Mel Robbins

Chris is going back into the restaurant business, renegotiating leases, like working 100 hours a week.

I'm finding odd job after odd job so we can just get the bankruptcy off our back and keep ourselves afloat with three kids under the age of 10.

Absolutely not.

And also, I think when you get to a point where you really screw up your own life, because nobody makes a vision board and is like, hey, let's put images of bankruptcy and divorce now.

alcoholism.

And plus friends and family had invested in the restaurant business.

And so I can't exactly go around trashing and complaining.

So we're in survival mode and you're pretty incredible and resourceful when you're in survival mode.

And so a buddy calls me, we still have $800,000 in debt.

We still have liens on the house three years later.

We are still just making the ends meet.

And a buddy calls me from college and says, hey, there's a person who is putting on an event in San Francisco that I know that's looking for somebody who's changed their job a lot.

And I thought about you.

And that's not really a compliment.

But she said, I, you know, they're offering two first class plane tickets and two nights at the St.

Regis.

All you got to do is talk about career change.

Now, I had never given a speech on a stage in my life before.

I'd taken a public high school speaking class, but I'd been a public defender in Manhattan, and so I'd worked in courtrooms, but I'd never given a speech.

When you're that in debt,