STRESS Will Totally KILL You!

Attention: Women Business Owners

Exhausted?

Over-whelmed?

Frustrated?

Stressed?

All of the above?

 

That WAS me too!!!

 

So much so, that I had a sudden cardiac arrest and died.

 

Yup. Dead.

 

Lucky for me, the bartender knew CPR.

 

He kept me going until the paramedics could come and -start me.

 

A week of freezing late…

the doctors woke me from the coma...

everyone hoping and praying…

I would not have brain damage!

 

So when the first words out of my mouth were 'WTF',..

(something my family had been making wagers on),..

nobody was more surprised than me!

 

An 'Iron Man' installation (my daughter nick-named my internal cardiac device) got me released from the hospital and trying to figure out how to put the pieces of my 'life-interrupted' back together.

 

I was banned from driving for 6 months.

You gotta be frickin' kidding me.

6 months, NO DRIVING???

How would I survive that?

 

I had businesses to run!

I had places to be..

things to do…

people to see…

errands to run…

groceries to get…

You know, that 400-item to do list…

NOT!

Everything changed in an instant that night.

Well, maybe not everything. 

But a whole darn lot of things.

Most of all…ME.

I changed…

well, maybe not right away.

 

I couldn’t drive…

And no one would take me to ‘work’…

I was lucky they let me keep my cell phone and computer!

 

So,  I started doing a little digging.

The more I researched, the more fortunate I felt.

The statistics about sudden cardiac arrests are really GRIM.

Did you know that the first symptom of heart disease in women…

the most common one…

is DEATH?

Hello. Death?

That’s the most common symptom. 

That’s not gonna work out well for many of us!

I miraculously was one of the very minute minority that it DID work out for…

That miracle was not lost on me.

 

My research led me on a multi-year journey to figure some shit out.

If I wanted to stay alive to see my kids get married…

live their lives…

enjoy some grandkids…

I had to make some massive changes.

Changes not only in my health and life-style habits, but changes in my WORK habits too.

 

So, the first thing I did, was STOP running several ‘soul sucking’ businesses. 

Not ‘soul-sucking’ per se, but they were literally killing me.

I would later find out that they did not match my core values…

That is what made them so BAD for me.

MASSIVE stress-reliever!

 

Next, I launched my (now-X) husband too.

Began fixing relationships (personal and business) that were NOT in my best interest.

Some business partners and ‘friends’ had to go.

Wow. 

Even a bigger stress-reliever. 

Who knew pretending to put up with all that crap was so hard on me?

 

I started really paying attention and enjoying experiences with my children.

I had been running through my life…working ALL the time.

I started my own business so I could spend time with those I love & care about...

yet in reality…

the reality I had created…

 I was spending less time with them. 

They were growing up so fast…and I was missing it.

Not being able to drive, although I complained about it loudly, actually had several benefits. 

Spending quality time with my beautiful daughter and handsome son was the best.

(I still get scared of their driving though. Not nearly as afraid as I was to drive with my dad, but that is another story.)

Improving my relationships actually reduced my stress too.

 

Then I dove into cardiac rehab with a vengeance. 

For the first time in my life (with the exception of a few times in my youth)…

I started actually taking care of myself. 

What I ate/drank…

how I moved (yes, that 4-letter word, exercise)…

and what I thought and felt…

became things I actually paid attention to.

Another ‘who knew’ that eating right, exercising, and taking care of yourself could actually make you feel better and stress less too?

Color me, excited, delighted and surprised.

 

When you die (and are still here), it often leads to a spiritual journey.

I was no exception.

I studied a lot about mindset, thinking, spirituality, healing modalities…

pretty much the gamut.

And I came to my own conclusions about what it all means to me.

This part of my story is ‘none-ya’ business. 

I only share this with a few folks…who are ready for it.

We each get to believe what we want and experience what we want.

Life is a very personal experience.

Our purpose and mission here (on the planet) is to experience this life as only we uniquely can.

All this is a really big subject and not particularly relevant here…

except, that it is a very core part of ME.

 

So from all this, what was my BIGGEST discovery?

That it is 100% essential to my life (and the world) that I BE ME!

 

And here is what I know for sure…

None of us are making it out of THIS LIFE Experience alive.

Anything we accumulate here is temporary…

We enter this world with nothing…

And that is how we leave it.

 

Yet...

Some of us KNOW we are here to make the world a better place.

We know deep in our heart

our soul…

our BEING…

that we are here for something MORE.

We are here to CHANGE THE WORLD!

 

If any of this resonates with you…

We should chat.

 

I help women business owners supersize their business without letting it kill them!

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