A founder lost his skincare company in 2008, then watched his training business collapse from $750,000 a month to zero when COVID hit. He rebuilt both times by staying grateful and preparing for the next crisis.
to rebuild at stages in my life when people all thought I had everything completely figured out. In 2008, the big stock market crunch really destroyed one of my skincare businesses. And of course, again, in 2020, things changed dramatically there again for me when COVID hit and we had to make big changes in everything that we're doing. And I want you to think about this. Stuff happens. Stuff happens to people in life. And of course, you have to put on this brave face as if everything is still hunky-dory. Everything is still exactly where it needs to be. And guess what? Sometimes it's not always the case. And I had to rebuild both that skincare company, I had to let go. And then again in 2020, never saw it coming. And of course in 2020, I was 50 years old and all of a sudden had to start to rebuild because my training company went from hero to zero pretty much overnight, doing over $750,000 a month to zero, big goose egg all of a sudden. So think about this. What are you putting in place allowed me to be grateful? I look back with immense gratitude at every one of those situations because out of all biggest challenges in life come the biggest opportunities to be grateful. I trust you can look at it this way. Look at what you're doing in your own business. Look at how you're going to figure things out yourself and be aware of what is around the corner potentially, because things can take you out really quickly and you're going to have to rebuild, have to start again, put on a brave face and start standing up and showing people, guess what? I did it.
