Lisa Johnson

And if I'd have carried on on that train, then I think I would have been okay without doing the work.

What happened was a sudden realization that I wasn't on –

path that I believe to be successful just because the whole internet had defined what success was doesn't mean that I think that success you know what I mean like the six because seven multi-seven book deal all the things that we do and I got to a point one day when I was like somebody asked me you know when's eight figures I was like oh um and I just thought

why do I have to get eight figures?

Because that's what success is, right?

Is to carry on and on and on.

But I was like, that doesn't feel very successful.

I wasn't feeling very successful.

And yet the world was seeing me as successful.

And so I then had to step back and go,

What does success look like to me?

And then everything crumbled because it was like I'd always been doing things to prove people wrong or to show that I could when people thought I couldn't.

And that disappeared.

I had no need for external validation anymore.

And so then it's like, why am I doing anything?

And I had this existential crisis of I don't know why I'm making money.

I don't know why I'm doing any of it.

Yeah.

And so I had to have a load of inner work, do lots of self-development to work out who I really was because I'm a different person now to when I started and what success really looks like for me.

And it was very different to the train that I had been on.