They Said I'd Never Recover. I Tripled My Salary Instead.

How I refused to let hearing loss define me and built the life I wanted anyway

In January 2019, I lost most of my hearing in an instant.

I'd been struggling with menopause and sleepless nights, so I decided to try CBD. What I didn't expect was an allergic reaction that would suddenly steal my hearing and change everything.

Four months of medical leave. Specialists. Tests. A body that had betrayed me when I needed it most.

The doctors said the hearing loss was more than likely permanent. My supervisor started hinting that maybe it was time to consider retirement.

But I had a different idea: My healing doesn't have to look like anyone else's.

Everything felt muffled, not just sound, but life itself. I was disoriented, isolated, learning to navigate a world where I could barely hear my own voice, let alone anyone else's.

I felt like life was pulling the rug out from under me.

But what I couldn't see then was this: That moment wasn't the end. It was my initiation into a version of myself I never knew existed.

And I decided I would not stop chasing my dreams.

Even though my hearing partially returned but never fully came back. Even though I learned to live with residual hearing loss that I still manage today. Even though life kept throwing curveballs.

When Life Kept Coming

2019 wasn't done with me yet.

In October, my daughter gave birth to my first grandson, pure joy in the midst of everything else.

Then 2020 hit like a freight train. COVID shut down the world in March. In April, I lost my best friend from middle school, gone, just like that struck down with covid.

I was navigating new motherhood (as a grandmother since my daughter and grandson live with me), my own health challenges, a global pandemic, and grief that felt impossible to carry all while working full-time.

And still, I refused to stop chasing my dreams.

In that chaos, in that stillness, I asked myself the question I'd been avoiding for years:

"Is this all there is?"

The answer cracked something open in me.

I looked at my career……stable, respectable, soul-crushing.

I looked at my life…..busy, productive, empty.

I looked at the woman I'd become…..capable, accomplished, and completely disconnected from who I actually was.

The hearing loss didn't break me. It woke me up.

I swear God took away my hearing so I could “really” listen.

The Rebuild

Here's what happened next:

2020: Got certified as a coach while navigating a global pandemic, grief, and ongoing hearing challenges. Started doing the inner work I'd been “doing” but not embodying for decades.

2021: Left my job. Went fully self-employed. Scared as hell, but finally aligned.

2022: Made three times what I earned in my old career. Not because I worked harder because I worked as myself.

All in just three years.

I'm still managing hearing loss. I just got my hearing tested, two days ago, for the first time since recovery and thankfully, it's stable. I'm borderline needing a hearing aid but I'm taking it one day at a time.

Because I decided my healing doesn't have to look like anyone else's.

I'm not sharing this for applause. I'm sharing this because I know there's a woman reading this who sees herself in my story.

The woman who's holding it down but secretly holding herself back.

The woman who's been going through the motions for so long, she's forgotten what it feels like to just be.

The woman who's been knocked down by life; health scares, loss, unexpected challenges, career frustration but refuses to stay down.

The woman who's accomplished and applauded and knows there's more life left in her.

The woman who's decided she will not stop chasing her dreams, no matter what life throws at her.

I know that woman because I was and am her.

If That's You...

You're not broken. You're not behind. And you damn sure don't need fixing.

But you do need positioning.

Not the kind of positioning that teaches you to contort yourself into what others expect. The kind that helps you stand in your truth like you never have before.

The kind that turns your breakdown into your breakthrough.

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