Got hired at my first corporate job for $12/hour.

Graduated from college with a useless, fluffy bachelor’s degree (and got a raise to $14/hour!!)

Graduated personal training school

Got fired from my last corporate job in 2011. Told by three bosses that I was trash, would die alone, that I should never have children, and that my butt was too big to become a personal trainer. Started personal training school anyway.

floundered around trying to build a personal training business. Watched every season of Grey’s Anatomy. Lasted through about July 2012

Got married to my husband Ben at age 24

Started my proofreading business

Had my first $4k month as a proofreader!

Freelance proofreading was my primary income ($3k-$5k per month) I was still doing personal training and classes for about $600/month.

Spent 7 nights at the all-inclusive Couples Tower Isle resort. Took my work with me.

One of my former bosses was arrested for credit card fraud and grand theft of more than $30,000.

Went on a 4-day cruise to the Bahamas!

Ben enrolls in an entrepreneurship training program.

Bought ProofreadAnywhere.com Started selling my first eBook, How to Make Money Proofreading Transcripts for Court Reporters.

Went on a 7-night Western Caribbean cruise Stopped selling the eBook and started building an online course

Ben quit his office job. Went on a 3-day Bahamas cruise with my mom

Hired my first virtual assistant

Quit personal training Went to New York City for 9 days Appeared on The Dr. Oz Show Made $18,000 while in NYC Quit proofreading as an income source — I’ll ALWAYS be a proofreader!

Hit $100,000 in revenue. Officially incorporated as BCP Media, Inc. Hired a really good CPA

Paid off our 15-year mortgage 9 years early!

Packed our bags, rented out our house, and headed out for a year-long travel adventure through South America. BCP Media hit $250,000 in revenue.

I was featured on Business Insider.

Spent a month traveling nonstop through Peru, Bolivia, and the Argentinian wine country

Started selling Version 1.0 of Transcript Proofreading: Theory and Practice™ on ProofreadAnywhere.com

Hired my first part-time office manager.

BCP Media hit $1,000,000 in revenue. I reserve a Tesla Model 3

I read the entire Mr. Money Mustache blog Canceled my Tesla Model 3 reservation Began designing my dream home with a pencil and a sheet of graph paper. Teamed up with Linda Evenson to remodel and market ScopeSchool.com

Made offer on a half-acre piece of land in Winter Park, Florida Our offer was accepted

Returned home from South America and moved into an apartment in Downtown Orlando. Purchased our piece of land for $250,000 cash.

Hired an architect to turn the “graph paper floorplan” into a real design. The new ScopeSchool.com goes live

Ben and I go to Las Vegas for a mastermind and meet several amazing people who would soon become key figures in our lives and business.

Embarked on a 14-night cruise with Ben for our 5-year wedding anniversary. We started in Valparaiso, Chile and ended up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where we lived for 2.5 months.

Planning begins for second proofreading course and for our first Mindset Course. I hired my first full-time assistant. BCP Media closes the year at $1,100,948.59 in revenue — we officially became a million-dollar-a-year business.

Spent 11 days in Boulder, Colorado just because we wanted to I was featured on Forbes.com.

Mindset University opens for one week only. Our second proofreading course opens its doors and generates $100,000 in the first week with just three emails and two Facebook posts. Construction finally begins on our dream home. Proofread Anywhere has its first $200k month.

I win first place in my first affiliate sales contest with 465 sales won $14k+ in commission in just six days with a list size of 39k. Transcribe Anywhere clears $250k for the year to date without any PPC advertising.

Mindset University reopens as an evergreen product; clears $10k passively in its first month. BCP Media signs Michael Eckert Fit as its third strategic alliance investment project.

Planning begins for the first-ever Work-At-Home Summit.

Net worth: approximately $1,230,000. Eighteen BCP Media, Inc. team members. Home 4 months away from completion. Buffett is fully crate- and potty trained at just 5 months old. Buffett begins puppy classes.

10-day trip to Chicago, NYC, and Philadelphia