This is a true story about one of my clients that I have been working with for one year. The names have been changed to protect the innocent (joke).

If there's mistakes in the grammer, I applogize. I will edit this later. I just wanted to get this out today.

Jody lives in an absolutely economically depressed area. When I first started reading for her she contacted me about her job in the retail. I found that she had a very abusive work environment. The other women in the store frequently picked at her and she felt as if they were actually ganging up on her to get her fired. She was right. I read that she really hated her job and that she did it mediocre at best. Unfortunately, I felt that the job was going to end or she was going to get fired within 45 days.

A month later she was fired. I don't like reading such things as I don't know if I helped her manifest her fears or the energy was going there anyway. Whatever the case, it happened.

She did manage to get unemployment, even though she had to get help obtaining it. Her former employer fought it. But the unemployment office found that she was fired unjustly.

Admittedly she did live in an small town with very, very few opportunities. Her parents, friends and family were constantly saying, "What are you going to do? There's no jobs here." She heard this day in and day out. Honestly, if someone were to look at this from the outside in a logical fashion...it was extremely bleak.

I allowed her to write down her worse fears and among them was having to move back into her parents a the age of 35, moving into a bigger city which was 100 miles from her parents or having to work at something like a local liquor store or gas station.

Then we got to the point of her writing down what she ultimately wanted. She wanted financial security, the freedom of financial security and a job that she loved. She also added a dollar amount to what she wanted to make a month. She didn't want to do this, at all. She poo-pooed it, whined, etc, etc...but she finally did it. It took a lot of work to get her to open up things and stop her from forcing the path...

For two months we had nothing but road blocks. Unemployment was not going to allow her any money for training or going back to school. Application after application was ignored or rejected, it was getting bad and she started to downward spiral.

Finally I asked her to write down what she loved doing in her past time and she loved dogs. All she did was talk about her dog anyway. It was like her child. I completely understood that, as for years that's the way it was for me, too. "Okay, Jody.....what's your dream job?"  She hesitated and said, "Pets..something with pets", she stated. She wrote down 10 jobs she could do with pets. She groomed her own dog (which was a poodle) and I said if you can do that...with a poodle...you can probably do it with any dog.

I asked her to daydream that job to the fullest extent and then release it. The next day she had a meeting with her unemployment counselor. I told her to mention it to the counselor. Even though she had no experience, maybe she could get a job at Petco or something of that nature. It was retail, and it was about a 40 mile round trip, but it was a start. I absolutely knew we were on the right path. I was so darn excited. Jody was lukewarm. How would this happen? Just believe....don't think about the how, the path or anything else.

Jody was told that they would give her $500 to get an "apprenticeship", and $2000 to start her own business in dog grooming once that apprenticeship was finished. What? What? This tight fisted place was going to give her money? Apparently "apprenticeship" was acceptable, but not training? Odd. Then she felt her landlord won't allow her to run her business outside of the walkout basement. I told her to ask. Her landlord actually agreed if he could get a 20% discount on grooming this three dogs. What?

Everything flew into place. She found someone to do her apprenticeship with (was was a long drive, but she completed it.) Her brother owned a signage company for highway billboards and she got a huge one for one month for half price. She got her ad in the yellow pages one day prior to the dead line and the books came out a month later. Even with horrible credit, she managed to get a credit card to transform her walkout basement to a grooming area with a small little waiting room. A large dog food manufacturer signed her own to give out samples and sell their products with a 50% commission rate.

It has now been a little over 6 months and she has so much business she's had to hire a high schooler to come in and be receptionist and help her with the cleaning. She makes more then she ever thought possible. Come to find out, there wasn't another groomer within 50 miles (and that was the person she had been trained under). She's popular with everyone, she's like the "Dog Whisper", people are so grateful and they buy their dog food there, too.

Now Jody wants a boyfriend...."but they are all married, or under the age of 25. I know everyone around here and there's no one." Oh really, Jody?"   In walks a sales rep for an obscure company selling dog toys......apparently he's cute AND he's single and now he's visiting her shop a little more than he should......

Life is a trip....come join us!!!!