Tell me about your vision.
Hi. Good afternoon.
So, my name is Amber.
I am an attorney and an author and a mom, a wife, you know, all the things.
I had an experience as an adult that I like to share and I hope it helps people and especially people that are in similar shoes.
I went to law school, got my law degree, and I practiced law for a little bit and had children and continued practicing and thought I had the best of both worlds and it was awesome.
And my husband got transferred.
Why I thought this was just mind blowing I don't know, people get transferred all the time right and people move a lot they go to different states.
Well for an attorney to go to a different state, especially one with her own practice.
I can't pick up my job and follow. I had to leave that behind. And so, my vision at that time was having to pivot.
And so we agree that when we move to a different state that I would stay at home with the kids.
So my.
That's a blessing. Right. I mean you know who doesn't want to stay at home with their kids. Yes, although I can think of a few people but you know it was a blessing and I was fortunate and I was lucky to be able to do that and I had a very supportive husband.
So I stayed at home with the kids.
And while I was home with them.
I wrote, I mean I just, I just wrote, I dabbled I. It was for me only, and I ended up with the stories that I'm publishing now.
But you know, kids grow up.
And you find yourself as a stay at home mom pivoting again.
My kids were growing up my kids were about to finish high school, go to college, and I thought, Oh my god, what do I do now.
And I slowly started picking up practicing law again. And I determined that once my youngest left that I was going to try and publish these books.
I'd written three, and I've published one, it's called bliss Creek.
And I think that my, my share right now my vision and and what I want to share with those other moms so stay at home moms or the moms the empty nester moms is that it doesn't end.
And I think that I'm still in my 30s, you know, by the time I hit my age than I am now that that's it, you're done. You can't learn anymore. You are, you know, retirement, traveling, whatever it is that you want to do in retirement and I'm finding that that's just not the case,
mentally, and honestly, for the most part physically like I'm still in my 30s, and I have a new lease on me and opportunities and learning and I just really feel like that needs to be spoken to those relaunchers out there that's what I call myself
I'm a relauncher I originally when I put my resume together, you know had I had over 10 years of nothing on it. And that was really hard to explain to people and I wasn't able to get a job, I ended up starting my own firm, because I have this gap in my resume.
They didn't really, you know, take the experience as a stay at home mom seriously.
And it is serious real job. And it's, for some people, it's sacrifice. And, and I just feel like I'm very blessed, and I feel like there's a message there that it's not over, just because you have that 10 year gap.
It's not over you can go back and continue to do what you did before. Yes. Thank you for sharing that.
I want to go a step further than this so we have, we have someone on our show and he's part of our team now.
Sharon. She, she does something, which is very amazing I've heard her goal is to help 10% of baby boomers, where the people who have in this state of don't have no idea that they've retired and they don't know what else to do with their life for the rest
of the years. She goes in and then finds purposes for them and she helped them find their own purposes.
And so, it's not over in your 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s even 90s. I don't think it's ever over I think you always can do other things in life you can always do more with your life.
Thank you for being open with us, Amber, thank you for sharing that. Yeah, yeah, I agree completely. You know, there are learning curves and and I write a blog.
I have a blog on my website at al willing him calm, and I talk about this I talk about what it's like to be somebody who learned how to type on an IBM.
And now I've got to manipulate through computers and computer programs and not that I didn't know how to use a computer or, but this new world of marketing. That's a that for me that that has been a huge learning curve is learning how to work
social media, learning how to algorithms. I never thought that I would have to figure out an algorithm but yeah now I'm figuring out algorithms, and who knew who knew that my mind could could actually comprehend that, but it can, and I, I've really
enjoyed it. I've enjoyed learning these new things and I've enjoyed figuring out how to publish because I self published this book, and, and it was painful that that is a very painful process, and it is very.
You can't just go blindly in. And I've had some coaches, along the way helped me through. And I think that for my next book which is going to come out in April, I'm going to get myself, and I'm I know what I'm doing now, I made it, I made quite a few
mistakes, I spent way more money than I probably should have and hopefully this time I can rein that in a little bit, but I'm going to continue on and that's my journey for this chapter, you know, is to write these books and hopefully people can enjoy them
hopefully people find some entertainment value in them. Thank you for sharing that. My next question for you, Amber, going along that path is being in the law, and then taking a time off and then being an author.
At the same time, it's not, it's not very common to do so how did you get started on that path of authorship like why did you choose that and why the books.
I am. I like to tell stories I'm a storyteller, I mean, it that's what it comes down to and my uncle, who is one of my favorite people in the entire universe. He just really we have a great rapport and great conversations and he at one point said
if you wrote as good as you tell a story. I think you might have something. And that really resonated with me and I thought, you know, maybe I should write some of this stuff down.
And so I did and I started writing it down and and I would go back and reread it and it was actually kind of good.
I'm an avid reader. So, I felt like, you know, I had a little bit of knowledge of what good writing was and what good writing wasn't and, and I felt comfortable with what I had.
And I started piecing it out to friends and book club members and I volunteered in the library at my kids school and they all read my little piecemeal sections and they were, they liked it. And I thought I'm going to keep on with this.
And anyway, that one book turned into three and it's just this huge world of is she lives in a little section, a little zone called Liz Creek.
This is hundreds of years from now, hopefully, God willing, hundreds of years from now.
And a post apocalyptic world where people are trying to figure it out and they're trying to figure out life without cell phones, life without computers, life without technology.
And it's just back to back to the basics. My husband and I watch a lot of the history channels and in the National Geographic channels.
And I don't know if you've ever seen any of those where they have these segments on civilizations way before ours that had technology that they believe exceeds what we have.
And, you know, they talk about moving the or creating and building the pyramids and those huge stones and how we don't even have anything that could possibly move those.
But yet these people did without technology. And I take that and I think we lost that somewhere and had to start over from scratch.
So who's to say it can't happen again? Yeah, I think it might. I think it might happen again. Yeah, you never know. Yeah.
Amber, what would you say is your why of why you do what gets you out of bed in the morning? What made you.
I know why you wrote the book, but if there is something you want to add to it that I'm missing them not hearing yet, I would love to hear that as well.
I am. I want for the books, I want people to be entertained and I want my vision seen.
And and I hope that the people that read the book, I hope it's articulated in a manner in which people can actually see what I'm seeing in my head when I when I wrote the books.
And that's why I'm writing this. And I also I mean, I've got a lot of other stories that I that I plan on writing after I'm done with this series.
And I want I want to entertain and I actually would be nice if I made some money off of them.
But I mean, you know, that's an aside. As for the law, I'm a bankruptcy attorney and that I help people and I I I truly believe that there are a lot of people out there that financially they just need help.
And sometimes they may not be sophisticated enough to understand what they've gotten themselves into, or they just bit off more than they can chew. And I like to be a guide for them in that financial journey and maybe a fresh start for me.
So that's why I get up in the morning. Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
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