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By Jackie Meyer
“If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business – you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!” – Michael E. Gerber, “The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It”
October 2010. The day is etched in my memory – cold and sharp, like the sting of betrayal. I was sitting in my car, gripping the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles turned white. Just moments before, I had been fired. Fired from a job I thought was secure, on a career path I believed I was destined for. The words from my boss were still ringing in my ears: “We’re going in a different direction.” I was stunned. What did that mean for my direction?
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It felt like the bottom had dropped out of my life. Years of studying, late nights, and climbing what I thought was the “right” ladder had led to this: humiliation, anger and a terrifying sense of … nothingness. But as I sat there, eyes burning with tears I refused to let fall, something unexpected began to stir beneath the surface of those raw emotions. A spark. A flicker of defiance. And the faintest whisper of an idea.
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