Let your color shine.

Let your color shine.

Come on, let your color shine.

Let your color shine.

Hey guys, it's Kathy Heller.

Welcome back to another episode of Don't Keep Your Day job.

Hope you guys are doing well.

It's been pretty rainy in Los Angeles this week, which is kind of nice because we don't have a lot of weather and seasons, but I'm hoping the sun shines going to come out soon.

I'm so excited about today's episode because to me, Mako Jula is here and she's one of our listeners who's been up to some amazing things and I just love, love, love these stories of you guys and what you've been doing spreading so much goodness in the world.

Before we get started, I just wanted to ask you if you heard Monday's episode with Sarah Knight, she's awesome.

I feel like it's so rare that we're having this conversation that she's been having all over the world, writing all these books, which are centered on you living life on your terms and asking yourself what you really care about and what really makes you happy.

And it's just amazing how often we just don't do that right it's it's amazing how much time we spend building other people's dreams and I've said this before, but there's a quote I read it was so startling, you know, such a shock to the system.

It said 97% of people give up on what they want and spend their lives building the dreams of the 3% of people who stuck to it and went for what they wanted and it's just like oh my gosh, you know, and we live in a time where you can create your business, you can open that shop on Main Street, you can start a blog, you can create a brand because you don't need this in between person, you don't need this big record.

Big record label you don't need the the big brother store you can go right to your customer you can go right to your patrons you can go right to human beings and connect with them online and it's just amazing what we can do with our own two hands.

My friend Amber Ray who's been on this podcast posted something beautiful on Instagram and I just wanted to share with you to give you a little bit of strength as you're walking toward what you want and moving through the journey day by day she said instead of thinking i'm a mess how about try i'm a human being because we all feel all of those things and she said instead of thinking I can't do this how about try saying yourself I can do hard things I've done many hard times.

I've done many hard things and let me just remind you you know you survived 100% of your hardest days right like you survived 100% of the worst days you survived think about that for a second she also said instead of saying i'm a failure how about saying i'm learning a tremendous amount.

She said instead of saying why is this happening to me you might be able to think instead where is this leading me what am i being directed to what is this teaching me just some really good things to chew on because i think so often we sabotage ourself.

And you can have this whatever it is you want it's not asking for too much it is possible and today we're going to share another unbelievable story about what happened to one of you guys since listening to this podcast and it's just absolutely beautiful.

So before I dive in I just want to remind you that we're looking for more of these stories we're looking to interview more of you so send us your story email us at hello at don't keep your day job calm and tell us about the moments that you've had in your growth in your business as you've been developing whatever it is that you're working toward.

Since listening to this podcast because we really want to talk to you and we want to keep sharing these stories alright so my guest today is to me mac and jula.

She's a chef a blogger an author a food enthusiast and I know her resume is only going to just keep expanding for a few years she's been writing this vegan blog called the vegan Nigerian and she's experimenting with small pop up restaurants which she's going to talk a little bit about today but she was working a day job and it wasn't until she started listening to this podcast that something in her mindset really shifted and she really started to just pour herself into this stream.

And just a few months later she published a cookbook she served her first celebrity client made dinner first celebrity and what's really happened is that she got in the flow of where she's meant to be her cookbook which she only published a few months ago you'll see what's happened with it but it's it's worth listening to this episode because it's just amazing.

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