Hitting Midlife & Waking Up in the Matrix
Like many people my age (GenX), I had a typical life trajectory planned out.
Born and raised in the Bay Area in Northern California (I grew up in a suburb of the East Bay), life in the 80s was exactly what it looks like in movies.
This was also when an average suburban home in the Bay Area wasn’t over a million dollars (I get that it’s all relative… but sometimes I think this state has lost its ever-loving mind with real estate, but I digress).
The plan was to graduate high school, attend college, get married, get a good job, and raise a family.
Much like my parents did.
And I was on that path… even though in my gut, I always felt like I was supposed to do something a little different (entrepreneurial).
Besides taking longer to graduate college (a story for another day), life was moving along just like I thought it would.
Then, life was turned upside down in 2003 when my husband died in a car accident (we were 32 at the time).
Our kids were 6 & 2, and needless to say, my life was turned upside down. The first 6 years after I lost him were some of the hardest of my life, but I got through it (with the…
