On March 12, 2020, my kids were coloring different versions of my new logo to help me see and then choose the final version.
The next day the world I lived in would begin to lock down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yet, in my mind, these were two different and separate timelines.
It took this picture popping up in my phone’s memory app to remind me that I was quite literally building my coaching and consulting business at the same time of a global pandemic.
The time of “omg, can I make this work?” and “can I really bet on me this much?” was the same time as schooling from home, isolation, and overwhelm.
I had forgotten. Truly.
I cannot stress this enough: in my head, these two experiences happened in separate sections and phases of my life.
They were not. It was all at once.
My mind disconnected them because the mind and the memory are kind and confusing, both in a supremely tricky and wonderful way.
Now, 4 years later, my business has gone through three iterations.
My podcast has over 150 episodes.
My kids are both double-digits old and back in school.
We are vaccinated.
We live in a different home.
We travel.
But that logo that my kiddos were coloring?
That vaguely octopus-like icon?
That one in the two colors I most visualized for each child while pregnant?
The one I bravely chose against expert opinion?
That one stays the same.
Because all of it is brave, important moments of my own Brave Career.