At 29 I was earning £22k in a job that was slowly making me invisible.
No degree.
No clear path.
Watching family celebrate cousins who took the conventional route I'd quietly rejected.
I wasn't lost.
I was honest...
...honest enough to know I didn't know what I wanted yet.
Most people don't get that distinction until it's too late.
So I did the only thing that made sense:
I treated my career like a business problem.
Identified where the value was. Moved toward it. Changed direction when the data said to.
No degree.
No mentor.
No perfect moment.
10 years. 3x income. Still employed but building the exit.
Here's what that decade taught me about business that nobody talks about:
Most founders build backwards....
They start with the product. Then the brand. Then the audience.
And somewhere at the end, almost as an afterthought, they ask:
"Does this actually improve someone's life?"
The businesses that last answer that question first.
Not because it's noble.
Because it's the only thing that compounds.
Value over vanity.
Substance over performance.
Maslow over metrics.
That's what I build. That's what I help founders build.
If you're building something real, something that improves lives, follow along.
If you want to talk about what that looks like for your business, my DMs are open.
@_friendsthat Just women?
That sounds like a lot of men I know, including me
But my shift occurred when I had the twins and I put it down to 30% priority shift 70% mental exhaustion hah
@RepByRepX It’s the same protein and no offense to literally almost everyone including me, but they’re not bodybuilders
They have a fitness and lifting hobby
The difference to normies is negligible
@wealthrewired8 Yep wished I’d never done it, but it domino effected many of the years after that which led to know….so you know, never wish your past away
This is a goddamn hard workout tonight
Music and the need to tear something down and make it stronger is getting me through
Hatebreed - “How can I change tomorrow if I can't change today?”