What inspired you to pursue the journey of “picking up broken pieces and rebuilding”, and how did you overcome initial challenges?” God, therapy, my children, motorcycle adventures and an unwavering determination to live out my best life.
Please share a significant moment or decision that played a significant role in your success? It was 2021 and I had lived for 3 years on anti depressants and woke up everyday with this dark cloud that never seemed to lift. I got tired of being tired.That is/was not me as I am built to larger than life. I stood up enrolled in riding school, got off the meds under the doctors guidance, showed up for my career and my life. I mean really showing up, moved out of an unhealthy marriage. It was painful, gruelling and is sometimes still is but but such is a journey of redefinition. It was the best decision yet.
How do you navigate work-life balance and maintain your well-being amidst the success? I have not mastered work-life balance not by a long short. I imagine all I need to do is put in different buckets e.g. family, work, business, riding..dating (🤣🤣 try dating in your 40s.. it’s a whole job) and I shuffle the buckets around, according to how much energy I have at that time and the resources I need to allocate. Its life’s musical chairs.
What advice would you give to aspiring women on a similar journey or who dream of the same kind of success? Pray, Plan,Pursue.
Pray – as a means of and a place where you can be totally vulnerable; to cry, to ask, to say thank you.
Plan – write it down, read it aloud to yourself everyday if you have to and adjust where need be.
Pursue – go at it with a ferocious determination, as if to tell the world I only have a Plan A.
In the face of setbacks, how do you stay resilient and continue to thrive in your journey?Prayer and a determination that hell will freeze over before I fight the ‘demons’ I have fought in the past. It can only get better.
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