The Entrepreneur Code: The Habits of Creators (Self Help Success Book 4) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dauntless
Published: 2021-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

Charylle is a bestselling author, marketer, and entrepreneur. Charylle can be reached at howtoearnresidualincome.com

8

An Intentional Path

By Kathaleen Coyle

We flew right from our honeymoon to the tiny apartment in Bisbee, Arizona that my newly minted husband had rented for us—and I began my job hunt before the jet lag wore off.

My first interview was with a fast-growing company in the same industry I had worked and excelled in for the last three and a half years. It sounded like a great fit, until the interviewer added a deal breaker to my job offer: “One last question before we get you started. We ask that you commit to not expanding your family for two years from starting with us, can you live with that?”

“Thanks for giving me the opportunity to interview with you, and I’m sorry, it isn’t going to work out,” I said as I shushed the thought urging me to add, and thanks for wasting my time; maybe lead with that next time, buddy!

A couple more interviews and no good options within reach—then it hit me: here I am, at home, alone, living completely across the country from my family, friends, and support system, professionally derailed, and jobless.

It seemed that finding a job in that small remote town—without some impossible request from any number of could-have-been future bosses—was going to be harder than I thought.

All of these stipulations had me asking myself a question—have I sacrificed my career and my shot at success by saying I do and following my husband’s job to what felt like the end of the earth? At the time, my inner gremlin voice answered with a resounding YES!

I was wrestling with feelings of resentment, fear, sadness, frustration, and enoughness—am I good enough, experienced enough, old enough, attractive enough, rich enough, smart enough? And then a paralyzing thought came over me—holy crapballs, what in the name of everything sane was I thinking? I was officially panicking.

Now I’m sure these feelings are perfectly normal for almost any trailing spouse, but as someone who had always thought, felt, and seen things through different shades of a rose-colored filter, I had no idea how I was going to find more water, in the Arizona desert mind you, to refill my suddenly half-empty cup.

I could almost feel myself collapsing under the weight of all the lives I wasn’t going to live, and I knew I needed to shift my mindset.

The one thing I was sure of was that everything could be figured out, if I could just put a muzzle on my inner skeptic long enough to decide what I really wanted to do, and imagine what was possible. So after wrestling a bit with my existential ‘what is my purpose’ crisis, I decided the best way to find a job to fit my criteria, and life, was to create it myself. And so—like many other business owners—I stumbled upon the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey, unintentionally, and out of necessity.

Now that’s not to say that success came to me unintentionally.

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