The health and wellness industry often says that the five most stressful life events that someone can experience to their well-being in life are the death of a loved one, divorce, moving, major illness or job loss. In the spring of 2021, I was fired from my job and feeling lost without a sense of purpose or direction. When I came home after getting fired, my girlfriend (now wife) instantly said, “now you can have your life back.”
Since I started that job, I had been journaling and the entries were negative – the stress became so bad that I even developed a strange pain in the outside of my ear. With a wedding on the horizon, I wasn’t seeing the forest through the trees, the satellite view of my life was completely obstructed. Later on, I found out that after I was let go, four others had voluntarily left that small office of 11 people as well. What did I learn from that experience? Knowing when to exit.
“When I worked at Goldman Sachs in New York City, I went through a similar experience. My boss and I didn’t get along and knowing that Goldman Sachs always let go five or so percent of the workforce every year, I changed departments before I had my first performance review and reached my one year mark at the job. I exited.”
-Former co-worker
A former work colleague, with more years of work and life experience than I, said those words above to me shortly after the firing.
Once I was unemployed, every day I woke up out of bed and said, “Good.” With credit to the famous former Navy Seal, author, and podcaster, Jocko Willink, his mantra for life in the military, including war zones, was, “When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.”
Got fired? Good.
But I was still not fully recovered. Often being able to relate to someone else who’s been in the arena just like I, who’s lived and breathed the same experience, is the best medicine to get through these stressful life situations. While searching through Apple Podcasts, I typed, “You’re fired!,” and came across the Waking Up From Work Podcast. The host, Dave Swillum, had gone through the same experience I had just six months prior.
After countless emails back and forth, Dave and I clicked, and this creative & entrepreneurial-focused podcast host helped give me the desire to find another job and own myself. He reminded me that a job is just that, a job, and your self-esteem cannot be tied to it. You have to become outcome independent.
“Everyday is gonna be it’s own thing, you don’t know what’s gonna happen even when you feel like you’re comfortable and you know exactly what’s gonna happen. Someone else can make choices to change up your day. Whether it’s work or it’s other things. We don’t have control like we think we do.”
-Dave Swillum, Host of the Waking Up From Work Podcast
Our emails became extensive, so I reached out to be a guest on his show. At that point I had found a new job, but was thrilled to be talking to someone, despite living hundreds of miles away, that experienced a near identical situation getting let go from his job. At the end of the show Dave asked where guests could find me. Twitter? But I don’t follow anyone, or have any followers. Until that point, I had shunned all social media for years after deleting my Facebook account in 2016.
After having gone through a life reset, going on a podcast for the first time, and getting back on my feet at a new job I was enjoying, I wanted to create a business. How could I help people?
Back to my first post here on discovering the carnivore, animal foods-based diet, I was eating one ounce of cooked liver daily for its health benefits as nature’s multivitamin. The first liver I ate was bison liver, from a company in Wisconsin, Northstar Bison (I’ve since bought and gifted bison ribeyes, organs such as liver and kidney, as well as countless blocks of raw milk cheese). But after eating raw and cooked bison liver for eight months, the taste became unpalatable. So I switched to consuming beef liver in desiccated/freeze-dried form.
When searching Google to purchase bison liver in desiccated/freeze-dried capsules, there were only a few companies, and not easy to find. But desiccated/freeze-dried capsules of beef liver? The internet is saturated with bottles of it, and most of it is shipped thousands of miles into the United States from Argentina and New Zealand. Since selecting bison, a mammal indigenous to North America, I’ve been on a journey to bring it to many more people in capsule form for more people to enjoy the health benefits.
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