Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

How I Lost Everything to a Hurricane #realsituation #recovery

23 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this personal monologue, the speaker recounts the daunting experience of launching a business while unexpectedly discovering she was pregnant. She describes having no clients at the start, earning $1,500 in her first month and $5,000 in the next, and operating a fully mobile service by traveling to clients' homes without a fixed office. The lack of a financial safety net while pregnant created intense anxiety, but she emphasizes the constant inner encouragement and the crucial support of a team and community that helped her persevere through the uncertainty.

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It started off as, you know, jumping off a cliff. Basically, I found out I was pregnant the same month that I started my business and I did not have any clients. So I look back at my first month and I made $1,500, uh, my first month, and then it bumped up to $5,000. I was mobile, I was traveling to people's homes, I wasn't renting anywhere. Um, you know, I was doing the things, I was trying to do anything to get patients because if you don't work, you don't get an income. And now I'm pregnant and I don't have any, anything to fall back on. But in the back of my head, um, you're Your voice was always there. Your encouragement was always there. Your motivation was always there. And then we had a team and a group of people to lean on, which I think really helped me get through it.