Lisa Bilyeu

We needed a bigger purpose than just money.

And now it becomes a common thing, right?

But if you're waiting for confidence to get started, you're in for a rude awakening that you will never actually get started.

When we talk about mission and passion, but back then it wasn't.

And so at the time, it was just like, we need to tie ourselves to why we get up every day, because the second things get hard, you need that why to get you through it.

And so at the time,

Mother Teresa had said that not everybody's willing to fight for the masses, but everyone's going to fight for the one.

So what me and my husband realized is we need to identify and tie our self-esteem and our ego and our drive to something and someone that is going to help us get up every day.

Now, my mom grew up with her being borderline anorexic, and then she became morbidly obese.

So you can imagine, as Quest is building and things are getting hard, I'm going back to, I'm doing this for my mom.

I'm doing this for my mom because I want my mom to be healthy.

So in building Quest, over time, it was like, oh my God, imagine what happened if we have a lot of money, right?

I want my mom to live forever in an ideal world, right?

So I'm waking up every day as we're building Quest with that in mind.

So it's like the typical, like, oh my God, what are we going to do with it?

My husband comes from a morbidly obese family, so he's got his mom in his head as he's getting up every day.

We're going to buy a house, et cetera.

But during those struggles, during those five years of falling and failing time and time again, as we're building the company,

Okay, flash forward now.

We use our moms as our why, as our mission, get up every day.