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You know, I come from a very blue collar family and I learned that I started a business about

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eight years ago and I probably had wake up calls before this but the stress that I was under was

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like nothing I'd ever dealt with before and it sent me down a journey to realize that I had

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undiagnosed and unprocessed childhood trauma that really affected my ability to know my worth.

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And I was, you know, I always did okay about work and better than okay. I made a couple,

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I was making a couple hundred thousand dollars at the time but I was also living in Manhattan

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and sadly that wasn't very much compared to what the cost of living was and it's way less today

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than it was eight years ago. And so I learned my worth, I strategized my business around my,

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around people, around clients who recognized my worth and I grew it to where I earned myself

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a million dollars a year by advocating for myself and it wouldn't have been possible

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if I didn't do the work and heal and correct all of the, and correct everything I was taught

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during childhood that I was broken, that something was wrong with me and I believe that once we

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learn our worth we're able to advocate for it and set boundaries to get ourselves out of situations

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where it's not appreciated and we have a lot more power than we think we do.