Sharing my Skoolers post here because we are ALL building here too!
I started running in 2012 to lose baby weight, but it quickly became something much deeper, a growth journey. I had to become a completely different person to achieve the goals I wanted. To go the distance, to endure, to keep showing up.
Along the way, I left behind friends, relationships, workplaces, beliefs, mindsets⦠you name it.
When I started my Skool community, it was to make an impact, to connect, to build something meaningful. But in the process, I realized I was also building myself. Because if you truly want to lead, thereβs a level of inner work no one really warns you about.
Iβve had access to proven formulas, courses, support. Iβve hired people and invested money to build this. But just like with a marathon: NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE, can run this race for me.
I can have everything lined up, but if I donβt show up, I donβt move forward.
It requires me to BE to keep going when Iβm running for hours alone to keep posting when no one comments or shares to be my own cheerleader.
Not expecting praise, recognition, or validation but doing it for me. For the person Iβm becoming.
And honestly⦠it can feel so lonely sometimes.
People, even family donβt always understand. They call me crazy. They tell me to play it safe, to drop the race, to not push too hard, to just focus on the 9β5.
Those are their fears but I feel them too.
Because building something on your own means carrying a lot:
The long hours creating content that feels unseen (even though thatβs not the full truth), clients who stay private and donβt share their wins ,being a single mom, supporting parents with Alzheimerβsβ¦
Itβs a LOT.
But hereβs what Iβve realized:
I need to level up again.
And thatβs exactly what I do in marathons. I donβt quit. I level up. Because I know the reward goes far beyond the finish line.
So if youβre here feeling discouraged or hopeless, thereβs no shortcut.
You have to put in the sweat, the tears, the work, the reps no one wants to do (myself included). Itβs not easy and itβs not supposed to be. If it were, it wouldnβt be this meaningful or life-changing.
But I will say this: being HERE, surrounded by like-minded people going through the same struggles⦠makes it all so much better.
So if you made it to the end of this message:
LETβS KEEP GOING.
We owe it to ourselves.
Thatβs it.