19/01/2026
The year was 2016 — and it started with heartbreak 💔
This became the year that completely changed the direction of my life — the true catalyst for where I am today.
At the beginning of 2016, a girl I really liked broke up with me.
Days later, I had surgery to repair a shoulder I’d broken doing CrossFit months earlier.
With surgery and no distractions, I finally had space to sit with how sad I actually was… and how much of my life wasn’t working.
Those were dark moments — but looking back, the Universe was clearly readjusting my focus.
Around that time, I also watched The Secret.
I was trying to save the relationship… trying to think positive and manifest my way out of the pain.
It didn’t work — but it planted a seed.
Out of that pain, new desires started to form.
I wanted out of my hometown.
I wanted to move to San Diego.
I wanted a new job.
I felt trapped and bored, even though on paper everything looked “fine.”
For the first time, I actually started asking myself what I wanted.
That was new for me.
Before that, I just worked and stayed busy.
I was 35.
At the time, I was obsessed with CrossFit, loved attention in photos (my camera roll was FULL of selfies 😂), blasted Justin Bieber, and went hard at The Chainsmokers concert when “Closer” had just dropped — drunk out of my mind.
I loved to drink. That was also the year I discovered gin and tonics in Chile 😅
Fast forward to now — I’m in bed by 9, don’t drink, and genuinely love my life.
Funny how things change.
That same year at work, I heard a quote that stopped me cold:
“You owe it to yourself to realize your full potential.”
Even though I was already making six figures, I didn’t feel successful.
I wasn’t building something for me.
I wanted my own.
And that moment — that feeling — that quote…
That’s where my journey into entrepreneurship — truly began.
