Sometimes you can’t help but feel protected and guided. I have come to trust my path, good times and bad, secure in the knowledge that as long as I follow my heart and purpose then everything will be exactly as it should be. There’s no bad times, just better times ahead. Diamonds are formed under pressure and anything challenging is a gem in the making.

So rewind to January of this year, with barely a cent to my name, an insane neighbor who had taken my car without permission, trashed it and refused to take responsibility for it, and me having to work one of the crappiest jobs I have ever had in my life. Well, at the time I thought I had scraped the bottom of the barrel but that was before, a few short months later, I had my arm elbow deep in a stranger’s toilet scrubbing their crap away, still secure that this was meant to be but begging God to rescue me……but that’s a story for another day.

So there I am, in the middle of an extremely and unusually cold and rainy LA winter, getting up at 4 am to ride a push bike (on loan from a friend) and take 2 bus rides (which in and of itself is a scary thing to do in LA) for a $10 an hour job with one of the world’s most miserable and nasty bosses.…