Stephanie LeBlanc

COVID was a time of reflection and realigning our values and our life goals.

We started having bigger conversations of how we wanted to live our lives and what we wanted our lives to look like post-COVID.

We had a big overhead for health insurance.

We were paying, I think, at any given time, between $12 and $15 a month in Los Angeles for health insurance.

$1,500.

Sorry, what did I say?

Oh, fifteen.

Sorry.

Fifteen dollars.

Yeah, it was a burden.

No, fifteen hundred dollars.

And even with health insurance, you know, our son had to go to the emergency room for a high fever and the ambulance wasn't covered by our health insurance.

And it was a five thousand dollar bill.

You know, luckily everything was OK.

But those kinds of things can, you know, set a family back financially.

We were really getting burnt out, I guess me specifically, with two young kids and working 50 hours a week and commuting, you know, an hour to and from work each day, dropping the kids off to daycare, preschool, elementary school, barely seeing them, being so exhausted on the weekends that we couldn't even be present and enjoy our family time.

they began to feel like they needed to make a change.

And I want to mention too that this was long-term.

This was not something that we were able to do within six months or a year.

It took us three or four years to do this.