Create Your Own Serendipity
If you focus on enough of the right things and invest meaningfully and selflessly in relationships and knowledge, you can create your own serendipity.
These are the very words I live by.
I didn’t break into tech with any connections or knowledge or ability in tech. And yet I became the #1 social seller in tech in the world.
I didn’t have a straight path to leadership. I assumed the position and offered to help, serve, stretch, and it was my experience and hard work that propelled me into roles I never should have gotten.
My career has been built on moments that shouldn’t have happened—meetings I shouldn’t have gotten, opportunities I shouldn’t have received, outcomes I shouldn’t have attained.
There’s nothing I love more than being told I can’t do something or that something can’t be done. Watch me.
All of these things DID happen…
Because I spent years doing the quiet, unglamorous, unseen work that compounds.
Because relationships—real ones—opened doors no résumé ever could.
Because every time I got knocked down, overlooked, or counted out, I went right back to the fundamentals:
Adding value without expecting anything
Reaching out when there was nothing to gain
Sharing what I learned so others could win
Showing up on the days no one was watching
Staying consistent long after most people quit
People will call it luck.
But luck is just long-term generosity returning home.
Every major break in my life came from someone I helped years earlier…
A door I held open when no one else cared…
A relationship I nurtured when there was nothing “in it for me”…
A skill I sharpened before I ever needed it…
A community I poured into because rising tides DO raise all ships.
Serendipity isn’t magic.
It’s momentum built through meaningful human connection.
And the best part?
Anyone can create it—starting today.
What serendipity are you willing to create for your future self by investing in people today?
