Rock Bottom's Basement: Recent Episodes
Jacqueline Hernandez
As a young Latina from San Jose, California, I built a strong business and wealth that I never thought possible. I was living the dream. After a series of bad choices and partnership, I started to lose everything. I could feel it all slipping from my fingertips until there was nothing left to lose. It was at that time in my life that I realized rockbottom was not the worse it can be, I soon entered the basement to rockbottom. This podcast is about finding the courage and strength to get out of rockbottom's basement and provide strategy and methods to rebuilding a life from nothing to something all over again. At the time I was a single mom of five kids from the ages of 2 years old to 17 years old, in a situation penniless and with no car. Now today in an amazing relationship with the best partner in life I can have, a home owner again, three successful businesses and kids who are all successful in their own right.
Just when you thought you hit rock bottom and you thought it couldn't get any worse, bam, you realized Rock Bottom has a basement. No matter how hard it may seem right now, with hope, and a good strategy, you can get out of that basement.
Together, let's design your five year plan that will not just change your situation around, but alter the very direction of your life.
1. Decide where you want to be in the next years.
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Outline what it will take to get you to your five year goal.
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Break down your five your plan into increments of each year, then each quarter in the year, then niche it down into each month of the first year, then further into each week.
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Determine through your weekly breakdown of the first year, what level of action and energy will you need to conquer each weeks miles stones.
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Choose an accountability partner, who will hold you to your goals each week, and cheer you on as you take the win, inching your way closer to getting out of rock bottom's basement.
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Commit to yourself that what you sow you will reap. This is only for the season of climbing out of the pit. DON'T LOSE SITE OF YOUR GOAL.
Our Guest and my daughter-in-law, born and raised in New York, will talk about her journey out of rock bottom's basement. Listen to how she made the decision that Rock Bottom was not her destination, but more like a flat tire she got along the way to dream life.
Ivania went from stay at home mom life, to single mom life within in a blink of an eye. Going through a divorce, she struggled to put herself through school to become a RN working 15 hour shifts, juggling the bills and quality time with her son and all the demands of momhood. She talks about her breaking moments and thinking to herself, "this cannot be my life!" This would be the moment for her, when she knew she had to make a plan for herself, and start visualizing what her life WILL become by manifestation.
The success that she created once she established the will to commit, not just to herself, but to her plan of action, is her dream life today. She is now remarried and has a reputation in her career that dominates her industry as a leader in her field. She is now a mom of two, travels the world with her little family. Her biggest accomplishment today is that she doesn't have to make decisions based on money and scarcity. She recently invested into a life insurance company and her driving force is to educate others on how to build generational wealth, no longer generational poverty.
When we set out our goals and work towards our plan, we also must change as a person. Our thinking got us here to where we are in this moment right now. What will we do to elevate our thinking to get us to the next level of our lives.
- You cannot attack a problem with the same thinking, something has to change.
- Design your community of influence with intention.
- Get a mentor! Outline the qualities you want in a mentor and become unwavering when it comes to those qualities when choosing a mentor.
- Process all advice and question if it applies to your goals, and serves your grand purpose.
- Set a standard for the relationships you spend the most time with. Positivity, encouragement, accountability, support, and commitment should be a part of your standards.
- Don't take on more than you can handle.
Let uncover your mindset to overcome your situation and take the first step on that staircase out of rock bottom's basement. You have to get real confident about being in your own skin and understanding what decisions have led you to where you are, and decide what decisions are going to work for you moving forward.
Through this process of finding ways to make extra money or more money to change your situation, people along the way sometimes don't know how to support you or encourage you. Remember, up till now, they only knew you for the decisions that got you to where you are today.
- Narrow your circle to positive and encouraging people.
- Becoming victorious in your situation, you don't have time to worry what people are saying about you. You don't have energy to defend your position, you only have energy take action that is inching you out of Rock Bottom's basement.
- Reflect on your goals and know them so well that you have a conviction to see them through.
- Know your direction so well, that no one else can give an opinion and take you off your path. The longest path to greatness, is through shortcuts and detours.
- Remember, the power is within you, nobody else can give it to you or take it away from you.
- Many will not understand the changes that you are making in your life, and that's okay.
Just when you thought you hit rock- bottom and it couldn't get any worse, then when you realized rock bottom has a basement. No matter how hard it may seem right now, with hope, and a good strategy, you can get out of that basement.
Design your five year plan that will not just change your situation around, but alter the very direction of your life.
- Decide where you want to be in the next years.
- Outline what it will take to get you to your five year goal.
- Break down your five your plan into increments of each year, then each quarter in the year, then niche it down into each month of the first year, then further into each week.
- Determine through your weekly breakdown of the first year, what level of action and energy will you need to conquer each weeks miles stones.
- Choose an accountability partner, who will hold you to your goals each week, and cheer you on as you take the win, inching your way closer to getting out of rock bottom's basement.
- Commit to yourself that what you sow you will reap. This is only for the season of climbing out of the pit. DON'T LOSE SITE OF YOUR GOAL.
This episode covers mindset to overcome your situation and take the first step on the staircase out of rock bottom's basement. You have to get real confident about being in your own skin and understanding what decisions are going to work for you and not against you.
Through this process of finding ways to make extra money or more money to change your situation, people along the way sometimes don't know how to support you or encourage you. Remember, up till now, they only knew you for the decisions that got you to where you are today.
Just when it seemed that you had hit rockbottom and it couldn't get any worse, then when you realized rock bottom has a basement. No matter how hard it may seem right now, with hope, and a good strategy, you can get out of that basement.
Design your five year plan that will not just change your situation around, but alter the very direction of your life.