Building Success Upon Shame

“You can’t afford this.” I remember a saleswoman telling me as I was touring a model home with my then small toddler on one hand, holding my baby in my other arm… I could feel the shame flush over my entire body as I stood there red faced, speechless and completely embarrassed that it was so obvious… that I was so transparent… that I was such a ‘joke’ for dreaming…

I had always been a dreamer… I suppose when life has you so down, all you really have are your dreams to offer hope… but when people laugh at you for it… it makes it harder to hold onto… harder to believe it’s possible… harder to consider you have the ability… until one day, someone else sees it in you.. speaks it into you… and you start to believe it…

Sometimes you have to start before you’re ready, and trust that the right people will find you… sometimes you only have to be who you are right now to get you started… sometimes it takes walking down that path to meet the person who helps guide you to the second leg of your journey… and helps build the confidence to ignore the critics on the sidelines… and grow into that next version of you…

$150M in real estate sales… whew, if only I had taken down her name…  Never stop dreaming big because of the opinions of small minds…be true to yourself and the right ones will find you… the hotmess, imperfect, insecure you…and when they do, amazing things will happen… trust your journey