My Accidental Business

This is the story of how a single mom of a special needs kid lost her job and not only survived, but found health, wealth and happiness and is helping others do the same.

Hi, I am Elissa. I lost my job back in 2018 because of the challenges associated with balancing my son’s needs and the needs of my employer. I was moon lighting from home part-time doing bookkeeping and administrative work for businesses, but I needed to find some way to replace the income I had lost from my job and taking on my bookkeeping clients wasn’t going to cut it.

In addition, I was homeschooling my son because of his special needs, juggling medical appointments etc, and debating going back to school to become a life coach. I didn’t have a lot of time or energy to take care of myself.

I heard somewhere that the stress level of parents of children with Autism is similar to that of combat soldiers. If the muscles in my shoulders and back were any indication, that was probably true.

My weight was really getting out of control. I was gaining on average about 2 pounds every single month. I was eating clean — no sugar, lots of vegetables, protein, whole foods diet. But nothing I was doing was helping. My body was having a hard time dealing with the stress I was under and no matter how much effort I put into trying to be healthy, every pound I took off, I’d put right back on twice as fast.

The worst was that I wasn’t sleeping well, and was in constant pain from achy joints and sore muscles. I had no energy. My sugar cravings and stress eating patterns were getting the better of me. I was having trouble focusing on tasks, and felt emotionally and physically exhausted. I worried that my health issues were just going to get worse.

What I really wanted was to just feel better. I thought losing weight would solve most of my health issues, but no matter what I tried, it didn’t seem like it was possible.

I also thought about where my son would be 10 years from now if my health kept getting worse. I was terrified that I wouldn’t be there to support him. I wanted to be out of pain for myself, but much more than that, I wanted to be around to see him grow up.

When my son was 11 years old, we went on a bike trip with his Scout troop. The trip preparations involved months of bike training to prepare for a week long adventure along the Kettle Valley Railroad in BC, Canada.

My son’s health issues dictated that in order for him to go on the trip, I would need to ride with him. There were no other adults that could be trained to administer his rescue medications if he should need them along the way.

I cried. I was not going to let my health issues hold him back from having the adventures that he should be able to have as a kid. But I knew this was going to be rough. After months of training, we rode 180 km in 4 days on that trip. For me, it was more pain than enduring a serious car accident.

Around this time I had a friend that started posting on Facebook about supplements that she was taking that were helping her with her energy levels, surgery recovery, inflammation, weight loss etc. She posted several times a week about gut health and it’s importance to hormone balance and overall health and wellness. I sent her a message to find out how much it was going to cost. It was too much money. I decided to wait. Nothing got better. It just kept getting worse.

A year later, with another Scout trip just around the corner (this one was a hiking trip.) I finally decided to try it, if for no other reason than because I needed to be able to say that I tried everything. If I tried everything and it didn’t work, then I would just resign myself to being in pain forever.

My stuff arrived and she called me to help me understand how to take the supplements — what doses and what time of day — and I started my new routine. It was easy — drink in the morning, pills at night. No big deal. After a week, I started noticing that I was sleeping at night.

It is amazing to me how much can change in one’s life with sleep. Energy, happiness, patience. I decided right then that I didn’t care if this stuff helped me lose weight — if all it did was help me sleep, I would take it forever.

But it has… I’m down 30 lbs and counting. And better than that, it has helped me get CONTROL of the scale again. If I put effort into losing weight, it comes off and it doesn’t pull the magic reappearing act just because I ate 2 bites of a cookie off my kid’s plate either… I know this weight isn’t coming back.

So you’re probably asking, ok Elissa, I get it… you feel better, but this story was about finances and now you are noodling all over the place telling us about your energy levels. Get to the money part.

You got it. So what do you think happened when my friends and family noticed this change in my mood about a week after starting on this stuff? Of course — they started asking questions. Like “Who are you and what have you done with my friend?” And I started telling them… and they wanted to try it too.

So I was calling up the girl who sold me my stuff and saying hey… you gotta sign these people up to. They all want to drink the koolaid!

There’s a 60 day money back guarantee on this stuff so they were all thinking, “Well, if it doesn’t work, then we are just going to call up the company, tell them their shit stinks, and get our money back.” I egged them on.

Next thing I know I’ve got money showing up in my account… a couple hundred at first, and then it just kept coming - every week there’s a bit more. Turns out I kinda started an accidental business. That’s when my curiosity really got piqued.

What if this could change everything? What if this company had the ability to change not just my health but my finances as well? And what if I could actually help people while I was fixing my own financial crisis?

I gotta tell you guys, one of the first people that decided to try it with me was my mom. Now, my mom has been suffering with Rheumatoid arthritis for almost 15 years. If you guys know anyone with chronic degenerative health issues, you know that it is brutal to watch what they go through.

I was watching my mom turn into a grumpy, cynical woman who was old before her time. With my older kids she had been active and involved — she loved having them over to make cookies and garden with her, she loved being active with her dogs, and loved to hike and bike. She wasn’t able to do any of that anymore, and she felt very negative about the rest of her life and what she was going to have to endure pain-wise.

Like me, she decided that she needed to try everything — and so she got in touch with the girl that signed me up and she started taking these supplements to. It took quite a bit of back and forth to get her dosages right, and she is taking quite high dosages of some of the products, but y’all I have my mom back.

She’s in far less pain than she was, she is enjoying gardening again, she just helped my dad renovate my aunt’s house, the swelling in her joints has decreased, she’s sleeping better and she’s feeling happy and positive about her life again.

What if I hadn’t told her?

What if this could change everything?

It can. Come join my Facebook group “Network Mavens” to see if this really works.

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