You know, I come from a very blue collar family and I learned that I started a business about
eight years ago and I probably had wake up calls before this but the stress that I was under was
like nothing I'd ever dealt with before and it sent me down a journey to realize that I had
undiagnosed and unprocessed childhood trauma that really affected my ability to know my worth.
And I was, you know, I always did okay about work and better than okay. I made a couple,
I was making a couple hundred thousand dollars at the time but I was also living in Manhattan
and sadly that wasn't very much compared to what the cost of living was and it's way less today
than it was eight years ago. And so I learned my worth, I strategized my business around my,
around people, around clients who recognized my worth and I grew it to where I earned myself
a million dollars a year by advocating for myself and it wouldn't have been possible
if I didn't do the work and heal and correct all of the, and correct everything I was taught
during childhood that I was broken, that something was wrong with me and I believe that once we
learn our worth we're able to advocate for it and set boundaries to get ourselves out of situations
where it's not appreciated and we have a lot more power than we think we do.