20/11/2025
I donât talk about this often, but this moment changed the entire direction of my life.
At the start of Covid, I was working for a large company that mandated the new vaccines.
And look - Iâve never been anti-anything.
Iâm just someone who hates needles, trusts my body, and didnât feel comfortable with something so new.
But we had just built our first home.
We had no savings left.
And suddenly both Josh and I were facing the same choice:
Get the jab⌠or lose our jobs.
I remember sitting there crying as they prepared the needle.
Not because of the needle -
but because it felt like I was being pushed into something I didnât choose.
I went home upset⌠but that wasnât the end.
Later that afternoon, my body did something I will never forget.
I couldnât move.
I couldnât speak.
I was awake⌠but frozen.
It was one of the scariest moments of my life.
The next day, when I could finally move again, the chest pain started.
This became the beginning of a long, exhausting, terrifying season of:
hospital trips, cardiology appointments, constant monitoring, and absolutely no answers.
And while all this was happening, my job was now mandating two more doses.
My choice became painfully clear: My health⌠or my job.
For the next few years - it became my ânormalâ to live with chest pain, fear, uncertainty, and the feeling like my body had betrayed me and no one could explain why.
The cardiologist told me Iâd have to âlearn to live with it.â
At 29 years old.
I quickly realised no job, no company, no paycheck is worth your wellbeing or your voice.
That moment - terrifying as it was - became the catalyst for EVERYTHING Iâve built since.
My business.
My freedom.
My boundaries.
My fire.
My refusal to let someone else decide whatâs right for me ever again.
I wouldnât wish that experience on anyone.
But it turned me into the woman I am now.
The one who trusts her gut.
The one who wonât be pushed.
The one who builds her own damn security so no one can take it away.
And honestly?
Iâm proud of her.
Iâm proud of me.
If youâve ever felt forced, silenced, scared, dismissed or pushed into something that didnât feel rightâŚ
I see you.
Youâre not alone. â¤ď¸âđŠš