0 to 1mil IG followers in 7 months... unreal. Beyond grateful and in shock. Thank you to everyone for the love and support. Earlier this year I was probably at the lowest point of my life. If you followed my story, I worked in finance and decided to quit my 6-figure VP title job in 2019 to purchase a restaurant with my partner. We expanded to three locations within one and a half years until in 2023 we decided this wasn't what we wanted to do so we sold two of the three restaurants to pursue something else. Well that something else never came. For over 12 months I found myself burning through my savings to pay mortgage and bills and the restaurant we still had slowed down a lot and wasn't enough to carry us. My wife also got pregnant at this time and had to be on maternity leave. We weren't going to go broke the next day but maybe another year or two we would have to consider selling the house. I felt responsible since I was the one that moved us out to Torrance and we were expecting a baby. I applied to go back to corporate but the job market was bad and no one would get back to me. I had one interview and I didn't get hired. I was willing to do anything at this point. I figured if I cook every meal for us we can save about $2k/mo. And this is what I did. I would grocery shop every day and plan out all the meals. This brought me some joy because at least I was doing something. I was "earning" money for us. Then I had this idea of putting a camera on my head and uploading to Tiktok and Youtube for side money. I already cook two meals a day so I can easily upload two videos a day. I quickly realized I really enjoyed content creating and then I seized the opportunity. I pressed on the gas pedal so hard, and I never looked back. Whatever it is you're looking for, keep fighting and don't give in.
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