01/21/2026
5 years.
January 21, 2021.
I was 23 years old, watching a TikTok about becoming a virtual assistant, and something in me just knew. I had no credentials, no experience, no safety net. Just a feeling that this was my path.
I remember holding my rose quartz one night, speaking my vision into existence: I will have clients. I will build a business. I will work for myself, on my terms, and create a life I love. That manifestation became my reality.
But the journey wasn’t what they sold me.
Work whenever! From wherever! Total freedom! And while those things are true, nobody warns you about the initiation. The shedding. The complete reconstruction of self that entrepreneurship just IS.
I have never worked harder. I’ve never been more tested. I’ve never had to confront myself over and over again.
This business stripped away every limiting belief I didn’t even know I was carrying. It forced me to build unshakable selfassurance when I had none. To detach from outcomes. To hold my worth. To price my energy accordingly and stand firm in that decision.
In that dismantling, I found who I actually am.
Strong. Resilient. Capable of holding the weight of other people’s businesses as if they were my own. Organized, strategic, multi dimensional. Someone who doesn’t just learn, I master.
I look back at that 23 year old version of me.. the one standing at the edge of the unknown.. and I honor her. She didn’t have a blueprint. She didn’t have proof it would work. But she trusted the pull. She invested everything she had. She showed up, even when it was uncomfortable. (and damn was it uncomfortable).
Five years later, I know this with absolute certainty that there is nothing I cannot do. If I don’t know how, I will learn. If there’s no path, I will create one.
This business has been the hardest thing I’ve ever chosen. It’s also given me everything I envisioned and so much more.
Freedom. Sovereignty. Financial independence. A version of myself I didn’t know existed.
I’ve grown up in these five years. I’ve witnessed my own capacity. I’ve proven to myself again and again that I am capable of impossible things.
And somehow I get the feeling this is just the beginning.
