Badassery Magazine August 2017 Issue | Page 13

A t the age of 45, I finally found Tony Robbins. Of course, I had heard of him before, and even called and scheduled a coaching call many years earlier with someone on his team, but I canceled the call and forgot who he was for almost a decade. other humans who can connect with our spirits and bring mes- sages back and forth. There is something to be said about timing! Timing IS ev- erything. At 45, I have already experienced sexual abuse, mas- sive loss and grief, regrets, two failed marriages, a career that was taking me backwards, 30 years of having a pacemaker and giving birth to two of the most fascinating, funny, sarcastic and loving little humans. Over the course of 12 weeks I found my tribe. I had been missing my tribe all these years. Sure, I had friends, a few very close friends, but I always felt like there was something miss- ing… that I didn’t fit in or think and feel the same way as most people in my life. That changed. At 45, I was unfulfilled, unhap- py, and worried that I was miss- ing out—missing out on what? On getting my career where I wanted it to be, on having a successful relationship with a partner, on financial success and the ability to know that I would never need to ask my