Rachel Rodgers

But I started my own practice.

And the first year I made like $65,000, which I replaced my first year salary.

Like my salary as a clerk was $41,000 a year and good health insurance.

So I was like, if I could just replace that, like, let's start there.

That's a win.

I did it the first year.

Then the second year I made like three hundred thousand dollars.

And so I was like, oh, I'm on to something.

Right.

And even with the sixty five thousand, I knew I was just scratching the surface.

I knew there was so much more opportunity.

I could see the pathway, you know.

But yes.

But seeing that debt, I think sometimes just facing that.

What you have to do, because, you know, I think sometimes we fantasize like, OK, student loans are going to get forgiven or someone's going to come and save me or something's going to happen.

And you just have to recognize you are the you're your own hero.

OK, you the one that got to come save the day for yourself.

So what are you going to do?

And when you recognize, okay, I have no other options but to roll up my sleeves and make it happen, you figure out a way to do it.

And so I took the risk of starting my own practice.