I have over 15 years of experience working my way up the corporate ladder in the oil industry.  I was successful. It paid off financially, but I have to warn you, it came at a high price. 

I traveled 90% of the time, working 65-75 hours a week. I rarely saw my husband; I was exhausted and unfulfilled.  We decided to start a family, and I became a stay-at-mom.

It was my dream to become a business owner.  As a stay-at-home mom, I started several very small part-time businesses.  They were fun, I made some money (in one of those businesses, I made over 10k a month), and I learned a lot about being an entrepreneur.   I got my feet wet. 

As my girls got older, I started a successful full-time business.  After hundreds of hours of research, study, and mentorship, I opened a business in the healthcare industry with a college friend.

I learned how to grow a serious business from the ground up. I worked more than I ever did in Corporate America during our first year, and it was not what I was hoping for.

The amount of time I worked my second year was not much better than my first.  As the business grew, revenues grew, and our revenues were well over a million dollars a year in our second year of business.

From the outside, we looked like a very successful business.  We were humming!

Then it dawned on me. The reality was our profit margins were decreasing even though our revenues were rising, and it felt like I was working 24 hours a day, even though I had scaled back my work week. What I thought was my dream business wasn’t! 

I was reading a self-improvement book… another passion of mine!  And a sentence I read came off the page and hit me over the head. 

It was “You are 100% responsible for your own life.” 

Being that I love all things “self-improvement” (one of the reasons I became a Certified Life Coach), logically, I already knew that I was responsible for creating my own life.  Yet, that night I stopped, and I re-read that sentence at least ten times.  That’s when I decided to take action and change my life.

Don’t get me wrong; I had a pretty good life, comparatively speaking.  But I was tired of the stress, working long hours, and I still felt very unfulfilled. 

There had to be a better way!  It took some time, but I got very clear on what I wanted in my life and the type of business I wanted to create. 

I knew I wanted to help people.  I wanted direct contact with people, and I wanted to change their lives; I wasn’t getting that in my business. I wanted more time with my family and friends and balanced life.  I also wanted to have the freedom to work when I wanted, from anywhere. 

This, my friend, is what I have now created with my life coaching business.

I would love to help you achieve your dream business too.