In this 5th episode of Dose of Izzy you get to meet Sheeva, a beautiful soul with wise words to share about carving her own path. In this episode, we discuss her career from law to creating a shave ice business, to now authoring her first book - the Good Persian Girl.

2:13 - Interview Starts

3:10 - from law school to an entrepreneur

4:32 - It all started with a shave ice snow cone food truck

8:12 - Our mutual friend Grant

9:37 - Gracefully closing a business and moving on to the next

12:05 - Making financial ends meet while authoring her first book

13:33 - Working not to make money but to make a difference

17:29 - How Sheeva ended up building and living in her tiny home

21:02 - How listening to celebrity autobiographies can get you out of your victim mentality

22:37 - Why your family will criticize your work the most

27:56 - Growing up Persian on the Bible Belt

32:33 - What if being an author fails?

34:02 - Permission to pivot your own belief systems

35:06 - How her near death experience woke her up to living more authentically

40:42 - How to self-motivate when you are trying to start something

42:06 - Martyr mode in relationships and splitting bills 50/50My favorite quote from this episode:

“When someone is in the legal system, god help them because it is like being infected with a disease.”