We all know that leadership is about casting a compelling vision and marshalling your resources

to see it become reality.

But what happens when the path becomes less clear?

What happens when you appear to be swimming upstream?

What happens when everything that can go wrong does?

This is the Entry Leadership Podcast from the Ramsey Network where we help business leaders

grow themselves, their teams, and their profits.

I'm your host Alex Judd and today's guest is a profound answer to that universal question.

When you feel stuck, trapped, and unable to move forward with the thing you care so deeply

about, entrepreneur Speaker and writer Marie Forleo says that there is only one option.

Figure it out.

This is a message that she deeply believes because it is one that she has lived, and it all

started with a woman named Maryam.

So Maryam is this tiny, but mighty woman.

So to paint a picture, she's about five-three.

She looks like June Cleaver, and she cusses like a truck driver.

She grew up the daughter of two alcoholic parents in the projects of Newark, New Jersey,

and she really learned by necessity how to stretch a dollar bill around a block like five

times.

And she made herself a promise as a little girl that when she was old enough, she would

find a way to create a better life, and she did.

And that woman named Maryam is my mom.

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