How I went from nothing (aka a homeless, single mom) to being on track for a 7 figure business
Jun 25, 2025
You may have heard stories like this, but they sounded sensational and a little more like fiction than reality, so you wrote it off.
You may have heard my story and thought I must have had characteristics or some kind of help that you don’t have access to and written it off.
Here, in a step-by-step fashion (abbreviated for your time) is my story of how I went from homeless, to being on track to hit 7 figures in 2020.
1) This story started out with me couch surfing at my friend’s house, with $200 in my bank account and no money coming in at 29 years old. I realized that I needed to start taking responsibility for my life, and stop blaming my abusers for their complete violation of all my boundaries and sovereignty as a human being.
2) I began my healing journey, and started learning hypnosis. I found HMI a couple of blocks from where I was staying and registered the same day I went for a tour. Luckily, I qualified for a student loan which covered the cost of tuition.
3) I got a job paying $10 an hour at Princess Cruises. I rented a room, and went to school at night. This was a squeeze year for me, balancing school, full-time work and being a single mom.
4) I moved into an apartment and met an amazing neighbor who offered to watch Serafina for free while I went to school. Seriously! She wouldn’t even accept $25. I will never stop being grateful for you Tara Ardila.
5) Six months later, I started my internship as a hypnotherapist charging $25/ hr. My healing with hypnotherapy was going so well, that I started to learn as many other healing modalities as I could afford. I took an afternoon off every other week, and rented a chair from a local hypnotherapist as I built my client base.
6) After another 6 months, I was making the same amount of money as a hypnotherapist as I was at Princess Cruises, and I quit my job to go into hypnotherapy full time. I got a part-time job at Lee’s to at least cover my rent. You may have seen me there
7) I worked part-time for 1 more year, until I couldn’t juggle my private practice and a part-time job anymore (by this time I was working at HMI in admissions and it was soooooooooo great!!! I loved it! But it was time to fly!)
😎 After 2 more years, my prices had raised to $80 an hour, and I was maxed out making $6K a month. Which don’t get me wrong, was nothing to sneeze at (after all, I was used to living on less than $2K a month), but in order to fund all the non-profits I wanted to start, I knew I needed to restructure my business. I worked 60+ hours a week and still never saw Serafina. Even though I had won so many awards for my healing skills (including Best of Santa Clarita Valley, and Best of Los Angeles) that was not the life I wanted to create.
9) I realized that the part of my job I loved MOST was creating a space for total and complete transformation. So I began an online course called Emotional Tranformation Bootcamp to help more people and work less so I could pick Serafina up from school some days. I also started working with Adam Flores who completely changed my world.
10) My income was still up and down but I had always wanted to do live events so my dear friend Dan EC Mendilow & I decided to do a 3 day event called LifeStyle Hackers in LA and it was AMAZING!!!! We came away from that event with almost $100K and I started to realize I had been limiting myself with my money mindset.
11) My monthly income was down to less than $2K though, with pivoting away from my business and focusing on the event so something had to change FAST because overnight my bills skyrocketed to $9K (a story for another time). I had one month to figure out how to keep Serafina and I in my apartment. AND I DID IT! Phew!!
12) Over the next 7 months I continued to make $9-$10 K, with my course and 1:1 clients (by this time my rate had climbed to $250 an hour and was still climbing)… not only the most money I had ever made in my business, but the most I had ever made in my life!
13) Until November 1st hit, and I woke up with a MAJOR anxiety attack. I couldn’t get out of bed it was SO BAD! I realized the holidays were upon me, and historically, people completely stopped spending money on personal development during the holidays. If I didn’t do something drastic and SOON, Serafina and I would be homeless again.
14) I reasoned that there were some people in business who made ALL their money for the year during the holiday season and the only thing that stopped me from being one of those people was my belief that I wasn’t. So I did a limiting belief clearing on that belief. And I hit $14K. In December, I hit $15K. In January, I hit $30K and doubled December.
15) I also started to realize I needed some serious help in my marketing and systems and signed up with coach for women. An amazing decision and a wonderful experience. I learned about marketing and growing a business in alignment with yourself, and met some AMAZING ladies that I’m privileged to call friend to this day.
I also hit some of the highest months of my life at $30K, $27K and $24K. I felt like I had made it. I felt like I was doing it. I thought I had finally broken free from the poverty mindset that had held me down for so long.
NOPE!
16) In April, 2019, I started to self-destruct. HARD. I “accidentally” gave an identity thief access to my bank account and was locked out of my accounts for a MONTH! The only cash I had was from clients who agreed to pay me in cash that month.
17) I went through another level of spiritual awakening so profound, I couldn’t believe how asleep I had been before. I realized I had created a business based on what I thought people wanted me to be, not based on who I was and I was so out of alignment it SICKENED me.
18) I incubated for about 5 months, just coming out to teach my new class Millionaire Mindset Mastery, and see my 1:1 clients. If you go back to that time and scroll through my feed - you will see I mostly shared memes. That was about all I could handle as far as marketing.
19) In about July, when I realized my group to date in 2019 had made over $67 million, I realized that my purpose did lie in teaching healers and coaches how to connect to wealth, but I had to figure out how to do it MY way. Not with all the fur and frills.
20) That’s when I was FINALLY ready for Scott Oldford. His first 3 day event shattered my world and tore down every paradigm I had created about marketing to the ground. I learned how to be ME and STOPPED selling. Completely. In a very short time my income bounced back up to $15 K.
21) In January, I started working with an Oracle, my mentor Sephirah Starsong. Cue quantum expansion and the ability to receive more that I ever had in my life!
22) After a couple more months, of just being authentically me and following what intuition said I should do (including launching 12 Days of Breakthroughs), in Jan I cleared $100K+ in sales. Again in Feb. Again in March. And here we are at the beginning of June and I have $530K+ sales for the year. And climbing.
23) I love my life so much I literally cannot believe that I get to live it. It is hardly wine and roses all the time, but I set my own hours, I have everything I need and I’m surrounded by the most amazing people I could ever wish for. I have a stellar team, amazing support and business that lights me up every damn day. A girl couldn’t wish for more.
The bottom line is… this could be YOUR story. I’ve been where you are at. I felt the despair, the loss, the hopelessness. I learned how to push through to where I am now. I’ve learned all the lessons.
BUT It took me hundreds of thousands of dollars and 7 years, and I don’t want it to cost you that much time and money.
My new program Quantum Wealth Alchemy launches in a couple of weeks and we are moving at the speed of spirit. If you’re interested in joining us, pop a “More info” below and I will have one of my connection & intimacy team members reach out.
Always holding a space for your divine transformation,
Abi xoxo
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