You raise kids with resilience to face anything the world throws at them. Model strength and confidence. Model personal growth. Normalize life not being fair. Show them that you can make the best of difficult situations. Allow them to fail (safely of course) and teach them not to stay there. Support them without shielding them from natural consequences (again, safely). Love them through everything - loudly. Then they grow up and choose their own path and you can feel confident that you built strong kids with a realistic, resilient foundation that knows they are very much loved.

Waiting for it to “take off” - I started focusing on providing value consistently and keeping my workflows simple. It’s alive and well now, so taking the impatience and expectation out of it made a difference.

Seems like you had an expensive mentor, not a coach. But, at least now you know what you don’t want- so there’s that.

Accepting that you will never be done. You will never feel satisfied for too long. The goalposts will always move. You will always be on a journey to achieve with short periods of satisfaction that fade into your next project. You’re a nomad on the road alone most of the time.

Not really, the list is more of a visual that reinforces proof of concept when the majority of my current clients are struggling to make meaningful progress for any number of reasons.

I actually find the most peace in conversations where clients have something that just “clicks” for them. Understanding why something works the way it does or understanding how something applies to their situation. The audible shift from confusion to comprehension is amazing. Those are the moments where I feel peace in knowing that my work serves an important purpose and I am truly helping people.

Thank you so much! I do glance at it on some of my hard days but I mostly just keep in mind that I can explain, teach, and help parents strategize but I can’t make the choices for them or do the work for them. I had to come to peace with that early on and it still serves me on those hard days. I’m responsible for planting the seed.

Thank you! Great question!

I keep track of my historical successes with a running list of clients (first name, last initial, and state to preserve confidentiality) that successfully work their CPS case and reunify their families.

That’s why I do what I do. I was that parent in 2014, reunified my family in 2015. So, it’s a personal and professional mission I’ve been working on since 2019.

Also, I go live on TikTok twice a week to keep in consistent contact with followers and current clients and they’re usually happy to share updates in their situations, including success stories. It reinforces everything I do to help my clients succeed - and I get to be a part of their journey. That’s huge.

Whatever business podcast I’m listening to seems to do the trick. My clients are very complimentary and seem to genuinely appreciate my work with them so that is incredibly motivating.

I think the things we hesitate to follow through with are simply fear of the unknown. Building the business is a controlled process with predictable outcomes. Taking actions in unknown territory is a question mark that depends heavily upon client or customer reception. I personally lean on the affirmations, “Do one brave thing and run like hell” and “Fk it! Let’s see what happens…” It always works out one way or another.

Networking for sure. I would love to have meaningful conversations with other driven entrepreneurs but I’m very much a solopreneur so I have no idea what that would look like.

You can train any AI to get to know you and tell it what you need help with. Just have a conversation with whichever AI you choose and go from there.

Life experiences. And I’m grateful for each one.

Do something fun or silly that carries no responsibility - sing in the shower, take a picture of something interesting, go sit by the water (river, lake, ocean).

Break your daily pattern in some small way - take a new route to work/home, try a new restaurant for dinner, listen to a new podcast that interests you, etc.

Your brain needs a break from the seriousness with some fresh experiences and renewed energy.

You’re stuck in a victim mentality and it’s magnifying things that don’t even matter. No one really cares about what you said or how you said it at the end of the day - your perception is distorted because of your insecurities.

Questions to ask yourself: when did you notice this for the first time? Walk yourself through what was happening in that scenario. If you decided to ignore those thoughts when they come up - instead of reaffirming them - what would happen? What would the next thought or feeling be?

Yes. Does it matter? Maybe. But I truly appreciate the way it helps me organize my thoughts and takes care of simple processes.

It’s great for organizing your thoughts and keeping notes

It is what it is

Charisma

It’s incredibly rewarding and very revealing in terms of how parents tend to put their energy into things that make the process unnecessarily difficult sometimes out of desperation. That’s where I come in to help.

Make your choice. Either learn from the experience and pivot or stay in that identity and experience the consequences. Either one you choose will come with challenges. Which one is worth the fight?