A year ago, mounting Meta advertising debt nearly pushed her to bankruptcy. She hid the crisis from her husband, maxed out credit cards on education, and felt ashamed her confidence wasn't delivering results. Now her business has made a dramatic turnaround.
I was going to file bankruptcy. I mean, that's where I was a year ago. I was talking to a bankruptcy attorney. I was giving him all the paperwork. I had no idea what that looked like.
A year ago, like as we sit here a year ago? Yes, a year ago. Wow. Yeah.
I was talking to a bankruptcy attorney, getting him everything he needed, learning about what this impact would have on my personal, because this is all business debt. This is not me going shopping. This is literally Meta ads that I'm going to, now it's going to affect me personally. And I'm still not telling my husband. Any of this. Yeah, I'm not. He's— I'm not telling anyone, right?
Like, he's not listening to this.
Well, there's a lot of things a lot of people don't know because— and they might listen to this and be freaking out because I didn't want to share, you know, what was happening. Because one, I didn't want to put any problems on anyone else and stress anyone else out. But two, I just always knew it would work out.
Was it relentless optimism or did you feel some shame?
I don't know if shame is the word, but I definitely felt embarrassed because I did have this faith and this belief and it wasn't working out the way I thought. But I also surrendered to that. I know that I had to almost file for bankruptcy to get where I'm at right now. I know I had to max out all the credit cards to start investing in myself and learning. I know that whole journey was to put me where I'm at now, which is— I can't wait to share where I'm at now because it's insane.
