In this solo monologue, Kelly Alhooie reflects on the costly consequences of staying in a misaligned career and describes the decisive steps she took to realign her professional and personal life. She explains why she abandoned her previous venture, OrthoPelvic, to focus on her true passion, PelviBiz, and how she restructured her daily routine to integrate family, friends, fitness, and business discussions. Kelly emphasizes the importance of making health and self‑care a priority, detailing her new two‑hour morning gym and sauna regimen. She also shares how a lifelong learning disability forced her to become a relentless "pusher," repeatedly rereading material to succeed, and reframes that experience as a super‑power that fuels her persistence today. The talk serves as a motivational guide on recognizing misalignment, making bold career pivots, and designing an integrated lifestyle that supports sustained success.
Chapters
I'm always investing. Like, I'm always just like, like, I'm always ready. I'm ready to talk business with my girlfriends. Like, that is my dream. Okay. And for me, it was like, well, why do I want to give myself? But then I realized if I don't give to myself, then you end up with that disease, you end up with that illness, and then you think, how did I get here? And then when you're sick, then you— how are you supposed to do anything else? That you put on your calendar, you can't do anything. So why not make that a priority? And it wasn't until recently when I had to switch literally my whole entire environment to where I felt like, oh my gosh, I can make this a priority now. And I had to get rid of things. I had to make big decisions. Part of this is why I let OrthoPelvic go. I had to make very big decisions on what was not aligning in my life. Orthopelvic did not align in my life anymore. It was taking from me more than I wanted it to. And I just had to make the decision to let it go and put my attention elsewhere and put my attention on PelviBiz, which I knew for the last 3 years that that is 100% what I wanted to do. I just didn't know how to make that transition. And I got to a point where I just said, eff it, whatever's gonna happen, it's gonna happen, but I'm gonna do this because I got some courage in me and I just said, let's go. And so, I mean, this is a big life decision, like big. And if it's not integrating, think about what can go, even if it is something major like that. I'm not saying, you know, do that. I'm just saying, be very mindful of that. If it doesn't align, how do you do it differently? How do you do it in a different way that does align? Think about it. How could I bring my kids to work every single day because that aligns with me? Or maybe that doesn't. Maybe you're like, look, I need time away from my kids, put 'em in daycare, that aligns more with me, okay? For me, I want to integrate my husband as much as I can. I want to integrate my dog as much as I can. I want to integrate girlfriends as much as I can. I want to integrate just talking about business as much as I can because I just love it. Like, those are the things that light me up. I want to now do more fitness, which I used to do tons of, but now I was— I'm back in the game of that. So I want to do more fitness and taking care of myself. Now I get 2 hours a morning that I literally am in the gym, 2 hours, guys, in the morning doing the sauna and I'm doing the working out and I'm lifting the weights and I'm, I'm doing all the things every single morning. I haven't taken off. And I really believe this time it's going to stick because I have now integrated my life and there isn't something over here that's just like, rawr, rawr, it's like attacking me constantly of like, It doesn't align, but let me keep pushing through. It doesn't align, but let me keep pushing through. For those that know me, I'm a big pusher. I'll push and push and push and push, and I'll keep banging my head against the wall and I'll do it over and over and over again. And I think it honestly becomes from when I had my learning disability in, in school from first grade all the way up through college, because I kept having to read the sentence and read the sentence and read it again and read again. I don't know what I just read. Let me read it again. Let me read it again. Let me read it again. You know how much times that I had to keep rereading a sentence? You know how much time that I had to just keep trying and keep trying and keep trying just to keep up and try to pass a test when everyone else like outside playing around? Like I'm built for it because I trained my whole life for it to be the pusher, because I was the pusher my whole entire life because I had no other option. That's how I made it through school because I had a disability. Well, they labeled it as a disability, but now I think it's a superpower. Okay. And I believe it is what has gotten me to this point to this day.
