I'm going to share with you the day that I quit my job without a plan or any idea of
what was going to happen next.
And this is a two part video because there's so much, there's so many key points that you
need to hear.
So in this video, I'm going to share with you a series of jobs, of challenges, of obstacles
that came up for me and some of my limiting beliefs that came up and I want you to listen
for if any of this sounds familiar to you as I also detail my transition from being
in a nine to five working for someone else, to then leaping into entrepreneurship.
I, like many of us, worked a nine to five for several years before finally becoming
an entrepreneur.
It's kind of funny now looking back on how much I hesitated to make that leap because
I believed that having someone else sign my paychecks was more secure.
If 2020 taught us anything, we've learned that that's not exactly true, is it?
I worked in the nine to five world for several years with no promotions or raises and struggled
to feel like my work even mattered.
I hated that I had to request time off whether it was for vacation or a doctor appointment.
You know, just needing to ask permission for freedom didn't sit right with me.
And I knew that there was a ceiling on my income, my freedom and my creativity.
And if you stick around to the end of this video, I'm also going to share with you the
formula that I've used to be able to build an online business where I can be selling
my products and services at high ticket prices consistently.
So stick around so I can give that to you too.
Before I became an entrepreneur, I was a dental hygienist and before that I worked in radio
and television, I worked in event management.
And I just at the time fell in love with it.
Because I was working with people with celebrities, with actors of people that I grew up watching
on TV and listening to on the radio who had this, you know, charisma, they were performers
and I was obsessed with the stories that they told I always wanted to be part of that at
some capacity.
You know, when people ask you what do you want to be when you grow up?
I felt this poll to have something secure as a fallback, as a plan B for security, right?
How do you guys want that security, you know, money in the bank, ability to check out at
the grocery store or pay your mortgage without an insufficient funds notification.
We want to have that safety and know that our families are taken care of, nothing wrong
with that.
So my mom told me about dental hygiene, which sounded cool, because it's not the kind of
job that you have to work overtime or have deadlines or bring work home with you.
You literally can't.
So it was secure.
It fit the status quo, I could work nine to five, get two weeks vacation, blah, blah, blah.
Comment below if you've ever chosen a path just because it was safe.
And I'd love to hear from you about the moment where maybe it all changed.
So dental hygiene was safe.
But when I was in this world in entertainment, radio events, it was unbelievable.
It was like every day I was running on adrenaline.
Spoiler alert, not good long term.
But it was such a thrill.
When I was working in radio, I would get to produce interviews and meet these big celebrities,
go backstage at their concerts.
And with the events company, the people who their books are lining my bookshelves today,
I was managing their contracts, handling them backstage taking them to dinner.
I was in my early 20's at the time, and gosh, I wish I hadn't taken it for granted as much
as I did.
I really had no idea, the power and knowledge that I had with these people right in front
of me.
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I got to spend a lot of one on one time with these guys after their performances, their
presentations, book signings, when the buzz of the audience would die down, I got to spend
some time and see the real people, the humans behind the charisma and the charm that they
dispel on stage.
There was this one time we had a show with a household name comedian.
I don't know if I should say his name, but you totally know who he is.
He was writing some funny tweets to post on social media and I thought it was so cool
that he was asking my opinion you know if I like them for he posted them.
He was like, Do you think this is funny?
Do you think it's a little too much?
Do you think people would like it?
Have you ever thought that or ask someone those questions before maybe posting something
online?
Like maybe you thought it was too vulnerable or second guessed or wondered if it was good
enough or you wondered what kind of response it would get.
Celebrities, they're just like us at this time.
I had some paparazzi friends as well because they knew that I was already familiar with
being around celebrities meaning, you know, I was familiar with the celebrity world, a
lot of them knew who I was and also that I could talk to them like normal not necessarily
fangirl around them.
Although let me tell you if I ever met Zac Efron, I might definitely fangirl over that.
Anyway, besides the point they would sometimes bring me with them to be there paparazzi basically
my job was to go with him and ask the celebrities for an autograph that the paparazzi would
later sell.
And it was really interesting like the paparazzi world is this super underground thing.
They have their own vocabulary and slang for how they get info on celebs.
Like that's one of the phrases they would use.
They'd be like, Hey, you
got info, and some celebrities would have relationships with the paparazzi themselves
to be like, Hey, I'm planning to be landing at this time, I'm staying at this hotel, come
take pictures of me.
And then when they would, they'd be like, Oh, please, no photos and pushing up a storm.
You know, during this time, I was a little bit torn because it was very exciting and
there was such a thrill.
I was hardly ever sleeping.
My self care was at its worst.
And I also didn't have stability financially, emotionally.
There's a lot of politics, drama, egos.
So I was really struggling of finding my place of where do I actually want to go?
How long can I maintain this or keep this up.?
So then I transitioned into a job working for this event management company at the time,
I got a side job working for this famous author because we met at an event we flew her in
for to speak at, and we just totally hit it off.
And she asked me to do her social media for her.
I didn't even know at the time that I could get paid to make content on social media,
but I knew her book and I knew her as a person.
So well, it just came easy to me.
And I couldn't believe that people could get paid for that.
And here's where everything changed.
My boss found out and he didn't like that I had a side job.
So he fired me.
I was so devastated.
I loved that job so much.
I remember being in the stairwell when he escorted me out and I said to him, If you
fire me from this job, I'm gonna die.
And I honestly in that moment, thought that was true.
Because outside of that job, I didn't know what else I had.
This was my life.
This was my self worth, my identity.
I defined myself by what I did for a living.
This was a low point for me, I walked out that office feeling like I had nothing left.
Like I just lost everything that shows the world that I'm important, that I mean something.
So the first thing I did was I called my friend Becky, I told her what happened, she immediately
met me for lunch, I even got a free dessert at the place we went to because I told them,
I just got fired.
And that was really nice to them.
Then later, I got a call from a friend of mine that worked at the office that I just
been fired from.
So I met with him.
And at first he said all the things that you typically say to your friend, when something
like this happens, you know, there's bigger fish in the sea.
Everything happens for a reason, that sort of thing.
But then our conversation got really interesting.
He asked me, did you really think this was going to be a forever career for you.
And then he also asked me if I ever heard of the term waypoints at the time I hadn't,
but I'm gonna explain it to you in the best way I understand it now.
So imagine that you're on a plane from Boise, Idaho where I am to New York City.
In your mind, you might think it's just a straight shot.
But in reality, there's waypoints all along the way.
No way point in aviation is this location along the flight path.
So on the way from Boise to New York, it's not just A to B, you're there.
It's A to B to C to D, each point is a stopping place on the journey.
So at each of these points, the pilot regroups, calculates their coordinations, how much fuel
they have, if they have all the fuel, they need to keep going and successfully get to
the destination.
So these points help pilots to know where they are and where they're going and if they
still have what they need to get there.
Like what happens if you don't have enough fuel?
What happens if your coordinates or even a degree off course?
You're not going to New York anymore.
So my friend told me this to say, there's no finish line?
This is just a waypoint.
So think about that for yourself.
What does that mean for your life?
Like what obstacles or redirections might come up that are a waypoint for you, that's
just part of your journey.
So for me in that moment, I took that as inspiration to keep working towards whatever my next waypoint
was, but pretty soon, I was out of money.
I was grieving the loss of a family member who had recently passed away.
My boyfriend at the time broke up with me all in a really short period of time.
So I moved back to my hometown, and I smiled my way through the emotional pain I was going
through.
Remember, I felt like I just lost my identity, everything that gave me self worth, until
I got my next job offer.
And I was back in the game, working alongside celebrities again.
Boom, got my self worth back.
I was putting on big shows, producing concerts, landing these big contracts with big names
like this was one of my proudest moments at that company.
We did the first concert with The Jacksons like their first show, after more than a decade
hiatus, and I was so proud of that.
I was wearing this white dress the whole night running around backstage and taking care of
all the logistics and I remember, Jermaine Jackson stops being goes girl, you are wearing
that dress.
It was an incredible night and it was such a crazy celebrity hurricane of a job.
I was constantly running on adrenaline.
Two days after the Jackson show, my grandmother passed away.
I took some time off work.
grieved, I helped my family plan a funeral. and I actually moved in with my grandfather,
Guido, for those of you who might have seen him on my social media, if you see my Instagram
Stories, there's a highlight on my Instagram called Guido stories.
I just thought, you know, after 58 years of a marriage, how do you go on?
So I moved in with me, we actually lived together for several years.
Anyway, after this time off, I went back to work.
My first day back, wasn't even in the office for five minutes and my boss says, have to
let you go.
He said he couldn't afford to pay me anymore.
And I was shocked.
I was like, why?
I'm doing a great job.
We just we just had these big shows.
And I was so confused.
And again, my self worth was all wrapped up in this job.
So I felt like I had to beg and plead to hang on to it.
And my boss replied, you'll understand one day, when you have your own business.
What ? Me?
Have my own business?
Not only had I never considered that before, but I was so mad at him for telling me that
I told him, I want to work for you, I want this job.
But obviously, it was time for me to go.
So this was a turning point for me.
This was the seed planted that opened my eyes and showed me maybe you could be an entrepreneur,
but I wasn't ready yet.
I'm actually going to go into part two of this story and continue the saga and continue
with the job that I finally did quit and took the steps, took the huge leap towards entrepreneurship.
So if you want to skip ahead and learn my formula for how I built my multi seven figure
business, you can click the link below for my hello to high ticket training or make sure
that you click here and listen to part two of the story because it has some key lessons
that you're not going to want to miss.
I'm here to tell you about that.
I'm here to tell you about the day- where I wanted to do the thing what how do i- How
did you say that today?
So I got to spend a lot of quiet time with a lot of these guys after their performance
it quiet time was a quiet time.
These huge names, these performers, these geniuses.
So my friend told me this to say there's no finish line- loin.
Something, there's something in it that you're gonna want to see.
So cute.
For two because it has some, some key lessons that you're not gonna- Yeah, go to it.