Basically, the plan was I have six months to live on and it was the first time I was willing to spend it down to zero.

So I had saved enough of six months living expenses.

It's not like I said to myself, I am going to crush it.

I'm going to leave and I know what I'm doing and I have a business plan and I'm already earning what I need to survive.

And I've got this not at all.

I just reached a point. I was 27. I was in meetings and on email a lot as much as I had this great job on paper.

I remember feeling like I think I would forever regret if I don't at least try to do my own thing.

And that's when my first book was coming out. That's around the time you and I met.

So that was it. It was six months.

What I didn't anticipate.

So I did not think I was this brilliant entrepreneurial person.

And if anyone could be successful, it was me. I actually felt the opposite.

However, what I didn't account for was that when I left my whole mind cleared up.

It took it took about a month to unwind from the pace and that kind of burnout and just fatigue.

But after that is like I had my entire creative mind available to say, how am I going to pay the rent this month?

That's it. Like I had I had all day every day for 30 whole days to myself.

Having done things only as a side hustle to literally just figure out what can I offer?

How many clients do I need and how do I create some systems and predictability around my cash flow?

And that's it. So although I wasn't super confident.

I didn't I didn't account for how that free mental space was going to be such an asset.

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