Welcome to another episode of the Give And Grow Daily podcast!
If You Could Travel The World With Your Family And Make Money, Wouldn’t You?
[Part 3 of 5 part series]
By now I had learned that climbing the corporate ladder wasn’t my solution to providing for my family and being present.
That sacrificing today for tomorrow wasn’t something I was willing to do.
You see, I had a burning desire to figure out how to provide the dream life I envisioned for my family, while at the same time be the AMAZING dad I never had.
So of course I did the next logical thing…
I grabbed my wife and 1-year-old son and jumped on a 5-hour flight to Peru. I told my family I was going to become a blogger…
“Don’t worry you’ll see” I’ll be making money online in no time.
Let’s backtrack for a second… When I first started learning marketing at Shula’s I remember seeing a big picture of how I could grow that company but also how “someday” I could share my passion online and impact others.
Sharing my message and helping others always felt like the thing I would end up doing. My true passion and purpose. I just didn’t have the money to get started, or so I told myself
The moment I walked out of Carnival, I had over 6 months of an emergency fund and a healthy 401K so I figured there was no better time than now.
I read the 4 Hour Workweek in a weekend, bought a blogging course, and took off with the plan that we would travel across South America, enjoy our experiences as a family and I would fund our journey by blogging. Doesn’t that just sound lovely???
But as we all know, not all stories have a happy ending…
Yes, I created a beautiful blog with all the widgets and gadgets. We had landing pages, we had subscribers, we created a course and ebook, we even had sales!
Unfortunately, I failed miserably.
I couldn’t put my passion and purpose in front of an old story I used to tell myself of not being creative. I let my doubt and fear dictate my actions. I never published one article. I let our family down.
Instead, I took care of marketing and all the backend stuff you can imagine an online business has to do (yes coding is part of them).
My AMAZING wife stepped up and created the content because we needed it, she was put between a rock and a hard place, and chose to be strong while I crumbled.
At that moment it felt like a failure but I can now look back and see that is was a much-needed step on our journey but
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Thank you for listening, your best-self is yet to come!
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