Renata Wiles

Even if it's not ready, even if we're not on the app store, you know, even if it's not ready to go, I'm going to do the launch party now because I think I was like 37 weeks pregnant or something.

And I was like, I'm not going to do a launch party with a newborn.

And I really want to celebrate this, even if it's, even if we're not ready.

And midnight the night before we were in the app store.

And so we had this launch party.

I was 37 weeks pregnant.

My midwife came along to the launch party just in case.

And I had my son a week later.

And then from there, I kind of had this like, I guess like time limit of, okay, I've got 12 months off from my job.

I need to get this to a point that I can justify not returning to work.

And so I just worked really hard for that first year.

And, you know, as hard as you can with a newborn and sleepless nights and everything else.

But it just worked as hard as I could for that first year to try and get it to a point where I could resign from my job and go full time effectively on Rome.

I had like a base minimum salary that I needed to be making from Rome.

So I needed to make a certain, definitely not what I was earning from my previous job, but enough that we could kind of like pay our bills and survive financially.

And so that was my market.

And I needed to be doing that consistently for several months in order to have that confidence to then resign.

resigned from my job and give up my salary, which was definitely a scary moment.

I think when you first become self-employed, it's way scarier than I expected.

And I thought like it would be a really exciting moment.