My company, Grit To Glory, was born in 2018. It sure would be great to say that I just put on a coaching hat and that money started raining down. 

That is not what happened. In my first year in business, my company revenue was $2,700.00. 

Even during my humbling season, I still had some arrogance that God was working out of me. So I  made this number mean something that it didn’t. 

I equated this number with my worthiness and my value.

God positioned me for a time that would require me to slow down and heal. I can remember feeling so disgruntled with myself. I didn’t want to slow down, and I didn’t want to recover. So I tried to keep shoving things down, self-medicating my pain behind the scenes with alcohol, my vice of choice, and executing as I had often done in the past.

However, healing is precisely what God would require me to do to unlock the next levels. 

I didn’t want to lye idle. I would mourn and...