Here’s Her Story

I started my first online business with my future husband in the year 2000, when I was in college. We made $500,000 in our first year. But it wasn’t until 2007 that I really understood the success we were having.

Our accountant asked me to sign our tax statement. As I wrote my name – I finally internalized that we had made $2,767,607 that year. So I quit my PhD program to do business full time.

Things continued to grow from there. In 2010 we made $6 million dollars. But that’s when everything changed…

I found out that my husband was seeing another woman…

So I phoned up my sister Lorette. She flew in, helped me pack, and we left…

As we were driving from my no-longer home in Texas to her home in Florida, we stopped for groceries.

Only one card after another got declined.

He’d locked me out. Of EVERYTHING.

It was all gone…

• Our 12,000 square foot mansion
• Bank accounts
• Credit cards
• Courses and products
• Our client database
• My personal email
• My business email

To make it worse, he left me with an ultimatum: “If you don’t come back, I’m going to make your life miserable.”

And that’s exactly what he proceeded to do.

I don’t remember exactly how many days I spent on my sister’s couch, with no money in the bank, and no idea how I was going to move forward.

I might have stayed there – except Lorette decided to do something about it. She invited mutual friend and motivational speaker Les Brown over.

Les, in the commanding way only he can, told me it was time to GET UP. And I realized he was right. My ex might have taken all my “stuff.” But he could never take away my skills.

So using what I’d learned over the last decade, Lorette and I started a new business – tapping into the growing freelance economy.

Over the next 10 years, we built our agency to 32 team members, started our own TV show, and taught people from all over the globe how to build their own freelancing businesses.

And this is why I’m so passionate about this industry…

Because when you have a business like this, you’re in control of your own destiny.

The government doesn’t control it. A boss can’t take it away from you. And even a malicious, malevolent person in your life can’t stop you.

If you have the desire and the right plan, you can come back from anything and build the life you want.