Banishing the Jester of Doubt

He’s not welcome here.

Jen Duff
4 min readOct 25, 2021
dark hallway with a beautiful woman leaning into the sunlight
Photo by Ifrah Akhter on Unsplash

I’m not sure when the phrase, Do what you love and the money will follow,’ became part of my vocabulary and belief system, but it feels like I have always known it to be true.

I love to watch the inspired growth of people.

And what I also love is the healing power of food.

In 2014, I was on a post-divorce journey from stay-at-home mom to personal trainer. After that certification and immediate disappointment with the lack of nutrition education, a mentor of mine recommended more education with a focus on nutrition.

As I began the course work, that phrase continued to repeat in my head. I shared it with others, I taught it to my children as if it were an academic subject, and I believed it to my core.

I reinforced it with books like The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I followed spiritual teachers that taught me how to release my own limiting beliefs and to allow my plans for the future to come into focus. I hired a life coach who showed me how to experience my own inspired growth.

And yet, I was not seeing the results in my bank account.

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