From Bus Driver to $13,000 a Month Notary Public Loan Signing Agent! (Chicago, Illinois)

Girl out in Chicago, how much money did you make last month?

Last month I made $12,700.

And how much money did you make the month before that?

$13,100.

Another episode of on the Road with the loan signing system here with notary public loan signing agent Kelly out in Chicago, Illinois. How are you doing today, Kelly?

Amazing. How are you, Mark?

I am so good as all these stories. These are super inspirational. Yours is going to be so inspiring. So let's just inspire some people right out of the gate. Girl out in Chicago, how much money did you make last month?

Last month I made $12,700.

And how much money did you make the month before that?

$13,100.

When you say those numbers out loud, Kelly, how does that make you feel?

It's crazy. I don't connect with. I don't believe it, but it's just like, wow. You know, your whole body is like, wow. It was amazing. Amazing.

I'm so proud of you and I'm so excited because this journey is not like, oh, mark, I made $10,000 in my second month. You've been building this business and it's been slow and steady wins the race. So I'm so excited about sharing that and inspiring other people just to stick with it, build your business, be consistent. All those amazing LSS mantras you really embody. So before we get to the income journey, you know, you've seen these episodes before. You know, I start off with the same question, you know, is, you know, what inspired you to get here? What caused you become a notary public loan signing agent? Take us back to the beginning, and that's walk people through kind of your journey to get to a $10,000 a month notary public loan signing agent.

All right, well, last year, about August, I was a bus driver. I was a bus driver. I became a bus driver. And a few years before that. And then I started doing recruiting and worked with hr. And then I was promoted to, you know, the recruiter that I was promoted to safety manager. And I absolutely love, loved it. Absolutely loved it. And so last year I got called into my manager's office and he told me basically that my services were no longer needed. And not so many words, not so many nice words. And, oh, yeah, I lost my job. And that moment when I lost my job, it wasn't just, you don't work here anymore. It was a kick in the ego. It was a. My integrity was questioned, my character was questioned, and I was basically told, no, no, no, this is who you are. And we don't want your services here anymore. And despite all the work I had done, everything I had accomplished, they knew who I was. They saw me every day, getting there early, leaving late. But in spite of all that, it didn't matter. We no longer need your services because we feel that this is who you are. This is. And that. That was like, so. So I left.

Yeah, let's. Let's talk about that real quick, because I saw some emotions there. And, you know, I share. I ask you students to share your journey to make people feel like they're not alone. Right? You're not the only person to. To be let go or fired or. You know, what I heard was the unfathomable of, like, your character being in question, you know, like, that's just not called for. Unrude on so many different levels. Take us through that moment, right? I mean, you know, when you say that he was a punch in the gut, like, when someone questions who you are, it's like, it's one thing to lose your job and income, right? And what the money you use to provide for your family to so a whole nother thing to have you question and talk through that.

Right? Well, it was everything. I mean, it was just like you said. I mean, first of all, the fact that somebody else had the power to say, okay, well, you're gonna have to find another way to take care of your family. And, you know, we, you know, thank you, but no, thank you. Don't go back. That's just. That is crazy, because it's like, you build what you think is a relationship. So to where we're talking, you know, we're told to build relationships in this business, and you feel like you're building a relationship to where they know you. You do things like you stay late, and you do all this just to prove that, you know, I am. You know, I'm all in, and I'm working for this business. But then when somebody takes that from you, it was like, from the moment I left that office to the time I walked back to my office, it felt like somebody had just ran and kicked me in the gut. Like they had just, like, all their power, you know, because it's like there was nothing that I could say because I knew the truth. I knew who I was. I knew how hard I worked. I knew that what was presented to me was not fact. I wasn't gonna own that. I wasn't gonna say, okay, you're right, you're right, you know, But I had no. I had no choice. But to leave. And, and so with that right there and then having to call my husband and tell him, it was like, okay, so I sat in my office, cried, screamed, got it all out first so that I could pick up the phone and I could tell him. And I remember I said, sean, I'm done. And you know, in that moment, he didn't even question because he knew, he knew, he was like, you know, and the next conversation he had, we had, he was like, you're not working for anybody else again. And we were both thinking it, but he said it. You're not going to work for anybody else. I said, you're right, I'm not working for anybody else ever again.

So, yeah, you know, you said something I think is profound. And the fact that another human had the power to a, not only tell you what you're worth, but also like today you have a job, tomorrow you don't like that. You know, and that's the beauty of entrepreneurship, right? There's nobody else over here telling you what you're worth. You are worth as much as you want to put in the work. And that's the beautiful part. And I love how your husband had the moment with you of like, look, we're not going back to having someone else be your boss. You know, I tell you students, every day you work for somebody else, you're building their dreams. Every single day you work for yourself, you're building your own.

And I love you. Yeah. So, yes, that was, that was just. Even now it's hard to talk about it because it's like you don't want to. You know, I have fought all my life to say, okay, I, you know, no, I'm this, I don't, I'm not, You know, people will put a character on you or they'll put, oh, you should be this way, or you're this way, or whatever. And I just, as a kid, I just always like, you know, no, I'm, you know, I'm a smart person and I'm, you know, just, I always fought against what I thought people thought of me. And so with that, in that moment when he said, okay, this is what's happening, it felt like I was a little kid proving myself to somebody. But as a 43 year old woman, I shouldn't have to prove myself to anybody else. Like, no, you know what? I know who I am, thank you very much. I will take myself somewhere else. I will take my value somewhere else. But still, it's like you cannot that feeling in that moment and not being able to do something about it. That was just one of the worst feelings I ever had. And if anybody's ever lost a job, they know that's the worst feeling. Especially a job that you love. I love that job. I loved it. I loved every part of it. And the feeling of not having control, like, you have no control. You do everything in your power to do things right, but in the end, you have no control. And then that was what just, you know, I think that fueled the tears more than anything else. Just angry tears of like, I can't fix this.

Right?

Nothing I can do.

Thank you so much for getting so vulnerable with this. And like I said, you're not the only person to walk through your shoes in that aspect of losing a job. And I bet that it's the most insane feeling. And you said it almost perfectly. Like, almost the toughest part is realizing you don't have control, you know, and anybody who works for someone else is in mercy of that person, period, no matter what you think. And it's like entrepreneurship found you. And you know, I hate to say super cliche here, but everything happens for a reason, right? I mean, if that moment didn't happen, girl, you're making $10,000 in 30 days. So walk people through. I think your story is even more inspiring. So, I mean, keep walking people through your journey. So you get home, tell your husband, you know, I don't have a job anymore. Kind of walk through the next couple steps before you found being a signing agent.

Oh, wow. Okay. So then, you know, you just shell shocked for a few days. So I filed for unemployment. And then even that was just like the reality of it, picking up that phone, you know, answering those questions, it was just like everything about it just made it more and more real. You know, there were days where I would just sit in the chair and just, you know, not know what to do with myself. And I mean, and at the time, my daughter was getting married. So it's just all of this, every day was different. It's like, okay, well I have time to help plan the wedding. But then the next day it's like devastation and anxiety. Like, but I'm planning a wedding, I have my job, I'm on unemployment. And then the next day it's like, unemployment, it doesn't pay enough. I have bills. What am I going to do? And this whole process, this whole process, my husband is picking up more hours at work. I'm watching him get up 3:30 in the morning, leaving at 4:30, staying to work, 6:30, 7 o'. Clock. Coming home exhausted, completely worn out, eating dinner, taking a shower and going to bed. And the next day, getting up and doing it over and over again. And that process of watching him do that over and over and over again, silently, not complaining, just doing what he had to do, when I'm just like, you know, that feeling of me and I can't even hold on to my job, you know, like, I couldn't hold on to my job, so he has to do this. That was. That was hard. That was like. Like I talked about feeling like you were just kicked in the gut, that that was that deep down sick feeling you get thinking about something bad that happened that you can't change. And every time you think about it, it's just like, you know, you get that feeling. Years later, you still get that sick feeling in your stomach. And that's what it was like every day. Just looking and watching him leave for work and coming home tired and knowing the sacrifice that he was making and me trying to figure out, what am I doing? You know, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? And that, yeah, that was hard. Hard was not having a word. That's hard.

Yeah. And again, I appreciate you being so vulnerable, and I thank you for sharing that.

And.

And the reason why is, you know, I want someone else who may be currently going through that, realizing there's a light at the other end of the tunnel through hearing your journal, your journey. Excuse me. So, you know, I kind of ask you because what I hear is someone who could have given up, someone who could have played victim, someone who could have been like, oh, poor me, but you didn't. So what kind of drove you through kind of getting to where you are today, which is making $10,000 a month? Like, what was it to help somebody else who might feel like, you know, like a kick in the gut and despair. And like you said, what I thought was really vulnerable was talking about your waves. Right. One day you're on top of the world, like, oh my gosh, I get time to spend my daughter. But then the next day you're like, I don't have a job. And so going through emotional rollercoaster. What kind of pushed you and drive you and what kind of advice can you give someone else who might be going through that? And maybe not even as dramatic as it was for you, but just like through their business where there's ups and downs and valleys, like, what's kind of. How did you get through it and kind of share that? Because I think that's the most amazing part, you didn't. You got knocked down, but you didn't stay down. You know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah.

No.

So you have to recognize. I mean, and it just comes with being, you know, just, you know, life. You have to realize that there's some things that. That are the way they are and you can't do anything about it, and you have to acknowledge them. But then there's things that you have total control over and that you better be up doing something, because, you know, if you don't, then you can't make excuses for what doesn't happen. And so in spite of, you know, feeling guilty and feeling, you know, like the guilt was hard, the guilt was really hard because at one point, you know, like I said, we were planning this wedding, and we're a blended family, you know, so it was the guilt of feeling like. And finding out, you know, my husband had taken out money out of his 401k to be able to pay for some of the wedding things, and I didn't ask him to do that. And when I found out he had done that, that incredible guilt that came on me was like, oh, my goodness, now I really got to do something. I got to do something. I got to get a job. And here we're in the pandemic. Who's going to find a job in the middle of a pandemic? You know? And when I say the guilt, it was like, you know, I've never been made to feel like, you know, in a blended family, like, that's your child, or this is my. You know what I'm saying? Never, ever, ever. But there's always that in the back of your head, like, okay, I gotta take care of my responsibilities because I don't want to be a burden or I don't want my child to be a burden on my mate. You know what I'm saying? And the mate can never, ever say anything or even make you feel. But there's always that invest back. And so that added to the pain of losing my job, feeling helpless, looking for something, not finding anything, not knowing what to do and look for. And then the guilt of, like, not only is he going to work all these hours, and now he's taking out this money. It was just.