08/17/2026
She paid for everything….
The black car experience
The first class flight
The hotel stay
The brunches and dinners
The onboarding gift (Gucci bag)
The business upgrades to bring me on as her Chief of Staff and Program director full time
She wanted me to have it all…
The full EXECUTIVE experience because that was the new identity I was stepping into. She didn’t like how I was being treated at my previous job, so she made space for me. Or so I thought.
My training and development plan was discussed and set to the finest detail and one of the major perks? Being mentored by an ex Fortune 500 business consultant for not just this role, but my own business too.
One of the major outcomes from that plan was to become the CEO of the company. Learn it in and out. Create additional infrastructure and upgrade customer experiences across the board. Build relationships both internally and externally.
In my head it was simple, not easy, but I’m always up for a challenge.
Anything sounded better then the boring, suffocating job I was walking away from and burned out by.
I faced that challenge head on. She basically threw me to the wolves to see what I would come back with. So much for the personal and professional development plan right?
Within 1 month of me being on board, we hit our first million. The capacity increase was simply getting me on sales calls.
I may not have ever worked in that particular industry at the time, but I had skills. Ones that could help me anywhere I was planted and that were self taught.
-Business Acumen
-Communication
-Sales
-Critical Thinking
-Building relationships
-Customer Service
That’s it.
By month 3, I know the business and it’s operating process. I learned how to see opportunity and navigate properly.
By December of 2020 I had hit every sales goal according to plan. I had been exposed to a higher level of thinking and possibility of what my own coaching and consulting business could be. I had been in rooms where people were making $1-25mm/mo, not a year, and at the time my brain just couldn’t process it fully. But it challenged me in ways I never knew I needed.
And that was something I craved for a long time…
Mentorship from a woman that looked like me because she would treat me better than the ops right? (More on that in a second)
A real life validated experience that let me know if she could do it, especially being mentored by her, that I could do it too.
I was excited and I felt like I could breathe because this was my first big girl role.
I thought I was safe and I thought our relationship was better, which at one point it was, but somehow it went left…
There were bonuses promised, I never got them. Instead the justification was an LV bag shipped to my door versus the $10k bonus commission promised.
There we times when I knew I should have had commission on my checks and didn’t, but didn’t say anything because I was too excited about the overall experience and doing well in the role. “It was my chance to prove myself”, and I couldn’t get past being star struck to realize the abuse and avoidance.
The saying that, “they want you doing good, but not better than them”, in most cases has been true in my life. I can walk through several L’s I took in silence not to damage another persons character or public image while I sat quietly spiraling from subdued silence…
Things were all good until she thought I was doing “better” than her.
We were on the same team and I had helped generate so much money for her business. Why did I all of the sudden become the enemy? And if she wanted to put bank accounts side by side at the time, she would have easily seen there was nothing to be jealous about. 🤣
But that wasn’t it…
It was my ability to learn quick.
It was my ability to execute and master something quickly.
It was my aura.
It was my weight loss journey and huge confidence boost.
It was how people in her audience loved my coaching and teaching style, as well as my testimony, which were all used as leverage to make her money, but somehow I became the villain and the competition.
The root cause?
Jealousy
She saw something in me that I couldn’t see in myself at the time. Crazy part is, she wasn’t the first mentor to do me this way.
I had hit a major plateau at the job I left to go work for her. It was another space where I was looking for validation of my worth. Someone to tell me I was worthy of a promotion to prove my value.
So how was I again pivoting into another opportunity that turned out to be the same?
Well…
I thought it was safe, just like I thought previous employers were too.
For the record, none of them are safe…
I didn’t realize I’d be let go from that job 2 years later.
Not because I didn’t do well.
But because that’s just what she wanted and how she felt. Instead of telling the truth about what the real problem was, she’d avoid it by letting me go and moving on like nothing happened while I was broken in multiple ways and left to figure out the pieces.
It hurt and I mean hurt bad.
It wasn’t a plateau I was looking to face, especially not so soon.
Becoming a full time business owner like that wasn’t in my plans. I still felt like needed help and I wasn’t so sure the strategy we had worked on together would still even work for me.
I had been running away at the thought for so long, that I was forced into it and haven’t looked back ever since.
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A lot of you may be facing a similar dilemma and decision.
You may already be out of a job or really close to being gone. For those of you that know your days are coming up, you’re lucky (kind of).
For those of you that may be in month 3 freshly laid off or have found yourself losing sleep about a business venture that no longer lights you up, but has you asking, “what’s next?”
You need a blueprint for your pivot.
I can help you build it.
But only if you want the help.
The Pivot Blueprint Masterclass walks through my 3 part framework to make it simple, not easy. This requires work. It requires support as you journey into the unknown. I have the tools and the many testimonies to support you.
You need to understand and diagnose your plateau and you need to do it quick.
CC 👇🏽
