And You may find yourself...in a beautiful house
"Well, how did I get here?"
Those lyrics from Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads refers to the surreal feeling of waking up one day and questioning how your life got to where it is.
👉Take a poll of how many people are actually doing what they went to school for. You’d be shocked. Most of us ended up somewhere completely different, not because of failure, but because life redirected us to something better. And maybe... that unexpected detour was the real path we were meant to follow all along!
I know because that was me. I didn’t follow a straight path. I followed curiosity and it led me somewhere more fulfilling than I ever planned.
I spent years in school, earned my Doctor of Chiropractic, and fully expected to spend my career helping people heal, but life has a funny way of rewriting the script.
Back when I was in my early 20s, the internet was barely a thing and Zoom definitely did not exist. Running a business meant physical locations, printed marketing materials, and face-to-face networking. (OMG, how old am I, ha!)
Obviously, the world changed. The way we connect, sell, and build businesses transformed and I found myself evolving with it. I moved away from chiropractic and into the digital space. What started as curiosity turned into mastery, and before I knew it, I was helping other entrepreneurs build their own online businesses, teaching them how to create digital products, market themselves, and build scalable income streams.
If you had told me back in grad school that this would be my career, I would have laughed. But here I am, running a thriving online business, helping others do the same.
And you know what? I wouldn’t change a thing (except for that student loan ha).
Sometimes, the best things in life aren’t planned. They’re discovered.
Like a lot of people who start their own thing, I kind of stumbled into it.
I was freelancing, figuring things out as I went, and saying yes to projects that felt interesting. Some were great. Some… not so much.
Along the way, I found myself working with people who had incredible knowledge to share. They were struggling to turn that knowledge into something sustainable online. They needed someone to help piece together the tech, strategy, and moving parts of a digital business.
So, I started helping. One project at a time, one problem at a time.
Somewhere in the middle of all that, I realized: Oh. This is what I do now.
Now, I spend my days making the messy, complicated parts of online business way easier for people who just want to focus on what they love, like coaching, teaching, and sharing their expertise.
I love it. It’s funny how things work out.
What about you? Did you take a straight path to what you do now, or did you figure it out along the way like I did?
