news.
It was like being hit in the face with a brick.
The grief on my husband's face was daunting. I remember thinking, “I knew it!” I just knew this child would change the course of our lives.
The success of my business suddenly seemed unimportant. The fact that we had achieved sustainability and were growing was insignificant.
Though I had achieved some of my career goals and reached a place that others called “successful,” these accomplishments paled compared to the new challenges ahead.
It was a helpless feeling.
After all, what difference does success make when everything else is falling apart?
After we grieved over this news, life found a way of slapping us back into reality.
The daily grind took over.
Housework, a two-year-old to keep fed, also needed our attention and love more than ever.
Self-pity was fruitless.
We were engaged in a battle that would yield only one winner.
We named our baby Abigail, and she peacefully came into the world. Looking at her, you would never know she had a blob for a heart.
When Abigail finally came home, she struggled each day to maintain strength. Something as easy as eating was not possible for her.
I knew that Abigail required around-the-clock care from me.
Our mission was to keep her alive so the surgeons could fix her heart.
So I walked away from the business.
One I had built, tested, automated, and scaled.
I knew I could make a life-changing decision because I had systems that would not fail me the next time.
It’s two years later, and I opened another business.
Within 60 days, I surpassed what I made in 6 months with my previous business.
I would be doing you a disservice if I didn’t share how I stopped the cash-flow nightmare and have built-in predictability into all of my outcomes!
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