{"id":227,"date":"2024-03-14T09:52:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2024-06-29T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T15:46:46","slug":"my-story-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/14\/my-story-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"My Story In A Nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If I went back in time, to 2001, and gave myself a warning, would I have listened?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou have a good life right now, all is going well. Your future looks great, BUT keep your ego in check and your priorities focused on the truly important things. If you don\u2019t, you stand to lose all you have achieved, and you\u2019ll end up in prison.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The younger me would\u2019ve said I was crazy because \u201cI know what\u2019s important – my children, my family, my career – and besides, I would never do anything illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s normal to desire more and better things, right? In my case I was living in one of the most exciting cities in the US, I had a great house, and had a fantastic and well paying career. I could afford to indulge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wasn\u2019t it normal to seek greater financial independence? I had 3 children and was destined to have 2 more. There will be college for the children, and I didn\u2019t want to spend the rest of my life working, maybe retire early. I told myself that I was securing our family\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aren\u2019t these some of the benefits of being successful? Wasn\u2019t it normal to want a fulfilling personal life? Isn\u2019t that what everyone desired? Didn\u2019t I deserve the same?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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By 2003 my priorities were slowly shifting away from what had served me well for years. I wouldn\u2019t see how far off course I had gone until much later.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Between 2003 and 2005 there were some significant life changes. I got remarried, I became a father to a beautiful boy and girl (adding to the 3 wonderful boys from marriage #1), we relocated to Oklahoma, and I left my long time position in advertising to focus my time on the children and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things were good?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By 2006 there were cracks in the facade. My spouse (former) was being sued angry investors. I would ask questions but I accepted any explanation I was given to avoid confrontation. When my parents, siblings and friends starting reaching out to me in concern, I disregarded them. I was allowing these important personal relationships, that had been my reality checks in the past, to wither. I couldn\u2019t accept their concerns were legitimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One night in 2007 something inside told me to \u2018just walk away\u2019. But I was terrified of losing all that I thought<\/em> I possessed. I ignored the reality staring me in the face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of walking away, I doubled down. I was determined to fix, what was in reality, an \u2018unfixable\u2019 situation. This was a disastrous decision; a decision that made me an accomplice to a white collar crime. It ultimately led to my 2014 indictment, and 2015 guilty plea to one count of wire fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I went back in time, to 2001, and gave myself a warning, would I have listened? \u201cYou have a good life right now, all is going well. Your future looks great, BUT keep your ego in check and your priorities focused on the truly important things. If you don\u2019t, you stand to lose all … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitecollarcoaching.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}