Short answer = I was tired of others getting credit for my work.

Long answer = I was working for a business firm in the area of collegiate trademark licensing. Our company provided the middleman, if you will, between colleges and universities that owned the trademarks and the brands that make products that wanted to use those trademarks on merchandise to sell.

I loved the work and was working with the contracts and the licensees on a daily basis. As you might imagine, there were many wheels always moving, and when an issue came up I was one of the people on the front lines. 

I'd work on the issue and when needed, our legal team, would check the work and stamp their approval. After one too many "stamps of approval" - I asked the question, "What do I need to do to do the approval?" (wasn't really an eloquent question) and the answer was "go to law school". 

So I went. I wanted credit for my own work. I wanted to make financially what the lawyers were making. 

What I didn't know is that I was always meant to be an attorney. I love knowing the rules because when I know the rules, I can rock the game! I love strategy and knowing what you can and can't do and I have a teacher's heart.

Teachers help others. Always have and always will. I want to use what I know to help others. To make their life better, easier, or more enjoyable. I know that's probably not how attorneys describe themselves often but I'm not like other attorneys. 

Short answer =

First, Estate planning.
Next, Business law.
Finally, Trademark & Copyright law.

Long answer = The areas of law I practiced, found me in a way.  

While in law school, I thought that I would pursue working for the Internal Revenue Service because Chris and I were married during my second year and given my age (mid-30s) we knew we'd start a family soon after the bar exam. I'd learned enough about the law at that point to know that the life of an attorney wasn't what I wanted in life - no thank you billable hours!

After Kip was born in 2011, and I quickly changed my mind about being a traditional attorney at all - I took to the internet to figure out how to be an attorney and be a part of my son's daily life. 

I discovered virtual law firms, which let me tell you were nothing like they are today. Only the freaks were doing them and there weren't that many. But I knew it was right for my family and myself. 

When I looked around and saw all of our friends without guardians named for our kids - I saw a need. A need of parents just like me to have a way to contact and work with an attorney that didn't require driving downtown, getting a baby sitter, or feeling out of place. Vujà Dé Law was started and I focused on estate planning for families just like me. 

After a few years, I saw that my skills and strategy-minded self enjoyed making money and the type of law that happened in business law and so I focused on blending my extensive background of trademark licensing with trademark law and served business owners just like myself - those of us bringing our physical skills and businesses online. 

A few more years and I realized that I am not a good clean up attorney. I appreciate proactive and preventative-minded business owners and saw that I needed to get out in front of the issues instead of cleaning up the issues gone wrong. 

And then Kajabi came along - truly a love and talent I didn't see coming but looking now - it is was always meant to be. I quickly fell in love with the freedom that Kajabi delivered and I had a special vantage point in that not only did I understand Kajabi but I could teach it really, really well AND I knew exactly where legal needed to be dealt with - and that is when PBK, the Preneur Business Klub, was born. 

Short answer = Kajabi works. It doesn't break. It is hands-down the reason I have a profitable and sustainable business.

Long answer = It just took me four very long, long years to find it. 

When I decided to start my own law firm Vujà Dé Law® back in 2011, I had a steep learning curve when it came to the online world. Little did I know how much work went into a website and how much thought had to go behind all those things I mindlessly clicked on. 

But being the life-long learner that I am, I dove in and learned my way through. I quickly discovered that the "miracle webinar" I signed up for was nothing but a drawn out sales pitch and the "quick and easy thing" being sold was anything BUT quick and easy. 

I spent thousands and thousands of dollars and months of my life trying to figure out the HOW to run the business that I wanted to run. I pulled it all together with what many not-so-lovingly refer to as digital duct tape. 

And then when I was in my third trimester with Tad, my youngest, a friend of a friend told me about Kajabi. They were just getting ready to release New Kajabi and while I was suffering from online business owner fatigue - I watched the videos and jumped out of my skin - Kajabi had built my brain!

But being the quick to act person that I am, and knowing pregnancy hormones were HIGH right then - I had my husband watch the videos. He agreed that this just might be what I had been trying to build myself for so many years. 

Fast forward 2015 to today - and I'm just as in love with Kajabi as ever! 

It is hands down the best platform you can use to run a serious online business and is my forever internet home. 

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Short answer = January 7, 2019, the night before my 44th birthday.

Long answer = Like so many with a connection and story about Type 1 Diabetes entering their life - my own was pretty dramatic. 

I caught the flu from my youngest son, Tad, and within 24 hours was in the emergency room fighting for my life with a blood sugar of 1006 mg/dL and an HbA1c of 16.1% - I know right?

After a week in the intensive care unit and coming home to my sweet family - I knew that I was going to figure out type 1 just like I figure out anything and I got to work. 

Thanks to #hashtags on Instagram, I navigated my way to #LetMeBe83 and #Typeonegrit and these families became my lifeline to learning how to live with normalized non-diabetic blood sugars, despite my type 1 diabetes. 

As with other areas of my life, I'm very open about my type 1 diabetes and truly enjoy connecting with other families who are impacted by this disease.