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Let’s be fair - network marketing and content creation wasn’t my first, second, or even third career choice in life. As a child I desperately wanted to become a livestock veterinarian, who owned acres of land with a fully operational cattle company. Then life changes as it usually does, it twists and turns, it changes and along with that our ideas and dreams.

Let me share with you on how I got here, in this space.

In 2013, my life as I knew it changed. I fell in love with the man I despised in high school (a story for another time LOL), but the twist was he was a career oriented Marine. We took our time but we knew that we wanted to spend our lives together. In 2015, I married my best friend, but boy was I NOT prepared for how this lifestyle would change me. 2016 - I moved cross country from Hawai`i to Virginia to finally build our life together, but held fast onto my dream and almost immediately found myself right back into my career working for a specialty and small animal clinic to build experience and report.

Things quickly changed for me in 2017 when I became pregnant with my first born. My pregnancy was hard and taxing and my husband was deployed. Day after day it increasingly taxed my health more and more to the point that I fell into preterm labor, my husband was red crossed home from deployment and I was forced to stop working. A devastating loss of income when we needed it the most to prepare! After a couple of weeks and a long hard fight he was finally here, but that would only be the beginning of this journey for us as a family.

The older he got the more we noticed prevalent concerns with his development and his health. We spent long days, weeks, even years back and forth to specialists, doctors visits, and testing, even brought home his premie baby sister in 2019 to FINALLY received his non verbal level 3 autism diagnosis in 2021.

Now that you have the back story (or trauma dump), you’re probably wondering why this all matters and how does it even fit into the grander story.

Well here it is.

Remember I said my husband was a career oriented Marine? well he still is. During this entire process he was still deploying, still getting sent overseas for ops and training and schooling. I was alone with two babies. I felt like my options were running out and my dreams felt farther and harder to grasp, so I let go. Let go of the idea that I could be and do more than my circumstances, let go of the idea of dreaming, and that was devastating even in the little moments when I convinced myself that it was all part of a bigger plan to life.

Then in walked the idea of content creation and a real possibility of bringing in a secondary income for my family, but most of all connecting with other moms so I didn’t feel so alone and isolated. Network Marketing has remained the constant in my life since 2020. Through the easy seasons and the hard it's been a space for me to call my own, to bridge the gap for my family, its brought me some of my best friends, but most of all it allowed me to see the possibilities again, to start dreaming!

As a wife who’s husband is still away 90% of the year and as a special needs mom who’s children are shuffled between so many things on their schedule, our lives are always evolving. But maybe your not any of that BUT you feel like you’re stuck in a box and the four sides are closing in, I want to grab you by the hand and tell you this - your personal ambitions matter, no matter your story. Whether it is similar to mine or not even remotely close, don’t waste another day wondering about the what ifs and start focusing on the how will I!

My stories end isn’t written in stone yet, but I’m here to tell you that the best is yet to come!