I just scrolled by this picture and just stared at it for a moment. I took this picture a while back thinking “when this comes up in your Timehop in a year or two, you’re going to laugh at how different your life will be.”

A few weeks prior, I was laid off from what I considered my first “real” job. Being laid off was a devastating blow for a few reasons. One being that I was using my income to water my budding business, The Bombshell Box, another being that it revealed the true colors of someone

I had no business with in the first place. It was all SO painful. I cried every. single. day. for weeks.

There I was in a brand new city where I knew nobody besides the person I went with, with a brand new business (that now required money I no longer had) a brand new car (which means a new bill) and stuck in an apartment with someone who treated me like shit

because of something I had zero control over.

Within a month, I used every last one of the hustles in this photo to remove myself from that environment and into my own place. I was approved for the apartment with conditions.

The condition basically being “if you can come up with this insane amount of money for a deposit within 6 days, you can move in” and that’s exactly what I did. I came up with an INSANE amount of money in 6 days because I hustled my ass off.

NOTHING was beneath me at that point. I delivered food with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes. I drove those Houston streets late into the night no matter how terrified I was. I served snacks at Sesame Street Live like my life depended on it... because it did.

But I did it. Somehow, I always do. And I always will.

I say alllll that to say, I am grateful for the turns my life has taken because it landed me right where I belong. Right here, in Atlanta, where I’ve always wanted to be, doing what I’ve always wanted to do. The same energy I had then is the same energy I have now.

One thing about me, I will WORK and I’m happy that my clients recognize and appreciate the lengths I’m willing to go for them. The game may have changed but the hustle is still the same.