Amy Porterfield
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 29 Oct
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I started doing my own research nights, mornings, anytime I could. What could I create? What could this look like? And about a year after that fateful meeting, I left Tony Robbins for the very last time. I remember it like it was yesterday. I had this little white car stacked up with boxes, leaving the San Diego offices in the song, Here Comes the Sun, came on the radio. And I thought, it's a sign.
It's a sign. So that was basically how it all came about.
I want to pause for a quick second. When I was talking about my success and leaving my nine to five job in a different interview, one of the women said to me, I was telling her about all the different things, what we're talking about, what I did to create my own business. And she said, well, working for Tony Robbins obviously helped you.
Kind of like taking away my skill and my knowledge, but saying you work for Tony, so that opened doors for you. And it possibly could have, but I want to just point out, I work for Tony Robbins, but I still had imposter syndrome. I still had zero confidence in doing this on my own. And I doubted every single decision I made. And so I had to figure that out as I went. So I love this question.
It was the most terrifying decision I've ever made in my life. And the day I left, I thought it would be easy. I genuinely thought I would work less hours. You know, you see the people on the beach with their laptop saying like, Freedom, that was what freedom was.
Yeah, that was not my reality at all. I've never worked so many hours in my life the first years of leaving my last corporate job. And every single thing I did, I doubted it. And I felt like a fraud for a really long time because I had no idea what this landscape looked like. So every emotion you could think of, I had.
Yes, absolutely. Yes. And find your happy there. But Depression and anxiety have been a very big central theme in my life for a very long time. So since I was very young, I didn't know it was depression until I got to college. My parents had just divorced after 25 years. I really struggled with that. I went to a doctor because I couldn't stop crying. I didn't know what was going on.
And for those that know depression, you'll likely know a black cloud is over you even when you don't have a reason to be sad. Like, my life is great. I'm in college. I've got this great boyfriend. What's the problem? Black cloud. And so starting in college, I've been on and off depression medicine for a very long time.
I didn't have anxiety, never felt that, never knew what it was at the time, but depression followed me until about two years ago. Two years ago, I met a doctor and he was giving me an IV like for energy. It was right after I had gotten COVID. We went, we got an IV to just feel better. And while I was sitting there, he talked to me about what he did, which was ketamine treatments.
And I can't believe I'm even talking about this because when it happened, I was like, no! telling anyone this. I've never gotten high. I've never been into drugs. No judgment, just wasn't me. But here this doctor is saying ketamine, which is also a drug people give someone like on a date to knock them out. So that's kind of scary. But they found that using ketamine on soldiers that had PTSD-
He eliminated some anxiety and depression severely. So he told me this. I, of course, went home, did the studies and thought, nothing has ever worked for me. And I can't feel like this every single day. Days I didn't want to get out of bed. And I'm running a business now with 20 people on my team. There's just no way this is going to serve me. And it got really bad in 2021. And so I did it.
I did a ketamine protocol. It was over, I think, six weeks. And I had to go into his office twice a week. I did this. You kind of feel high when you do it and you stay there till you feel good. I always had my husband drive me home. But I did this for six weeks. And after that, boom, it was gone. And I can't even believe that. I'm not suggesting anyone do it. Talk to your doctor.
However, it changed my life. And now every six months, I might feel a little of that black cloud and I go in for what is called a tune-up and it's gone again. So without talking about anxiety yet, the depression part, that is what I did and it changed my life.
You know, I've never been asked this question and I love this question. It's kind of amazing what we can do even at our lowest points, even when we're not our very best. And I think for me, I wanted it so bad. We talk about freedom and sometimes entrepreneurship looks nothing like freedom, but you are building a life on your terms, like you said. And I wanted that more than anything.
I had worked in corporate since I was 30. I grew up with a really strict father telling me what to do and it was his way or the highway. I just thought that's how life was. Then I get into all these corporate jobs and typically it was a man I was working for telling me what to do their way or the highway. And I got to a point that I thought, I don't want anyone telling me what to do ever again.
Like I just hit that point and I knew that. I wanted freedom. I wanted to work when I wanted, where I wanted, and how I wanted. And I did not want to be told what to do. And so with that, on even my darkest days, I knew what I wanted. And I know that I'm speaking to an audience right now that many of you do not want to leave your corporate jobs. You're on your way up the ladder. You love it.
And believe me, I loved that. So I get that. But also just thinking about what is it for you that you just won't stand for? Whether you're staying in a corporate job or build your own business, what is it for you? Why do you do what you do? What are your values? Getting really clear on that, even on your darkest days, they peek through. Those values, those desires peek through.
And I think for me, it absolutely did. And then one more thing. I have a really supportive husband. I joke, my husband, so long story short, I met my husband at Tony Robbins because I had a really good girlfriend that was head of HR. And I would go into her office all the time and she had a little picture of her husband on her desk. And I used to very inappropriately say, your husband is so hot.
Like he is a good looking guy. And she would laugh. And then about a year after I met her, we were very good friends. They got a divorce. And about six months after that, she called me up and said, I want to set you up with my ex-husband. And so I married one of my very best friend's ex-husband. And the three of us raised their child, who was four at the time.
The three of us parented Cade, who I call my son. And it's been an incredible experience. I'm very, very lucky. But I bring that up to say, I think divorced men are great to marry because they've been through a lot. They never want to go through that again. And they try even harder. So it's a little joke, but very true as well.
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