Your mindset isn't broken. It just hasn't been properly architected yet.

A candy table, with hand-drawn flyers taped to trees in my neighborhood park, what I'd later recognize as my very first marketing campaign. Nobody told me to do it. I just saw something I wanted, intuitively believed in myself I could do it, made a plan and I executed it. At 7 years old. I didn't have language for it then, but that was ownership. That instinct, that inner belief, would later become the very foundation of everything I now teach.

Twenty-one years ago, I endured one of the hardest, darkest phases of my life during a major life change. I was a brand new single mother, a few months postpartum, freshly moved back into my parents' house after making one of the hardest decisions I'd made in my life at that point. My whole world had just been turned upside down and I felt stuck. Like I was frozen in time. For the sake of my newborn child, I knew I needed to get out of this black hole, but at the time, I really didn't know how.

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