It takes guts to start over

If there's anything I've learned over the past ten years -changing your career (and by default your life) takes some serious guts and perseverance!

It takes even more stomach trying to convince those in your personal/professional circles that you are actually going to 'follow through' with said plan/path.

But nothing compares with the imagination and serious self-love it takes to listen to your own voice (let alone find it) instead of listening to what all the 'Experts' and cynics have to say...

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