Everything my husband and I owned went into buying a Ski Lodge B & B after our nutrition company was taken over by venture capitalists. I believed we found our way to financial freedom while also being able to indulge in one of our favorite pastimes; imagining a world of skiing every day, being pampered by the staff and living the good life...what were we thinking?

Instead, the reality was 24/7 making beds, cooking breakfast and cleaning the dreadful toilets. Bills were piling up and I couldn't see more than a month ahead, let alone 5 years. The big bold leap made in purchasing the ski lodge suddenly did not seem so bright and shiny.

One day, Phil hit his head on the sink while scrubbing one of the bathroom floors. When he stood up he said "I didn't recognize the man in the mirror wearing yellow rubber gloves and holding toxic cleaner." That's when he asked me "what has happened to us and our dreams?" That was the moment when we knew, there's got to be a better way!