Pivot for Success

Epilogue: Pivot for Success

I won a lot by losing Everything.

AS YOU COME to the end of this book, you may still be wondering, “If The ComfortCake Company was such a terrific idea, why hasn't Amy been super successful and rich by now? Why didn't she sell the company earlier? Why didn't she …”

Let me be very honest with you. I may not be rich, but I am incredibly successful. It is all in how you Envision Prosperity. I always knew I would take ComfortCake as far as I could, and then use my experience to teach others so that someone, somewhere would take things farther than I did. And truth be told, the ComfortCake story is still being written. Trust me on that one. But even if nothing comes to pass, I'm good.

Recently, Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen did an Instagram show on their lives as sisters, and what was most gratifying for them. For both, it was teaching. Tony Award–winning actress and director Phylicia Rashad teaches master classes in acting at prestigious universities all over the country. And Debbie Allen teaches dancers of all ages at her Debbie Allen Dance Academy. Both spoke glowingly about the love of seeing the spark of light come on in students' eyes, and I agree. But I didn't get to this place easily.

Beginning in 2018, I experienced two years of significant personal losses for me. First, in May of that year, one of my mentees, Chef Judson Allen, a gifted and talented Food Network star, died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 38. I read about it on ...