Lynn Smith

It doesn't matter what other people think of your career.

it doesn't fill you up and you are left with this kind of looming doom feel that you cannot get rid of.

And I felt that for many years in the TV news business, it had been changing dramatically for a long time.

I'm a purist journalist.

And so I'm straight down the middle, give it to me straight, talk to both sides.

And I really struggled.

And I said, if this is keeping me away from time with my children,

they're nine and six now, but they were one and four at the time.

If this is keeping me from mornings, being able to carpool them, being able to do homework at night, if it's not filling me up, I got to make a change.

And so I pivoted, which was terrifying, which no matter how many credentials that you have, there is no easy launch into an entrepreneurial journey.

It is inherently difficult because the only way to survive entrepreneurship is grit, determination, acceptance of failure, acceptance of fear.

And that's a lot of what we talk about in my programs and what I now help coach executives, entrepreneurs, subject matter experts through so that they can become magnetic communicators.

And all of a sudden I have this new purpose and I was able to see transformations in people and they felt so good about themselves that

And I was like, this is it.

This is what fulfillment feels like.

This is what passion feels like.

And I realized I found my home in my company and what I really wanted to do with my life.

It's that fire in your belly.

I get up at 4.30 in the morning and I'm excited to walk into my office with my cup of coffee and have those two hours before the house becomes chaotic with my kids.

It's the sitting down and it's not work.