I’m serious.

Let’s get real, have you ever hired someone you knew little about for a job you knew less about? It happens to all of us.

I started my own company for the first time when I was 29 years old. I had a pre-teenager, a young son, and a new baby due any day.

The company I was with was shutting down, literally, that night. The girls and I took our stuff and needed a place to go, FAST. I had no operations experience, no management experience, no finance, no marketing, and certainly no technology experience. I had no operational infrastructure, organizational design or business plan.

We had a couple desks, a phone, and a hard floor. Failure was not an option, as I was the breadwinner.

Our first year we did $1,000,000.00 in sales, we had a temp division and a direct hire team. As I began to think about growing, I started to hire. I hired people who reminded me of me. Imagine that? In one year I hired 35 people. All failed, were fired, quit, or stayed far….far too long.

I was a producer and I knew how to make the donuts, fry them up in a pan, serve seconds, and then make more donuts. I did this over and over again for over a decade. It was who I was.

When the Pinnacle Society accepted my application I was flabbergasted.