10/26/2026
One year ago exactly today I took a chance on myself on just a small feeling I had that kept nagging at me and a dream I wanted for a long time. I shifted my long term wedding photography business I had built from the ground up at 18 and ran for nearly a decade, and built something completely new out of content creation and a dream of being able to work from home while staying home with my girls. Something that started out small has become the reason my family and I are able to slowly climb out of debt, buy groceries with no stress, and live a life we thought was only something that was there for other people but just out of our grasp.
A year of taking no days off, posting 15-20 videos every single day while also balancing being a stay at home mom even when there were months (like six months) of zero reward and having to push through the mental bandwidth of trying so hard for something that in the reality I was living in seemed too good to be true.
It has absolutely paid off and more and I’m so grateful I took the leap even when I had people in my life trying to shame me for it. A few things I’ve learned over this year:
If you have a dream that you want to pursue but you have people who you know will judge it, be unsupportive, give unsolicited advice, etc…put your head down and just keep it to yourself. Do the work towards your goals and share with the people you know genuinely believe in you. You don’t want any of the icky energy, you feel the call for a reason and it’s because there’s a reality where you’re living it. You gotta block out the haters 🤣
Be okay with being embarrassed/considered cringe…who cares. If I would’ve let that stop me I most certainly wouldn’t be living the life i am now. People can only meet you where they’ve met themselves, if they consider you cringe there probably is an internal battle happening within that is being projected onto you (they might be too scared to be considered ‘cringe’ themselves). Too many of us let what other people might think dictate our lives and the direction we will go. If I would’ve let opinions that hold zero weight get to me, I would not be living the life I am now. I’m proud I took the leap. 💛
