One of the Most Vulnerable Moments I've Ever Shared on Social Media

Andy Arter, April 2019

This is one of the most vulnerable personal stories I have ever shared on Social Media. 

My Wife and I left our Family, a Mortgage, Friends, and the Life we Knew in New York to pursue a New Dream in Florida. My Wife left Her Dream Job and Made a Major Sacrifice when I got the Job in Miami. 

With hopes of lots of Success, I had closed 0 Business after almost 3 months. I had unpaid bills in the mailbox and email inbox. And when we got a Notice from the Property Manage for a very Near Eviction, we were faced with the more fear than I can put into words. 

The red line in the picture above represents a late night walk my Wife and I took just about a week before we would be evicted from out Apartment. By this point we had already run out of money. I remember being grateful for having enough gas in the tank to get to work. I remember missing my Wife all week, spending time praying in my car during the day for an answer, and coming home to a weekend we couldn't even afford to have. I remember putting in 18 hour days with no result. 

On the walk, we talked openly about the seriousness of the situation. There was a point in the conversation when we had asked ourselves "what are we going to do if the business doesn't pickup and we have to leave the apartment?"

The decision we made was that "we couldn't think that way" and that "we would make it work". We decided that "we had come too far to fail", and that "if we had a 'Plan B' that we would have already failed". If I recall it correctly, I remember talking about our willingness to sleep in the car - if it came to that.

In less than 1 week three deals were closed at work, a paycheck 3X larger than we had ever gotten in a month was on the way, and we were able to negotiate with the Major Property Owner with a promissory note that we would pay late as long as we paid 2 month's rent in advance. We did.

Words cannot express the Teamwork, Faith, and Love that was required to pull this off. If either one of us had wavered during that time, our story would surely look very different.

Flash forward a couple years and we can see unlimited possibilities for our life. We have a wonderful Son, amazing connections around the world, over $4mm+ in sales, $500k+ in earnings, and confidence that we can overcome anything together. I appreciate where we are today and what it took to get here, and it serves as a constant reminder for the inevitable challenges we will have to overcome to achieve our future growth and success as a family. I know we will be able to achieve anything we want in life as a Team.

If you are going through a trying time right now, I hope that you can take something from this story and push forward into the life that is waiting for you on the other side of your fears.

Keep Pushing,

Andy

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