If you’re asking yourself how the hell an engineer ends up becoming a wedding invitation designer, online entrepreneur and then a life coach you are in good company my friend! I had the same question.

In high school, I used to joke that I had a split personality…math & science geek/creativity junkie. In my senior year I was actually torn between pursuing a degree in Chemistry or going to graphic design school…I’m guessing you can figure out which I chose. Yep, my inner geek won but I kept the creativity part as a side hustle, just for fun, until I discovered that when you combine all those traits you can create a little magic!

My nest is newly empty, but my firstborn had just arrived on the scene when I launched my first online business 17 years ago. I came out of the gate strong and built a successful online wedding invitation business in the days before social media, podcasts or online business courses and training. My next two entrepreneurial adventures (a network marketing company & a physical day planner that I designed, assembled and sold) were another story and definitely not what I would call super successful.

I thought something had gone terribly wrong, questioned whether my early success had just been a fluke & even wondered if maybe I wasn’t cut out to be an entrepreneur after all…which was devastating news for someone who now considered herself psychologically unemployable. I loved being my own boss & the flexibility it allowed with my family so the idea of giving up my entrepreneurial dreams had me feeling stuck & defeated. 

Then one day I discovered The Life Coach School podcast and I was hooked! I learned that my thoughts created my feelings and ultimately all the results I currently had in my life and business. I learned that I wasn’t missing some entrepreneurial gene, I hadn’t chosen the “wrong” businesses and that really I could create anything I wanted in my life if I would just get out of my own damn way long enough to allow myself to follow through…and so I did!