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The Power of Vision and Goals ARTICLE JACINE GREENWOOD
On April 11, 2001, my life changed forever. My darling son, who we were so excited to give birth to, was born prematurely and died. Diagnosed with congenital heart disease, it was something that I never expected. Nobody ever talks about the possibility of losing your child or that they will have an abnormality during prenatal classes. In my grief, I did not want to return to life as a registered nurse anymore, so I focused on my beauty career, which I had started previously. Little did I know that this shift would be the beginning of a skin care empire I was yet to build.
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y son’s death shattered me to my core and had me reexamining everything in my life. It made me realise the fragility of life and that life brings unexpected moments, so you may as well enjoy every moment you can whilst you are here. The death of my child also unleashed my intuitive side, something I did not even know I possessed. I had always looked at mystics with some special power, little realising my
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own healing abilities that resided within me. Once I started listening to this voice that was guiding me, my formulas and my products totally changed. The results I started getting became almost unbelievable. The stress of our child dying led to the eventual breaking down of my marriage, which led to divorce. Upon divorcing I started my holistic skin care brand Roccoco Botanicals. Risking it all, I threw all of my divorce money into this business idea. My mother thought I was crazy and told me that if I failed, I would lose everything. I remember saying to her, “Then it is good motivation not to fail Mum.” For the first two years I did everything the logical brain told me to do. I cold-called and visited salons, yet I didn’t seem to be getting anywhere, so I stopped. I decided to follow my instincts and was drawn to the world of online forums, where I found my niche and expertise were developing and where I was becoming somewhat of a superstar in the industry. After having self-taught myself cosmetic chemistry initially, and then officially becoming a qualified cosmetic chemist, my opinion was sought out by many estheticians. Little did I realise at the time that all this work I was putting in now would be the reason for me breaking into the American market, something many other Australian brands had tried to do and failed. I had been busy running my clinic full time, which left little time for promoting Roccoco, but this all changed on February 22, 2014. The discs in my neck were bulging and protruding on the nerves, causing severe compression and unbearable pain. No longer was I able to work anymore as a beauty therapist. Unable to hold a pair of tweezers or drive my vehicle due to chronic, unrelenting www.spiritualeventsdirectory.com
