I used to believe I could only make a lot of money working in Corporate America (Spoiler Alert - I was wrong)

I used to believe I could only make a lot of money working in Corporate America. I am so glad I was wrong because the life that was coming along with making a lot of money in corporate was killing me.

I dreamed of being an entrepreneur for a LONG TIME.

But what kept me from going for it was what my mind would tell me:

👉 Being an entrepreneur is too risky.

👉 How will you know where your paycheck is going to come from?

👉 It is going to be really hard.

👉 What if I fail?

👉 I will have to kill myself working 24/7 to build my business.

👉 I will never make as much as I am making in corporate.

👉 Only people in corporate make a lot of money.

👉 Corporate is where I am most safe & secure.

It took me a few years to let go of these thoughts but one by one, they began to no longer feel true to me.

And in 2019, I led with courage and went for it.

And here’s the truth about my journey…

💯 It was risky to leave my gushy 6-figure a year income with all the perks and a first class life that came along with it.

👉 But this year I will replace my corporate salary with money I created myself. I am now funding my own first class life & I cannot even tell you how incredible that feels.

It took me 10+ years to get to this point in corporate.

🤯 It took me 2 years on my own.

💯 It has been really hard. But it is a different type of hard. In entrepreneurship, the hard part is not knowing.

👉 What felt hard in corporate was the constant meetings, pressure, long hours, politics and backstabbing.

👉 There is none of that now. I work with clients 3 days a week and I have one day where I focus on my business.

My challenges now look like 👉 thinking bigger, stretching my mind, getting resourceful AF, problem solving at the highest level and in all honesty and healing my own sh*t so I can show up as my best self daily. Call me crazy but I find this type of “hard” to be fun.

⚡️I truly feel I am operating in my zone of genius as an entrepreneur.

⚡️I was made for this and am so happy I trusted myself enough to make it happen vs. listening to societies rule about what success looks like.

💝 Having so much time & space to live my life has been the biggest gift.

👉 And something that was not available to me while I was still in corporate.

I tell you all of this because I know somewhere in there is a belief that is keeping you from going for it.

➡️ What you want to do is possible.

➡️ It’s time to let your limit go and shatter the glass ceiling you have set for yourself.

💝 So much more is available to you than you realize…

It is time to bet on you.

XO - Elyse