A New Year Episode Concludes ..........
Tech coach and business owner Sooz chats to Scotland's Women about having your own buisness and describes it as a rollercoaster, always has its twists and turns just like life. She shares when her business was booming her health declined. How Health and Wealth is a top priority for every year.
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[00:00:05] I made that decision in 2016 that I was going to set up my own business. I had to learn. For me it wasn't a good at tomorrow thing, it was a right how do I do this? How do I learn how to do that? The first thing I had to work out was my finances. How can you afford to run a business without money coming in? So I learned about the six-year system, if you know anything about it.
[00:00:34] And so it allowed me to structure my money in a way that enables me to live in a way that I'm not overspending. And so I could structure my money in a way that they allowed me to be able to have less money coming, but still be able to afford to live in a way. About that process I was doing for the good year whilst working out my finances.
[00:01:01] And then a big client opportunity. I really think business is a journey. It's not linear in any way whatsoever. It is, as they say, it is like a mountainous range. It went up and down or a roller coaster, where there's lots of twists and turns that happen on a day by day basis. And resilience is a huge part. I was right in the middle of it, a thousand miles an hour, not thinking about anything. I thought my periods came over. I could feel myself being really tired.
[00:01:31] I thought that was just a project that I was working on. On that day of lockdown release, April 26th, I got taken in the whole thing in a scan, which I then got the results back. And at like five o'clock the next day, they said I had a tumour on my ovary. They didn't know which ovary it was because it was that big. It was 20 by 24 by 12 centimetres. Compressed all of my organs. It's covering my stomach area. And that's why I had a balloon.
[00:02:01] And it makes a lot of sense though, because I hadn't been eating really properly. And I had just been drinking. And it's wrong. The fact that I'd had... They probably checked that I'd seen that they'd had a cyst on my ovary on that checkup in 2019. But they just thought it was fine, because apparently all women get cysts on their ovaries. As part of the cycle. Again, women don't know that. Nobody talks about it. We don't talk about this part.
[00:02:31] Or we don't talk about female health. It's not talked to us in school. We don't talk about it with our friends. We are now as I'm getting older. My friends talk about it with their children. But that was really scary. It was really awful. Scotland's women. Our lives. Our stories.