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Hi, thanks so much for coming back with me this week and joining me on

creating confidence. I'm so grateful to have you here with me. So today is interesting because I'm sitting here 12 years ago

today I gave birth to my son my one and only son and it's really got me reflecting on how different, incredibly different my life

is today than it was 12 years ago.

And I want to share that with you because sometimes when we get caught up in our own situations and our day to day,

we don't believe that there can be a lot of change. We believe we're stuck in this life and

situation and I'm here to tell you today that is not the case at all. So 12 years ago I was 32 years old I was unhappily married and I was

giving birth and petrified. I had no experience being a mother. I didn't know if I

would have a maternal instinct. I knew I was really good in business and leading my sales team. I was an

an executive vice president at the company I ended up being with for 14 years.

I was doing a really good job in that lane, the business and sales lane.

And I felt confident there.

However, this new element of having a baby and giving birth really scared me because I didn't know how will I

maintain the level of travel and the level of output that I had been

delivering it and how was I going to do that and be a

mother. I knew I was unhappy in my marriage. I knew that I was considering

divorce, which actually happened right after a few months after giving birth.

So it was not this beautiful time for me that a lot of people describe when they talk about you know giving birth and being a mother

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