Who is Samantha StudebakerCarl?

Samantha is a Blogger, Personal Development Coach, founder of the Mindset Mastery Collective community and co-host of the Saturday Morning Mastermind. She’s passionate about helping you overcome your limiting beliefs and live the life you’ve always dreamed of. She’s dedicated to helping YOU become the best version of yourself you can be.

Hi, I’m Samantha and I’m here with one mission.

To help you.

My all time favorite quote is this…

The only thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story your vision. So write, and draw, and build, and play, and dance, and live as only you can!
~Neil Gaiman

To me, this is the ultimate challenge and call to become the very best version of yourself. To live as only you can live. You are the only one who can find the path to your own bliss and you are the only one who can take the steps to make it happen.

However, I also know the path to your own bliss can be hidden in the abundance of minutia that fills up our busy lives. Sometimes finding your bliss seems like a pipe dream. One thing I’ve discovered though, if you take time regularly (even if only an hour a week) to work on your own personal development, you’ll be able to shift your priorities without guilt, find your bliss, and live a happier more fulfilled life.

The Art of Happiness

My journey to find my bliss started when I realized I wasn’t happy in my career as a pet stylist and salon owner. Even though I was very successful in that business, I wasn’t truly happy. I was good at what I did, but i wasn’t passionate about it. I’d been working in the industry for 17 years and I felt like something was missing from my life. I spent most of my time working and what little was left went toward caring for my children and helping my husband with his business.

There wasn’t anything left for ME-time and the time I spent with my family always seemed dedicated to chores.

The decision I made in March of 2007 changed my life forever. I decided I’d had enough. I didn’t want to spend all my time working my life away. So I quit. I sold my pet salon, vowed to never groom professionally again, and became a stay at home mom. At the time, we still had a successful trucking company and everything seemed to be working fine.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t see the future and what the future had in store for us wasn’t what I was expecting.

In 2008 the economy crashed, fuel prices went through the roof, and after series of major mechanical failures & not so great financial decisions, we ended up having to close our trucking company.

This devastating blow caused us to experience complete financial ruin. We lost our houses, filed bankruptcy, I had to give my car back to the bank, and our marriage nearly failed too. OUCH!

It was a dark time in my life. I’d lost faith in myself. I’d lost faith in my ability to support my family. And worst of all, I didn’t know what the heck I wanted to do.

5 Steps to pick yourself up when you’ve been knocked down in life

When our marriage was on the rocks, I turned to self help books. The one that was the key to saving my marriage was Zero Limits by Joe Vitale

This book changed my life. Not only did it help me save my marriage, it opened my eyes to the world of personal development.

I began reading everything I could get my hands on. Books on interpersonal communications, financial well-being, finding your purpose, law of attraction, living in the now, awakening the power within you, creating wealth, becoming enlightened, meditation, etc were just some of the titles and topics I explored…

I discovered I was passionate about these topics and I was determined to find a way to make this my life’s work.

I didn’t know how I was going to do it, but I knew someday I’d find a way.

Funny thing is, I found my way to where I am now through a series of completely unrelated home businesses.

On my journey to find financial security but still stay home with my family, I tried many types of income producing activities as well as different jobs. Driving a dump truck, being an office manager, MLM, online marketing, blogging, direct sales, online tutoring, creating digital courses, and building websites are a few of the things I’ve done.

One thing I discovered while working in some of these businesses, was the lack of confidence, perseverance, and peer support many people who were attempting to break out of the norm and follow their hearts, were experiencing.

I noticed thousands of people who desperately wanted to build a business they loved, but they had no one to support them, no one to talk to about the problems they were experience, and no one to guide them to know what areas of their lives they needed to work on in order to overcome the challenges that kept them from fulfilling their purpose.