01: How to Build a Life & Business With Passion: The Beginning

This is the debut show of No One's Ever Asked Me That with your host Christine McAlister and this episode is called "How To Build A Life & Business With Passion: The Beginning".

Christine starts by sharing the start of her journey into entrepreneurship and how the fear of failure initially held her back. After a few years and with successes under her belt, she experienced a personal tragedy with the inexplicable death of her unborn child, Maeve.

While this tragedy could have easily gotten worse, Christine decided that she would honor the life that Maeve would have had by helping others with passion and a desire for income and impact. And with this, No One's Ever Asked Me That was born.

HIGHLIGHTS:
00:53 Christine starts her entrepreneurial journey
05:06 Honoring Maeve's life with No One's Ever Asked Me That

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QUOTES:
01:25 "In 2010, when I finally quit my job to pursue running my own... on my marketing business full time, I replaced my income in the first month. And I went, why, why did it take me 5 years to quit knowing all the while this is what I wanted for my life? Well, the truth is that I was scared. I thought it was the lack of a proper plan. I thought I just needed a clear plan and I could go and do it because I was a high achiever. But the truth is, I wanted a guarantee that it would work. I was terrified to fail."

03:18 "Confirmation after confirmation showed that it wasn't the equipment that was broken. It was that my baby had inexplicably passed away. And so that very same day, I was sent to the hospital to be induced to deliver a full-term baby who had already passed away. And that moment and that experience turned my entire life and everything that I thought I knew about the world and the way it was supposed to work on its head."

05:06 "I knew that there were 2 potential paths that diverged as possibilities for me. One was choosing to spend the rest of my life numbing out and hiding out because the grief was too overwhelming. And the other was to choose to make some kind of meaning that was positive out of this experience and to create a legacy for Maeve since she wasn't going to be here to do it for herself."

07:48 "And so, No One's Ever Asked Me That is a collection of conversations with people who are doing this entrepreneurial thing on their own terms, who are pursuing work that is meaningful to them that is making a real difference in the world and who are honoring how they were made and designed by doing it in a way that's unique for them."

08:12 "So you are going to hear people doing all different kinds of work, people with all different kinds of personality, all different kinds of background, all different kinds of passion. What we share is a passion for the work that we're doing, a passion for helping others, a desire to make that income and impact together because it doesn't have to be one or both. And we share the fact that we're leveraging this brave new world of the internet to build our businesses."