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I’ll never forget the moment. It’s etched in my memory forever. I was sitting on the floor with my two kids, ages three and one at the time. Both were in diapers, and both were sick. My husband had been deployed or on work-related trips off and on for the better part of three years during this particular assignment in California. I was exhausted. Mentally and physically. And if I’m being honest, I was extremely disappointed in where I had landed in life. I loved my kids and enjoyed being a reliable parent, but my personal achievement muscles were beginning to atrophy. The last three years had rocked my world and I had lost myself. And a terrifying thought kept running through my head:

“Is this all I’m destined for?” I used to have such big goals and dreams for myself. “Is this all there is for me now?”

It was from that very question and at that very moment that I resolved to make a change. For my family. For myself. For my future. The path ahead wasn’t entirely clear at the time, but it was that specific moment of clarity on the floor that would lead me to the best discovery I would make: that I didn’t have to be at the mercy of my crazy military life.

I had the power to create my own future. And it could happen through taking matters in my own hands and starting a business.