I stumbled on my high school yearbook recently and at age 17 , I had written down that I wanted to travel. My husband and I with our two daughters have travel to places around the globe.
When my husband was completing his MBA at the University of Western Ontario, I remember being stress that we didn't have any money and I couldn't find a job in London, Ontario, Canada. On December 30, 1993, I got a phone call from a headhunter asking me if I could start work on January 2nd, 1994, in Toronto. To this day I do not know how the headhunter got my in-laws phone number in Ottawa. (I didn't have a cell phone in 1993) Fast forward 4 years. I was pregnant with our second daughter and we needed to buy a house and a car. My husband got not only a job, but also a partnership position with a brokerage firm. In 2018 after designing three of our homes and being repeated asked if I designed homes for a living or just for myself, I launched my interior design business. I'm an accountant by profession. Fast forward to 2021, after 3 years of launching my business as an interior designer in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, we sold our home that I designed in 10 days. Listed at $7.5Million and sold at $7.3Million in a mere 10 days! It went into the Wall Street Journals Luxury Real Estate Section. Within hours of going on the market it went into every luxury category it was nominated for by Sotheby's International Real Estate and the video went into Sotheby's International's YouTube site. This home was one of the top 3 finalist for Ontario Home Builder's Awards of Distinction. I've been published in Home in Canada Magazine (with my own photographs), The Financial Post's Luxury Living Section, Cambria Style Magazine, on the Cover of Neighbour's of Olde Oakville Magazine, and twice in Living Luxe Magazine. The neighbourhood we live is supposed to be the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Canada. Every time my husband starts getting stressed about money, I've always believed and said to him "there's someone up above taking care of us and we'll be fine."
For the past 5 years I've been trying to control my manifestations. Trying to predict where my clients and money will come from. I keep funding my company with our personal money and currently my husband isn't working. We are also starting to build another home here in Oakville.
Last Thursday night I attended an exclusive event at Emporio Armani in Toronto. The head stylist that works with Mr. Armani in Milan, flew in for the event. While we were talking, I mentioned that I will be going to Milan for Salone del Mobile in April 2025 and he gave me his cell phone number!