Growing my business on the side of my day job left me burnt out. I was learning as much as I could about copywriting, blogging, list building, email marketing, social media marketing, and trying to implement everything I was learning.

The exhaustion from doing it all piled up until one afternoon in my day job, just after lunch break, I finally broke down and went home on sick leave. I was lucky to go home at a time when there was barely any traffic, because while driving home my eyes started to close. It took every bit of energy I had left in me to get home safe. I realized I couldn’t keep going like this. Something had to change.

It turned out I had been struggling with an autoimmune illness - probably for years - without knowing it. Since my diagnosis, I've been spending a lot of time figuring out just how I could set up my business in a way that would work for me - instead of struggling to market myself consistently and beating myself up over not being able to do it.

Yet even through the struggles, I could never give up. My diagnosis only made me more determined to create a business that would allow me to live life on my terms.