Jodie Hayward

It was multi-six figures.

But I was literally dying inside of it.

Like, I wasn't leading myself.

I didn't have the identity I needed.

I was pouring myself into everyone else apart from me because of all my stories, because of all my beliefs that I had, not being good enough.

You know, literally used to describe myself as a recovering wallflower.

And it came to a point when I was pregnant with my daughter where I was like, I can't do this anymore.

This is not who I want to be.

But also...

this is not what I want to pass on to her.

This is not what I want her to see.

Just for context, she's my first daughter.

I've got two older sons.

And when I had my laptop on my pregnant belly whilst I was having contractions, trying to fix the internals of a launch that I was managing, that was kind of the point for me.

I was like this, I'm done with this.

So

I let go of the business.

I made like, it was, it took some months of going backwards and forwards because I'm the main breadwinner in my house.

It did, you know, it was going to and did put us in quite a hard financial situation, but I knew it wasn't right for me anymore.

And what I found through this pivot was,