Last week I did something I have never done…

…I left my kids and husband at home, and travelled to Scottsdale, Arizona as part of a Mastermind.

There are a few reasons why this is significant…

First -  I haven’t travelled since December 2019, and I haven’t travelled solo since 2014.

Second – I haven’t been away from my 17 month old son for more than a night ever.

Third - … meeting people is nerve wracking for me, and putting myself out there is hard… the truth is, whenever I walk into a room of strangers my palms clam up and I want to find myself in the back of the room.

Short version: It was scary AF.

But… the reason I wanted to attend the Mastermind was to expand my network.

I had a coach tell me years ago that “Your network is your net worth” – something I fully took to heart.

And well, I didn’t spend thousands of dollars to sit in the back of the room.

So… I didn’t.

I made new connections, and grew my network (and got some much needed sleep in a hotel in a warm place with an entire bed to myself and no children to call me in the middle of the night!!!).

If I’m honest – it ended up being one of the most transformative experiences of my life.

We are all in different places in our business… but none of us are immune from doing things that are hard.

Getting to the Mastermind was hard. Just acknowledging out loud that I even wanted to go, was hard.

The take away is this – we are all doing hard things.

Your hard things, and my hard things may be completely different – but we’re navigating them none the less.

Too often we’re sold that business should be easy.

That’s a lie.

Owning a business isn’t easy.

It’s laced with hard, and uncomfortable things. Over and over again.

Keep showing up.

You’ve got this.