Be Courageous

If life calls you away from stability when you're following your passion and that can be scary. I think that it's super scary to have the courage and to always follow it. There were a couple of times where I was making really decent money, great benefits and things like that, but it no longer felt like the right thing to do. So even when I was going to quit to go to cooking school, I had just been promoted. And I had to be self aware enough to think, this isn't part of what I really want to do or didn't feel like it was really calling to me as I was moving up the ranks. And you have to be willing to see that, willing to see past the monetary gain. So I think the biggest challenges have been just knowing when you have to trust your gut. And even when I left Williams-Sonoma, people thought I was crazy because I had just been promoted to VP. I had all the amazing benefits. And here I've got two young children to support and with everything that comes with that. But I was like, "I can't...