Welcome to QueenMode: Where Women Entrepreneurs Learn to Claim Power, Lead with Purpose, and Play Bigger
You’re here because you know you were made for more. You’re building a career, a business, a brand — and deep down, you can feel there’s another level waiting for you.
In this powerful introduction to QueenMode, host Dr. Ana Castilla shares the story behind her journey — from growing up in poverty as an immigrant in Brooklyn to building an eight-figure orthodontic business from near bankruptcy. With honesty and heart, she reveals what it really takes to transform from surviving to leading, and how QueenMode was born from her desire to help women entrepreneurs rise into their full potential — without losing their joy, health, or values.
You’ll hear:
- How Ana rebuilt her life and business after hitting rock bottom
- The moment she realized success isn’t just about strategy — it’s about who you become
- Why business is a spiritual game (and what that really means)
- What to expect in future episodes of QueenMode — from marketing and mindset to leadership and life balance
If you’ve ever felt that you’re doing it all but not getting the results you want, this episode will remind you that you are not alone — and with a little bit of courage, you can discover who you were meant to be. 👑
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Transcript
You're here because you know you were made for more.
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:You're building a business, a career, a brand, but you still feel like there's another
level waiting for you.
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:And maybe deep down, you're wondering, can I really do this?
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:If that's you, welcome to Queen Mode.
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:This podcast isn't just about strategies, though we'll definitely cover plenty of those.
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:It's about becoming the kind of woman who leads with
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:power, purpose and alignment without sacrificing her health, her values or her joy.
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:Hi, I'm Dr.
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:Ana Castilla, orthodontist, author, speaker, entrepreneur and at least in my mind, natural
born salsa dancer.
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:I took my business from near bankruptcy in 2015 to an eight figure exit just eight years
later.
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:I already had many accomplishments when I started my business.
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:So I thought I was ready, but nothing in my life could have prepared me for what I
experienced trying to grow my business.
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:I literally had to become someone else and I am here to share everything.
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:In this first episode, I want to share the truth behind why I created Queen Mode and how I
know without a doubt you belong here.
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:But first,
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:I'd like to share a little bit about my story to help put all of this into context.
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:I was born in Ecuador, but from the age of three, I grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
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:From a young age, I loved learning.
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:I was a nerdy kid always off in a corner with a book, not because I had to read it, but
because I actually wanted to.
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:I got straight A's in school without any struggle, but life outside the classroom wasn't
always easy.
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:You see, I grew up very poor.
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:and I mean food stamp or and as an immigrant child in a home where neither of my parents
spoke English or had even finished high school, I had to grow up very fast, especially
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:because I was the oldest for my parents.
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:I was everything.
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:I was their translator.
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:I was the one making phone calls for them.
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:I was the one filling out their forms, job applications.
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:I even filled out checks.
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:I went to them to the doctor's office.
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:I went to
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:government offices with them.
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:I talked to the landlady and handed her the rent check.
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:I did everything and all of these things I did before I ever reached high school.
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:I saw first hand how hard life is when you don't have an education, when you don't feel
like you have money, when you don't feel like you have options.
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:So for me, the American dream wasn't a house with a white picket fence.
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:It was college.
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:I know it sounds so crazy, but college
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:was my American dream.
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:College was how, in my mind, I was going to survive my environment.
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:And honestly, it was a message that I received from my mom, my teachers, all the adults
around me.
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:They all told me, don't be like us.
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:Go to college.
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:Make something of yourself.
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:And it was the dream that I bought into as a child.
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:I don't necessarily believe in that today.
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:I don't think necessarily that you have to go to college to be successful.
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:That's...
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:Absolutely not what I believe, but I do believe in educating yourself.
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:Against all odds, I actually made it to college too, and with a scholarship.
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:The problem was that I didn't have a vision.
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:All I had was a plan to escape poverty.
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:And when I got to college, I didn't know what to do.
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:I didn't have a major for my entire first year or something because I got there to...
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:escape poverty.
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:got there so that I could one day get a good paying job, but I just didn't know what that
was.
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:Did you ever get somewhere you always wanted to go and when you got there you think to
yourself, okay, well what do I do now?
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:That was me.
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:I literally had no clue what to do and I had no mentors and I didn't know what options
were available for me.
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:Honestly, I was so young I didn't really know how the world worked.
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:And I also didn't think I would ever go anything past a bachelor's degree.
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:So for me, my bachelor's degree was like everything.
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:I had to make sure it was a good one.
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:I had to make sure that it was a good bang for my buck, that when I graduated, I was gonna
have a good job.
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:And when I was in school, somewhere along the way, someone told me that I was good at math
and science and therefore I should become an engineer.
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:It made sense to me.
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:I mean, after all, I had some family members that were engineers in my home country, so
why not?
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:Maybe it was like in my genes or something.
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:So I decided that I wanted to do engineering, but still not really knowing anything about
engineering.
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:I just didn't know what kind of engineer.
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:I mean, this was not something that I wanted to do because I loved it.
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:I was purely thinking like, okay, what can I do to get a good paying job?
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:And in my sophomore year, I found out that welding engineering students graduated with
some of the best paying jobs.
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:I was at Ohio State.
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:That's the school that I went to for my undergrad.
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:And that's all it took.
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:I just needed to know that that was one of the majors that would result in one of the best
paying jobs and I was in.
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:So welding engineering, a major that could not have been any more wrong for me.
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:was what I chose.
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:Looking back at this time in my life, it is so obvious how important it is to have your
own vision.
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:I didn't have that.
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:So I was making decisions that were affecting my life based on other people's advice.
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:And don't get me wrong, this is often well-meaning advice.
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:I think people in general do actually want to help.
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:And so they just give you advice about what to do.
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:You know, just like when I was in college, people would tell me, okay, well, you don't
know what to do.
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:Let's see, you're good at math and science.
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:Maybe you should become an engineer.
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:People are just trying to be helpful.
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:But the problem is, is that if you don't have a vision, you're just taking advice from
people that mean well, but you know, that advice is coming, it's filtered, so to speak,
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:through their views, their values, and their experiences.
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:And believe me, there's a lot of people with limiting beliefs.
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:And so you...
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:you know, just take their advice and it may not be the best thing for you.
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:So, you know, in undergrad, a lot of things went down during my undergrad years, but in
the end, I did graduate with a bachelor's in welding engineering and I didn't love it.
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:I was good at it, but I didn't love it.
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:But at that time, the way that I thought it was like, I wasn't there to love what I did
for a living.
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:no.
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:I was there to get a good paying job so I didn't have to live off food stamps or
experience all the other things I experienced in my childhood.
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:I was there to survive.
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:And the instinct to survive can be so strong.
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:And yet, at the same time, it's not sustainable.
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:After graduation, I got a job as a manufacturing engineer.
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:And for about five minutes, it was like, oh, mission accomplished.
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:And I was proud of myself for all that I did.
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:I had made it to college.
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:I had gone to college on a scholarship and I was proud of myself.
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:But deep down inside, I knew that I wasn't gonna be in this field forever.
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:And that kind of left like uh an empty feeling inside or almost like an anxiety, but I
didn't really know what to do about it.
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:One of the things that happened after I...
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:got a job, so I graduated and then I got a job.
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:With my first paycheck, I decided to buy myself something that I always wanted to get.
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:And it wasn't a car.
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:It was braces.
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:That is so, so nerdy, but I used to hate my teeth.
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:I never smiled in photos or even in life, honestly.
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:I had always wanted braces when I was a kid, but
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:That was definitely something my family could not afford, especially being the oldest.
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:And, you know, I got my first paycheck and that's literally the first thing I went to do.
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:I went and put a down payment on my braces and I got braces.
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:And it was such an amazing journey for me.
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:I loved my orthodontist.
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:He was so amazing.
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:Dr.
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:Carmen, shout out to you.
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:He actually, I think is still practicing in Columbus, Ohio.
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:But...
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:It was such a great experience that I thought to myself, wow, maybe I could do this.
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:You know, and in the end, after I got my braces off, the smile that I got, the confidence
it gave me, it changed the direction of my entire life.
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:And because of that, I decided to go back to school to become a dentist.
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:And yeah, you heard that right, a dentist.
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:You know, cause it's funny, even though
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:orthodontics was what inspired me to go to dental school.
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:I went to dental school with the intention of becoming a general dentist.
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:So let's put it into context for those of you that don't know a lot about dentistry.
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:So when you go to dental school, you go to become a general dentist.
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:And then that's like a general family doctor basically.
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:And then after that, if you want to do something that is a specialty like orthodontics,
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:or oral surgery or uh pediatric dentistry, there's more school beyond that.
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:So I went to dental school inspired by my experience in orthodontics and decided that I
didn't want to do orthodontics, which just sounds really weird.
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:But I will explain.
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:So I decided that I was going to go just to become a general dentist.
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:And the reason I did this is because I was still living in survival mode.
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:I was still playing as small.
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:I told myself that I could be happy.
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:In the end, what matters is that I was a dentist and what matters was that I stopped being
a welding engineer, which I really didn't like.
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:So I told myself that I didn't need to go do the extra years of orthodontic schools after
dental school to be happy.
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:And I told myself all these things because I didn't think I could do it and I didn't want
to disappoint myself.
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:When I got to dental school, everyone said that orthodontics residency was for the best of
the best.
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:You had to be at the top of your dental class.
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:I was there feeling lucky that I even got to dental school.
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:And as I got into debt to be able to attend dental school, I also got scared.
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:I got scared of what that meant for me economically.
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:I entered dental school in my mid twenties, which now sounds ridiculously young, but
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:at the time I didn't think I was.
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:And I was worried about getting into debt and I was worried about what that meant for me
money-wise.
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:I mean, the whole reason I had gone to college was not because I love learning, though I
did love learning.
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:I went to college so that I couldn't be poor anymore, so I wasn't poor anymore.
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:And now I was attending dental school, getting into debt.
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:And so I just wanted to get out of school as quickly as possible.
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:I pretty much entered dental school with the same mentality that I entered my undergrad.
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:Go in there, get out of there as quickly as possible so I can start making money.
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:And because that was what was important to me, I wanted to make money so that I could be
free.
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:I didn't want to have to depend on anyone and I didn't want anyone to tell me what to do.
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:I had a lot of experiences in my childhood where I didn't have a lot of freedom.
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:And I decided that freedom was ultimately what I wanted money to buy for me.
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:And so I get to dental school and I'm like, okay, so I'm inspired by orthodontics.
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:I love my braces.
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:I love orthodontist and I love what having a beautiful smile did for me, but I'm just
gonna play safe and just be a general dentist.
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:That's pretty much what happened.
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:Basically I had major imposter syndrome.
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:So after I graduated from dental school, I moved to Texas to do a one-year general
dentistry residency and to be with my then boyfriend, now husband, Eddie.
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:And I started working.
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:I started working as a general dentist.
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:I didn't have my own business at that time.
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:I was an employee dentist working for someone else.
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:I was happy with it.
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:I do love teeth, so I was definitely happy with it, but I was not happy, you know.
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:So the itch, honestly, to be a smile maker and orthodontist never left me.
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:And as a general dentist, I began working with a lot of orthodontists and I just got
jealous.
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:I got FOMO.
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:And I decided after four years of being a dentist that I should go for it.
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:I had a man in the mirror moment and I'm like, okay.
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:I'm 34 years old.
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:I have done this dentistry for four years.
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:I'm not getting any younger.
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:I need to go do what I should have done in the first place, which is to go and become an
orthodontist because that's what made me so happy when I was in my braces and that's what
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:I should go do.
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:Let me just do it.
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:But, you know, the road to orthodontic school was not easy and I have...
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:A lot of stories about that that I will share later.
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:A lot of things happened to me on my way to becoming an orthodontist, but I made it.
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:And when I got there, I again went with the same mentality.
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:I was like this anxiety of like, hurry up and get out so you can go get money.
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:So, that's exactly how I approached it.
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:I went to orthodontic school at
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:the age of 34 and I was like, okay, I need to go do this and go back out to making money
because I didn't do all this school so that I could be poor.
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:And I'm still kind of that mindset and what I really learned later was that mindset is
everything.
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:And one thing that's really funny that happened when I was in orthodontic school was that
the crowd was very different from the crowd
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:that I was with in dental school and definitely different from the crowd that I was
hanging out in undergrad at Ohio State.
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:In orthodontics residency, all my classmates, all my co-residents, all my professors,
everybody talked about being an owner.
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:So basically what everybody talked about was like, okay, you're here in orthodontic
residency and when you get out,
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:Hello, of course you're gonna get out and buy your own practice, own your own business, be
an owner, be an employee, not an employee, sorry, an employer.
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:that's what you were supposed to do.
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:And actually, I remember even talking to some of my classmates that felt stressed out
because they felt like they were being pressured by everybody in the program to be an
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:owner and they didn't wanna be an owner.
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:They just wanted to be an employee or to don this.
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:And I remember talking to one girl in particular and told her, yeah, I feel like there's
definitely that expectation in this crowd the orthodontics residency that what you should
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:do is go out there and become a practice owner.
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:And I felt that pressure too, that felt like that's what everybody was doing.
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:And when I look back on my life at this time in my life, I think that was the first time
that
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:I experienced the power of your inner circle.
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:Meaning, who you hang out with matters.
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:It matters.
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:It matters because that is where you get all of your ideas.
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:know, people always say like, know, tell me who you hang out with and I will tell you who
you are.
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:That's like a Spanish saying that my mom always used to say.
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:She used to say to me when I was hanging out with some friends that she didn't like.
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:But it really is so true actually, you know, that you will be as successful in your life
as the five closest people to you.
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:I don't think that this is anything that, you know, maybe people haven't heard before, but
it is so true.
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:And when I was in residency, it really influenced me that...
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:I should become an owner and it was just time, that was the thing to do.
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:And so I decided that I was gonna become a business owner.
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:I never had any desire to become a business owner in my life.
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:People asked me about that when I was a General Dentist in Texas.
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:People would ask me like, know, are you ever gonna own your own practice?
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:And I would always say like, absolutely not.
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:I love going to work.
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:I love putting in my hours, doing my thing and going home and not having to worry about
anything.
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:That was always my mentality.
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:And it wasn't until I felt like I talked to people that I really respected and that were
really successful and they were business owners.
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:And I was like, wow, maybe I should do that too.
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:It was their influence that caused me to want to own my own business.
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:you know, saw other people in my class going out and graduating and getting their own
orthodontic practice.
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:And even though I felt at the time that I knew absolutely nothing about owning a business,
I saw them and I'm like, okay, they are not any smarter than I am.
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:So if they are doing it, I can do it too.
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:And that's literally how I made the decision.
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:I saw people that were successful, that were really successful financially, you know, that
went out and had their business.
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:And I was like, wow, maybe that's what I should do.
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:And, even though I was scared,
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:I was hanging out in a group of people that were doing it and I knew that I wasn't less
intelligent than they were and so therefore I was like, oh, I can do it too.
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:And this is what I mean, who you hang out with does matter.
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:And so I didn't find one at first, but eventually I did find a practice to buy from a
retiring orthodontist in Salem, Salem, Oregon, because I moved to Oregon.
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:to do my orthodontics residency at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
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:during this time of my life when I was studying orthodontics, I was in Oregon and my plan
originally was to leave Oregon, but another long story, it didn't work out that way and I
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:ended up staying in Oregon and I met an orthodontist from Salem, Oregon, which is about 45
minutes to an hour away, depending on where in Portland you are, that was selling his
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:practice.
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:Let me tell you, it was not an ideal situation.
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:First of all, Salem was not my dream town under any circumstances.
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:I'm from New York.
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:I was like, my God, I can't, if you've ever come to Salem, mean, you know, I don't want to
say anything bad about Salem because, Salem ultimately gave me my dream business.
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:but I, like I said, I'm from New York.
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:I, Salem was not where I wanted to be.
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:But you know, I bought this practice in Salem and it wasn't simple because the seller
would not sell his practice without the building that the practice was in.
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:So he owned the building and he owned the practice and I just wanted to buy the practice
because I didn't want to get into a lot of debt but he was like, no, this practice and the
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:building are going together.
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:And like I said, I absolutely knew nothing about running a business but
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:You know, I did it and I spent money on this practice.
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:I remember it to this day.
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:I signed all the paperwork.
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:The practice was over $800,000, which for me was like an insane amount of money.
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:And the building, it was even more expensive.
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:um And so I signed all the paperwork
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:at a law office in Portland and I drove straight to my practice literally shaking in my
boots thinking to myself what did I do but then like I said I saw all my other friends had
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:bought practices too and they were doing okay so I was like okay I got this I will do this
and what happened afterwards was not what I expected so less than 18 months later
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:I ran my practice into the ground.
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:I mean, into the ground.
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:I could not pay my business loans.
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:18 months later, I could not pay my staff.
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:I definitely wasn't making any money for myself.
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:And really the low point was when I had to use money out of my husband's 401k.
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:had to borrow money from my husband's 401k to pay for my staff's payroll.
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:in December 2014.
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:And I had never failed at anything in my life.
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:I was a straight A student growing up.
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:I went to college undergrad at Ohio State.
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:was successful.
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:I was successful in dental school.
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:I got good grades in dental school.
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:I was a successful general dentist in Texas.
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:I got myself into ortho.
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:I was someone that when I went for something, I did it.
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:And I
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:didn't know what was happening.
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:How was I running my business into the ground?
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:Did people hate me?
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:I was just so confused.
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:I was a good orthodontist.
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:I was even board certified.
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:And also I had done everything I was told to do.
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:People gave me lot of advice when I bought my practice in Salem.
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:They told me, know, hey, you should live in Salem.
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:Don't live in Portland.
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:And I would be like, but I am a city girl.
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:I can't be living in Salem.
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:They were like, no, Salem doesn't take kindly to strangers.
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:You need to become like a daughter of Portland, not Portland Salem, you need to become
like a daughter of Salem and move over there.
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:And I did it.
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:I moved to Salem.
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:I did all the things.
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:I also market in my business the way everybody told me to do it.
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:Like experienced orthodontists that had had their practices for many years told me, this
is what you need to do.
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:You need to go hard after the general dentist.
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:You need to go take them out to lunch.
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:You need to ask them for referrals.
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:You need to do doctor deliveries.
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:This is like when you send cupcakes or cookies to their offices so that they remember you
and hopefully their staff remembers you and next time they see someone with crooked teeth,
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:they'll send them to your office.
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:But you know what?
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:None of it mattered and none of it worked.
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:They didn't care.
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:the general dentist.
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:didn't care.
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:They never referred anyone to me.
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:The staff, no matter how many gifts I sent them, how many like hygienist contests I had
with
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:No referred me any patients.
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:I would have a referral here and there, but overall not enough to sustain my practice.
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:In the end, was like no one wanted to start braces at my office.
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:And I really didn't know what to do.
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:So 18 months in, like I said, by the end of 2015, 2014, my bad, and by the end of 2014, my
business had no money.
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:I had no money.
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:I also had no backup plan.
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:And, you know, I got really depressed because at the time I was really depressed.
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:I would cry, you know, because I felt like I had gotten into debt to go to dental school
and then later into more debt to go to orthodontic school.
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:And now I was in my late thirties and I felt like a complete failure.
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:I felt like I wasted my time.
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:going through so much school.
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:I thought school and college was the answer.
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:I went to so many years of school so that I wouldn't be poor.
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:And now I was facing bankruptcy.
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:I didn't know what happened.
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:I questioned every decision I ever made.
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:I would ask myself like, why did I go through so much school?
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:Why did I do that?
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:I could have just stayed as an engineer and by now I would have been promoted to like,
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:senior manager or something I I felt like everything that I had decided to do was a
and this was around Christmas:
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:2015 I took a leap of faith and after crying my eyes out almost every day of the 2014
holiday season I decided
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:that I would call a consultant.
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:And she was a well-known consultant.
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:My friend had hired her.
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:My friend who was also an orthodontist had hired her.
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:He said nice things about her.
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:People talked about her.
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:I didn't know any other consultants.
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:I just knew her because my friend had used her.
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:And I was like, okay, this is gonna be like, you know, my last hurrah.
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:And I got on the phone with her and she was, boy, she was a great salesperson.
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:But more than that, she...
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:helped me believe, not just in her, she helped me believe in myself.
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:This is not your fault, she said.
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:You just were not set up for success.
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:hearing her tell me that it wasn't my fault, that really meant a lot to me.
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:I felt like, okay, not me, there's nothing wrong with me.
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:And it was...
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:You know, very important that I hear that from her and she told me that.
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:She said, you just weren't set up for success.
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:need systems.
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:And I was like, what systems?
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:You know, I had no idea what she was talking about, but I trusted her.
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:And so I took the plunge and I hired her.
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:And when I say I hired her, I mean, I was already facing bankruptcy, but I charged $26,000
to my credit card.
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:It was
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:money I did not have.
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:I charged $26,000 to my credit card to hire this woman.
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:And I remember telling my husband, you know, if I'm going to go down, I'm going to go down
in flames.
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:Plain and simple.
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:And I didn't go down.
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:I implemented everything I was taught, even when it scared me.
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and saying, okay, no, from now on, we're gonna do this.
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:I didn't know how to lead a team and talk to them like you're gonna do what I'm asking you
to do, know, or, you know, it was so unnatural.
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:And now I'm having to lead a team and insist on what I wanted to do on my vision, you
know, like even when they didn't want to do it.
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:And sometimes I had to even get rid of some team members that didn't want to do what I was
asking them to do, to be part of my practice.
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:and it was very, very unnatural, but I did it because I felt like I had no choice.
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:And while I'll always be grateful to that consultant for the help that she gave me,
honestly,
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with some systems.
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it wasn't about me, that it was about the people I serve, that my business truly exploded.
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:That's when I stopped surviving and started leading.
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:In 2019, my practice, which had already been growing for four years, in that year alone
doubled in size.
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:And then soon I found myself talking to accountants and other business advisors who were
telling me, wow, Dr.
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:And a lot of times I would get like conflicting advice, know, left and right, all the
advice started coming fast and furious.
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:All the while, I didn't even know how to read a profit and loss statement.
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:I would look at these reports that the accountants were telling me, didn't know what I was
looking at.
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:And I was happy about my success, but I was also feeling really disempowered.
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:I did, I did.
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:I went back to college from August 2019 to December 2021.
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:I went to school full-time to get an MBA or a Masters of Business Administration as they
call it.
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:All the while working full-time on my practice during COVID and also running it too.
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:So was like it was COVID, I was like working at my practice and I was also running it.
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:I don't really know how I slept those two and a half years.
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:And now I'm not saying that everybody should go out and get an MBA.
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:That was honestly classic, Ana when she scared behavior.
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:But what I do recommend is that if you have a business, you need to learn business because
otherwise you will be at the mercy of other people's advice.
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:And you saw how well that went for me when I listened to other people telling me to be an
engineer and things like that.
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:you can't be like, I am an artist and this what I do, you need to learn business.
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:When I was in business school, I was able to get clarity on who I was serving and what
their problems were.
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:I realized that I couldn't be everything to everyone.
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:I never had a vision before.
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:A brand worth an eight-figure partnership.
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:But don't get me wrong, it wasn't all smooth sailing after my practice turnaround.
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:So when I tell you I know what it's like to be blindsided by challenges, like I mean like
where on earth did that just come from?
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:Like those kind of challenges or that I know what it's like to be told that you're never
gonna make it or get frustrated that you can't even find the time to put some makeup on,
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:believe me, I have been there.
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:And if you're anything like the women I've mentored, coached or walked beside, you might
feel like you have to.
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:do it all yourself, or that you have to prove yourself constantly.
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:Like no one takes you seriously unless you show up in a certain way, typically like a
masculine way.
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:Like marketing is overwhelming, like delegation is hard, and like your to-do list is
choking your vision.
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:You've built a business, you've built success, but you're tired.
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:Or maybe you've achieved so much.
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:and yet you're playing small in some other area of your life.
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:You're not crazy, and you're definitely not alone.
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:That's why I created Queen Mode.
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:It is my labor of love.
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:There's so much advice I wish I could give the me of 25 years ago.
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:Or even the me of 12 years ago, truth be told.
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:It is true that the mistakes we make are there to teach us and help us grow.
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:But like Tony Robbins says, success leaves clues and there's no need to reinvent the
wheel.
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:We don't just learn from our mistakes.
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:We also learn from those that have already done it.
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:They left their blueprint behind.
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:So what can you expect from Queen Mode?
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:So much.
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:In future episodes, I'll teach you how to market yourself.
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:and your business with clarity and authenticity.
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:I will teach you how to think like a CEO, not just a service provider or operator.
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:I will teach you how to protect your health, your energy and your time so you don't burn
out.
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:And also how to lead your team, your clients and yourself with confidence.
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:And we'll also talk about the things women don't always say out loud.
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:The double standards, because yes ladies, those are out there.
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:Because business is a spiritual journey and leadership is the vehicle that helps you get
there, but you have to start with leading yourself.
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:If any part of this resonated with you, I want you to subscribe and share this podcast
with a woman you respect and stick with me.
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:You can also visit dranakastia.com to learn more about me.
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:Queen Mode isn't about perfection.
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:It's about power through truth.
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:And if no one's told you this today, you're not crazy for dreaming bigger.
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:You're not selfish for wanting more.
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:And you are not alone.
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:You're a queen, and it's time you remembered that.
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:Thanks for tuning in Queen.
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:I hope today's episode gave you the clarity, courage, or confidence boost you needed.
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:Because building a powerful business starts with believing in you.
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:If you loved what you heard, don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode.
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:And if this podcast moved you, inspired you, or made you think, share it with another
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:Your reviews and shares help more Queens rise.
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:If you want more tools, resources, or just want to connect, head to drannikastilla.com or
find me on Instagram at Queen Mode Podcast.
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:Keep showing up, keep leading boldly, and remember, you were born to rain.
