“Follow Your Passion” Didn’t Fail You
What Failed You Was the Lack of Voice, Structure, and Self-Worth Behind It!
A Manifesto for Those Who Still Believe Their Work Matters—Even When It Hasn’t Paid Yet.
Let’s start here:
If you followed your passion and ended up broke, the problem wasn’t your passion.
Conventional wisdom gets this wrong far too often. But we’ve been conditioned to want to have the “right “ answer for everything, so we lie down and accept this as a universal truth.
And there’s no shortage of examples in the world that thus cause us to give up before even trying!
But the real problem?
It was never being taught how to protect your passion.
Or price it.
Or sell it—without collapsing your soul in the process.
Or ask for help with it without feeling like a proven failure.
It’s easier to just agree that “passion doesn’t pay.”
But what most people shoud be saying is, unstructured passion doesn’t pay.
Unspoken value doesn’t pay.
And the parts of your gift that you resent marketing? They don’t pay either.
The passion isn’t the liability.
It’s the untrained voice behind it.
The ungrounded pricing structure.
The self-worth that was never taught how to take up space in a room full of buyers.
Passion without power is a setup.
When
says “Following your passion will keep you broke,” he’s not entirely wrong.But he’s also not talking to people like me.
Or probably like you.
Because if you were ever taught that passion alone would carry you, without being taught how to:
Price cleanly,
Ask clearly,
Build structure under your offer,
And command income without apology—
…then yeah, of course it didn’t work.
The dream didn’t fail.
The scaffolding never existed.
Let’s talk about what no one teaches:
It’s not enough to love the work.
You have to love the selling of the work.
You have to love the positioning of the work.
You have to love the voice you grow in the process of protecting it.
Because your passion isn't just what you do.
It’s the energy you carry when you talk about it.
It’s the structural conviction behind your ask.
It’s the refusal to let your rates collapse every time someone flinches at any number.
If you hate talking about your offer…
If you shrink around sales…
If you avoid putting yourself in rooms where your value needs to be stated, not just felt…
…it’s not your passion that’s the problem.
It’s the silence that surrounds it.
Your voice is not a luxury.
You were taught that it’s noble to be humble.
To let the work speak for itself.
To undercharge while “building credibility.”
But your voice is your credibility.
You can’t build a lucrative business—or life—on talent alone.
Not because talent isn’t enough.
But because no one sees it when you stay silent.
Voice is what gives your work shape.
Voice is what lets people understand the value, not just admire the aesthetic.
Voice is what gets paid.
The ones who make it?
They didn’t pick the most marketable skill.
They learned how to stand behind their unmarketable gifts with unapologetic clarity.
They stopped trying to explain their value and started embodying it so cleanly, it didn’t need defense.
They stopped pitching. They started positioning.
And they let their voice do the heavy lifting—without needing to justify, over-share, or convince.
Because when your internal clarity gets that strong…
The external questions don’t rattle you anymore.
Passion doesn’t keep you broke.
Silence does.
Confusion does.
Unstructured pricing does.
Undernourished confidence does.
Some of the people who say passion is a liability may mean well.
But they confuse raw emotion with real voice.
And they confuse lack of results with lack of value.
But I’ve seen what happens when you grow a real “money voice”:
You stop apologizing for wanting more.
You stop using undercharging as a survival strategy.
You stop ghosting your own dreams because you're tired of pitching them to the wrong audience.
You start selling with power.
And you start earning with integrity.
Not because your passion is suddenly “better”—but because you’re no longer trying to monetize it without structure.
So here’s what I stand for:
Don’t follow your passion blindly.
But don’t discard it either.
Build it.
Voice it.
Price it.
Sell it like it matters.
Because when you love the selling of what you love as much as the doing—
That’s when passion finally pays.
And you stop being broke.
For good.
P.S. If this stirred something—if you know your work is powerful but your income doesn’t reflect it yet—
I built something for that.
It’s my signature group coaching program Grow Your Money Voice.
It’s not about shouting louder on Instagram.
It’s not about performing your personal brand 24/7.
And it’s not about forcing people to buy in ways that feel like emotional blackmail.
This isn’t a trick.
It’s a recalibration.
Of your voice.
Your ask.
Your structure.
Your self-trust.
So you can stop ghosting your own offers.
Stop hesitating in sales conversations.
And stop trying to prove your value to people who were never ready to receive it.
Grow Your Money Voice is a 90-day experience for people ready to lead—not with noise, but with clean power.
And this year, it’s going to the most my exciting yet!
Enrollment is open now. 12 spots. We start May 15.
You can learn more here.
Or send me a message and say “I’m ready.”
I’ll take it from there.
