Going the long road to hitting your goals

The story of how I got from trying to cobble a life together from temping and retail in 2008 to where I am now is too long to tell here. In part, it involves:

 several rock bottoms, 

 thousands of resumes, 

 personally ruining Christmas for a dozen families who got to HAVE a Christmas while I worked mandatory overtime in customer service, 

a particularly awful month working in collections for $9 an hour, 

two marketing directors stealing my ideas and leaving me at a dead-end in their call centers, 

 a lot of alcohol, 

 a suicide attempt, 

 two months on disability after a total mental health breakdown, 

and finally, having an epiphany at an outdoor Rocky Horror screening, surrounded by naked hippies. 

There’s hearing Tim Curry say “don’t dream it, be it,” and there’s really HEARING it.

In October, I gave a talk on how AWFUL my life used to be, and what finally worked after 10 years of trying to change it.

(Starts at 11:19 here.)