2022 was a year that tested my strength. Early last year I started my online business creating and selling organic products: “Mallory’s Adventures Store”. Using plastic free, recycled eco-friendly, inspiring, empowering, uplifting items-saving the planet actually factually! I was featured in LA & NY Weekly News Articles about Entrepreneurship shortly thereafter!

In the springtime I went through major emergency surgery “anterior cervical discectomy” to be exact. I was recovering in a neck brace for months while taking care of my two little boys alone. I’ve gone through two cesarean surgeries with both my boys so I was thinking I could handle it no problem, but this surgery made me question whether I’d be able to ever move my neck again it was BRUTAL!!! My surgeon keeps mentioning to me that I’m STILL recovering from this surgery. I needed to learn to take it easy…not riding any rollercoasters for a while…Did I mention I was also going through a divorce? I forced myself to finish writing my book while recovering in the springtime. I needed to turn a negative into a positive and busy myself while I couldn’t exactly move much! In the summer I published my first novel, becoming an author and fulfilling a dream of mine! I had to put myself out there even more – in uncomfortable situations to reach my goals, getting out of my comfort zone (which is quite introverted forest alone vibes if you haven’t noticed!)

I rescued Simba…my rough collie! AKA big cuddly lion…. if lions…were in fact…cuddly! I continued being the best mother, I was determined to keep my boy’s life as normal as possible while going through my divorce.

I continued creating quality content and attained a community of over 113,000 followers. My content is inspiring, positive…magical…I know it’s great and I loved helping and empowering the community and influencing everybody to be real, be your authentic self! I created a social media presence by truly being myself, that I built and managed myself, that represented me, which is REAL! In November that all came crashing down as my account was hacked, held for ransom, then deleted. I was about to quit…but I started all over again, just like I have done so many times in my life already… (PS – follow me @mallorysadventures). I’m already at a community of almost 9,000 IG people and I thank you all for that! It’s amazing, but so is my content 😉

I touched the Backstreet Boys… true story though, I met them in real life, my favorite band of all time, another dream come true! I read over 88 wellness & business books with about four fiction novels in the mix as well this past year…next year I might as well make it one hundred 🙂