Unemployed : Entrepreneurship & Self Improvement · Paige Vandy

Inside My Most Humbling Business Year Yet... This is Raw: WE'RE BACK RAT GIRLS!

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2024 was the first time the speaker’s income dropped after years of growth.

She opens by saying money does not fix everything, but a drop in income makes the whole thing feel heavier. She welcomes the Rat Girls back and sounds genuinely relieved to finally say it out loud again. Even Gray gets pulled into the comeback moment by saying the line into her portable mic. She treats podcasting as the one place where she can talk without squeezing every thought into a short social clip. That stands in contrast to Instagram and TikTok, where every idea has to be bent to fit the algorithm. Being back on the podcast feels like relief, not performance. Then she pivots into a harder lesson about ego. She says she held this back because she cared how people might see her as a business coach. She worries that admitting a rough year could shake the trust people place in her. After sitting with it, she decides the honesty actually makes her more credible. She reminds listeners that her business has grown year after year since 2018. She credits that run of growth to memberships and the compounding effect they can create. She notes that 2022 was the only earlier year that forced her to take things off the table, even though the business still grew a little. She says 2024 was the first year her income truly dropped. She does not soften that. She calls it a punch to the gut and lets the weight of that land. She uses the moment to talk about how pride can make business owners hide the very lessons other people need. She argues that a rough year does not erase the years of growth, and it does not make the work any less real. She brings the focus back to memberships, saying they are still the engine she trusts and the thing people need time to build properly. She closes by inviting listeners who want to start or grow a membership to get in early, watch the training, and join the August sprint inside Million Dollar Memberships Club.

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A candid comeback episode about income dips, ego bruises, and why honesty can build credibility.

This comeback episode stays focused on a blunt point: when income drops, the pressure feels heavier, and the host says that plainly. She treats the return as a long delayed back to the mic, then talks through the ego hit of watching income fall after years of growth.

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Hear the founder talk through her first income drop and the lesson it forced.

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