“Rose, if I can give you one piece of advice, it’s to find a job doing something you love.”

Thanks, Dad ❤️

October 11th was my last day at my busy work job. It was a good run, and I’m glad to be done with it. I’m an entrepreneur at heart; I have big dreams, a strong work ethic, a deep heart, and oh-so-fucking-much integrity it’s sometimes a wonder that it’s for my own good. Working for myself is where it’s at~ for me 🌹

All that being said, that busy work job gave me an excellent financial boost: money to finish my website, order new business cards, move into a new place with my boo and our best friend, get work done on my car, and ride the wave of the transition into full-time entrepreneurialism.

The busy work job also taught me a lot and gave me a lot of perspective. It certainly helped dissolve the sharp beliefs and defensive feelings I had built up around “corporate America,” being motivated by money, bigger than small-business companies, capitalism, and sales. I received much more clarity on who I am in relation to such things, not from a place of defensiveness or making wrong, but from loving honesty.

Ultimately, I’m not super motivated by money. I love money, yes, but I love deep connections with people more. Deep connections with people are so, so, so much more motivating to me than money. Free, inspiring creation~ through writing, podcasting, and performing~ is also more motivating to me than money 💸

Good thing I can make money doing all these things 😋

That’s part of my path, see? To generate physical wealth through being myself. I feel this is possible for everyone…or everyone who wants to.

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I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen my dad cry, and there’s only one time I remember clearly. He and I were on a road trip and had just left my uncle’s house less than 30 minutes prior. I looked up at him (probably from my phone) and was quite surprised to see him crying. He said to me,

“Rose, if I can give you one piece of advice, it’s to find a job doing something you love.”

I felt so connected to him in this moment, like our hearts touched, as much as they could ❤️‍🔥

I watched this man struggle for most of my life, working jobs that were highly stressful- increasingly stressful as I got older- and not knowing how to handle that stress. By the time he offered me that precious insight, it was consciously confirming a mountain of evidence that I’d been collecting for years.