I Spent $100K Building a Business That Couldn’t Pay Me. I Was Ashamed to Admit It.

Health, Life & What’s Next · Oct 8, 2026 · 24m · transcript

What people couldn’t see was that there were months when I wasn’t paying myself.

I was living off savings while investing roughly $100K into coaches, programs, websites, marketing, consultants, team members and strategies, trying to figure out how to turn the clinic into a profitable business.

Some of those investments helped.

Some didn’t.

And eventually, the money wasn’t even the hardest part.

My confidence started taking a hit.

I questioned whether I was actually good at business. I chased niches that looked profitable. I changed things because other entrepreneurs seemed to have figured out…