What is the story behind your why?
So the story behind my why I really think it really stems from coming from a
family that was built around like love and nurturing,
but there was a lot of suffering. My mom suffered from an autoimmune disease.
My dad worked so many hours to provide for our family.
All I really knew was scarcity with money,
but I was definitely not scarce in love. And so as a child,
I think it's hard to differentiate because you're in pain because you see
your mom, who I was so close with, in physical pain.
And then my dad was in emotional pain and financial pain.
But here we were all connected.
We were a family of seven and we love to do things together.
So I think it was hard for me to differentiate what that meant.
And so for me it was the lack of money equals pain and you have to be frugal
and you have to work your fingers to the bone just to get by,
let alone, you know, excel and be rich or wealthy.
I didn't even know what that meant back then. You know,
I just had like the negative view of like the Scrooge. That was all I knew.
And so my why from that point was when I got married,
I said my girls will know their father, he will be present in their life.
And so how can I help bring him home more?
He never asked me nor would he ever because he is a provider.
He, you know, that's innate in him, but he is an amazing father.
And so I, from a very early on in our marriage was like, how can I,
you know, hustle? I, I sold sandwiches to our farmer.
We live in a farming community, so I would sell sandwiches during harvest.
I would do these little trinkety hair things for women,
that were young like me and moms and stuff and just little things.
And then I got involved with a network marketing company and I was like,
how can I, you know, really thrive here?
I just always had this innate desire to help our family so we could spend more
time together as a family unit and not just,
okay, the husband's working, mom's over here.
I get to enjoy the kids and have that awesome experience, but he's, you know,
working his fingers to the bone and doing all that.
So that is what drove me and can still continue to drive me because whether
we're watching a movie or currently we're doing a pontoon rebuild renovation
together, or if we're going to Disney world, it doesn't matter.
As long as we're together and we're experiencing it good, bad, ugly,
like we're a family and I want my husband there. I want my kids there.
I want to experience life together so that when they're older,
they know what that looks like. They spend time with family.
Cause at the end of the day, family is really all you have. I mean, you have,
you can have friends and you can have community through church and stuff like
that, but your legacy lives on through your family.
And so I want to build legacy of memories, experiences,
and I want to teach my kids, um,
the what wealth really means and what money really means and how you can use it
as a tool.
And it's a good thing and how to release money into the atmosphere and be
generous. And, um, you know,
all of those things that I didn't really understand or know as a child.
So that's really where my Y comes from.