There’s so much to learn from times when there are industry wide U-Turns and so we asked so we asked the community to share stories of such reversals that they’ve witnessed over the course of their careers.

Alyssa and David Ramirez

We have definitely experienced U-Turns in the Real Estate industry, with the most notable u-turn happening in April 2020 after the pandemic was declared and Austin was issued a stay-at-home order. While there was a period of complete standstill, shortly after business continued but we wouldn’t quite say “as usual”. With more time on our hands than usual, we were able to concentrate on changing our processes to reflect the new normal and needed to proceed with confidence about how much of the process of buying or selling a home could realistically be handled virtually. Read more>>

Karen Kirn

The real estate market has changed. This is no secret. These bumps make us take a hard look at how we run our business and what needs to change immediately. Ok, next step identifying what needs to change. This is usually easy, but how and what to change into next. That is where I have struggled in the past. Second guessing myself has been a momentum killer for me. Read more>>

Eddie Raymond

I started investing in real estate back in 2004. The market was on FIRE! Kind of like it is now. Little did I know four years later London Bridge started tumbling down. Due to the bad subprime loans along with some other factors the housing market started to crash. The strategies that I was using before the last housing market crash stopped working. The news media pumped a lot of fear into the market. People stop buying houses and the interest rate went up like it is currently doing now. By the way, we’re headed into another housing market crash as I speak. Read more>>

Almetria Turner

In 2020, I was pretty active in my career and business, Fit and Finally Free where I was constantly on the go. I was teaching barre, indoor cycling, community nutrition and subbing for pilates and senior fitness classes at the Y; and teaching several senior fitness classes for Humana. I took two back to back initial fitness trainings to gain my certification in Les Mills Body Pump and Sprint. Read more>>

Dr. Beth Templin

When I started my Physical Therapy career, the focus was on how we could help people recover after an illness, injury or loss of function. We are now in the middle of the swing, where more and more Physical Therapists are seeing their role in how to help prevent these issues from happening in the first place. We are switching our focus to fitness and wellness to be proactive and limit declines, especially in our aging population. Read more>>

Maria Savvenas.

I have a background in lots of movement modalities: dance, group fitness, personal training, and yoga. When I certified in these modalities, there would usually be a paragraph in the textbook, a workshop, or a day specifically devoted to pregnancy, childbirth, and recovery. I indulged in the information offered, but it never really felt like a deep dive into the heart of what this experience would entail for many people, or even what it could entail. Read more>>

Rachel Pointer

I started my own healing journey by going to therapy. I struggled with anxiety, I had lots of insecurity, and I had some beliefs from childhood that were keeping me stuck! I had this perception that the only way to get through some of these pain points was to spend lots of time and money going to talk therapy. I should preface and say that this is a fantastic and necessary field AND I see a lot of the coaching and therapy industry changing. Read more>>

Porchia Jefferson

Getting starting in the PMU industry 2 years ago was very challenging in the beginning. I went through two difficult training’s that almost left me feeling defeated, but I stuck it out because I knew that I had something to offer the world. Welcome to the story about how Great Arches Beauty got started and where we are today. Hi my name is Porchia Jefferson the owner and founder of Great Arches Beauty which was founded in 2020 with a goal in mind. Read more>>

Susanna Calvert

I feel like we are in an industry U-Turn right now. Our current practices regarding personal development, whether in schools or workplaces, are massively failing us. First, they tend to be only available to certain segments of the population. Second, they tend to be superficial approaches that are one layer beneath the metrics the school or organization is measuring, or just focused on medical illnesses Third, they have not prevented us from having rampant mental, emotional, and relationship health issues across our whole lives, our communities, and even the globe. Read more>>

Sommer Sobin

The pandemic sent all industries into U-Turns, zig-zags, upside down and more and this certainly hit hard in the realm of yoga studios across the world. As 25+ year yoga studio owners (my husband and I have co-founded our studio) that focuses on high level trainings, community building, weekly local offerings, travel with international programs/retreats, our little business had to quickly shift as soon as the pandemic hit. Read more>>

T. Todd Simon

In the Banking/Finance & Mortgage industry there are constant changes, and you have to get used to that. For example, there could be guideline changes that completely alter best practices and it’s up to us, as the professionals, to understand & be able to communicate changes to our clients. Read more>>

Gemayel Lee

We completed our fellowship on the tail end of the opiate epidemic, and our education was focused on using scientific and multimodal approaches to optimize mental and physical health and well-being, and incorporate evidence-based diagnostic and therapeutic interventions to identify the source of the pain and reduce it for a prolonged period of time. Read more>>