I know I’ve just posted about my highest 5-figure month, but I also want to be brutally honest: It’s been damn hard.

And sometimes I catch myself thinking: Is it possible to both hate & love what I do?

Love 😍, because nothing is more exciting than seeing people find their dream careers.

Hard 😫, because the rejections just keep coming!!

It doesn’t help that I grew up surrounded by success:

Achieving straight As, getting into Columbia & working my way up to VP at BlackRock.

When I quit BlackRock, I knew that my life would be hard:

📉9 out of 10 startups fail.

So I have a meagre 10% chance of succeeding.

But to FEEL the statistics really was something I was not prepared for.

Every day, I would wake up and give my all in each sales call.

But I’d get “no”s after “no”s after “no”s

And to want to push yourself to take that 10th call to hopefully get a yes

😩Was easily one of the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life

😩Harder than getting into an Ivy League university

😩Harder than getting a job at BlackRock

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This is the point where people would say, grit is the key to success!

And yes I can’t agree with this more, but getting rejected time and time and time again?

😖It really is a bitch.

And I’ve fallen apart more times than I can count

And questioned why this “dream job” is so hard.

But then last month came

✨And I earned more in 1 month than I did in an entire year working in a startup AND more than I ever made at BlackRock!!

And all the feelings came crashing down on me and I broke down crying 😭

🙏🏼Because I’m so thankful younger me took that leap of faith and quit that fancy job

🙏🏼Because I’m so thankful younger me dared to dream for me

🙏🏼And because I’m so thankful younger me didn’t give up along the way despite all the rejection and imposter syndrome

And so I wanted to share this with you because I want to let you know that

A dream career is possible, and all the difficulties are worth it if you’d just hang on.

So I have just one question for you: Are you ready to do the hard work & fight for your dream job?

👉🏻 DM me “FIGHT” if this sounds up your alley! 😉