Kajabi Made Me Totally & Undeniably Unemployable

The difference between making or taking a job.

Like many of you I imagine, I’d taken all kinds of jobs over my lifetime. Some I enjoyed and others I did not but I put in my best effort on most days and excelled in the avenues I pursued.

Then also like many of you, I became a parent and practically overnight how I saw the world changed. I was a lawyer when I became a mother (still am) and back in 2010, there were not many traditional legal jobs that would blend with how I wanted to experience motherhood. As a result, I made my own job.

It wasn’t until watching Super Why with my young toddler and a particular episode of letter zapper where I finally realized the difference between make and take.

Now for those of you unfamiliar with Super Why’s letter zapper — it’s a magic wand that is used to zap letters. Zapping the letter “t” from take and replacing it with “m” makes an entirely different word.

I saw my life before my eyes in that letter zapper.

For over 30 years I was a taker. I took the jobs that others had made for me. It had never occurred to me to make my own job. When I take a job, the specifications are laid out by the maker. I might have some ability to negotiate based on how valuable the maker sees my skill set but ultimately I take what is offered to me.

And then there are the makers. The ones that make what they want in the way that they want.

I realized I’d become a maker without even knowing it.

The life of a maker is hard.

Having been a maker for many years now. There are days where I imagine what it would be like to simply drive to work with hot coffee in hand, walk into the office and sharing morning pleasantries with my co-workers, and then sit down to work on what I need to accomplish for the day.

When you are the maker, you make the decisions.

I won’t go into all the decisions that I make as the maker and the decisions change as I change and my business evolves but ultimately I have a role in deciding what kind of business I am running and growing.

I like making decisions.

Kajabi makes serious business simple.

I enjoy knowing that I have what it takes to take an idea and create it into the reality of a product or service. Now I’m not going to sugar-coat this — before November 2015 my life as a maker was incredibly difficult but since moving my entire business into my permanent internet home with Kajabi — my life as a maker is simple.

Before Kajabi, I had those moments where I wondered if running my own business was worth it. I’ve always run an entirely online business and while many webinars would like to say “start an online business, it’s easy” — it’s not as simple as any of them led me to believe. After hours fighting with Wordpress.org and LeadPages I ached for the ease of just taking a job but there was something deep inside me that held me from throwing in the towel.

On almost a final breath, I was 36 weeks pregnant with my 2nd child and a friend send me the link to what would become the launch of New Kajabi. I no longer trusted myself to explore new tools rationally (I fall hard for good sales pages) so I had my husband watch the videos instead. After watching Kenny explain the concepts of New Kajabi on a chalkboard, he looked at me and said buy it — they built your brain.

For the last four years, my life when it comes to all the parts involved in running my online business have been simple. Not always easy but always simple and even more important dependable — nothing has broken because Kajabi takes care of everything.

Kajabi makes serious business simple. Simple scales and is sustainable.

Kajabi made me unemployable.

Kajabi made me unemployable because of how easy they’ve made running my serious business. Gone are the days where I need to spend hours fixing something or building anything. I simply use the tools that they have and execute my idea and then (typically) head to the beach with my family.

I no longer have what it takes to take a job.

I enjoy making too much. I enjoy the security that making brings. I have no fear that I will wake up one morning and have my job taken away by the maker that I work for.

Have you had a similar letter zapping moment?

With so much discussion again starting to circulate with the next recession I do think about all the ways that how I see this recession v. 2010 when I was graduating law school. I was full of fear and trepidation because of the job market as I was entering the workforce. Now I am full of confidence and security because when I know how to make. I know how to take all the parts and skills sets of who I am and make exactly the solution I need.

Kajabi Makes Heroes

Kajabi makes makers but they don’t call them makers — they call them heroes- Kajabiheros.

Kajabiheros are their own makers even if they have chosen to use their gifts, skills, and talents within another’s business. They possess the mindset of makers and I am forever thankful for how they make me totally and undeniably unemployable.