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Most of us know all about unravelling. We went through the blunt transitions that unpack our former lives and try to morph us at a lightning speed into the new version of ourselves now needed by the present and future world.

I stood with clients during times of unravelling. I watched as changing aspects, often out of their control, impacted their lives, businesses, and even their sense of self in a way that seemed to cripple them with anxiety, fear, embarrassment, self-judgement, and the associated stress from the whole experience. From losing team members, to health issues, to divorce, to teenagers, to having to let people go, so many aspects of life and business can unravel you and leave you questioning your next move. I also watched clients rebuild better, stronger, and faster using the power that comes from pain properly harnessed. Most leaders are said to rise from the ashes. These leaders face the mirror of truth in crisis. They decide to carve their own face of leadership in the place they previously and recklessly left for the world to define. They decided who they were and what they would and would not stand for.

I know what it feels like to build a business from nothing, the burn when a team member leaves, the shock when you find out someone is sabotaging your business. The deep feeling of violation when someone you supported steals from you or lies to you. The feeling when people leave and use your content, when you find out you were lied to, locked out, and even when others take credit for your work. I know what it feels like, and I know the hardest part is facing it all and moving forward. Because the world needs strong business leaders like you, who are true and spread a different message.

I stood in these difficult spaces as I built seven-figure companies with countless clients, and as I did the same for myself. I struggled with exactly the best way to transfer what worked for me to my team. I had unbelievably high expectations and little room for lowering them. I had to up my game knowing we would take a hit as a business to make those changes. And I have had to stand for the truth, more than once despite, massive costs. Why did I make the changes anyway? Because a company that runs without an abundance mentality and without aligned guiding principles is doomed to fail. You can take a 75, 50, or 20% hit now or risk losing it all later. I stand in hard decisions because if I don’t, who will? I believe that by standing in hard decisions, I discover exactly who else will. You will, our clients will, and everyone impacted by all of your hard decisions will have the courage to make them too. We live what we see. Doing the hard things right matters.

It is not if these difficult things will happen. It is when difficult obstacles present themselves in your business. And when these difficult things happen in business that challenge your vision, heart, and soul, I want you to know others went through this, how to keep going, and when to limit your time energy and resources so small acts do not cost you big in the long run.

Sure, it’s just business, but it feels personal when that business involves people who you helped and the resources sacrificed to build that business. I built my business to systematically reduce the odds of anything negative ever repeating that could compromise my team, clients, or ability to be of service in this world. I also built hundreds of teams and the businesses of thousands of agents and helped them to avoid ever hitting the common pitfalls. If the acts of one sabotage the true gift of helping and serving others on a local or global scale, it is costing us all. We need to build our businesses to protect the people we serve, and in your business, that is you and your team.

Some things require a burn. Some lessons only happen when the world gets hot enough to forge the lesson in your skin. Then, you get to work building better, and ensuring the small acts of one person never cost you or your team the whole.