Sure, on the outside, things looked great on paper. I had the job, the paycheck. As Annie Parker puts it in The Parent Trap—the whole enchilada.

But inside? A different story. I stayed in that corporate marketing job that sucked the life out of me because it was the "safe" thing to do.  Until one day, an old manager hit me with a wake-up call that left me wide-eyed: "Sometimes we have to choose between our family and our careers."

Cue the cliche inner dialogue of introspection and existential crisis while laying in bed at night thinking: Is this really it?

I said sayonara to that soul-sucking job, and packed my bags to new horizons. Fast forward four years, and here I am, re-learning to live life on my own terms and bringing others with me along for the ride. 

Because who wants to live a life that feels like a never-ending rerun of someone else's story? Not me. And definitely not you. Life's too short for a stereotypical script that doesn't sing to your soul.