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🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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17 years ago I started a business that changed my life. In this episode I share my journey and the lessons learned along the way.
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0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome to Level Up with Debbie Neal. I am your host. There is nowhere. I would rather be |
0:09.8 | than right here, right now with you. This podcast is all about leveling up in all aspects of our lives. |
0:17.1 | Thank you for being here. I am so grateful. I'm excited to be on this journey with you. |
0:22.6 | Together, we are leveling up. You ready? |
0:29.3 | Hello, my level up family. I am extra excited to be here with all of you today. So this podcast, I'm recording in advance, but it's coming out |
0:39.1 | on Monday, May 29th. And it's the day before I started my journey as an entrepreneur. So it really |
0:46.5 | hit me that I was like, this is so significant to me that I really want to be sharing this with |
0:52.1 | all of you. So tomorrow, I'll be celebrating and reflecting. |
0:56.2 | So tomorrow, if you're listening to this on Drop Day, will be May 30th. But today, on May 29th, 17 years |
1:02.8 | ago, I was at an infliction point. I was at a crossroads. I was at a backyard barbecue. |
1:07.9 | A business was shared with me, a company and opportunity and an |
1:12.0 | industry that I knew nothing about. But during this conversation, my soul came alive. And today, |
1:21.0 | 17 years ago, as excited as I was, I had doubt. I had fear. I was in my mind, I was too busy. In my life, I was living paycheck to paycheck. I was. I had doubt. I had fear. In my mind, I was too busy. In my life, I was living paycheck to |
1:30.9 | paycheck. I wanted more, like so many people today want more, but I knew that in order to create more, |
1:38.7 | it took courage. It took faith. It took thinking outside the box. I was really nervous, but I jumped anyway. And I want to share this story with you because no matter what it is you do for a living, okay? There are pieces of this that you can apply to your life, whether it's taking that leap of faith into a business or a leap of faith into, you know, |
2:01.9 | the next level of your career or a relationship or a move, whatever it is. Because my friends, |
2:08.6 | we aren't here for good. We're not, we're not here to just get by. We are here to thrive. |
2:15.7 | We are here to thrive. And every single year on May 30th, it becomes more and |
2:20.3 | more and more sentimental to me because 17 years ago, I made a decision. Like when I was really |
2:25.4 | thinking, do I start this business? Do I start this business? And I was toying all these thoughts |
2:30.4 | around in my head. What it really came down to is, what could this, if I pursued it, |
2:35.4 | do for my family? What would it do for my household income? What would it do for me, me, me? |
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