00:00:00 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Greatest asset is your time and making sure that you utilize it and enjoy this one thing that we all only give, and that's life. And you don't want to spend your life sitting in a cubicle, sitting at home, if you're working remote or sitting in your corner office and you don't feel fulfilled because you want to be able to do those things. And really be able to look at your life and say that that I've done so much, but there's even more that I can do. And then do it.


00:00:32 - Jerry Dugan Do you feel like you're stuck in a rut in life or in a dead end job with no progression? I'm Jerry Dugan, and welcome to Beyond The Rut, the podcast that offers you the motivation, inspiration, and practical tools to help you build a life worth living. My show is here to help you break free from your limitations and find a path to success. Join me as I share encouraging stories and actionable advice on how to get out of your rut in life and create a vision for your future. Life is just too short to live. Stuck in a rut. Here we go. Hey, rudder nation. Would you be surprised if the person working in the cubicle or the office next to you was homeless? Now, that is part of the story that Dr. Sharita Humphrey is going to share with us, how she hit rock bottom, and that was her AHA, moment to make life different for herself. Now, in her story, she did become homeless while she was working, while she was a single mother, and she had the power of vision writing her vision on a card that inspired her to keep putting 1ft in front of the other. So we're going to talk about her story, that moment of inspiration, making it plain on an index card that she could reference on a daily basis, and then the overwhelming sense of satisfaction when she realized she achieved the vision on her card. So we're going to talk about how you can do that for yourself and just inspire you to get out of your run. Here we go. All right. Hey, Dr. Humphrey, also known as Sharita. How are you doing?


00:02:04 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey I'm good. Happy New Year.


00:02:06 - Jerry Dugan I know, man. Now, when people are hearing this, it might be later than the new year, but just roll with it, guys. Roll with it. Pretend it's a brand new day. Brand new year. So we met through a mutual friend of ours, Jared Easley, founder of Podcast Movement, because he's been concocting something, and I need to check in with him, see how that project's going. But you and I met, and you were giving me some input on how to do government, like, subcontracting, and with my business, I'm like, heck yeah. That's awesome. And as we were getting to know each other, you shared with me your story just to kind of give me your background. And I was like, that's a beyond the rut story, like you wouldn't believe. I was like, Would you be on my show? And you said yes. And here we are.


00:02:53 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Here we are.


00:02:56 - Jerry Dugan Now, your career has been, like, in the finance arena. You worked for a city government. You had left that job somewhere in there. You wound up being broke and homeless, and now you're not, obviously, because you help people with their finances and people start their businesses. So take us through that journey, though. Like, what was life before you wound up broke and homeless? And then what was that AHA moment that got you out of there? Because that story alone, I'm just going to stop talking and let you tell that story because that is a very powerful story.


00:03:28 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Okay? So I just want to preface this by saying hitting rock bottom was the AHA for me. But I didn't come from a family where we talked about money. I only just remember seeing bills stack up, and many of them went unpaid. And I saw the stresses of being raised by a single mother. Me and I have two sisters. We're just trying to keep our head above water. And my mom, I remember people asked me, what was your money? AHA? I was like eight years old because I saw my mom distressing. She didn't know I was peeking in the room, and I know she was just trying to go through and figure out which one was priority when it came to build. And I told my mom, I knocked on the door and I say, mom, let me help you. And so she just laughed, and she's like, okay, if you can help, fine. And so who knew that that would become my journey? And so I told my mom I was going to call, and I remember calling and asking for a payment arrangement. And they clearly like, now Hindsight is 2020. They had to know I was a child. But it worked. And so that was me just helping my mom. I didn't really understand it, but it was enough for me to just try to at least alleviate some of the things that my mom was going through. Trying to raise three girls on our own was very difficult. But one of the things is that we had plenty of and that's love in our home, but as anything, as going to school, not having lunch, being teased, and definitely was bullied. Not only because I vertically challenged.


00:05:10 - Jerry Dugan I feel your pain on that, by the way.


00:05:13 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey I've been the same height since middle school. So going into high school and not having great things, it was rough. And I know sometimes people don't realize, but words do hurt. And sometimes people really do take those things. And I just was just like, Forget it. Once I leave here, I remember just looking out of the window. I was 17, and I said, you know what? One day I'm just going to leave here and I'm going to become an actress. That was my goal. I didn't know anything about that. I just knew that I loved Audrey Hepburn. That was one person that I've watched all of her movies and I was just that I'm just going to follow my dreams. And life happened and I became a mother very early on. But becoming a mom was a gift in more ways than one because I just knew that I didn't want to repeat some of the same negative financial money behaviors that I've seen in my own household. And I had a good intention, but with no real financial base, knowledge of what money management and credit and investing and what that even really meant, we ended up homeless. And so a lot of people would be surprised because they were just like, so you were working and ended up homeless? I was just like, yes. A lot of people, you have no idea where they're sitting in a cubicle or next to them or even in an office. You have no idea what happens before they clock in and after they clock in. And so for us, I just knew that we live in a large city and at the time there was no placement for shelter and I was just in panic mode like any other parent, but especially as a mom, that I didn't want to lose my kids. So I was passing and saw a motel and that became our home. And I thought we were only going to be there for a little while, but the weeks turned into months and then the months kept going.


00:07:12 - Jerry Dugan Wow.


00:07:13 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey And it just so happens that my driver license was coming up for renewal. And I think that caused panic to me, really, to be really honest. Because it was just in that moment that I realized that I didn't have an address and there was no way I was putting this motel's address on my driver's license. So people always hear Booper say the little ugly cry. I put my kids down and I was just crying and I was just crying out. That was the first time out of all the things that happened that I cried because I just looked at that and it was coming back to me. I'm like, there's no way that I'm going to repeat this or just not have an address. So there was a time in my life that I had no address. And I think that hit me that we were really homeless. I was just in just trying to keep something over our head, not really connecting the dots, that we really had nowhere to go. And so from there, I just decided my children woke up and they just hugged me and I was just like, it's something that God puts in them. They just know. So that hug was healing for me. And I just decided I was just like, I don't know how to I didn't know anything about winning management. I had been hearing just kind of just thinking about it. And I took the children to the library, and every single day that I had a time to be able to sit there, I started to pick up books I was reading, trying to figure out everything that I needed to do. And one of the goals that I had was that I wanted to work for the government because I knew there was some type of security there. And so I was just like, well, I can't apply. Because, of course, one of the things is that you need credit. And I definitely wanted to make sure that I was putting my best foot forward. So I started to sit on that floor because other kids were sleeping in the bed. And it was just in that moment that I started to write out my life right now, because I was just writing, I knew the power of your words, so I said, well, at least I needed to see them. Even though I'm in finance, I said, I'm a visual person, so I needed to see my goals looking back at me. And I just started to write. And I was writing some ridiculous goals. Some people would probably look at it and they're just kind of like, are you serious? Do you see the situation that you're in?


00:09:32 - Jerry Dugan Prime minister of a third world country turning a first world country? Wait, what?


00:09:37 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey And I remember writing down that one day I was going to get the Nobel Peace Prize. And it was just so vivid. What was funny is that I wrote it with the time and the date, and I shared that because the time and date became very critical in me securing in my government position. And I just kept working. I kept working. I kept saving money. I was going to work, putting money back, opening things, just putting money, storing things. And I told the boys, I was just like, you know what? We're going to get a place. Because I said I wasn't going to tell them till I knew that because your words are important and what you tell your kids is so important. So I just like, I don't want to say anything till I knew. And I start going and looking for places, and they were telling me things, and I needed this. But I feel confident for the first time because I was just like, I know we're never going to be homeless again. And I know that they probably didn't get that because I remember telling them that I'm going to change the trajectory of your lives. And I learned that from the Houston Public Library because I said I wanted to not only increase my financial knowledge, but I wanted to understand how important personal development is to better be a better person, to be a better mom. And so I told them that and they were just looking at me, staring at me like, okay, mom, whatever. I was just like, okay. And so I was just like, I got to use that word, and I really knew what it meant. And so I was telling that I'm going to change the trajectory of your lives. And I was just like, Your life will I say, you will know how much the words that I'm telling you will come to pass. I remember telling that they were just looking at me. So the place that I thought was off of my list to live, god had someone set up for me to meet there, because I told her the situation, and I said, I need this not for me, but for my children. And so she said, okay. She said, Come back after the holiday, and we'll start the process. So I did, and she was just like, you just been on my mind since you left here, and I just want to help you. So she said, we're waiving the fees for you to move in. We're waiving this. I want you to put that money and do something with it. And she's just like, what is it that you're working towards? I said, you just helped me because I'm applying for the government, and I did not want to have an address at a motel. And so I said, I'm going to take these, and I'm going to buy some clothes so I can interview. And she was just like, oh, this is amazing. She said you got it. I was nervous, filled out the application. I didn't hear from them. I was feeling down. I was just like, okay, this is going to happen. I got a call, and they said, hi, we want to bring you in for an interview. We liked what you presented on your application. Really want to meet you. So I was like, okay, I got it. I went and I was so nervous, I was shaking. I was like, oh, my gosh. I don't know. What the heck was I thinking? What the heck was I thinking? This is bigger than what I wrote it down, but I was like, okay, it's happening. And so the young lady who was sitting at the desk was just like, you got this. Just being calm and be yourself. So I went in there, and I explained to them where my background was, why I was qualified for the job. And they're just like, okay, you seem like you know what you're doing. So I was like I said, well, this is a step for me that's going to change my trajectory. And that was what I said. And she's like, well, that was the first time I've heard anybody say that in an interview. So I left and hear from them. I was just like, okay, maybe I didn't get it. When I was walking out of the interview, a gentleman said he was passing me before I went in. And he said, don't worry about it. You and I had been we got this.


00:13:29 - Jerry Dugan Wow.


00:13:30 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey And hear from them. I didn't hear from them.


00:13:32 - Jerry Dugan That was another candidate, or that was the guy who worked.


00:13:34 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Yeah. I didn't know him. Wow. What was funny was we were sitting in the interview. I got a little nervous because she said, we've done 150 interviews. You're number 100, 150. So I was sitting there like, oh, well, that's not going to be good. Either I'm going to kill it, or I'm not going to get this. So I was nervous. I didn't hear from them for a few weeks. They called me. My first thought was like, I didn't get it. And so they called me, and they're like, we want to tell you that out of all of the interviews, we only selected two. And I was like, okay. And she was like, you are one of the two. And so I was so excited, I was screaming. She promised. She's like, well, that's the response that we were hoped that we were hoping we were going to get. And the day that I started was funny because she said, well, your start date will be April 1. I'm like this a joke.


00:14:31 - Jerry Dugan That's, like, the worst date ever, right?


00:14:34 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Is this a joke? And I was just like, okay. Am I mean right? And so she's like, oh, I didn't even think about it. But that's funny. Yeah. And you start on April 1. And so the very first day was April Fool's Day. I started, and 149 was sitting there, and he was just like, I told you you were going to get the job.


00:14:54 - Jerry Dugan Wow.


00:14:54 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey And it was just so funny to me. And he was just like, we're going to be lifelong friends. And we became really great friends, and I did well in my job. I was planning to retire. It was the trajectory that I told my children that I was going to do. But I saw so many families and so many small businesses just really not understand how to grow and scale just because of the lack of financial knowledge. And because I was a public servant, I could not educate them on the importance of how to be able to build a life, the financial footprint that they needed to be able to grow and scale. So I remember calling my mom, and I told my mom, mom, in six months, I'm leaving my job. And so at first, I was just thinking, oh, my gosh. My mom's going to be like, are you crazy? You're going to leave your good job for this? You don't even know these people. In my mind, I had already played out the conversation.


00:15:46 - Jerry Dugan You just landed the job. What are you talking about?


00:15:48 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Well, I had stayed there for a few years, so it wasn't like I just left. But my mom thought I was settled into my career. I was doing very well for myself. I was woeing up doing very well. So it was definitely something out of the blue. So it wasn't like I just got the job and quit. No, I was there and I worked and loved my job. So I wasn't part of the people who were like, oh, I just wanted to do something else. No, I really liked the work that I was doing, but at the same time, I loved what the people stood for, and I had to make a decision, and I went and I prayed about it. And then I told my mom, and my mom said this to me. She said, I'm not surprised. You've always been a rebel. And for the first time in my life, I said, no, Mom, I'm a trailblazer. And the next trajectory that I'm on is going to change somebody else's life based on me being obedient and leaving here. And so I don't even know where that came from, but I just feel so bold saying that to my mom, and I don't know where I got that confidence to be able to say it. And I left. I end up turning in my notice, and my supervisor called me into the office, and she's like, you're so young. You have been doing so well. Here why. And I said, Because if I don't leave now, then I won't, and then I won't know what is on the other side of my yes. And so she said, okay, well, I'm going to hold this. So she didn't turn in my notice. So I ended up having to stay longer than the time because I was just like, the last thing I was going to do is leave and not just walk out. So I ended up having to stay another four to six weeks.


00:17:29 - Jerry Dugan Okay?


00:17:30 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey But that was fine because I knew then that I was ready, and I'm glad that she did that. And I remember the last day she said, you'll be back and something I guess my mom was right. The rebel of me was like, no, I won't.


00:17:47 - Jerry Dugan I'm glad because you told me about that part, I guess giving ourselves a chance to emotionally regroup here, because I'm watching you and the tears coming down, and I'm like, yeah, I got this holding together.


00:17:59 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Eyes are sweaty.


00:18:01 - Jerry Dugan Yeah, eyes are sweating. That's what it is. Everybody and most of you are just listening, and you're not watching the actual video. But the thing that really stands out to me is this all started with you writing the vision down biblically. You write it as plain as you can on tablets, and you did that in your motel room with your kids sleeping on the bed, you on the floor, you're writing out this vision for your life. Taking over a country wasn't part of that. I'm sure that's something I would have written down. It's really weird, but you wrote this vision down, and I'm seeing your face and your emotion behind it, because you're seeing this vision that you just wrote down, because it's what you felt, it's what was in your mind, on your heart, and seeing those pieces come to fruition. Some of it because of your own work, but a lot of it probably seemingly miraculous. The reason why I'm getting choked up is I've been in the same boat in terms of not in living in a hotel or motel, but at 14 years old, casting a vision to my extended family, even using some of the same words. Like, I'm going to change the trajectory of this family where we're not going to be followed by security when we walk into a store. People are going to know us by our names in a positive way, not because we're wanted by the police or that we're freaking flyers in the office there at the principal's office, right? But this will be a name you can be proud of. And then later on in life, I started defining, what does that look like? I even would carry around a three by five card that I would earn a certain income doing a certain type of job by the end of the year. But for like four or five years, I never really read that card until about the fifth year. I was like, I keep this in my wallet, but I never look at it. And I started looking at the card daily, and before I knew it, I had moved to Dallas. I was earning the income that was on the card, doing the work that was on the index card or close to it. I was closer to the work that's on that card. I've lost the card. I need to write a new one. But it was just that realization about two years ago, I am living out the thing on this card. And it was just like this wild, wild AHA moment and hearing your story and that you're going through something very similar on a much more powerful scale. And then I'm, of course, laughing because your supervisor doesn't let you go, says you'll be back.


00:20:28 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Right?


00:20:29 - Jerry Dugan You did come back, though, in a way.


00:20:31 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Yeah, I did. I did. I had no idea that the boldness that my mom said was inside of me would take me there. Like, I started this business, but I was planning I said in the early part of it that I was saving. I had a plan. I was putting things back because I knew, because I had a god gave me a sneak peek. So I knew some of the safeguards that I needed to protect myself going out there, whether it's in the business, wild. So I think that that was something that really helped to prepare me for entrepreneurship. And so I literally just started to share my story. I had already been telling people online, and so when I said that I was starting a business. I wanted to help people. Business picked up very quickly, and it wasn't nine months later. There was someone reached out to me and said, hey, there's an article that we're writing that is going to potentially be picked up by Forbes, and we want you to round it out. And the article was called The Fastest Five. And that article came out the next following year, which was 2018, and I was one of the ones included in the fastest growing businesses in 2018. And so shortly after that, someone called me. A lot of people seen it, and I remember one of my very first podcasts, they asked me, and they're like, wow, what does that feel like? And I said, I went from the floor to Ford. And so he was just like, what? I said, I wrote this on the floor. Literally, oh, man, I wrote this on the floor. And so he was just, like, explaining that. I said, the only reason why you're talking to me now is because I hit rock bottom. And that was a gift. And so I said, I lost things, not hope. And that I want people to know that if you're not where you want to be, it's just a process to get to your purpose, but there's power in your words and writing things down. And I said, I say again, I went from the four to four. And so that became the staple thing. And so he was just like, I didn't get it, but I get it now. I said, I kept every notebook, every denial, every letter that I wrote to the credit bureaus explaining my situation. I have a file cabinet in my garage now, I kept them, and I had no idea how God wanted me to keep them. He said, Keep everything because some people need to see it before they can believe it. And so I kept the Wit card, I kept the food stamp card, I kept the credit scores and the denials and the bank things and all the things, all the no's. And I say that to share with your audience. It only takes one yes. That's it. That one yes that I waited for turn into many. But the only reason why I'm here is because I said yes to me first. And a lot of people were like, Were your children your why? No, because they're going to eventually leave, and where would that leave me? So I had to think, even when they were small, that I had to think about my life beyond them, because I'm going to always be their mother, but I have to make sure that I'm proud of who I am. And that was it. And I've helped thousands of people, and I love to get the DMs at the phone call somewhere, often from people I've never met globally who just said, I heard your story and it changed my life. Yeah, I said, it changed mine, too.


00:24:31 - Jerry Dugan Yeah. You're like you have no idea. And it's so powerful for me, though, to hear this, because you hit your rut at its deepest level, and there are folks listening in who are in a rut. They may not be in the financial dire straits that you had faced or even I had faced when I was younger. If anything, they're probably faced with, like, the golden handcuffs that they're in a job that pays well. It's got some status to it. It's not the thing they really feel called to do, the thing that where they could really make an impact and leave a legacy in this world, but they're not pursuing that because of the fear of the financial impact it'll have. And the great thing is that you run this business that helps people put that in order. Exactly. One of the things that my wife and I had done just in the last couple of years was we gave ourselves a $1,500 a month pay raise.


00:25:37 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Right.


00:25:38 - Jerry Dugan My company didn't do that. The job didn't do that. It was simply looking at our finances and realizing there are $1,500 a month we could free up if we got rid of this extra mortgage, if we got rid of these two car payments, we got rid of this credit card payment.


00:25:54 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Right.


00:25:55 - Jerry Dugan And that would free up $1,500 a month.


00:25:59 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey I know.


00:25:59 - Jerry Dugan And I showed that math to my wife, and she's like, Great, let's do it. I'm like, Great, because we're selling the house anyway, so that takes care of that. But instead of just wasting the money from this sale, let's do Operation Clean Slate. And we just wiped.


00:26:12 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey I love that.


00:26:13 - Jerry Dugan All the debt.


00:26:13 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Operation Clean slate. I like that.


00:26:15 - Jerry Dugan So we didn't know that within a year, I would be leaving my corporate job, and I'm going in fearless leash because we had a six month window we could play with. And that emergency fund is lasting as long as it can because we have no debt. Because we did look at our finance circle of our lives and put things in order. Finally. I'm 46 now. I'm going to be 47. Oh, man, I feel old. But anyway, that's not important. That's the thing that really got me choked up, Jerry's, getting old. But the finance circle of our lives is very important to look at because it could be the thing holding us back from our dreams.


00:26:56 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Right.


00:26:57 - Jerry Dugan And for you, it's amazing to see that God took an area of your life that was a pain point. It is your strength that you help people in. And getting back to that part where you did go back to where you used to work I did. They were like your first customer, weren't.


00:27:14 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey They, in your business last year? I say that you never know. And you always have to look past your own feelings and how you look at things, because my supervisor's words were, god, yes. That I would come back. And so last year, I did go back. I won a government contract to teach my peers about how leadership will look in the new normal. And to see hundreds of my peers and my supervisor in the audience listening to me was definitely a full circle moment. And to go then and to work with city, state, and multiple municipalities and higher education acquiring contracts that now have allowed me to continue to die inside when it comes to doing so much, because I could be intentional about my time, because it's our biggest asset. And I never thought that I would be in a position to say I work three days a week when I was sleeping on the floor years ago. And I did have a great position. I did it, and I had a good title, but I also knew that I had other things inside of me, and I knew that that wasn't it. And I just couldn't sleep. And I remember my colleagues saying, Why do you care? And I said that, I don't know, but I think about this at night. And so I knew then that there was more for me than my good job and that I was just going to be on a hamster wheel if I didn't follow the passion that I had and the impact of seeing so much, of being obedient. And I'm still in the beginning, like, I tell people I have big goals, I still write them. I'm still writing them. And I've written my goals now sitting on my floor in my home all the way to the ceiling. And one day I'll come back and show Jiri and tell you guys about it. But I'm still writing my story, and I want people to listen to this and know that I don't have it all figured out. But what I did do was to alleviate what most people stay up at night, and that's financial worry.


00:29:56 - Jerry Dugan The thing I love about that story of the place where you used to work, hired you to come back to teach them about leadership was you're just kind of like, still in the fledgling part of the business. They asked you if you can come in and teach this. And you're like, yeah, sure. And they're like, all right, great. What's your fee? And you're like, I don't know this much. It was like a five figure fee. And you're thinking in your head, this is where we negotiate. And you're like, Great, we'll send you the contract.


00:30:24 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey And you're like, Right.


00:30:25 - Jerry Dugan What?


00:30:26 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey The government pays well whether you're unemployed, but they pay better as a contract, they do.


00:30:32 - Jerry Dugan And I took that to heart. I secured my first workshop vendor contract within weeks of you. And I talking, and I was just like, wow, okay. Now I'm hooked. I went out and I got my.


00:30:45 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Unique I got a piece of it.


00:30:47 - Jerry Dugan What was it? Unique entity identifier. I was like, yes, I've got one of those now. Yeah. Oh, it is. And Jared, he said, when you all set up, send me your capability statement. A guy named Seth Miller had said the same thing, and I'm not sure if I sent mine to you or not.


00:31:06 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Oh, yeah, definitely send that to share that with my network.


00:31:09 - Jerry Dugan Oh, man. So I was all fired up about that. But it was just like you threw it out there. They called you, asked if you would do this, and you said sure. They asked you for your fee. You threw a fee out there that it was like what you needed. It was like, unapologetic, you weren't expecting to get it, and they just said yes. And then that was it. Like you were just scoring.


00:31:32 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey I remember sitting in the meeting and they're like, Are you okay? I was just like, oh my God.


00:31:36 - Jerry Dugan It was another yes that opened up so many doors for you, because opened.


00:31:40 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Up so many doors. And I spent the holidays as of, like, a few hours ago, we just completed our 7th proposal. RFP sent out the door. And so I can just tell you that once you get that yes, like you said, it may start small, but don't discount the small wins. They really become big ones. And it's all about relationships and doing the work. And I'm excited to see what's to come, and I'll continue to share. What do you say? I'm an open book about why it's important and why your story. Whether it's good, bad, or indifferent, people need to hear it. And you have no idea about what your life could mean to someone else that you don't know.


00:32:36 - Jerry Dugan And I'm looking at your website right now, and you've got nontraditional personal finance school of learning. That's the thing. You offer up individuals. So if that's something you're looking for, you got to get in touch with Sharita she's that trailblazer. And then money mindset.


00:32:55 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Money, mindset, movement. I have an amazing community of trailblazers. We're building our own path to wealth. My wealth, Jerry's, and all of your listeners. Everybody has a wealth number. It will look different, and that's okay. And that's the good thing about you having control and being in the driver's seat of your finance. You drive and set the benchmarks and milestones on your financial journey. And so that is important to me to teach. Let people know that your wealth doesn't have to mirror anyone else's. Wealth could look different from you. Wealth is, some people say, six figures. Some say I need a billion to feel wealthy. But whatever wealth feels like. But remember that your greatest asset is your time and making sure that you utilize it and enjoy this one thing that we all only give, and that's life. And you don't want to spend your life sitting in a cubicle or sitting at home if you're working remote or sitting in your corner office. And you don't feel fulfilled because you want to be able to do those things and really be able to look at your life and say that I've done so much, but there's even more that I can do, and then do it.


00:34:09 - Jerry Dugan Yeah, I love that. And so, folks, you got to go to Sharitahumprey.com. I'll have it in the show notes, of course, and then so if people want to reach out to you for help from you yeah, it is. What's the best way for them to go about that?


00:34:23 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Yeah, definitely reach out to me@sharitamfree.com. My team hates, but I love to reach your DMs, so definitely feel my DMs are open. I know some people are like, no, but I love to be able to connect with people there. I have an amazing community of trailblazers called the Money Mindset Movement on Facebook. So it is an absolutely free group where I come in and bring other trails, blazers in my ecosystem who are connected to me. And we want to pour in and build and help others build their path to wealth or if they don't even know what that means and they're just in the beginning, or if they do and just don't know where to start, that they have a community of people who are like minded. So, definitely you could reach me there. I'm on social media at Sharita MH on all social media platforms, so I am here to be able to help. If you just need someone, just sometimes we just need somebody to talk to. I'm here, so I want people to know that they have someone. If you can't talk to your friends, family, or you should feel ashamed about something you shouldn't, I feel a safe place for you to be able to come in and really be able to change the trajectory of your life and your family.


00:35:31 - Jerry Dugan And any final words of wisdom before we go?


00:35:34 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey The final words of wisdom is that it doesn't matter where you start. It's you deciding where you want to end up.


00:35:42 - Jerry Dugan Love that. All right, dr. Humphrey, it was great to have you on here. Well, sharita you're both.


00:35:52 - Dr. Sharita Humphrey Thank you. Thank you for this.


00:35:54 - Jerry Dugan Now, I don't know about you, but I know for a fact that I cried at least two or three times when I was interviewing Sharita. Her story is just so powerful to me and fully inspired. I mean, when she said that she had realized that she had gone from the floor to Forbes, I lost it. I just lost it. When I interviewed her, I got to see her eyes. I got to see the emotion behind the story she was sharing with me. And you just hearing it through the show doesn't do that justice. And maybe it did, but the other thing that stood out to me was where she said, it only takes one yes to change the trajectory of your life, your business, your career, everything and the first yes you got to say is to yourself. So that's what I took away from that. That's how I was inspired. I hope you were inspired too. If you want to learn more, check out the show notes beyondtherut.com Three Six Three. There I'll link to Sharita's resources. You can also find more information about my book beyond the Rut create a Life Worth Living in Your Faith, Family and Career and related episodes. So with that said, I'm glad you joined me for this episode and look forward to joining you on the next one. But until then, go live life beyond the Rut. Take care.