The Mantra
Dear Neighbors, Family, and Followers;
If we haven’t already met, my name is Megan. I am originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia but grew up in sunny San Diego. Growing up, I rode horses and competitively sailed. I was one of a couple girls on my high school sailing team, which really taught me the meaning of being tough. I learned through sailing how to control the controllable.
Control the Controllable: Focusing energy on things that you can do to shape your future.
After finishing high school, I moved back to Canada and went to Dalhousie University. I was beyond ecstatic to be back in my home country. I made some of my closest friends in university and I can lean on them for anything. However, I bounced between majors like a ping pong ball because I didn’t know what I wanted to do post degree. I was frustrated and confused. All I wanted was to please everyone around me and finish my degree. When it came time to find an internship in university, I came across a marketing internship for a mortgage company. I instantly fell in love with the position. I found my passion in writing for the company and helping others become more financially literate.
I balanced working at the yacht club as a coach and writing content during my summers. I would go to work in the morning at the yacht club, and I spent my nights camped out at a coffee shop table plugged into my computer. After the summer, I returned to school and balanced schoolwork and mortgage content- it was stressful! I realized that what I was studying in university and the path it was going to lead me down was not what I wanted to do. I lost the meaning of controlling the controllables through university and needed to reevaluate what I wanted my future to look like. I did know that I absolutely loved talking about anything mortgages. I decided after the school year I was going to take time for myself and figure out what my passion really was.
I continued writing for the mortgage company up until a couple months into the pandemic. I started to lose my spark and my love for writing about financial literacy. I left and coached full time for the yacht club. I felt unfulfilled working at the yacht club. I missed mortgages and kind of felt like I burned a bridge with the company I had been working for. I looked for jobs in the industry, but it was hard because the published work that I had done wasn’t under my name. I started researching how to become a broker and what it took to help others the way that I want to.
And now I am here. I am currently looking at the options available to me in becoming a broker, while getting back into writing. I am re-learning how to control the controllable. I am working on curating a plethora of different mortgage topics. You can anticipate more posts about the differences between a bank lender and working with a mortgage broker, strategies to help pay off a mortgage quicker, and whether you can get a loan with poor credit. I am working to make you feel more empowered about homeownership and the options available to you!
With love,
Megan