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It's time to let your light. I actually had not planned to give you this episode.

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And I was sitting on my back porch this morning. It's a Saturday morning.

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I never record podcasts on Saturdays.

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And my husband took our youngest daughter to soccer, and my oldest daughter,

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she has volleyball this afternoon, a big tournament.

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And I'm sitting out on the back porch, and...

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I'm writing in my journal. It was like, okay, I have to share this.

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I have to share this with you guys.

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And I am just overwhelmed with the emotions and the amount of events that have

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taken place and what God did to help me through this super hard season.

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And I share this with you because I want to be real with you.

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And it is exactly why I wanted to start Micro School Masterminds because I needed

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so much support and you know what's really interesting is that even though I

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didn't plan on this episode at all, I was just completely moved after I wrote in my journal and I'd been praying and I was like, you know,

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I am going to go record this episode.

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I'm supposed to be going on a walk but I have to do it.

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And then I thought, okay, when is this episode going out? Oh,

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it's going out on Tuesday. My 40th birthday is the day that this is airing.

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And I'm like, wow, this is a total God timing because here it is.

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Not that it's like, woohoo, it's my birthday.

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I don't, I'm not trying to be like that.

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I'm trying to say it's my 40th birthday. It's subconsciously,

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I was hoping and praying and dreaming that I would be able to have this community.

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And I'm so grateful that here we are. Yes, Teacher Light Your Light Shine has

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been here for a few years, coaching and all the community that we built through our Facebook group.

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But then just having micro school masterminds, it's just really a dream come true. And I.

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Going to start with what happened a year ago, which is what happened whenever I started journaling.

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One year ago, it was April, and something just was not feeling right in my family.

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I couldn't quite put my finger on it. And our school at that time, if you guys have been around here for a while,

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you know that we had a school that started in our house with six kids,

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and then it was 12 students, and then it became 18 students our third year.

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And this was last year, our third year. We were ending the third year.

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We had 18 students at our house every day, three additional adults plus myself.

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There were 22 people and a dog. And 21 of those people shared one bathroom because our bedroom and our bathroom

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was on the separate end of the house.

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At this point, literally our entire house was used for the school.

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School truthfully the entire house was used

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for the school and I was feeling

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like I didn't know if I should grow

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but I didn't want to keep the school at this capacity

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in my house I didn't have a location

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yet I had been looking for a location for a

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couple years my husband and I had been putting offers in

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on homes that we thought had enough land so we could build

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the school nothing was panning out we

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weren't we didn't have the cash to pay

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for the house the half a million dollar house as it

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was in Florida at the time we weren't able you know we were going up against

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cash offers things were just not panning out location wise but we were grateful

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for what we had we had a park in our neighborhood that we utilized it was great

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until it became a little little bit too much to be honest with you. But it was fine.

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I moved my office into my bedroom. I hired two people became three people that

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really ran the show for me. And thank God, I had those people before I even knew how much I really needed those people.

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They ran the show for me while I was in my bedroom, pretty much the majority

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of my day, taking massive action on things that I didn't even know how to take

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action on, to be honest with you. So we were ending this big growth year. It was April of last year, 2023.

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And to be honest with you, I was a little bit wore out because my daughters

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had both started in December, January. They had both started travel volleyball, travel soccer.

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We were not accustomed to that at all.

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Every single weekend we were traveling, like we were gone.

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We were dividing and conquering and we were grateful to do it.

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We had been, you know, it's expensive to put your kids in travel ball,

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which is something that we really weren't a family that was committed to doing

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that, but our kids really wanted it. We were able to financially support them in this endeavor.

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But the time that it was taking was something that we were not accustomed to.

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We also found out through, I told you that there were some things that just didn't feel right.

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And it was mainly to do with our oldest daughter.

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She was finishing her first year of high school.

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She was in a high school of 3000 people. people.

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Now, I graduated with 100, like less than 100 people in my class.

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So I'm not accustomed to that. My husband, he went to the same high school that she goes to.

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It was just overall a super big high school, a very overwhelming experience.

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She was like the light of the school all throughout elementary, whenever I was with her.

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Middle school, that's when we kind of started to see a turn.

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That's really whenever I thought, I do not want to continue my children in public education.

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I don't like the way that this feels. I don't like the way that this looks.

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I don't like the way that it sounds. Then COVID happened. I started homeschooling my daughters. My oldest daughter,

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she did very well during homeschooling, but she was lonely. she didn't have

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peers her age. It was a house full of younger students.

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She went back into public middle

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school. It was the only option that we had, you guys. It really was.

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I wish we would have had something like what we have now for her.

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I wish that there were other programs, other high schools that would work really well for her.

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She's introverted. She's extremely talented. she's gifted.

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But we are where we are. She likes having her socialization.

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But the school part, it's terrible.

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I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.

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We have to pay for a lot of things on the back end.

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And I don't have a solution for that right now.

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And I hope that you guys understand that there will be times in this journey

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and in your parenting, you're just not going to have the solution.

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And you're just going to have to wait it out and take action,

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action, action until you figure out what works best for your kids,

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what works best for your family. So my oldest daughter at the end of last year, we could tell something wasn't right.

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And we went took her to the doctor, her energy levels were really low.

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She just wasn't the same. I could tell physically, she was just kind of changing.

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Mentally, spiritually, everything just felt as if it was not the same.

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Let's just say that. Many, many doctors, many homeopathic doctors,

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many vitamins, many supplements, autoimmune deficiency, so many doctors appointments,

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so much lab work, so much, so, so much.

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So many doctors appointments, so many people.

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Something happened with her knee. I needed to, she was missing so much school.

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I needed to get a hold of so many teachers, have meetings at school.

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It was a really rough season in April.

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And we had been noticing some things were changing for a couple of months.

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I spent a lot of time, a lot of time in my bedroom office.

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Not laying on my bed, not sitting in my chair, literally behind the computer,

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trying to get help for my daughter and not knowing when we had not even been

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to the doctor for her, had to go to the doctor in seven years, perfectly healthy.

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And then things just were not right.

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And we, my husband and I, were trying to figure all this out.

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We've got a house full of kids. We've got 21 people here every day.

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And I knew we needed to find a new location for our school, but nothing was moving. Nothing.

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Again, two people, Ms. Correa, Ms. Ansel, they basically ran the school for me.

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Yes, I was there. I was leading. I was guiding. I was helping out with students.

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I was there. I was working with students as much as I could,

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but mentally, I was in a whole nother world.

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I knew we needed to find another place for our school. I knew I needed to hire.

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If I was going to find another place for our school, I needed to grow our school

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to get more students. And if I was going to grow our school to get more students,

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I was going to need to hire. Plus, I needed to figure out what was going on with my daughter.

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Then on top of that, I needed to know whether or not I was going to offer middle

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school school because my youngest daughter was going into middle school.

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I had a slew of kids who are fifth graders that their parents were asking me,

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are you going to do middle school? And I was like, I'm not prepared for this.

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I'm not prepared with my daughter being sick. I'm not prepared with the new location.

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I'm not prepared with all of the changes that are taking place in my life.

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I'm not prepared for hiring. I'm still running Teacher Let Your Light Shine as well. I'm coaching several several people.

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And I'm feeling a little bit overwhelmed.

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I'm foggy. I'm in the middle of a transition.

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I need clarity. I don't have clarity.

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Everything feels completely out of my control.

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But it really wasn't. There were things in my control.

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And this is where I'm telling you, I and my husband took massive action.

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We're talking we went massive action, even though We were fatigued.

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We were not aware of anything that we were doing.

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Like none of us, neither one of us had ever walked this path before.

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And it was just a heavy, dark time, but we still took massive action.

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And that's something that I thought about today because I'm like,

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how did we get through that? How did we get through that time of so much uncertainty, so much pain?

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I remember the teachers would take the students to the park each day.

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And I remember specifically one day they had just taken them to the park and

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I had been working on a big project for Lighthouse Learning.

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I had been working on the Yass Prize grant. So on top of this,

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I'm trying to get grants because I knew we were gonna have to get a location.

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And I had been working on a big project, I'm standing at my kitchen sink, and I'm crying.

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I'm crying. I'm washing my hands. And I'm just so desperately sad about my daughter,

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because I did not know how to help her with what she was facing.

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I knew she was facing so many changes mentally.

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Her body was physically wore out. We found out, like I said,

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that she had autoimmune deficiency, but we didn't know what all that meant.

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I was trying to make all these new recipes. I was just giving every single vitamin

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and supplement that I possibly can. We were eating complete fresh foods. We were having doctor's appointments with

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homeopathic people that were saying, eat this.

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Other people were saying, eat that. Don't do this. Don't do this.

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Go to this doctor. Then she had a little skin issue going on that we had to

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go to two doctors for that.

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It was just a little bit overwhelming.

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And on top of that, like I said, all these people in my house,

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which, hey, I was loving it.

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But I'm thinking, are we going to move? Are we not going to move?

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If we don't move, we can't keep it like this, like it.

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Let's just say you get what I'm saying. The wonderful thing was,

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is that we had a a substantial amount of income.

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Having the school in our house and busting at the seams, keeping my overhead

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low was literally so substantially impactful for our revenue.

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And it was working. Let me tell you, it worked year one, it worked year two,

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it still was working year three. But I knew we weren't gonna work this out year four.

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It was, we were at capacity, it was done.

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I never wanted it to be out of my house.

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I always wanted it to be in my house until the demand got so high that I was

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like, okay, I can't turn these kids away.

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I don't wanna close the doors. I love having Lighthouse Learning.

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I love having it in my house, but we can't keep it up at this rate.

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So we're gonna have to move out. And I was sad because I didn't wanna move out. I actually liked having it in

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my home until it was just, we were combusting and God allowed that to happen.

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And I also knew, like I said, not only do we have to find a house or a house,

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or then that was the thing is our vision started changing.

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Are we gonna do a house? Are we gonna get this land? Are we gonna get a big

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barn? Are we gonna do this whole outdoor learning from our backyard?

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Or are we going commercial building? I didn't wanna go commercial building,

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but I was like, I guess at this point I have no choice.

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Choice I'm calling around to different churches I'm emailing

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different churches I'm getting all sorts of people on the phone and it

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felt like nothing was working but actually there were things working so

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a lot of times whenever you're taking this action you do not realize you may

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not get your answer that day you may not get your answer that week but you're

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still taking action it's just like whenever you're planting a seed in the soil

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you don't see what's happening underneath underneath the surface.

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And there's a whole bunch of work going on inside to help that plant to burst

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out of the seed to grow and to become a fruitful plant.

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That's exactly what's happening. So if you are taking action,

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and you're seeing that you are not getting the results, you cannot give up,

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you have to keep taking action.

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There were so many things that were happening in my daughter's health that we're

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like, we're trying all these things. It's not working. We're trying all this. It's not working.

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We just kept trying.

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And it clicked. Happy to say that she's healthy. She's 16. She's got her car.

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She's a little frustrated that she's had to put so much gas in her tank this

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this past week because she did not realize just how much it costs whenever you're

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riding around with all your friends. And I gotta tell you, it's hard to make a plan when you don't know what kind of plan you're making.

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But I will say this, when things are meant to be, they will be.

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So I'm sitting in my office predominantly every single day calling locations,

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emailing, trying to plan for middle school, trying to plan out hiring,

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trying to plan out end of the year activities, trying to understand our finances,

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I knew there was money there. The money kept coming.

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Slowly, people were interested in our school. But again, it was in my house,

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I had all these people, people were inquiring because they knew that our state

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was about to approve the educational savings account.

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I didn't know what that was. I didn't know how to handle that.

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So I spent a lot of time trying to research that. I spent so much time researching,

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researching about my daughter's health, researching about locations,

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researching about hiring, researching about middle school, researching about finances,

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researching about educational savings accounts.

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Researching about a new invoicing system. What was happening?

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I was just going, man. I was just taking action.

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Even though I was confused, I didn't have clarity. I didn't have answers.

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I just was, even though in between crying sessions,

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in between tears, in between calling my parents, in between calling my in-laws,

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in between calling my sister-in-law, in between calling doctors,

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just keep going, keep trying to figure it out.

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And it reminded me in the scriptures, God says, ask and it shall be given to

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you. Seek and you shall find.

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Knock and the door will be opened. Ask, seek, knock.

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In the middle of so many prayers, on top of that, I was having so many nightmares.

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I was really facing a mental battle.

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Then this, of course, took a toll on my marriage because I am just working so

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hard on the business, working so hard to figure things out about my daughter.

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And then all the time that we're spending on the weekends with travel,

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all the time that we're spending outside of school hours, going to doctor's

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appointments, homeopathic, trying to figure out all these recipes,

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trying to make new meal plans. I'm like, what did we get ourselves into?

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This is a lot. I will say my husband and I did take a lot of bike rides.

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That was, that was was helpful. When I say a lot, I'm saying maybe two or three a week, which was good for us.

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It was really, really helpful. And then, you know, there was just so many prayers.

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And I will say that getting the word out really helped so much.

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I just kept calling people. I kept asking about locations. I kept emailing.

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But at the end of the day, I also was tired. I also had a lot of other other

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things going on in my personal life. And that's why I'm saying.

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God's grace took care of us.

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And when it's meant to be, it will be. Even if you have to go through trials

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and tribulations, it will be.

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And there are things that are going to scare you. There are things that are going to come up.

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And I look back and I'm thinking, thank God I had people that I had already

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hired. Thank God I had really good systems in place.

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Thank God I was just continuously able to take action. and through that I will

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say that I was really trying to take care of my health.

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I was definitely taking so many vitamins.

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I was trying to get rest but really I wasn't because I like I said I was having nightmares.

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I was really scared for my daughter and then in May so this happened in April

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we started figuring out a lot of things taking a lot of action getting a lot

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of people on on board to help us with our school, getting things ready for the next year.

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We got a storage unit. We just started clearing things out. I'm like,

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honey, I don't know where we're going to go, but I know we're not going to stay

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here. Start getting the stuff out. Start moving the stuff. So we got a storage unit and slowly but surely we were moving books.

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We were moving school supplies. We were moving furniture.

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We're like, we don't need this in our house anymore. As soon as school's out,

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we're turning our house back into a house and we're going to figure out where

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our school's is going to go. But right now, we just know it's not going to be here.

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And come May, here it is, one of the busiest seasons, end of the year banquet,

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trying to close out, get everything out of our school.

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My sister, my youngest sister was graduating.

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And me and my daughter got super sick. My youngest daughter.

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I had not been sick in about 10 years. And I got so sick. But you know know the weird thing?

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Even though I was so sick, I still got up out of bed.

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I still went on a walk and I still worked tenaciously to make plans, to figure things out.

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In the middle of me sweating, in the middle of the fevers, in the middle of

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the drained energy, God equipped me to keep moving. I miss my sister's graduation.

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I miss my time with my family. It was sad. I'm not gonna lie. It was super sad.

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The good news is, is right after I got sick, it was the end of the school year.

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Very last day of school, I'm thinking, okay, it's the last day of school.

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Like we're all just gonna go out to eat. Me and my family, we're all just gonna figure out what's gonna happen next.

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My husband gets home, and he's like, you wanna go to Ikea tonight to get some furniture?

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And I was like, no, I don't wanna do that. He's like, hey, baby,

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let's go. I'm ready, I'm moving, it's time to get our house back.

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So we had already moved pretty much everything out of the house,

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you know, because the last couple days of school were just party days and banquets

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and just going to the park and going to get ice cream.

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And I said, okay, let's go. We got our daughters. We went and got chipotle. We got in the van.

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We went to ikea You guys we left ikea thousands of dollars later And i'm telling

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you i'm not telling i'm not saying this to brag like we had i'm telling you

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we had saved our money We were in a really great place financially.

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We had already saved our money so that we could get furniture.

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We got rugs We hadn't had rugs in three years We got a couch.

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We hadn't had a couch in our den. We got a new TV. We got new storage.

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We got new things for our daughter's bedrooms. Like we were like,

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guys, this is it. We're getting our house back.

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We are doing things that we haven't been able to do in a long time.

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And I'm here to tell you, listen, it wasn't a miserable thing having the school

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in our house. It was just time.

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It was just time to change. It was time to grow. and I actually never wanted

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it to, but here we were. It was just a circumstance that we were in.

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And then after that, I would call it a slam dunk summer.

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And I mean, I was slammed and yes, it was great, but it was not so great because

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I had never done this before. And I didn't know exactly what to

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have in place, which is why micro school masterminds, I am like diligent.

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Moses had to go through it, man, to get the people to the promised land.

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And I had to go through it. And I'm like, I am not letting people get to the

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promised land without help. So in the middle of the summer, I'm diligently working on the Yass Prize grant,

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which we didn't get, that's okay. My daughter was starting to get well, but my kids did not have camps.

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Okay, now they had a little couple of things here and there.

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We did not go on a family vacation because of all of the rigmarole that had

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happened January through May, I was not prepared for what was coming in the summer.

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When the governor passed the educational savings account, our school blew up with inquiries.

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And I did not have someone necessarily by my side who could take my spot to

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figure out how are we gonna invoice? How are we going to understand about the educational savings account and all

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their handbooks and all their policies. What are we gonna do with hiring? How am I going to hire?

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I've hired before, but now we've gotta take massive action in hiring and we gotta get a location.

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Thankfully, because of word of mouth, someone had contacted me,

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we found a location, but then as you know, the day before school started,

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the pipe burst in the building and we had to, again, take massive action.

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And within two hours, now listen to this, In two hours, we found the Promise Land School building

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for this year, but for three years, I had been hustling my butt off to try to

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find a location, and with two hours, we found this beautiful location. Isn't that something?

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I'm telling you, it's just a crazy thing.

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Sometimes, you don't even know that you need help until you need help.

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Finally, I called my assistant, Ms. Correa, and I said, listen,

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I need you to help me with these students who are getting enrolled.

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I need you to go give them assessments. I'm busy hiring. My husband was helping me hiring. We went through this whole

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entire creating a hiring system.

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My husband was calling people. He was qualifying them in, qualifying them out.

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I was meeting them at Panera Bread.

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He was coming with me. We were meeting at Starbucks.

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I was calling Omela Brett, who is in charge of Omela. It was a brand new invoicing system.

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I tried a new invoicing system this year. It worked until it didn't work.

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So we are, again, back into really, we got narrowed it down to two really amazing

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opportunities to invoice and create an entire interface system.

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But listen, I was trying to do all that on my own this summer. It wasn't fun.

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I don't recommend that. And that's exactly why we have Microschool Masterminds.

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Thankfully, I will say, we had the location, even though we had a pipe burst and flooded flooded.

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The day after our open house, praise God, we had an open house.

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We walked into a flooded building. We moved our school.

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We've been there this entire year. I'm going to be honest with you.

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Yes, it was the promised land location this year. It is absolutely beautiful. It's breathtaking.

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We have everything so well laid out, all of our systems, our processes.

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But the thing is, is we're still growing. We have to make a choice on how much

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we're going to grow in order to be able able to stay in that location.

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The building is for sale that possibly sells what are we going to do we have

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to make plans we do have plan B we do have plan C.

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But here's the thing, the location, I get it. It's a real deal.

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There's so many students. Now, our program even changed throughout the year.

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But thankfully, we've had cash reserves, we've made more money financially in

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our school, I've been able to hire I've been able to have more time.

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And because of that, hiring staff, getting more time, I was really able to do,

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what I had been longing to do for so long.

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And that was to create an online community of courses, because I knew there's

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so much for you all to know. Having a couple group coaching sessions isn't going to cut it.

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Like we're here for the long haul. We're here for the longevity. We need to be in community together.

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We deserve to be together learning and growing and establishing really great lives.

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This is not getting to the mastermind and get what you need for a month and

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get out. No, you're in it for the long haul.

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I mean, I hate to tell you what you're gonna do, but I'm serious about it.

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There is really great information as soon as you get in,

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but what's even better is the time that we get to spend together and the ongoing

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amount of resources that you are going to continuously get when you get into

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Microschool Masterminds. Yes, there's already tons of videos and information for you,

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But it's just going to continue to grow and grow and

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grow and our time together is going to grow So

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i'm so grateful because i'm thinking it's my 40th birthday

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And I said to myself before I turn 40 I am going to have an online community

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and i'm going to have courses because I know This is the only way that I can

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truly help people to the degree that they need help so Taking this away As I

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looked at my journal I said Oh my goodness at the top of it.

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It says for the page that I had written on.

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And we know that all things work together for good to those who are called according to his purpose.

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What allowed us to get through what was this dark time, tough time,

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was taking massive action and knowing that this was God's purpose for my life.

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The outcome was strength, it was blessings, it was knowing, okay,

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God, you made it happen. This is my purpose. purpose.

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Action is absolutely required. I was reading so many books on spirituality,

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so many books on faith, because my faith, I did not have the faith that I wanted to have.

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So many books about business, so many books about scriptures.

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And one book I read was Think and Grow Rich. And Think and Grow Rich talked about how important it was that you have a mastermind.

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And I was like, I'm going to create a mastermind. I'm going to do it before I'm 40.

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And then really, Really, honestly, I kept trying to figure out ways that it

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wasn't the right time. It wasn't the right time. And I'm like, no, you said you were going to do it before you're 40.

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Go take action. Make it happen. And I can tell you, whenever we launched Microschool

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Masterminds, it was not at the opportune time.

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We had just had our open house. We just had open enrollment. We're hiring.

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We're hiring for summer camp. We're hiring for more positions in our school.

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School I've got tons of people that I'm coaching

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but I'm like I'm doing it I'm taking action otherwise what am I going to do

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do nothing no that's not what this life is about this life is about us doing

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what we're called to do and God will bless us and yes there's going to be times

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where you're going to feel like you're walking in the darkness and I hope you

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don't feel like you're walking alone. And I want you to know that I'm so grateful to be with you. I'm so grateful to have you in my life.

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And I'm grateful for the time that you've spent listening to this episode.

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Thank you so much. May God bless you, keep you.

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And I look forward to seeing you on the other side.

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Your dreams are about to take flight. Now is the time to cast aside your fears,

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your hesitations. No more waiting in the shadows.

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No more doubts holding you back. No more doing this alone. loan.

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Your dreams are taking flight and Microschool Masterminds is here to fuel your

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journey. It's your time. Your destiny awaits.

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We are about to soar together into a future of limitless possibilities.

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You are a Microschool pioneer. It is with immense joy and excitement that I

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announce the grand opening of Microschool Masterminds that will not only help

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you to start your microschool, but grow your existing microschool by maximizing your time,

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optimizing minimizing your finances, and helping you master your marketing.

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To those brave souls already navigating the micro school universe,

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you understand the deep passion and commitment required to provide this truly

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exceptional educational experience.

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But oh, the challenge that you may be facing, the stranded feeling of isolation

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and knowing that this is your first time becoming a CEO.

34:45

There are so many things that you are learning and that you are wanting to employ,

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but you cannot do it alone. The endless juggle of the task at hand, becoming an administrator,

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but also teaching and also wanting to grow what you've already started.

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We are here together with your time, your marketing, your finances,

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your planning. Fear no more.

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Microschool Masterminds is helping to be your guiding light.

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For those already on this incredible journey, our membership is tailored to

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maximize your precious time. Imagine having a dedicated space to share your resources to get the support

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you need to collaborate with fellow educators and access.

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Guidance, advice, videos, and group coaching on marketing, finances, and your time.

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And for those of you who are hesitant, peering into the world of starting your

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micro school or your homeschool hybrid program with trepidation,

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we understand your fears, the legalities, the marketing, the hiring,

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the space. Where do you even begin? But breathe easy because Microschool Masterminds provides the roadmap you've been searching for.

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Our membership offers step-by-step guidance on on navigating the legal landscape,

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crafting effective marketing plans, and even assistance with hiring the perfect

35:57

team to bring your vision to life. So whether you're a seasoned micro school owner yearning for more efficiency

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or a teacher with a dream and a spark of uncertainty, Micro School Masterminds is your beacon of hope.

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With us by your side, you'll not only survive but thrive in the dynamic world

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of micro schooling and starting your homeschool hybrid.

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Doors are open, friends. Let's embark on this journey together.

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Microschool Masterminds, www.teachersletyourlightshine.com

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slash masterminds. We're waiting for you.

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Music.