Traffic, Hard Seasons & Staying The Course with Mara Riopel [Ep 268]

You know, I wanted to actually open this hard conversation with how to be ambitious and still walk through real hard things in your life because you have been through a heap load of stuff.

And it seems like every time I talk to you, you're like, yeah, the kids got lice and now my husband has shingles.

And I'm like, well, mine has some kind of a weird spinal cord injury and my son has brain cancer.

And, you know, like we're just always walking through really hard things.

But it's almost like we have these amazing businesses and we chose to build them because it's almost like a holiday, the gong show that is our lives sometimes.

I think that's what I would love to start with just because I know there's so many women out there that are so focused on what can I do to make money? How do I choose the thing? Blah, blah, blah.

And it's just like, well, let me just help you out with that one.

If you're not doing something that you love and that lights you up...

It is so hard.

You might as well go back to your job.

You know, this is not for the faint of heart.

And I talked about this today on a reel.

It's just like diamonds are forged under pressure for a reason.

You know, like we have to step up over and over and over and dealing with kids and dealing with life and dealing with all the things while trying to build a business.

We deserve like...

Little hero

cookies.

100%.

And I think, you know, it's so interesting because I got an email this morning from my old business coach and the whole point of the email, her dad had passed away.

And so she was like, you know, the beauty of a business that you can walk away from and deal with life.

And I was like, it's so true.

But then also...

I kind of like the other way.

It's also my distraction.

So like when I'm going through hard things or when shit hits the fan and working in my business is a distraction I need so I don't lose myself in the drama that is life.