Stephanie Cartin

And again, I love the advice you just shared about if you can do this when you're young before you have, you know, a lot of other commitments and life responsibilities, children, other things, it definitely is easier because the income you need to replace isn't as large as it is later on, like you grew up.

Your corporate career making, you know, hundreds of thousands, if not more, you know, dollars.

And now you have to figure out you have the golden handcuffs.

How do I actually leave that?

It's so much harder.

But what I don't want to discourage women doing from who are farther along in their careers or in their lives is saying, OK, it's just too late now because it's still never too late.

We have so many women in our community that are starting something on the side still while working in their corporate jobs right now.

and getting the business to a certain point where then they can replace that corporate salary.

And look, even sometimes you might not be able to replace it entirely.

But if you're able to take that time that you would be spending in the corporate to actually go in on your business, you might be able to get there faster.

So I don't want to discourage anyone from thinking it's like it's too late.

It's never too late.

You just need a plan.

So I'll take you back to what our plan was.

And again, our plan was very simple.

We need to get a certain number of clients and we need to figure out how to charge a certain amount each month.

And then we can make sure we're each making a couple thousand dollars a month.

Because back then, again, it was a service-based business.

And a service-based business, and especially in today's day and age with AI, right, it's very easy to start up.

There's not a lot of startup costs that are involved.