The chapters in our stories are often marked by wins and losses. Getting a new job, getting fired. Getting a life-threatening medical diagnosis, beating it and getting a clean bill of health. Too often, due to a societal expectation of modesty and humility we are discouraged from talking about the risks we’ve taken that led to those ups and downs – because often those risks draw attention to how we are responsible for the outcomes – positive or negative. But those risks matter. Those stories matter. We asked some brilliant entrepreneurs, artists, creatives, and leaders to tell us those stories – the stories of the risks they’ve taken, and we’ve shared them with you below.
Carolina Vasquez
I think the biggest and most rewarding risk I’ve taken was moving across the country from Tennessee to Colorado when I was 19 years old. I took the risk because I debated moving to Nashville and was kind of underwhelmed by the artist opportunities there. Now, looking back, I know this was the next decision I ever made because, for the first time, I actually feel like I’ve actually found a community of artists and creatives that I really resonate with and am attached to. It’s really incredible to move somewhere where so many talented people also live. Read more>>
Got Now
A big risk I’ve taken is letting go of opportunity that didn’t suit my spirit or well being. Being undervalued, overworked and working hard for someone else’s vision can make you feel like you still have to endure it in order to make ends meet as a creative but in the past year I was able to make a leap away from some of the opportunities that just did not go along with my vision creatively. It was a tough risk to take but in the end it led me to the right opportunities where I am currently valued and appreciated for my own creative output without having to compromise my artistry. Read more>>
Shawna Beucler
I enjoy my little bubble of comfort. I am not known to be a risk taker, and anything that pushes me outside my comfort zone gives me anxiety. Not the most attractive of truths, but one that I have learned how to fight over the years. Lunchbox Babies was an idea for quite a while before it came into fruition. It was always on the backburner of my mind, but it involved jumping off of that cliff of comfort and I was scared. Scared of what people would think of me. Scared if it failed. Just scared. Read more>>
Risa Scott
About six years into working for myself and making a business I could do nomadically, I’d decided to start looking into a vehicle I could live in. I just really didn’t like the idea of paying rent and signing a lease for a place I’d only spend half (or less) of my time in. From there, it was a ton of researching, some luck and good timing to purchasing a small Toyota RV that I would start that journey with. Read more>>
Sharon Sharifi
I have been a teacher for over 18 years. It is my safety net. Then I decided to try my hand at fashion blogging, which afforded me some amazing opportunities. I did that for 9 years, but then life got in the way and my perspective changed. My newest risk is self publishing my book on short stories of all the things I have experienced in my 18 years of teaching. Read more>>
Rachael Russell Saiger
One of our pinnacle events is our annual Back-to-School celebration. It’s been a highlight of our nonprofit for the past 10 years, as well as for tens of thousands of regional students and their low-income families. It’s an opportunity for the kids to receive quality back-to-school items, like uniforms, accessories and supplies, in an energy-packed environment with live music and fun activations over a period of two days. I can’t even being to describe the euphoria we see in the kids’ faces at this event. Read more>>
Evin DeShawn
It’s actually has been very recent, I took two risk. The first one is that I decided that I wanted to push myself as a creative director and building my portfolio. By funding my own creative projects that I can tie my fashion styling background into the mix. And, the second would be starting and launching our creatives social club The CRE8TOR’s CONNECT. Read more>>
Jason Priest
At the age of 38 I decided to quit my corporate job and start my own company. At the time, I was being paid very well for what I was doing which was corporate wellness health coaching. But I was extremely unfulfilled and knew I was capable of making a bigger impact. Prior to this job I was an ICU RN for several years and also spent time as a Director of Nursing at a long term care facility. However, I decided at 38 that I wanted to live life on my own terms and pursue my own passion for helping other men. Read more>>
Kelly Tinley
I am the woman I am today because of the risk I was willing to take in my life. After divorcing my sons father, I had found myself a single mother for the first time to a teenage son. Struggling with a personal drug addiction myself and aware that my son was experimenting with drugs, I knew I had to do something radical. I had a friend in East Texas who was willing to help. After speaking with my son about starting a new life in Texas, we began to pack. Leaving everyone and everything we knew in Arizona we got behind the wheel of a U Haul and started on a new journey Read more>>
Gregory Dirr
To me my whole career as a visual artist has been a risk. I grew up one of four brothers in poverty, as kids we lived off of hand me downs, minute rice and top ramen. I have never been in a good position to be a professional artist but I have always had my family’s support and motivation to do what I love in life. My parents thought if I was going to struggle like them at least it could be doing something I enjoy. Read more>>
Zac Flynn
At 32 I’ve taken many risks in my life, honestly more than I would like to admit. I chose to let my passion for music performance guide me to achieve a bachelor’s degree in music, that was a risk. I think most people would agree that pursuing a career in music, in general, is a risk. Building my band and business Eminence Ensemble from the ground up with my best friends was a risk. Driving across the country countless times, through snow, rain, sleet, and hail in pursuit of our dreams was (and still is) pretty risky! But the biggest risk I’ve ever taken was my decision to go back to school when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Read more>>
Kash Filburn
When I was 20, (I am 25 now) I was working part-time at Dutch Bros Coffee and doing music related things with my free time. This was such a great job for me to have because I was allowed to take as much time off as I needed. I was allowed to have weekends free for gigs, and even larger amounts of time off for touring. Eventually, I was making just enough from music to be able to quit Dutch and be full-time in the industry. This was insanely risky due to the obvious financial implications, but even more so in regards to my lack of direction at the time. I was very idealistsic and blindly prided myself on being full-time in the industry no matter the cost. Read more>>
Rylan Tuohy
For almost a decade, I served on active-duty in the U.S. Navy. But last January, my time in service came to a close as I separated and took the steps to begin a new career in creative writing and directing. While my decision to depart the military may seem like a sharp turn, it was actually years in the making. Writing and directing was a passion of mine, and I would explore that creative side in my off-duty time on the weekends. Read more>>
Kris Buchanan
In the middle of covid our neighbor in the adjoining suite left. We decided to double down and take over the space. Obviously it was a uncertain time. We expanded our kitchen, launched an elevated dinner menu, opened a market and built out what we call the WINE LOUNGE. I hoped that when things calmed down with the pandemic people would want to come out to dinner again. Read more>>
Reese Stokes
I remember working for ALLSTATE and having difficulties as a single parent and missing to many days and knew I was about to lose my job….. I decided to use my knowledge as a hairstylist. So instead of letting them fire me, I have a two week notice and start sing hair ss a mobile stylist……. after building clients within a year I find a salon to work in…. That was 2006 haven’t stopped since… Read more>>
Karl Koch
Story of a risk I’ve taken: I jumped out of an airplane for the first time in 1992. Even crazier, the jump was not with a static line to automatically open the parachute, and it was not with a trained instructor on a tandem skydive…my first jump was freefall, by myself, accelerating towards the ground for five seconds before pulling the ripcord myself to release the parachute. Read more>>
Denise Rodriguez
The biggest risk I have taken is starting my small business. I am not what you would call an extrovert by any stretch of the imagination, I would rather stay home in my old t-shirts and shorts. I don’t think I have the personality of “business owner”, I would rather sit in a corner at functions. So starting the business, sustaining the business, advertising the business, for me, is the risk, was the risk and still is the risk. Read more>>
Neffy Raps
One of the biggest risks I have taken was in August 2018. At the time I was living in a small studio apartment in Baltimore City, and honestly, I hated that place! I was making a name for myself as a rising local star. I had met the who’s who’s, hosted a live TV show, and had my song on the radio. Even after all of that, I felt like I was hitting a plateau. I wasn’t there. I hadn’t really made it yet. Personal life wasn’t great at the time either. Read more>>
Amy Miller
Ever since I began paying closer attention to my personal health in 2017 so many risks have been taken! I never imagined I would be where I am today. However, with that being said, my thoughts have switched to become stronger in what I know is possible. Let’s rewind a little bit. The first major risk that set me on this transformational journey was the decision to stop drinking. The crazy thing about this decision was not even due to thinking of my health. I was simply so fed up and sick of making excuses. Read more>>
Eli Flores
Hard work, sacrifice and risk will always be key factors for those that wish to do something bigger than the everyday norm. For example,When I first started organizing and performing at events. Everything was an Incredibly high risk situation. With practically no money, zero experience ,zero following, and a vast amount of odds stacked against us. It seemed as though the risks Far outweighed the benefits. Read more>>
Maddy Levy
For my current role I took the risk of making a brisk decision and accepting change and the unknown. I left a stable secure role to try a new opportunity. I have not worked in the restaurant business before and was ready for a big career change. I knew this was the time for me to make a big move. This year I have set new goals for myself and the ability to adapt has been a big factor into facing new challenges and meeting my success. Read more>>
Deepika Haldankar
Life is all about Taking A Risk. Unless you risk yourself out of your comfort zone, you will be stuck in the same old place. I have my formal education MS in Social Sciences. I didn’t have a work permit when I moved to the US more than a decade ago. So I spent most of my time looking at my life passing by. The stagnation of life came to the point that I had to do something about it; otherwise, it was ready to eat me alive. Read more>>
Christopher Wright
When the pandemic hit in 2020, my day job at the time closed down for a little over two months. I was invigorated and nervous at the same time. It was a job that had provided me with a stable income, and some benefits but that seemed as if it was in jeopardy clearly. I had been freelancing, after work hours, engineering music groups, and working on post-production projects for various studios in the area and on the West Coast. Read more>>
Shae Bynes
It was April 25, 2010 and I was in Orlando at a business conference. It was the last day of the event and I was ironing my clothes in the hotel room getting ready for the final session. As I was ironing I heard the word “Go!” It wasn’t an audible voice, but it was really strong. I’d never experienced anything like that before in my life. It was ringing loudly in my ears and it was burning in my heart. I knew that it was a message from God and I knew exactly what it was about. Read more>>
Lindsay & Ryan Longenecker
We are definitely risk takers. A long time ago, we decided to follow our highest excitement within our means. We’ve used that as a “motto” of sorts to make small decisions and very large life changing decisions. As entrepreneurs, we’ve taken many risks over the years. Read more>>
Jill Berkana
In my long entrepreneurial journey, I am currently in the middle of taking a great risk in order to level up. I have been renting buildings to run my massage therapy Institute for 17 years. My lease is ending this May and I feel the only way I can continue to run my business and keep my heart in it is to buy my own building. Read more>>
Adam Iannazzo
My 20 year anniversary of being a Physio is rapidly approaching this May. I have learned more in the past 8 years than I did in graduate school and the following 12 combined. I’m transitioning away from my profession towards a better way to help people. I intend to disrupt the weight loss industry by starting a “Healthy at Every Weight” program and help those that are struggling the most with their by promoting slow progress outside the scale. Read more>>
Bobby Robinson
Summer of 1999, I headed out to California to pursue a career in the music industry, working in the marketing department designing for several music agencies and studios. I worked on projects for bands like System of a Down, Deftones, and Artists like Ice-Cube. Once the company expanded, I did marketing projects for Disney, Coca-Cola, Warner Bros, and others. I won a buttload of awards. Read more>>
Sean Lopez
2020. We all know that year to be the year of the pandemic. At the time I was still doing mobile treatment throughout the DFW area, but stopped for about two and a half months due to CDC guidelines. During this time, while many businesses were being forced to shut down, I was in the process of looking for a physical office location. Many people loosing their jobs, businesses closing down, and I’m looking for an opportunity to create a start up. Read more>>
Annaly Mawire
Life is too valuable to allow yourself to remain in the same place your whole life. If you aren’t taking risks, are you really living? Growing up as a pastor’s kids, I was introduced to music at a young age. I taught myself to play the guitar and piano and was thrust into the worship scene in my teens. As soon as I began leading worship, I knew in my heart this was what I was called to do. Read more>>
Jafet Soto
Taking a risk can be intimidating. I used to dread coming into work each day knowing I was going to make minimum wage in exchange for the same routine each day. Just waking up, I was already tired of working at the job I was currently at. However, I couldn’t just quit and walk away, because the pay was good and it was supporting me financially. I’m sure this is something most of us can relate to. Read more>>
Kelly Blackall
I can think of exactly 3 times when I took a huge life-changing risk. Starting Blackall Photography and leaving my cushy job at a local law firm was one of them. Sure, I’ve taken little risks here & there, but going out on my own with no guarantee of a paycheck was big for me. I never was one that had a clear goal of what I wanted to be when I grew up but I knew as an adult I definitely wanted to be my own boss. Read more>>
Lotus HiLL
Taking a risk is like letting go of fear and doubt and walking in faith into the valley of pure potentiality. I believe that there has to be a certain level of risks taken in life in order for things to manifest. Over the years, I’ve gotten more comfortable with being uncomfortable and that is when I find myself in positions that allow me to truly grow. Whether it be chasing a dream, breaking out of societal norms, embracing your authentic self for the world to see, or making a business investment, Read more>>
Jasimin Hall
Stepping out as a solo esthetician is probably the biggest risk I’ve taken. Many estheticians go on to work for other spas when they graduate. However I had a different vision for myself so I decided to step out on faith and create my own brand. I come from a family of entrepreneurs who own a chain of restaurants so I was familiar with the ends and outs of running a business early in life. When I first began it was hard to attract and keep clients. I wasn’t able to pay my bills and even lost my suite due to non payment. So I had to become a in home esthetician where I was able to really focus on building my clientele properly. Once I felt I was able to build consistent clients I found another suite and I have been in the same location for 3 years now. I recently celebrated being licensed for 4 years. I would say I’ve come so far in my journey as a solo esthetician and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Read more>>
Angie Koehle
The biggest risk I’ve taken professionally is completely changing career fields. For nearly 20 years I was a television news reporter and anchor. I ate, breathed, and slept it, especially in my early career. 2 am calls to go to crime scenes, hours spent poring over court records, researching political candidates, volunteering my free time to emcee events. I enjoyed it so much it never felt like work. But then I had kids and my priorities changed, I tried hard to make the job fit into what I wanted it to be. I cherry-picked positions and shifts that I thought would work for my family. But I was tired on the morning shift, commuting in rush hour both ways on the day shift, and the night shift is the night shift. Who wants to work until midnight? I knew it was time to transition into something else. Read more>>
Peter Bryant
I embrace risk and as a result have found myself being a serial entrepreneur! Why may you ask – so here is the context. I am a son of refugees – my Mum was a holocaust survivor and with dad migrated, under the refugee program, from Israel to New Zealand (NZ) in the early 50s. They say migrating to a new country is the greatest risk one can take – so i followed that path first migrating to Australia in 1979 and than to the USA in 1996. I migrated to Australia after 3 years as an auditor with Coopers & Lybrand in NZ with $200 – one bag and no job! Within 18 months i had pivoted from accounting to the emerging enterprise software industry becoming one of the first employees in Australia of Boston based Software International, than owned by GE. It was than sold to NY based Computer Associates(CA) who had no presence in Asia Pacific – we grew quickly in before I knew it I was COO whilst still in my 20s! Read more>>
Athea Davis
Nearing a decade ago, I was working as a certified paralegal in corporate law. I was at the height of my career, and I also hit a career wall. I felt like I was dying inside. I had always enjoyed law, so this feeling was very confusing. I had also gone through a major life change – a divorce, followed by my former spouse’s suicide. We shared a child together and the divorce, followed by the suicide a couple of years later was devastating. It had me question everything. I had already started learning about yoga and mindfulness, and training in yoga during our divorce. These practices saved my life, and naturally I wanted to share them with my son who was also going through this big life change with the divorce. Read more>>
Verena Starke
What is life without taking a risk? In April of 2018 I decided to take over ownership of a small salon consisting of 6 stations. While business ownership was not my forte, I researched for endless hours and thought to myself, “I can do this.” After speaking to multiple business owners and much hesitation, I took a leap of faith. After 4 years, 2 remodels of our 850 square foot space and a pandemic, I finally started feeling as though I had a real understanding of the in’s and outs of ownership. Ha! Man was I wrong……. Read more>>
Dina Torres
In my personal experience as a business owner and service provide the biggest risk was moving into a new location in 2020 ! I also now I know it was the best decision.I had to take the risk. Read more>>
Tarea Smith-Lewis
It always gives me great joy when I’m asked to share my story, because my story is a documented miracle. I met my soulmate and best friend, Andre Lewis in 2008. We exchanged vows in 2009 and we will be celebrating 13 years of marriage on May 3rd, 2022. We are a blended family of 6 adult sons and a host of grandchildren which includes a set of twins. We consider ourselves to be the “Modern Day Brady Bunch.” Read more>>
Christian Feneck
Making the decision to leave the professional architecture world and focus fully on art was quite a risk. Growing up, and all through school, I had never really considered being a full-time artist. I had my sights focused on architecture as I have always been interested in building things. After graduating with a Master of Architecture degree I began building a career in the field and finding some success in doing so. But, there was always something lacking. Read more>>
Jackie Shope
Buying my business a little over five years ago was a huge risk! I was an educator and always taught full time. It wasn’t until I was pregnant with our second child that I realized that the cost of child care for two children was going to be more than my monthly income. That was when I decided to take a risk and purchase PhotoFunBooth! This would allow me to stay home with my children, and still help provide for my family. I had worked for PhotoFunBooth as a photo booth attendant and knew how to run the photo booth at parties and events, but being a business owner, hiring people, and all of the legal side of creating an LLC was all foreign to me. Read more>>
Jeremy Kidd
I had scheduled a meeting with the company Swire in Hong Kong (the second-largest privately held property corporation in the world owning large areas of Hong Kong & Cathy Pacific). I had wanted to shoot Hong Kong as it was dense with tall narrow buildings, surrounded by water, and had a fantastic cluster of lush hills in the middle of the island. So I bought my ticket, spent a few days in Shanghai to shoot there too and arrived in Hong Kong for the meeting with the Executives and Art consultant of the company for a possible commission. Read more>>
Casey Welsch
In November of 2020, I pitched an educational book idea to a publishing company that focuses on sewing education and wanted to tap into the cosplay market. They accepted my pitch, which was on Foundation Garments for Cosplay and I spent almost all of 2021 writing that book. I had to completely stop taking commissions, my digital presence was pretty low-key for the core writing months and it was extremely scary going through the process of writing a book and not being able to really share what I was working on with the world. Read more>>
Alicia Lee
The weekend of October 2nd, 2020…I celebrated my 44th birthday in Panama City, Florida. I was having the time of my life with family and friends. I was enjoying the activities, the cocktails, site seeing, and living life to the fullest. I was so excited to be doing something different for my special day with the people I held dear to me. Everything felt so right so I never thought anything would happen to make things turn for the worst. I had my birthday dinner on that Friday night, Saturday we had a full day driving to Destin to do some shopping and that night we met up with my sister because her and I shared the same birthday weekend. Read more>>
Thom Mozloom
The Risk To Do Good. The company’s stock price and the overnight ratings; in that order. Those were the two sets of preprogrammed numbers to appear on my screen first thing every morning when signing into my computer. It was 2003, and after nineteen years in television, these numbers illustrated what the industry had become. These numbers were the only thing that mattered. Read more>>
Denise Flasz
I never understood people that could take a NO for an answer, or people that could shut down an idea because it seemed impossible to do at the moment. In 2010 When I was in my MFA’s thesis year, I had a Studio professor that would always look at me and say that’s impossible to achieve with the time you have, or he would always suggest to do something simpler. I simply couldn’t. The more he would tell me no, the more I wanted to do it. Read more>>
Lyndsey Leach
I am a bit of a risk taker, in general, so it’s not really surprising that I can think of at least 10 stories to share here. However, there is one risk that stands out more than others and that is when I quit my very very toxic full time job and left without a real plan. A little backstory here: I was working in the restaurant industry for a number of years and had a slew of side jobs. I was hoping that one of these side jobs would inspire me to finally leave the restaurant industry but none of them did. In fact, they were almost worse than my current position/company. Read more>>
G Peoples
Life is best fulfilled through risk. I recently made the biggest change in my life and career. A month ago I moved to LA to further pursue my passions and careers in Music, writing, and mindfulness meditation. I’ve always had a calling to come to Cali and now it feels like I’m home even though I was originally born in Florida. The hardest part is I wasn’t sure any of it would workout. My daughter is back home in Texas, my family, my best friends and girlfriend. I took the leap for all of them. It’s been a month and I’ve been back to visit once but I talk to each one of them every single day. Read more>>
Ben Owens
The biggest risk I took was betting it all on cannabis. I put it all on green: my freedom, my education, my career, my reputation, and my personal life. Opportunities often lie at the intersection of seemingly-unrelated industries. For me, those industries were journalism and cannabis. I started treating cannabis like I would any other topic or industry and began contributing to cannabis publications. I was able to use my background in journalism and copywriting to both establish a reputation and familiarize myself within an ever-changing industry landscape. I was also connected with cannabis professionals who proved that the risk I was taking was a risk that pays off. Read more>>
Tasha Trujillo
I started beekeeping in 2017 with the intent of running a business with my bees. Live bee removal and selling bee products were my main focuses. It sounded like the perfect idea for me and I loved knowing that I was saving bees across South Florida. However, after the pandemic started, I felt a huge shift in myself. I wasn’t happy with running a beekeeping business and I needed to pivot. Growing flowers had always been apart of my business as it helped my bees immensely. The difference this time was that I wanted to grow them on a larger scale and hopefully supply them to people as well as helping the local pollinators. Read more>>
Erica Rood
My career started as a teacher. I loved creating lessons and watching my students succeed. My work environment was collaborative and many of my colleagues become good friends. I also enjoyed the safety and security that came along with the job- a steady paycheck, paid sick days, excellent medical insurance, and plenty of designated time off. But about five years into this career something in me started to stir. I had a deep knowing that I would not retire as a teacher. There was something more I needed to do, but I wasn’t quite sure what. I assumed my calling was still in education, so I went back to school. I earned my master’s degree and administrative credential. Almost immediately after, I realized what was calling me, and it was not in the classroom. Read more>>
Clint Fuqua
Risk is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a small step, sometimes it’s a leap of faith. Back in 1997 I took a leap of faith by moving to a new city with someone I barely new, without a job, and barely enough money to cover rent for the month. 20 years later I was in the process of opening my own gym after having run a nutritional supplement company, producing my own talk show, hosting my own radio show, writing 2 books, running the strength and conditioning program for a basketball academy, training hundreds of trainers, and working with hundreds of clients, In short, take the leap and as your life flashes before your eyes during the fall you will see how high you can fly. The biggest risk in life is not taking any. Read more>>
Lula Azorey
Escaping Cuba on a small boat or leaving your home country Venezuela in the search for Freedom and Safety may be the riskiest thing we (Lula and Jose) have done in our life (Respectively), but the decision was obvious and there was no much to loose, but after working hard to ramp up to a some sort of stable financial situation in the land of the free, to take the risk of starting ARKA – a furniture store in Houston, TX was a different type of risk. Read more>>
Melody Valenzuela
The biggest risk I’ve ever taken was deciding to start a business. For as long as I can remember, I have always had the desire to be a business owner, work on my own terms and build a business for my family to inherit. Going through the pandemic really made me focus on things within my control. What can we do to solidify our own future in a period full of uncertainty? I had to take a big picture look and realize that the sacrifice and financing would fall into place if I just believed in myself and pushed myself to work for my own business as diligently as I’d been working for corporate America. Sometimes we underestimate our capabilities and we limit ourselves simply with the wrong mindset. I wanted to change that by investing in myself and my families future. Read more>>
Daisey Anglow
The moment I decided to leave a very established practice to pursue the goals of owning my own business. Fall 2019, I had the opportunity to join a renowned medical practice in the valley. It was known by many, but honestly not by me. When accolades came in of my new job I knew that it was something special that I was a part of. As time went on, job demands changed, life changed and I changed. I did not see my change to be a positive one. Pandemic aside, my mental health was suffering and I found the need to hide how I was feeling to get the job done. Read more>>
Braid God
I had to walk away from the only life I knew in the pursuit for happiness…. I can’t really explain how I got here, I just remember how it started. 2015 I was thrown into prison, long story but I did that…. While doing time, I was given a job in the salon & instantly remembered that I came from a background in hair…. So for the next 26 months hair is what I do to pass time and I loved it…. 2017 I came home, having to adapt to a survival mindset, Read more>>
Tracey Felten
Taking a risk. Who knew those 3 words wouldn’t just define taking a risk, but risking it all. Before starting GPS, I had over 20 years of experience in every aspect of the concert/live event/theater/corporate industry. Little did I know, I was about to get a lot more in a very short amount of time. In 2016 I was freelancing and working for some of the best people/companies I had ever worked for. NASCAR Productions, Mr. Rick Ketner, and many others. I was staying in the best resorts, getting paid well, and working with the best crews. Then it all changed. I was approached by a “friend” Someone I knew, but wasn’t close to. Read more>>
Jasmine Monk
I remember when I told my husband a few years ago that I wanted to start a business and be home with my oldest Princess Zia. I had a great career as a General Manager in the entertainment industry and I couldn’t do the hours or weekends anymore and my husband was on the road with our trucking business driving trucks. We were not bringing home much money with the trucking business (it was a new business for us). We did some research and stumbled across the Virtual Assistant industry by accident. Read more>>