all right. Podcast fan, we've got a bit of a life update and I feel like, I have made so many episodes this year about mastering the duality of life happening and running a business and still making hundreds of thousands of dollars. I really feel like this is becoming a brand theme for me. Um, based on the title of this episode, you know, this is a life update. This is a life update, and this is like, Whew. Here's how I'm navigating. And I just will always share the truth with you guys of sometimes your life can be a fucking dumpster fire, excuse my language it's necessary and you can make so much money. it doesn't have to be one or the other, your life does not need to be perfect. I have learned this lesson so many times. I just, I like almost can't get over the things that have happened in 2021 and 2022 for us. And I'll update you guys. If you haven't heard the previous episodes of just mastering the duality and how you can do that too. Whether things are going really well in your. Things are not going so well. Um, whatever it might be, this really is really applicable to anyone. That's a business owner, but little life update, if you haven't, um, been seeing or following me on social, I haven't talked about a ton of my story, cuz right now we're kind of in this LA LA land and I'll share about that too. Um, but my fiance Khan, we get married in October so soon has to have heart surgery. We were shocked by this. he has to have a triple bypass, open heart surgery, and that's happening on July 6th and the day that we found out one, we were shocked, but two, I made thousands of dollars that day, that same day. And I really had to, I had to sit with this cuz I was like first, like really, really proud of this business. Really proud of. I can feel a lot of gratitude in that and I can feel a lot of happiness and I can feel a lot of joy and I can feel safe. I can feel safe in that, but I also am like, damn, I'm going through a lot right now I'm experiencing a lot that all of a sudden makes my capacity feel less. And that's something that I've really been working through over these last couple of weeks is like expanding my capacity, leaning into my team more, um, opening up my schedule more and just realizing I can handle it all. Cuz I can as can. But here's the deal. We've been through a lot. When I say we, I talk about me and my partner, we've been through a lot in the last five and a half year, five and a half years. if you're new here, here's a brave rundown. Here's what I'm talking about. Last year, last fall, my mom's cancer came back and my dad was hospitalized and we found out that he has heart failure. we also moved our wedding due to this. We were supposed to get married in March of 2022, and we made the decision in the fall of 2021, that we were gonna move our wedding to ensure my parents could be there. What happened in the meantime? Fast forward to April 20, 22 Khan's brother. My fiance passed away suddenly. And we just found out talking to you in June of 2022. We just found out. that con my fiance needs to trip a bypass, open heart surgery, which he's having in one week from me recording this episode. It's been a lot to say the least, and I'm not gonna lie. Never gonna lie to you. I do keep looking up and I keep saying to the universe, you can take us off the learn lessons list. Like I feel like I'm learning so many lessons and this actually hasn't even been year. This all really was. Just the end of last summer, up until now of like navigating all of these things. It's been a lot, it's been heavy. I'd be lying to you. If I said that this hasn't been a lot on me, I'm learning a lot of lessons and I know that this is all happening for us and we find we can find, and we have found so much gratitude in all of. in all of it that my parents are okay. Con's gonna be okay. We're just, we're finding all of the gratitude wherever we can. But I do wanna talk about something that I have not talked about in other episodes when I've talked about mastering the duality, because this is something I've really had to do over the last 10 to 12 months. I haven't had a choice and you, somebody, somebody out there listening, you. maybe feeling like, yes, Michelle, my life, I get it. I, I like am experiencing this too. And I really wanna master the duality. I've been through a lot, Michelle and I, I like, I wanna, I wanna fucking kick ass my business. I wanna make so much money, no matter how I'm feeling. Yeah. And you get to, and you get to, and you might, now you might be listening. You might not be experiencing anything in your life right now. And I'm like, so happy for you, by the way, if you're like, life is Gucci. Yes. We love those moments and like, trust me, my life is so good. I'm so I have so much gratitude. I have an amazing, amazing life. Amazing. We're just going through some stuff and that's okay. That's okay. So I do wanna talk about something that's no, one's talking about when it comes to navigating really hard shit in your personal life and running in a business online. No, one's, I've never seen anyone talk about this and I'm like, I've had conversations with clients about this because they've navigated really tough shit this year as well. divorces death, moving partners, losing their jobs. Cancer scares loss of a parent life happens outside of business. Life happens. That's the truth. And the truth is sometimes. When life's happening. Ooh, we're losing our voice. Sometimes when life is happening, it can feel really weird, like really weird to show up and not judge yourself. That's something I've been sitting with for a little while. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. So once we found out about Ks Hart, my natural thoughts were will people judge me for also sharing. Normally what I mean by that is like my content and the way in which I show up is not centered just around what's happening in my personal life right now. because I'm not a personal brand at the end of the day, I'm a business. And the real truth is it doesn't really fucking matter. It doesn't matter if people judge me. Right. But it still crossed my mind. And I know that this has crossed my client's minds. I know this I've had clients that have gone through divorces this last year, this past year or last year. And the things that they had said were, well, Michelle, my family and my friends know I'm going through this. I'm like, if I'm not showing up on social media, like sad, Are they gonna judge me for that? If I'm showing up happy and I'm celebrating and I'm literally living my life, are they gonna judge me for that? Not if it's your truth, the end of the day, not if it's your truth. And when it comes to me right now, it's weird because we're sitting with this big life altering news that we have, but also my life feels normal right now while we wait for his surgery. we right now have just been living our lives. Normally we found out, I don't know, today's Monday, we found out, I don't know, a week ago. Yeah. A week ago, almost a full week ago that Connie did this surgery and the doctors had said. You know, you're, you can go home and we'll schedule the surgery for early July. And in this time, you know, he has to take two certain precautions. He can't work out he's on different medications or there's things we're doing, but our life for the most part is normal. While we wait for his surgery, I'm taking college with clients, I'm coaching. I we're going to the beach, like we're living our lives. But the weird thing is like, and I've thought about this so many times if I have a normal job, like if I had a I'm using air quotes, normal. what is normal anyway, but if I had a normal job that was like a nine to five in an office working for someone else, people wouldn't judge me for working, but there is the thoughts that cross your mind of like people know these hard things are going on in my life. And will they judge me for being happy and celebrating and living my life and showing up and selling when you're grieving or navigating something hard. And the truth is, yeah, people might judge and they might wonder. but it just doesn't matter. And that's something I've really been sitting with. Like, it's like, it just doesn't matter. And my truth is right now, like come's okay. And he's gonna be okay. And while, yes, this is the hardest thing I've ever gone through. When the person you love the most has to have open heart surgery. You feel your fucking feelings, but I love my. And I have so much to celebrate and so much amazing, amazing things are happening. My clients are flipping killing it and it gets to be both like you get to be going through stuff in your life, whatever it is, whatever it is, good or bad, you get to be like living your life and going through things and you get to make so much money. it gets to be both now the point of this episode, as I ramble and share the in between of what is my life right now, the day we found out about com's heart, I made thousands of dollars sitting in that waiting room thousands, and I don't feel guilty for it cuz I got a business run and me making more money. Guess what? He's not working right now. So me making money and supporting our life is a beautiful. Is a beautiful thing, but how, how did I do that? And I wasn't really showing up, I put up like two slides on my story that day. I don't even know the last time I talked on my stories. I don't remember. That is like, what is happening right now in my world. And I, this is something I teach my clients. It's like the way in which you run your business, the way in which you show up in market. The way in which you sell, gets to be on your terms. And we master this on the deepest level. Um, I don't believe that I need to get on my stories and talk for 10 slides or five slides in order for you to buy. I don't believe that I know that you don't need to, and I've just changed the way in which I'm selling right now to serve the current season of my life. And it always looks different. It's gonna shift with what's happening in my life and the same holds true. so how did I do this? How was I sitting in a hospital waiting room? Not on my stories. Like I put up one or two slides and I made thousands the way my business model is, and my brand, those two things come by. I've said this once, and I'll say this again. My business is not dependent on launching to make money. It will make money, whether I'm on or off launch or no launch. And honestly, especially looking at the last 10 months, 12 months of my life, I could not imagine having a business that did not have money coming in all of the time and then navigating this current season of my life. That feels really heavy sometimes with all that I'm going through. I could not imagine looking at my launch plan and being like, I've gotta launch this program in my, I couldn't imagine being in the middle of a launch while KAMs having heart surgery. I couldn't imagine moving our wedding, finding out my mom's cancers back, finding out my parents are both in the hospital on the same day that happened last fall and being like, oh God, I'm I gotta get ready for my launch. so I haven't really launched, I don't have a launch plan. My team giggled the other day when they were like, so what's your launch plan? And I was like, oh, I don't have one. We're not doing that. I'm like, okay. And this is something that I've just really mastered in my business, which is now my half moon scaling method. And we've trademarked that, that it's my half moon method and it works. And it's been so freeing. It's been so liberating and it's something that I'm helping. My high level clients instill and create inside of their own business, because what I'm seeing across the board in the industry is women are tired, tired of feeling like they need to launch all of the time to make thousands of dollars. I think it's so cool. I think it's so cool when women share their wins and they're like, I just had a hundred K launch or a 20 K launch or 10 K launch. Awesome love that you did that. I also wanna know how much money you're making when you're not launching. And if it's not much, we get to fix it. Because I, I desire a business that allows me to feel safe, secure, taken care of never having to worry if the business will make money or not, because it always will. And I want that for you. If this year taught me anything so far, it's that more business owners need to think about structuring their businesses with the long term in mind, not just the next cash injection. It's bigger than that. You're bigger than that. Life is bigger than that. And your business gets to take care of you. It gets to weather any storm, and it should be, I don't love that word, but for the lack of a better word right now, it should be designed to weather. Any storm. My business does not see income dips based on what's happening in my life in may. Could you not? We were, we were navigating the loss of Khan's brother Khan was going to all of his heart. Um, I almost had applications on appointments. Life was really, life was busy. We had our highest cast month. We made 40 K and eight days in the month, we had two 14 K cash days. It didn't matter what was going on in my life. My business always makes money and it makes a lot of money. Your business. Shouldn't be the thing that's making you feel anxious, nervous, or worried constantly. That's a big waste of your. and that doesn't feel good. I've been there. I've ran my business that way and the way in which I was running my business, 2, 3, 4 years ago, I could not imagine going through everything that I'm going through right now and running my business that way. That's not a scaled business. Whoever is teaching you launch to launch, to launch that is not a business that's scaled by definition scaling. You're working less. You're not needed in the business. 24 7. I am not needed in the business. 24 7 literally today, what my day looks like I recorded two podcast episodes and I'm going to the doctors. That's my day today. I don't have many client calls get support my clients in Buckster cuz they're amazing. And I get to love on them on this Monday as I record for. that's my day and I'll sell online. Like that's what I'm gonna do today. And I'll make so much money. You get to have this to my half moon method. Hmm. It's just so good. It is so good. And I wish that I created this sooner because what I've been implementing in my own business. And then again, with my high level client, the results are insane and I'll share them with you. We've had clients that have gone from 5k averaging months to 15 to 17 K normal. Not launching all the time. I have clients that have had 12 K average months. That's their average that have now made 12 K in the first 10 days of the month. I have clients that are, have made $29,000 in June for offers that don't start till September and October from sharing one slide with no launch and probably won't have to launch because that's what we do in my world. And they're starting their business. They're starting each month with 5, 10, 15, 20 plus K cash coming in before the month starts. And everything is selling everything without launching. It's what we're doing in my world right now. It's literally blowing my own mind as I sit here and I reflect, and I was creating this episode and how it's all unfolding for me and my clients. It's really flipping amazing. it's unlike anything I've ever seen before. And it's unlike anything I've ever been taught. I'm really proud of it. And for me personally, in this season, I could not imagine running my business any other way, and I don't think I'll ever change because it works. It works. And I'm not saying that we're not working. I'm not saying that we're not doing anything. You guys see me. I show up, you guys have podcast episodes to listen to every week. I, I make my commitments. I email, we got, we, we're doing all the things. My business is a well oiled machine at this point because of the method that we've instilled and the way in which we structure our offers, the way in which we sell the way in which we market the brand that I've built, it's all combined in the half moon method. And so if you're wanting to learn more and you're like, what is this? give me details. You can message me on Instagram right now. Full transparency. As far as availability with coaching summer is summer is a bit different right now I've got limited availability and I'm ensuring that any person that does come in, especially into my high level mentorship, whether that's Fox or coaching one to one in the mastermind, that it's the most perfect fit. Because this is for the woman that's ready for high level mentorship, she's ready for next level money marketing and ready to take her business to a place that she's never taken it before. She's ready to do unthinkable shit. And so if you're feeling that nudge, if you're like, yes, you message me on Instagram, we could chat and see if it's a good fit. And then for now, if you're in a season that feels really tough. I love you. And I'm supporting you. And if you wanna talk about it, Message me on Instagram. Like I'm here for you. I support you. I see you. You're not alone. I promise you. And I promise you this, your business does not need to suffer. Even when life feels heavy, even when you're navigating the stuff, it gets to support you all ways. Always, I will see you in the next episode. You wealthy woman. You.