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This one was the most enjoyable. I was reading a book series to my kids one night and they said, ‘Gosh, Mum, I can just see this as a movie’. I had to agree it would make a fabulous movie! Totally Harry Potter meets Maleficent, with great messaging throughout. So the next day I contacted the author. A series of meetings and very big contracts later, I had purchased the film rights and set about finding someone to help me produce a movie series. I went to Los Angeles and had meetings with studio executives, and even found myself on a red carpet next to Charlize Theron at a premiere. After many exciting conversations that led exactly nowhere, I realised how very little I knew about the film industry. I simply wasn't willing to risk the next two years of my life on the pursuit of success that was so out of my control.

After that I went back to the drawing board. I read a heap of business books and listened to a lot of podcasts. I was doing some private coaching, as there were a lot of people with service-based businesses who were trying to scale as I had, and I could teach them how to do that. I loved the coaching side of things, so I thought that while I was searching for my next ‘real’ business I would put some effort into getting better at the coaching craft. I enrolled in a few programs. One of them included an online learning component that allowed me to advance at my own pace. Once I experienced this as a student, I knew I could introduce it into my own programs. All my past experience in business and education meant I was perfectly positioned to write the curriculum in a way that would help people to learn and also to market their knowledge and skills well. That's where the next three businesses came in! I still didn't know what was going to be my thing, so I wanted to test out a few options.