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She Asked For a Raise. He Said She Was "Behind" Because She Raised Her Son. So She Quit On the Spot. | Nesha Pai
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What do you do when someone tells you you're behind?
Nesha Pai walked into her annual performance review at a Charlotte CPA firm ready to ask for a raise — and her boss told her she was "nowhere near her peers" because she'd taken time off to raise her son. She quit on the spot, with no plan and no backup income, at 40, as a single mom. One client followed her. Fifteen years later, Pai CPA is the first fully remote accounting firm in North Carolina, serving 80+ clients with a team of stay-at-home moms.
In this episode, Jennie and Nesha talk about the "mom gap" and why the time you spent raising your kids is not a hole in your resume, how to advocate for yourself in a room full of men, the biggest money mistakes women business owners make, why she fired her largest client to protect her core values, what to do this week if you're scared to open your books, her book Overcoming Ordinary Obstacles, and what it looks like to reinvent yourself again at 55.
In this episode:
- The performance review that changed everything
- "Little Nesha stood up and said I quit"
- Starting a firm at the kitchen table with one client
- Building the first fully remote CPA firm in North Carolina
- The hustle: every networking event in her city for six months
- Perfectionism vs. actually investing in yourself
- Firing her biggest client over her core values
- How to stop being afraid of your own numbers
- Writing a book to heal, and the reader she never expected
- Keynote speaking and the "Don't Settle" speech
- Why there is no age limit on reinvention
Connect with Nesha Pai:
Instagram: @neshapai
Website: neshapai.com
LinkedIn: Nesha Pai
Book: Overcoming Ordinary Obstacles
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I'm Jenny Blackwood, a small town mom of four who refused to settle for a life that didn't light me up. When everything felt uncertain, I didn't run back to a nine to five. I bet on myself. I took a simple idea and turned it into an almost seven-figure business my first year, all while being a mom first. Now I'm here to help you trust your own power, chase the dream that keeps tapping your shoulder, and build a life that feels like you. This is Girl Why Not You. Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to another exciting episode of Girl Why Not You? I, of course, am your host, Jenny Blackwood, and this episode is for the woman who has done everything right, okay? She showed up early, she stayed late, she took the years off to raise her babies, and she told herself it wouldn't cost her a thing. And then somewhere along the way, somebody made her feel like she was behind. And I wanna say this before we go even one more second, okay? The years you spent raising your kids, you guys, it's not a gap. They are not a hole in your resume. They are not something that you have to apologize for or explain away or make up for, right? The only thing that will actually keep you behind is deciding to settle where you are. And today's guest knows exactly what that feels like because she didn't just think it. She heard it out loud from her boss in her own performance review. Nisha Pi is the founder and CEO of Pi CPA, the first fully remote accounting firm in the state of North Carolina. She's an author, you guys. She's a keynote speaker, and she is the woman business owners call when they are ready to stop being afraid of their own numbers. But you guys, what I love most about her is not the firm, is how the firm started because Nisha built all of this at 40 years old. Thank you very much. As a single mom without a plan, no backup income, and exactly one client who believed in her. We always need that one client. So today we're talking about what you do when somebody tells you you're behind. We're talking about money and integrity and the biggest client she had to fire. That's gonna be juicy. I'm excited for that one. We're talking about advocating for yourself in a room full of men, and we're talking about the year it all caught up with her. Nisha, I am so excited to have you here today. I'm honored.
SPEAKER_01What an what an intro. I'm honored to be here, Jenny. Oh my gosh, I just love your whole podcast and your concept and your vision.
SPEAKER_00Thank you. Thank you. I am so excited to showcase amazing women like you because I think people think we all have to fall in this mold and that if we haven't figured it out by our 20s or 30s, that we're screwed somehow, right? But you are such a beautiful picture and example of how that ain't the truth. Okay? So you've built this whole firm, you're on stages now, you've written a book, but here's the thing: I would love to start by going back before all of that to the version of you that nobody was clapping for yet. How do you feel about that? Whew, she's come a long way. She's come a long way. I I can tell. I my gosh. So take me back to who you were before Pi CPA. What did your life actually look like back then?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so I ended up getting divorced when my son was six and going back to a local CPA firm here in Charlotte. And uh I worked part-time, nine to three, because I wanted to be at home with him when he got off the bus. And um, so I got paid accordingly, but I also, you know, as we all high-achieving women do, I gave extra. I always gave extra. Like, how can I be better at my job? How can I do better, not just clock in and out? And um I was still learning the ropes of like my confidence and um trying to figure life out. And I had been at this firm for five years. Okay, so to give you context, and so when I went in for my annual review in the middle of tax season, which made it more stressful, um, I walked in to my boss, and you know, I was I was armed with my list of all these accomplishments and achievements, ready to like, you know, just stream it out. Here are all the things I've done in the last five years, here's why I, you know, deserve the $10,000. That's all I asked him for. And if you guys do the math, $10,000 in a year equates to like a dollar a day, right? Yes. So I'm asking him for this raise. I'm telling him I'm gonna give him more hours during tax season. And that's when he had we had the moment, and that moment changed the trajectory of my entire life. And he's he said no. When I say I like this raise and looked at me, and I kind of blanked out. You know how you blank out when someone's talking? All the time. I I blanked out and I heard no. And it was when little Nisha, we all have the little, you know, your little Jenny, little Nisha stood up. Little Nisha was tired of being small and taken advantage of, and she stood up. It wasn't me, it was little Nisha, and she stood up and she just looked him in the face and she said, I quit.
SPEAKER_00And yes, yes, Nisha, yes.
SPEAKER_01And I had never done anything like that in my life. And that's kind of when I tell people like we're an autopilot, and it's our little inner girl or inner person that says, Enough. No, we're not taking this anymore. So she stands up and she says, I quit. I come to you and I'm like, oh my God, what did I just do? Right. And um, I get up and I I'm running down the hall, and I call my one big client, which is a restaurant group here in Charlotte, and he says, We're gonna go with you. And I'm like, I don't even know where I'm going. Um, and that's when I decided that very day I was gonna start Pi CPA on my kitchen table with him. Yes, and I started at $4,000 a month. Wow. And I grew my firm, we just turned 15 this year, and I grew my firm. I I now have three stay-at-home moms that work for me. Oh um, which I that's all I hire, and I can say that. I know a lot I've had people come to me and tell me that I'm discriminatory. Um we're fine with it.
SPEAKER_00This is a discrimination we're okay with.
SPEAKER_01And here we are, and it's changed my life so that I can change other people's lives. And um, so that's my mission. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Wow! Oh my gosh, when you said I channeled little Nisha, and I just like, you know, you stood up for yourself in that. You're like, I'm not taking this anymore. We don't do that, we we don't do that enough as women. No, you're right, we don't, and it's so hard. It's like so many people that we have in our lives, and maybe you and I have like decided to break that mold, but there's so many people in our lives that we talk to that never do or really struggle with it or can't even ask for that little raise, and then God forbid somebody says no, they're just gonna say, Okay, you know, but it's like, no, advocate for yourself because if you don't, nobody else will, right? Amen. Yeah. So when you went in that room that day, I'm curious, you know, you you knew you were asking for a raise, but had you said to yourself, if this guy says no, I'm out.
SPEAKER_01No, I I thought he was gonna say yes. Oh, wow. So I never even thought of a plan B. I never thought of what he would do if he said no. And that's what was so shocking to even myself, because I thought, oh my God, I just quit my job. Yes. What? You know, with no backup plan, no secondary income. Um, and so no, that was never even a thought, you know, in preparation.
SPEAKER_00It's crazy how sometimes, you know, we we end up making those types of moves that almost seem a little out of character for ourselves, even, but it's like something came over you in that moment that was like, this is where we take a stand. And so tell me about this. You're you're here, you're asking for a raise. He says something to you that's pretty gross, right? He says something like you're nowhere near your peers because of the time you took to raise your son. So I think that's probably what caused that visceral reaction inside of you.
SPEAKER_01That's it's exactly right, and that's what I share with people when I tell the story. Yeah, the way he said it was, you know, you're nowhere. I I call it the mom gap, but um, which is like sort of the urban dictionary term, but like he literally said, You're nowhere near your peers because you took time off to raise your son. And here's the even worse part. I stayed at my home with my son for his first six years of life. I was already at the firm for five years. So he was using that as an excuse.
SPEAKER_00For your one year that you you weren't working at the firm. Okay, this guy.
SPEAKER_01This guy. Yeah, and so um, that's when the visceral reaction happened. I'm like, what? Like, and you know, if I thought about then, I probably would could have sued him, but I ended up getting what I wanted out of the deal, and I said, Yeah, you give me my one client. He gave me two months of severance, and I said, Okay, I'm gonna take that, I'm gonna take that severance and I'm gonna start my own thing. And that's what I did.
SPEAKER_00Was there any part of you that was ever like, oh, can I do this? Like, what was your confidence like at that time?
SPEAKER_01Totally. Um, does any entrepreneur know what they're doing? No, I still don't. We don't, right? We don't, and I was like, I'll figure this out as I go along. That's what we do. We figure it out as we go along, and so I knew that one thing had gave me an edge. It was it was knowing accounting. If I knew how to keep my money, do my money, budget my money. I was already ahead of the game. So I was like, I can do this. You can figure it out. You can figure out marketing and websites and networking and sales, you can figure all that out. And and so I just took it one day at a time.
SPEAKER_00I love that. And you are so spot on, and I want everyone to hear this. Don't just listen, but hear it. You can figure it out. There is nothing that you cannot figure out, especially I say this all the time, especially in today's age, okay? That's right. Oh, let's go to AI, forget even Google, although Gemini has really been working for me lately. But seriously, there's nothing you can't figure out. So if you ever come up with that excuse of like, I can't do this because I don't know how, or I can't figure it out, no, no, no, no, no. We're not buying that excuse. Right. Take it back. Right. Okay. Right. So, uh wow, okay. So here you are, you're 40 years old. You're a single mom at this point. You don't have an income, you don't have a backup plan. I'm just curious. As you're driving home that day, were you like, oh shit, what did I just do? Or were you like, no, I got this?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. No, it was a full-on oh shit moment. And I got home and I broke down. Like I held my tears until I got home, right? Because I didn't want to cry in front of him.
SPEAKER_00No, we're not giving a nap.
SPEAKER_01Right. So I got home, I broke down, let myself have an ugly cry. And that's okay, let's let's let's brush off here. Yes. We got work to do.
SPEAKER_00We got a girl, girl, you keep giving me the chills. I'm like, yes, I am so proud of you. Seriously. So now I want you to tell everybody what Pi CPA actually is today. Like, who are you taking care of now? You've started with client one.
SPEAKER_01Where are we today? Thank you. We serve now over 80 clients with a team of three um stay-at-home moms. We are 50% based in Charlotte and 50% the rest of the country. Okay. Um, we have clients in California. And we have grown through referral. That is how we've grown. And um, in the beginning stages, like everybody else, I hustled, I hustled, and I hustled, and I hustled. And I finally feel like the fruits of my labor have come. Right. Yes, yes, and that um I don't have to hustle that hard anymore. Yes. And um, and and that has been the beautiful surprise at the end of this whole rainbow of um where I was scrapping. I had male colleagues call me in year one, and they'd be like, We're looking at your website, we have no idea what what you offer. What are you doing? What is this virtual thing? Um, you know, because accounting is generally tax returns and audits, right? Back in the day, that's that's what it was if you went to a CPA firm and um they didn't understand the concept of bookkeeping remotely and virtually and uh until 2020, right? Okay, and then those men came to me in 2020 and they're like, oh, well, you've been doing it for a while. Now can you show us how to do it?
SPEAKER_00You're right, I have, yes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00You're way ahead of the times, you're way ahead of those guys. That's the thing, that it's like you really are a trendsetter. I mean, the fact that you were the first fully remote accounting firm in North Carolina is so amazing.
SPEAKER_01I didn't do it to be that, I just couldn't afford rent. Yeah. So I did it out of necessity because I thought I can't afford office rent, I can't have the downtown office. Yeah, um, I can't even do that. So I did it out of necessity. And when you sometimes when you do something out of necessity, you do end up being a trendsetter.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Right? That is so true. Sometimes you don't even realize you're being in that moment. You had no idea you were being a trendsetter. You were trying to survive, right? But you were shooting a gap. You were being, you know, resourceful, you were looking into the future, and you're like, well, I'm gonna make this work. I think people need to understand that yes, every business you're gonna start is going to absolutely require some hustle, okay? Hustle, hustle, hustle. It's worth it though. Can you talk to us a little bit about that? Like, what did your hustle look like to get from one client to where you are now?
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. So I took a uh I made a list of every networking group and event that was happening in my city in Charlotte for the next six months. And back in the day, we had business cards, right? We don't have business cards anymore. We have LinkedIn or we have little QR codes. And I made a bunch of business cards and I went to every single event. Wow. Every single one, pounding the pavement, and I said, here's who I am, here's what I do. Um, and I had to really explain what I did because people are like, what is it you do, right? Because remember, I was the first person to introduce this concept in my city and in the state, really. And um they didn't know, so I had to really dial in on selling what I did, right? Yeah. Because people didn't even know what I did. It wasn't a product on the market or a service on the market. And I just developed that really well to convince people I'm telling you guys, this works, you know, it's cheaper than you hiring an internal person or a full-time person, and just give me a chance. And so people started giving me a chance.
unknownThat's what I mean.
SPEAKER_01It takes one person, as you said, right? It takes one person to believe in you. Totally.
SPEAKER_00It really does take that one person, and and even your one person back in the day is what probably gave you the confidence to go, yeah. No, no, I got this, you know, and it it it's those small signs that you're on the right path, right? Not everything has to be this big to-do, this big explosive thing that you're like, oh my gosh, you know, it makes so much sense now. But you take one sign and you keep moving forward, and then so many more signs come that you're on the right path. I'm so proud of you. What's the biggest money mistake that you see women business owners making? Oh gosh, that's a great question.
SPEAKER_01Um, I feel like women business owners, we we want to be perfect, right? Before we launch something, before we do something. And it I don't want people to be investing thousands of dollars into something to look perfect or look good. It's like taking small steps, right? And not like, you know, going all out and spending ten thousand dollars on a website when you haven't even, you know, got gotten your first client. Right. Um, and then the opposite of that too, I see women making the mistake of is not investing in themselves. Right? So the coaching, the the masterminds, the conferences, get in the room, get in the room with these women that are doing what you want to do or are successfully where you need to invest your money because that ROI, that's ROI, that is return on your investment.
SPEAKER_00Right. I completely agree with you. You know, as a business coach myself, yeah, I will say I think that there's a lot out there that almost kind of wash out how beneficial coaching can be for people because I think there's a lot of like get rich people out there. But seriously, you guys, there's so many different realms where coaches make the most sense. Absolutely. Why, right? I mean, why try to create something from scratch, reinvent the wheel when there's somebody out there that can say, hey, here's how you're gonna do this and here's how you're gonna be successful.
SPEAKER_01You know, I mean we have coaches for other things, right? Like therapists, we have physical fitness coaches. I absolutely have 10 years in. I have a speaker coach, I have an accounting coach, I have a therapist. Like we go to experts to help us get better and grow. Yeah, right? Yeah. That's yeah.
SPEAKER_00I think there's some common misconception that, you know, like for people who go to college and get the degree and whatever, that like it ends there. But that's not true. Like it's personal development and growth throughout your entire lifetime. It's just another box you've checked when you get to that point, right? It's another level. Channel your inner Mario and Luigi, okay? You have more levels to go. But you know what I mean? So it's like, don't ever feel like there isn't more room for growth, you know? And I think a lot of times people too. You know, I can say this, I'm in my 40s. I think we kind of almost start to feel like, are we stagnant at this point? Like, have I am I an old dog at this point, you know? But Nagno, there's so much out there for you still. I mean, fill yourself with growth and knowledge forever.
SPEAKER_01Well, and I want to point this out too, because women think I've been around a lot of midlife women who think, oh man, man, this is over for me, or oh, my kids are gone and I'm empty nesting, and what next for me? And here's the thing: the beauty of being a midlife woman is the fact that you have all these years of wisdom that a 20-something doesn't have and a 30-something doesn't have. Amen. You take that wisdom and knowledge, and that is gold. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Yes. And other people crave that wisdom and knowledge, whether you believe that or not about yourself. People crave what you know. So don't be afraid to put it out there. You know, I want to get a little juicy here. So you said, obviously, that integrity is completely non-negotiable for you, which I love. Tell me about firing your very biggest client. What happened there?
SPEAKER_01This was scary. This was back in 2017, I want to say. Now, I had created a core values um sort of, you know, like PDF on my website. Like I came up with five core values with my team. Um, I went through like a core values workshop and I said, okay, here's our core values, you know, respect and integrity were my top two. Yes, love it. Um, here's where things get messy because you know, you've got your values, but then you got to pay your bills. And, you know, I our biggest client at the time was our biggest revenue generator. Now, this guy helped me pay for vacations. This guy helped me take my team out to expensive dinners. So I loved this guy. Yes. Until I didn't, but here's where I made a mistake as a leader. And I I went back and I apologized to my team and I said, we're never doing this again. I let this man, I let it slide, him disrespecting my team member for a while, right? But she did what she had to do. Like, and I'm talking just things he'd say to her, condescending things, um, you know, texting her, calling her outside of hours because he thought he owned us. And I let that slide for a couple of years. And she she kept her mouth shut, even though I know it was hurting her, it was stressing her out, she didn't enjoy it, but she did it for me. And once he did it to me, and my eyes opened up, I was like, oh my God, he's been doing this to my team member. And I've been allowing it, and it is going against our core values. So I was at an accounting conference with with a bunch of men who are my allies, and um, we were sitting down and I was telling him the scenario, and they said, You you need to fire him right now, and you need to do it over email. You don't even owe him a phone call. And I literally crafted this email with those guys at the table, and I hit send, and it was the biggest relief. And you know what happened next? Here's what what happened next after I went and apologized dearly and and somehow tried to make it up to her and my team, and I said to my team, hold me accountable, that's never gonna happen again. Number one, and number two, um what happened next was the universe, the universe blessed us and not only refilled the gap of that revenue, but gave us even more revenue.
SPEAKER_00Wow, that is so amazing! Yeah it's like uh I feel like a saying my dad always told me, get the jalopy out of the garage to make room for the Ferrari. And while he may have been a Ferrari of a client, he wasn't, you know, uh when you look at it from that stance.
SPEAKER_01So on the outside, he was right on the outside. This was a multi million dollar uh company. Yeah. Wow as a person, ooh.
SPEAKER_00Ooh, yeah, we're getting those people out to make room for the good people, and good for you, you know. That had to been so reassuring that I, you know, I'm sure even though you knew you were. Doing the right thing, there had to have been kind of a gut punch that came along with it based on what type of client. It hurt my bank account. Yeah. But you did do the right thing, and the world, as you said, rewarded you for that. So I'm thank you for sharing that with us. Yeah. I'm curious. So if somebody is listening right now, okay, and she's genuinely scared to open her books and look at her numbers, what's one thing she should start doing this week?
SPEAKER_01Ooh, oh my god, that's so good. Well, um, well, the bigger question I'd have before telling her is are you who's doing your books? Do you even have books, okay? And do you have someone that you trust doing it? Because I do believe you should not be doing it yourself. Um, I do believe this is one of the things you should invest in early on. Sure. And then what I'm gonna tell you is I want you to start learning your financials. And there are books out here, resources, AI, even as you said. Start learning what is an asset, start learning what should a PL look like, how to read a balance sheet, and you can do it in stages. Yeah. But empower yourself in first off knowing what your financial statements are, what they mean, um, and then how are your numbers in relation to that? And you can take that in stages. You don't have to do it all at once.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01But start learning what the financial statements are and what bookkeeping is so you can empower yourself. I've seen too many people get stunted in growing their business because they're afraid to look at their numbers. I am that person, Nisha. Well, you've done quite well. You've done quite well. And so I'm gonna tell you and everybody else don't be that person, empower yourself. Please empower yourself. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It's you know, I like seeing the money come in and I don't enjoy seeing it go out.
SPEAKER_01And you and you might have a good account. And this is what I tell people. You might have the best tax person, you may have the best bookkeeper. That's great. That's right. I want you to, but I want you to get engaged and involved.
SPEAKER_00You need to. I I was joking on it with another guest about how I went to some big Alex Hermose conference and they were talking about what's your EBITDA, what's your this, what's your that. And I was like, I shouldn't be in this room because I don't even know what the heck you're talking about right now. It's empowering to understand that. Now, have I done much with it yet? No. But uh, but I want to. I am so in the camp of when you have a business, get yourself out when it comes to the bookkeeping, when it comes to the financials. Let somebody else run that for you because things can get really messy real quick. And let me tell you, it costs more to fix it than it does to just do it right from the beginning. Yes, I'm speaking for a friend. I'm totally with you on that. And and I everything you're saying is really hitting for me. So uh speaking of books, let's move to a different type of book. I would like to know about your book. What is it called? Who did you write it for?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh, that's a great question. So I wrote this book. Um, it came out in January of 2020. I had this whole book tour plan that got erased. Um, and it's called Overcoming Ordinary Obstacles. I wrote this book, not even an accounting or business book, but I wrote this book to heal parts of myself because I grew up in the South, in the deep south, as a first-gen Indian woman. Okay. Okay. In Tennessee, there were five Indian families in the entire state, and we knew them all. And so I grew up with a lot of difficult identity difficulty, as you can imagine. Sure. And um, I wrote this book to heal, it was more for me, but I said, who do I want to reach? Okay, I want to reach women, I want to reach other women that might feel what I do, and they don't have to be Indian, they could be they could be white, black, uh, Asian, like it'd be anything, right? For sure. But here's what's interesting, and this is what I want to share with women. My number one fan, he has my number one review on Amazon, was a 29-year-old white man, male. Okay. He had been watching me, he worked for his dad's CPA firm. He had been watching me on Instagram, and he he bought my book when I released it. Didn't know him, don't even know him, didn't know him at the time, and he DM'd me and he said, I read your book, and it changed my life. Oh my god. His dad probably, I said, Don't tell your dad that you read my book. I didn't even have a white male accountant here in Charlotte to hate me. And so and so he went and started something in real estate, and I had coffee with him, and I said, I want to hear your story. I said, You are not even my intended audience. And here's the thing about what we do, Jenny. You, I, anyone else putting themselves out there, you never know who you're going to touch or impact.
SPEAKER_00You never know. That is so true. You never know. You know who I'm hoping to touch and impact? Some producer that, you know, wants to like bring me on to the good morning, America. If you're listening right now, please bring me on. But I love that. I love that. That is that is actually the best when somebody that you'd least expect is benefiting from what you're doing versus like your typical avatar where you're like, oh yes, I know I I helped another one of you, right? Stay home mom or somebody like that. But that had to really hit home for you.
SPEAKER_01That was that was easier. I like I like printed out his little um review, and I said, I put I hung it up on my memo board because I said, Yeah, it was so I was like, you weren't even my audience, dude. Like, like, not even age, gender, not none of it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that is so empowering and good for you. I mean, doesn't it feel good to do work that you love, but to know that you're having this like ripple effect on so many other people? That's our mission here. That is our mission. Yeah, like you said, if even just one person can benefit from that, what a life you've changed, right? And if that goes on to be like mainstream, I I would love to hit really quick on what you're doing as far as like your speaking, your your keynote speaking. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so uh after I released my book, I started speaking um just like at Rotary, different things in town, women's networking. And I realized every time I walked off stage, I was lit up. Yeah, I was that person that hated public speaking growing up, right? And um I was like, okay, something's happening here. So follow our gut, follow our intuition. I'm like, I gotta follow this. So I threw myself into learning the craft. I, you know, I was crazy. I when I go into something, I go all in. You commit. And um, and then I started getting in in in just on stages, even if it was free, like let me get out there and get practice. I created a speech called Don't Settle. Oh, yes. Which starts with it actually starts with my opening story of walking out of my boss, right? Yeah, and um how I've done this, how I've created a life that I love for myself, and how other women can do it, how other people can do it. And so um currently I'm actually with working with a speaking coach, Aaron King, and um, you know, learning how to get on these bigger stages and so um to impact more people. But yeah, it is my next sort of chapter when I decide to sell my accounting firm. Again, reinventing myself at 55 years old. You're so cool.
SPEAKER_00I just love you for all this.
SPEAKER_01Women need to know there is no age, there is no age limit. There is no age limit.
SPEAKER_00Get that out of your brains right now. Send it packing because it's true. There is no age, there is no reason that you can't do this. I mean, you could reinvent yourself at 80. I don't care how old you are, 90, 96, whatever you want to be, you can do this. So I'm gonna ask you this, and I'm excited for your answer. But what does why not you mean to you personally?
SPEAKER_01Ooh, that is a great question. I and this is what I love about your title. Um I grew up, I grew up thinking, why me? You know, I I was on the other side of that when I would see these like women who didn't look like me, that were blonde, blue-eyed, southern, that got picked for the basketball team, or got picked for this, or got picked for that. So I just had ingrained in myself, I'm not the girl that gets chosen. I'm not worthy, right? I'm not worthy, I'm not pretty enough, I'm not all these things until that moment, that moment that changed my life, and that became the turning point of why not me.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I'm I don't know whether to cry or just jump through the screen and hug you. I I love that so much because you really overcame these lifelong beliefs that you had you were wearing those things, but boy, did you prove to yourself and everybody around you that those really were just your own beliefs. Absolutely and they really weren't who you were. Right. This is who you are.
SPEAKER_01And that no one defines us, right? Because because I wasn't getting chosen by this person or that person or this guy or that guy, um, you know, doesn't mean they owned my worth.
SPEAKER_00Right. Absolutely. Absolutely. Everybody, please rewind and listen to that just a few more times. Let that really sit with you and resonate with how that impacts your own life. So obviously, after this, everybody's in love with you. So I need to tell everybody where they can find and connect with you.
SPEAKER_01I am big on Instagram. I love Instagram at I'm at Nisha Pie, N-E-S H A P A I. And um, I have a website, NishaPie.com. Uh, I'm also on LinkedIn. Amazing. Find me. I'd love to engage with you and connect with you. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_00Oh my gosh. Thank you. And everybody, if this resonated with you today, this reminder's for you. Yes, I'm talking to you. The time you spent raising your family, seriously, it is not a gap. Nobody else gets to decide where you should be by now. Okay? That doesn't exist. And you are allowed to stop settling at 40, at 50 on a random Tuesday in the middle of your own performance review, right, Nisha? Nisha did not have a plan. You guys, she had a decision that she made in the moment that that was no longer serving her, okay? So if this hit you today, share it with the woman you were thinking about the whole time you were listening. Please leave a review on this episode. It's how these stories find the women who need them the most. Okay, and I'm gonna ask you all this right now. If you've been waiting, girl, why not you? Have a great day, everybody. We'll catch you next week. If something in this episode made you sit up a little straighter or dream a little bigger, don't ignore it. That's your future nudging you. I'm living proof that you can start messy, start scared, start in the worst timing, and still create something beautiful. Thank you for listening to Girl, Why Not You? Now go take one small step towards the life you've been craving. Hit subscribe, leave a review if you feel called, and share this with someone who's ready for more.