Shanli Liu quit a consulting job after Vanderbilt to become a minimum-wage personal trainer, facing harsh judgment from everyone around her. She learned to ignore advice from people who didn't share her goals, then launched Turnaround Business and proved the doubters wrong.
When I quit my job, every single person in my life told me it was a bad idea. I graduated in 3 years from Vanderbilt. I had a nice white-collar consulting job. I was set up to go to grad school, to one of the Ivy Leagues. I was set up. I'd done the path. And so for me to quit and be like, I'm going to be a personal trainer for minimum wage at a gym, that was not happy news for the vast majority of people that I knew. When I ended up leaving the gyms and started the Turnaround Business, every person was like, you finally made this thing work. Now we finally agree with you again. And it was right at the point where they accepted me that I was like, you know what? Don't listen to the people who are closest you. Listen to the people who are closest to your goals.
