" Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really, vulnerability is courage. We must ask ourselves... are we willing to show up and be seen?"— Brene Brown
I GUESS you could say from the outside looking in, I had it all. The career, the house, a loving husband, beautiful and healthy kids, the M Sport BMW, the spa membership, and the audience( including you) that gave me affirmation of my“ perfect” and envious lifestyle on a daily basis.
The problem was that it was all a facade. I was actually in a deep, dark depression that was progressively getting worse, and I didn’ t know it until I was committed to a mental hospital on December 14, 2016.
The start of 2016 looked incredibly promising: I became obsessed with going on LinkedIn, seeing that I was in the“ Top 1 % viewed profiles”( what does that even mean?) and my posts were receiving hundreds of thousands of views. The fame of being recognized as having the“ Highest SSI Score” at LinkedIn’ s annual conference and shooting those infamous free throws with Shaquille O’ Neal took me far— further than I ever expected. I capitalized on that fame on a daily basis to grow my newfound consulting business, Lindsey Boggs Consulting.
The work poured in. I was on a plane every week, traveling across the world to speak on social selling, lead generation, and how to grow a pipeline. Occasionally, I was hired for giving motivational speeches concerning career growth and how I went from opera to sales. It was a high. I loved being on stage and I was in my element.
My Snapchats and Instagram posts were consistently showing me with mimosas in first class, Ritz-Carlton suites, and expensive wine at glamorous restaurants. What they didn’ t show was me missing my daughter’ s birthday, layovers of doom, an addiction to sleeping pills( due to time-zone issues), growing friction with my husband, and missing every single extracurricular activity with my daughter and son.
My life was presented to the outside world like this: bliss.
But it came with a price.
That summer brought an incredible opportunity to be a keynote speaker with leading marketing expert Gary Vaynerchuk at the Cisco / Avnet conference in San Francisco. That same week, my husband and I were to celebrate nine
10 SUMMER 2017