I do not say this to brag or to impress you, I say this to hopefully and simply INSPIRE YOU to what is possible for you. Because it was women who dared to share details like that that first lit the fire in me to change it all. And I am so grateful to them for that.
I could never have believed this possible for me when I was cleaning houses with a baby on my hip at 19 years old, a woman with no fancy education or university degrees, who was raised in a small country town to a family with a multigenerational history of poverty.
I used to look at people like me now, back then, and roll my eyes. I rolled my eyes to protect my heart from the hurt it was feeling at that moment. The hurt that said: "that can't happen for you, and it never will." I told myself people like that were just lucky, because it helped me guard my heart against the deep sadness of feeling like I could never have my dreams, but they could.
I thought the sadness was because I couldn't have that too, but now I know that the sadness was actually because I abandoned myself in that moment, and instead I chose to live in a familiar, but powerless place—which was not the truth of me, and that's why it hurt.
So I am here to shout from the rooftops that your dreams ARE possible, and that you don't have to be anybody else, or do it like anybody else, in order to have them. In fact the more of yourself become, the more deep and rich (in every way) your life is gonna be!