• Entrepreneurship: Creating a new business or growing your existing business.
• Work-Life Balance: You want a business, but you also want a life. Is there a way to have both?
• Financial Freedom: Real estate, affiliate income, and all things that lead to financial freedom.
• Personal Development: You cannot have any of the things above until you start investing in yourself! It is how we started to grow from a five-figure business to a seven-figure one.
• Business Growth: Take your business to a new level by building the right team with the right strategy to achieve success.

Hello, I'm Megan. Let’s begin when I was 24 and had just moved to western Pennsylvania and married the love of my life. At the same time, I began investing in real estate and discovered how much I loved it and was excited to find ways to build a career in it. My husband and I have four kids, although most days it feels like 15. I am constantly pulled in a million directions and oftentimes feel out of sorts and like I can’t get a grasp on being a good parent with a solid routine. I am a complete and total overachiever. I am completely and utterly obsessed with anything I decide I want to accomplish and can tune out everything else in my life to achieve the goals I set for myself. It’s not fair to my husband or kids, but I practice working on balance every day. My Dad used to have me read articles about “balance” growing up and Lord knows that didn’t work! It’s an area of my personal life that I strive to improve upon at least 1% every day. Aside from being a compulsive worker, I am very compassionate. Some might say I can be too compassionate. I tend to lead with my heart instead of my head, and I have been hurt deeply a number of times because of it. I expect people to be just like me and put others first. As you may or may not know, most people are focused solely on themselves. It’s difficult for me to understand when you are someone who finds satisfaction in helping others achieve their dreams. I’m scared of spiders. I literally scream like a toddler when a spider crosses my path. Just thought you should know.

If I am being totally honest, I feel it’s only fair that I share with you that I did not have the goal of becoming a small business owner when I sat down and planned out my life 18 years ago. However, I always knew I was an entrepreneur at heart. I also knew I was a woman who couldn’t be forced inside a box or trapped beneath ceilings. There is no limit to my potential.

But I never imagined that having these desires would lead me, truth be told, force me into running my own business and getting tangled up in three lawsuits (that story is for another day).

When I first moved to my now hometown of Erie, PA, it was against the advice of everyone I held dear in my life. I had secured the job of a lifetime at Ernst & Young in NYC and was welcomed into the best circles. The only problem was that I was 300 miles away from my soon to be husband, Laban, and 150 miles away from my family in upstate New York.

We ultimately decided to follow the one piece of advice my fiance’s first boss gave to him a year earlier:

“Buy a multi-unit and live in it for at least a year. Then move and buy another solid rental home that you live in for a year or two. Real estate will be your path to financial freedom.”

I never imagined this decision would result in me being cornered in the laundry room of my parents’ home, by my Mom, aunt, cousin and grandmother (all of who stand no taller than 5 feet) with their fingers pointing in my face, harsh words whispering and spitting out of their lips as they warned me of the impending doom I was choosing to head into.

I also never thought the Ernst & Young partner would tell me that moving to Pennsylvania was the wrong move. His exact words were, “You are making the biggest mistake of your life. You will regret it and can come back and talk to me anytime.”

I am fortunate that one of the gifts the Lord gave me at a very young age, was a confidence and belief in myself and my own decisions.

I didn’t listen to any of them.

These conversations were pivotal moments for me. Moments that made me realize for the first time, that people are not going to always support and cheer you on like they did while we were growing up. Once you understand that sometimes you have to support and believe in yourself despite others is when you can truly start to grow.

I also learned that not only will some not cheer you on, but if you are brave and bold enough, some people will throw stones at you and try to tear you down. And although this is not OK, you will be OK!

The reason I share these conversations with you is because I want to be brutally honest with you about making big, outside the box decisions that a majority of the public will never make. If you are the only member of your family starting a business or making a pivot in your life, that is most likely the norm.

No matter what decision you are trying to make or what new idea you are pondering, there are always going to be people telling you “NO” or “You can’t do that!” The sad truth is that they don’t want to see you do it! They are scared for you doing it! They are scared of you actually doing it!

It takes courage to step out into the world on your own without the support of others and weighed down with your own decisions. Know that courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is taking action and moving forward in the face of fear. Courage is making the decision to own your choices no matter the outcome.

There is not a single decision a person makes in life that is assured to be the right decision. Look at how many people get divorced!

“My experiences have taught me that compassion for others and their circumstances is as important a personal characteristic as anything else. “