If you’ve ever felt like your voice is just a drop in the ocean, this story is for you. Whether you’re 40 or 60, your lived experience has a reach you haven’t even imagined yet—and it’s time to start giving your story the credit it deserves.
Whether you’re 40 or 60, your lived experience is the foundation for building digital income for women in a way that truly resonates.
I checked my Amazon author dashboard today almost by accident.
It had been years since I looked.
157 people bought my book in 2025.
I refreshed the page because my brain didn’t believe it the first time. Then I just sat there and smiled.
That book was written in 2011. The MLM part of it is partly outdated now. The nursing stories are not literary masterpieces. They are just my real voice from my years in a psychiatric state hospital, written by a girl who once dropped out of school and later finished college.
Not a bestseller. Not a viral moment. Not a stage or a spotlight.
Just 587 people, total, who ended up with my words in their hands.
And 86 of those were hard copies I carried with me in boxes to events, setting them out on a table after I spoke on stage.
501 of them in the United States.
46 in the United Kingdom.
19 in Canada.
17 in Australia.
3 in Germany.
1 in Spain.
Strangers in places I may never visit, carrying pieces of my story into their own lives.
For a long time I felt a little embarrassed to even say I was an author. It made me cringe. I told myself the numbers weren’t big enough, the writing wasn’t fancy enough, and my own family’s comments echoed in my head louder than my quiet pride ever did.
But seeing that 157 people found that book last year shifted something in me.
It reminded me that my story has traveled farther than I ever gave it credit for.
When I think about my younger self building a 15,000 person team from a BlackBerry and an iPad, I laugh now. I had no grand vision back then. I wasn’t strategic or brilliant. I was simply consistent, curious, and human with people.
Everyone told me it wouldn’t work.
Everyone said I was “just playing.”
I was told you couldn’t build that kind of business online, without events, without a stage, without being loud. I was told the same thing again years later, in a different way.
And still, it grew.
Not because I was special, but because I showed up, over and over, when it was boring, when it was slow, and when no one was watching.
What I wish someone had told me then is what I want to say to anyone starting now.
Consistency is quieter than applause.
But it is far more powerful.
People notice who disappears and who stays. They remember who keeps going when nothing looks exciting. They clock who is still there a year from now.
You don’t need a spotlight to build something that matters. You just need to be front and center in your own life, doing your work with steadiness and heart.
Maybe your story is worth more than you’ve given it credit for too.
Your story belongs somewhere visible.
If you want to keep thinking about this with me, this is the kind of reflection I share regularly. You’re welcome to follow along and be part of the conversation.
This is the advice I gave to a young mom on Facebook.
She’s working.
She’s raising her son.
And somewhere in the middle of all that, she’s trying to write a book.
She told me she felt behind.
Like she should already be doing more.
Posting more. Showing up everywhere. Trying harder.
And without even thinking about it, I said something simple.