Growing up I always had dreams of owning my own business in New York City in a big high rise building.
When I was hit with the diagnosis of diabetes when I was 19 those dreams still were there.
After a few years of having diabetes and realizing what the insurance side of diabetes was like I started to become discouraged about owning my own business.
How would I get insurance if I owned my own company.
These are still my biggest concerns.
Diabetes introduced me to blogging which led me to social media.
I started blogging everyday, going on social media sites, started working on design, started learning about search engines and how they work and different marketing techniques.
I started to think to myself damn this is awesome, I would love to do this for a living.
But, how will I pay for insurance.
So while still working for that old company I began to do some consulting, giving advice to people on how to rank better in Google and then teaching them about Twitter and showing then how Facebook = easy money.
So then popped up CSI Marketing Solutions, LLC.
Right now I have insurance through Cobra for the next 18 months so the insurance part of owning my own business is not as much of a concern.
So this is how diabetes has led to me owning my own business.
If it wasn't for diabetes who knows if I would have created a web design and search marketing consulting company.
It's times like this that make me thankful to be diabetic.
Have a great weekend everybody.