The Burning Point

Have you reached your burning point, where enough is enough and change MUST happen?

That moment came for me, waking up soaked in a sweat of panic, night after night, a few months after moving to Nicaragua in early 2021.

I moved to Nicaragua to change my life, and, yet, here I was again repeating the same cycle.

I was obsessed with my businesses, stressed about team members, terrified something was falling through the cracks.

In that mode, there was no place for me to live in the present, realize my creative or intellectual potential, nor even have good health.

I was living moment to moment, hoping I was going to finally end the nightmare of fear of the complicated monster I had built that had taken over my life.

I had reached my burning point.

The point where I knew I was going to destroy everything (including myself) if I didn't take control and strike the match myself and start burning away what wasn't working.

And, so much wasn't working.

Fear had taken control of my brain - to the point where I felt like I was in slow motion.

I was crying multiple times a day.

I was working hours on end trying to soothe my stress by making sure I missed nothing.

I hadn't slept through the night in months.

I felt like garbage, yet people were congratulating me for being a badass for my successes.

Success shouldn't have to come at such a destructive cost.

I was so far down the rabbit hole with my companies, it seemed like there was no toehold to be found to even start climbing back out.

But I had to find a way.

Sometimes, I thought about just letting myself continue falling and disappearing into the ether.

I was so tired, I didn't feel like I had any fight left in me.

But maybe I didn't have to fight?

Maybe I could just let go of what wasn't working?

And only keep what was working...

What gave me joy...

What I did best...

So I had two choices.

I could keep fighting this war to keep the monster alive that I had worked so hard to build...

OR I could burn down what I hated and keep the pieces I loved best.

Then, use these pieces to rebuild.

The burn was the easiest and fastest way to get to the other side of this war.

So I looked around me.

I took stock of everything I was doing, had created, was making money at and started lighting matches.

Over a 5 month period, I burned down everything that was keeping me awake at night - divesting the team and concept of my agency and selling my coaching company that I had worked so hard to build.

All that remained was one company, one brand, one offer...

And me.

I had zero employees, not even a virtual assistant.

Just me.

It was time to rethink how I wanted my future to look.

What kind of legacy I wanted to create.

What ripple effect of my knowledge I wanted to start.

What kind of life I wanted to live.

It's been two years since the bonfire I started finished and who I wanted to be, what I wanted to do, where I wanted to go, became crystal clear.

I have emerged from the ashes of the burn a new entrepreneur - focused, intentional, and peaceful.

Three qualities I never thought I would know, but I could never go without now.

The burning point changed my life and it can change yours too.

If you are ready to burn down what isn't working, join The Pivot To Profitable Entrepreneurship challenge and start your burn with intention to live the life and career you want:

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