Starting Business At 40 After Quitting Her Medical Career

Starting Business At 40 After Quitting Her Medical Career Shownotes:  Starting business at 40 can be quite daunting even if means quitting your career.  For today's podcast we have a special guest on by the name of Edith Samambwa and she is going to talk about how she quit her medical career to go into business full time. She goes through some surprising challenges about her life that you will not want to miss.  She also talks about what success means to her and what it should mean to you too.  She talks about what she wanted to be as a child and about her role model. Alvern: Hello ladies, Alvern here, today we have a special guest on today with ourselves, she is one of my friends, her name is Edith and this time we're going to get Edith to introduce herself, over to you Edith. Edith : Hi everyone! My name is Edith Samambwa, I am an independent consultant with Arbonne International and an executive area manager. Alvern: Thank you Edith, welcome onboard to our podcast today. As you know this is a podcast that will be focused on empowering ladies and I brought Edith on today because ... Well I don't want to spoil the reason why. As we go through the questions you're gonna find out very clearly why it is I brought her on. To mainly inspire you, just in case you're in that time in your life when you're trying to make a decision. You're at a crossroads and you want to decide whether to go left or right or even make a roundabout and we'll find out as we go through. I guess the first question I want to ask you Edith today is why do you do what you do? Edith : Well, I'll tell you why I did it in the first place what's because I needed a change in my life and I needed to basically reignite myself after many years of having worked in the same industry on the same job on the same desk. I felt that my life was literally withering away. I was tired. I was terribly burnt out. I was always just over broke and I really needed a new lease of life and that is why I did what I do now in the first place. I continued to do it because it really did do that for me, it gave me a new energy, a new life. Literally, I always tell people that it saved my life because I was dying inside and it literally saved my life. Alvern: Wow. And you said that was the first reason why you did it? Edith : Yeah, I did it for that reason because I had lost hope. I lost any sense of purpose, real purpose for what it is I wanted to do and I'd always believed it within myself that I was capable of so much more and after having been working for so many years in this one career, having studied, had two degrees, and masters, I wasn't going further than way I literally had been almost straight out of university. When I started my business, it really changed my life, it transformed me. I actually get very emotional about it. Sometimes people don't see what you're going through because you seem to have a good job. You have a pension at the end of it all. But they don't see the struggles that are in your mind and in your heart because of what only you know and what I knew, was that there was more out there and I wanted to get it and I had lost hope of how to do that. Alvern: In terms of ... you said it was a first reason, so how's that reason changed? Has ... have you found another reason why you do what you're doing or ... Edith : Well, two reasons really. One, obviously my business has given me more financial freedom and time freedom, which is enabled me to do so much more but in ... the main reason why I do this now is to share this with other people so they can get the same time and financial freedom that I had and just the new lease of life. Plus, I do it because I don't want to ever go back to the way things used to be.