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Why I Left A Six-Figure Job To Build A Breakup Bootcamp
If you told me that a heartbreak would be the basis of me starting a company, I would’ve called you batsh*t crazy.
If you told me that a heartbreak, debilitating depression, and thoughts of suicide would be the basis of me starting a company, I would’ve called you batshit crazy.
But maybe I was crazy all along. Because that’s exactly what I did. I’m now in my third year of building a startup that helps the brokenhearted, having moved to the city that never sleeps, and am living a life I never dreamed possible. And it all started with a breakup.
What I wanted to be when I grew up was the stuff of little girls’ dreams: Model. Fashion Designer. Wife. What my tiger parents wanted me to be was a striver: Lawyer. Doctor. Accountant.
And what actually happened? Club promoter. Marketer. And now, Entrepreneur-author-heartbreak guru.
Growing up in a suburb in British Columbia, my idea of “making it” was to get a six-figure job, buy the occasional designer handbag, and get married. I steadily climbed the corporate ladder, knowing eventually, I’d get off the ladder completely. I was dating an entrepreneur, we were living together, and my future path was set: destination, stay-at-home-wife. It was the only dream I knew.
But then one day, my plan fell apart, way apart. The relationship ended abruptly and traumatically. I went from being a stable, CEO’s-wife-in-training to homeless, boyfriendless, and identity-less.
Plot twist.
Having based much of my sense of worth and identity on him and the idea of “us,” when the relationship fell apart, I fell apart. Desperately, I searched for a safe place where I could receive the healing I so needed. I tried everything: therapy, acupuncture, reiki, meditation, chakra cleansing, psychic readings… you name it, I tried it. It was a dark, ugly road getting back up. But eventually I did — with more strength and resilience than ever.
