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Welcome back to Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur Podcast. I'm of course your host with most feel better. And we have an amazing, truly phenomenal guest who has redefined what it means to empower and inspire entrepreneurs worldwide. With her career spanning over a decade in entrepreneurship, following nearly two decades in the corporate world, this powerhouse knows what it takes to turn passion into profit and dreams into reality. She's an international award winning speaker, a TEDx star, and bestselling author whose high energy and actionable approach has ignited countless lives. As the founder of Entrepreneurs Rocket Fuel and and Speakers Playhouse, she is revolutionizing how entrepreneurs, coaches and speakers connect, collaborate and conquer their goals. Her flagship program includes the Done for you summit program, are legendary for their ability to help individuals and host widely successful virtual events, which we all know is very important in this day and age. Whether she's captivating an audience from the stage or creating gamified platforms for speakers and show hosts, her mission is clear to inspire, uplift and deliver practical strategies that create real success.

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to be inspired and empowered by the incredible, the one, the only, Kimberly Crow. Kimberly, thank you so much for being here.

Oh, fella that gave me chills. Thank you so much for having me. This is super fun. Love your style. Love your show.

Awesome. I love it and you're very welcome. I look at myself as the MC to the rap star that is Kimberly. So I'm supposed to hype up the crowd so that they're ready to hear all the amazing stuff that you have to share with us. So we'll just jump straight into it. Kimberly, why did you become an entrepreneur? What made you throw off the shackles of the 9 to 5 to become the crazy entrepreneur that you are today?

That's a great question. Well, I, like probably many of the people in your audience, did what they told me to do. I went to school, I went to college, got a good job with health insurance and climbed the corporate ladder for 17 years and 15 of them were pretty good, actually. I mean, I don't have much to complain about, but the last two, not so much. I realized that I was on a ladder that I didn't even want to be on, right? Climbing that corporate ladder. And as I looked around, the people who were at my level and above, they were miserable, they were unhappy, they were unhealthy, they were divorced, they were mean to their employees and they weren't living the good life. And I thought, what am I doing here, right? But I was in what they call golden handcuffs and I was making so much money that it didn't really make sense to quit and start over. So that was a very tough two years trying to figure out what I wanted to do next.

And so finally we did, I did resign. We left on very good terms. And then I decided that I would create an entrepreneurship. And I asked my friends and family what should I do full time. Now I'd done some little entrepreneurial things on the side. I'd started a business that was a part time business and sold it while I was working in corporate. All kinds of little, little things. But I thought, I'm going to have that American dream goal and get a business to a million dollars, so what should I do? And they all said, well, you're so good at what you did at corporate, why don't you just hang your own shingle, so to speak, and create a business around what you already know how to do.

And I thought, okay, I could do that, right? And so I did. And 18 months later, I had created a business doing pretty much what I did at corporate. And I got it to a million dollars and I was miserable. Really, really unhappy. And you reached your goal like you reached your goal.

How can you be unhappy?