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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Mackenzie Shelton.

For six years she built a real estate business while raising a family, and she did it the way high achieving women usually do. All of it. Perfectly. Herself.

Then early in 2020 she found out she was pregnant with her fourth. At about ten weeks she lost the baby, with complications so serious she came close to needing a transfusion. She did not feel right for months.

Her body made the decision her calendar never would have. She had to slow down.

The problem was the train did not stop. She had spent six years building something that could not just sit there while she healed. So she started asking a question she had never asked before. What if I do not have to carry all of this.

She asked her husband for help. She hired help. She built systems for the things that kept turning chaotic.

And she says something honest about her faith in that stretch. She had not been leaning on it much. She had a business coach and a plan and a very secular way of growing. The season that broke her open is the season she started praying about her business instead of just her body.

Out of that came her book, The Serenity Solution, about freedom from control, perfectionism, and the pressure to do it all.

There is a story in this episode you will retell. To keep her sanity with four kids, she hired a friend to clean her house once a month. She was one of that friend's first clients. That friend now runs a six figure cleaning business with a staff.

Mackenzie also leads a real estate team seven years in, where the average agent earns around $150,000 a year, and most of those women are single mothers running their lives on systems. She and her husband run a real estate investment business and bought a forty acre farm outside Council Bluffs, Iowa three years ago.

When people tell her they do not know how she does it all, she tells them the truth. She does not.

Find Mackenzie on Instagram at MackenzieLeeShelton. Her book, The Serenity Solution, is on Amazon.

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