Simone Knego

And so for everybody listening, it is never too late to change your mind.

So I am someone who really struggled with self-doubt for the majority of my life.

I had an abusive boyfriend in high school.

And of course, looking back, that was my realization of that's how I started down that path.

I feel for many of us, we've had

something that has happened, whether it's comments by somebody or, you know, just life beating us down, that we kind of get into this mindset of that we're not good enough and we're not capable enough, we're not smart enough, whatever it is.

And that was me for a very long time.

And I put up a facade.

It didn't matter that I had six kids.

I really struggled.

And I

It actually took climbing Kilimanjaro to kind of help me realize what I was capable of.

Now, I'm not saying go out and climb a mountain, but it's that making a commitment, following through and, you know, doing something completely uncomfortable for me that helped me realize that I'm capable of whatever I want.

I have to put in the work and I have to want it.

I didn't need to worry about what anybody else was thinking about me.

I needed to figure out a way to quiet my what-if whisperer.

That's what I call the voice inside my head, also known as Sally, but what-if whisperer.

And that I'm more than enough as I am.

I think for a long time, I really felt like I needed that external validation.

But what I realized is that I needed that from myself, not from anybody else.