Today, we are going to talk about why we do what we do. As an entrepreneur, I really believe that there’s a reason why we do what we do. 

I still remember the moment when I knew that things had to change. My life was completely unrecognizable. Before I was in a high-flying corporate job that I absolutely loved managing a team of 47 people, I was running global functions, exercising everyday and traveling a lot. Basically, I was burning the candle at both ends, life was at an all-time high and I was loving it. But fast forward to the moment where I decided, here I was, my partner then now, my husband, brushing my hair because I didn't have the strength. I had caught a virus a few years before this moment. I had spent days, weeks and months in bed and on the sofa. I even had to get a wheelchair to get around the house. And I can promise you it was to describe ugly, awful. 

But very simply put, it is the best thing that ever happened to me. Why? Because it forced me to stop. It forced me to get out of the rat race. It forced me to realize that I had one life. It made me asked myself these questions:

• Was I doing what I was put on earth to do? 
• Was I living life on my terms, that I even have my own family? 
• Was I building my own Empire instead of someone else's? 
• And the biggest worry of all is if I would ever be well enough to have a family. 

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