Jess Ekstrom

Like they get in the car without you having to do it.

And I hear you.

Like I know I'm nostalgic for the present moment.

I see how quickly it's going.

But sometimes when people are in positions like,

of like, on the other side, and they're telling you, it's just like, just enjoy it.

It's really like, I don't need to hear that.

But what I will say is a couple things that were helpful for me, like even when I was negative $10,000 in the whole of my first business, where I sent money to a fraudulent manufacturer,

is I always felt like people had a secret they weren't telling me.

Like everyone who was successful had a secret that they weren't telling me.

And I just needed to find that secret.

I needed to find what they did or what time they woke up or what they had for breakfast that day.

And then when you realize that like the first thing to realize is that no one knows what they're doing.

There is no one size fits all.

then you can start figuring out, well, what does it look like for me?

And one of the things that we talk about in Making It Without Losing It is a success fingerprint because everyone has a different version of success.

You are going to have a different version than success.

And my version of success 10 years ago was like being so famous that –

people would like know my name on the streets and that I I wanted to have a Netflix special.

I think I even talked about it in my last book.