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I just returned home from a startup conference in Silicon Valley. Days after the world was doomed with Covid, my business partner got extremely ill and the world shut down. We were just about to close an investment and everything fell through. We rode the Covid wave throughout 2020 keeping the business a float, but I always wondered what would happen if I got Covid being an severe asthmatic. In 2021, I was doomed. Laying in bed on 5 liters of 02 feeling as if I was suffocating and my head was drowning under the water. I was rushed to the ER from Covid Pneumonia. After being sent home twice, I was finally admitted into the scariest room I had ever entered, not sure whether I would ever walk out of there.

Placed on 80 liters of oxygen, increasing to 120 liters, my inflammation markers rose rapidly. Within two days, I was moved to TCU, where I went into lung failure and spent three weeks on a BiPAP machine. I visualized snorkeling with the device on my face, watching sea turtles on the Discovery Channel, keeping myself alive.

After three weeks in the hospital, I could finally have a visitor. My friend Shawna, who invited me to her 50th birthday trip to Tulum, reignited my hope. I made it out alive, but faced a long road to recovery. Would I be able to celebrate her birthday and my survival?

Two weeks later, released in a wheelchair and still on oxygen, I was determined to make it to Tulum and swim with sea turtles. After a lot of perseverance, I headed to the airport with friends, feeling the most free of my entire life. Swimming with sea turtles, I breathed better underwater with a snorkel than in air.

This experience taught me that every day is a gift, and determination with a focused mindset can make any dream possible. Keeping your mindset on your dreams can lead you to bigger and brighter places. In my case, I was given a freedom I thought I might never have again. Now, I want to empower others to achieve their biggest dreams because life is truly short and every moment counts.

Having worked in the startup world for over a decade, my talent lies in guiding visionaries to unlock their full potential through creative entrepreneurship, enabling them to design the life they truly desire—one filled with abundant freedom, joy, and peace.