What If I Lose It All? · Skool for ChangeMakers

What If I Lose It All?

I used to ask myself that question all the time. From the moment I started my career in 2013, I kept thinking about how one bad decision could end my path. So I started working harder.

The voice in my head was unforgiving, relentless and unkind:

What if you can’t keep this up? What if everything you’ve worked for disappears overnight? What if you wake up one day and it’s all gone? What will PEOPLE say?

That fear kept me stuck for years—grinding, overworking, afraid to take my foot off the gas in case everything crashed around me.

Between 2019 and 2021 I worked an estimated 7 months' worth of extra time on top of my 35 hour per week contract. That's 1,029 hours of my life I am never getting back!

I survived solely on take-away food, had no free time, no joy in life and the money I earned felt worthless because I was ill with stress and anxiety ALL THE TIME!

It cost me:

💔 My marriage

💔 My sanity

💔 My joy

💔 My confidence

Between 2021 and 2025 I started (and closed) two businesses continuing to hustle my way from day to day and feeling like a failure every day.

But then I realised something: I was thinking like a worker, not an owner.

Workers depend on someone else. A paycheck. A client. A job that could vanish at any moment.

Owners? They build.

And once you learn how to build something of VALUE? You’re never afraid of losing again.

Because if you can build it once, you can build it again. That’s the difference between 'fake it till you make it' and true confidence.

Let's stop hustling to keep everything the same. As ChangeMakers we know that no matter what happens, we'll always know how to create something new on our terms!

Will you own your future and create something of value or will you work to maintain your present?

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