That time I hit rock bottom
I just turned down $500K 😮
I was scrolling through Pinterest, updating my vision board for 2026, and I saw it:
A glittering gold meme with “I am manifesting $500K” scrawled across it.
Nope, not for me, I thought, and continued scrolling.
Then I caught myself – Why not me? Others had done it. Why couldn’t I have this too?
Just last week, I was being interviewed for a radio show about my book Again, Only More Like You, and its origins. About how I’d hit my own rock bottom, and how the first step out of it was permission.
Permission to dream again.
With no other options. No other models and examples for what I was supposed to do next in my life. With no road map for how to burn it all down and start completely over.
I gave myself permission to imagine – what was the best that could happen?
And then I set about doing what it took to build it.
I’ve manifested a lot in the past decade, since that first seed was planted. Including building a business founded on fun. I work with people I love spending time with, on projects that I care about deeply, in a capacity that makes me feel creatively alive, inspired, turned on.
I have become 100% passion project, 100% percent of the time.
Not everything has always turned out the way I hoped, but undoubtedly it’s all been for the better, and I’ve had a blast and learned so much and made so many friends along the way.
Maybe you’re sitting on that precipice right now, debating your next step. Maybe, like me back in 2016, it feels like you don’t have that many options.
Before you choose, though, I invite you to give yourself permission to dream the craziest, wildest dream you can think of. (Like $500K, perhaps.)
Then take the tiniest step toward it. And another after that.
Cat
Your Brand Catalyst, Story Strategist & Creative Ally.
PS: If you want to hear more about my author journey and the story behind the book, check out my personal essay for SELF magazine.
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Christmas cheer is here!
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