Stroke Of Genius

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

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🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

My guest today, on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots free podcast interview is a lady who has such a story of overcoming work issues, personal issues and what the hell do i do issues, that its a delight to have her on todays show. As she says "I grew up outside Chicago and come from a family of employees. I was the first in my family to move from the midwest, and the first to leave a steady paycheck and become an entrepreneur; and I swear it caused my Mom to have to start blood pressure medicine with worry! I was always taught to work hard, get into a good college, get good grades, get a good job, and save toward retirement. I met my husband Mike on vacation in Hawaii in 2001 and moved to San Diego. I joined a small boutique financial planning firm where my most well known clients were owners of Ford, Chuck E Cheese, and Vinturi Wine Aerator. In 2005, Mike and I bought our million dollar dream home, and less than a month in (we hadn’t even made the first payment yet, and Mike lost his job). So, my income and hard work became more necessary and critical! Despite sitting at the dining room table with some of the most amazing business men in the world, I just wasn’t enjoying it any more! In 2008, I had a minor stroke. I was VERY lucky, but the stroke shed a lot of light on my life and priorities. I had my stroke on Sunday. I was in the hospital until 8 pm Tuesday night, and was back at my desk by 8 am the next morning. I had put SUCH a high value on being dependable and achieving, that I didn’t even take any time off to rehabilitate or just take a breath. I knew this life wasn’t working for me, but I was the primary breadwinner for our family, and we were counting on that steady paycheck." And that is where we will begin this episode of Join Up Dots. So how did she go from this point and create her own image of success, leading to a life that she didnt dread every morning? And does she look back and think "What the hell was I doing? Why did I push myself through such punishment" Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, with the one and only Amy Mewborn.

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0:00.0	Wherever you are, you are, whatever you do, have a nice day.
0:10.0	When we're young, we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be,
0:14.6	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.
0:18.4	Join up dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:24.0	This is your blueprint for greatness.
0:27.0	So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK,
0:31.0	David Ralph.
0:36.0	Yes! in the UK, David Ralph. Yes, hello there everybody. Hello there, this is the dots.
0:38.0	So that means I am the dot-meister and I'm going to be bringing you another story where we join up the dots of our
0:45.0	guest take her back and forth to the crib to the grave and everywhere in between to
0:49.8	find out how she she's achieved her success and today's lady she is somebody who
0:55.4	really asked to be on a show like Join Up Dance because she has such a story of
0:58.9	overcoming work issues personal issues and as she says and what the hell do I do issues that is a delight to
1:05.3	have her on today's show as she says I grew up outside Chicago and came from a
1:09.2	family of employees I was the first of my family to move from the Midwest and the first to leave a steady paycheck and become an entrepreneur.
1:16.0	And I swear, and I swear, she says, it caused my mum to have to start blood pressure medicine with worry.
1:22.0	I was always taught to work hard, get
1:24.2	into a good college, get good grades, get a good job, and save towards retirement.
1:28.7	Now I met my husband Mike on vacation in Hawaii in 2001 and moved to San Diego and I joined a small
1:35.0	boutique financial planning firm where my most well-known clients were owners
1:39.0	of Ford Chuck E. Cheese, never heard of Chuck E Cheese, but it sounds a good thing, and the
1:43.3	jury wine aerator in 2005, Mike and I bought our million dollar dream home and
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