Hello, hello everyone. I'm Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquale Press, and I'm here to give you another episode of The Weekender.

October in Asheville, North Carolina is gorgeous. There's no other way to describe it. The weather dips into the cool

temperatures of fall, the furnaces rumble back to life, smelling of burning dust after the long

summer months, and the mountains start to light up in brilliant oranges and reds. It is one of my

very favorite times of the year, every year, except in 2013. At that time, nothing seemed to feel

right. I felt a little bit like a stranger in my own skin, and I was normally a very happy person,

but I was having a hard time shaking the low I was feeling. I knew it was time for me to rumble

back to life, just like my furnace in my house. But I couldn't seem

to shake the cold. I didn't seem to know how to warm up and begin to feel like me again.

I had started my own business a few years earlier in 2008, and the business had done well enough

that my husband John and I were able to work together. We worked side by side growing our company,

and I absolutely loved it. I loved working next to together. We worked side by side growing our company, and I absolutely

loved it. I loved working next to him. But that was really what I loved the most about my

business. That was the only thing I felt I truly loved. I had utterly and completely lost my

passion and drive for the actual job itself. I was feeling lost and doubtful that there was any way for me to find my path again.

Now because John and I worked together, this business is the sole income for our family.

It's how we feed our kids, we pay our mortgage.

This was how we lived.

So the thought of closing up shop was really scary.

But the idea of not closing up shop was

scary too. Okay, it was really downright depressing. So I dreamed of finding a job I felt

fulfilled by, but would still allow us to continue with our entrepreneurial lifestyle that we craved.

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