Hopefully by now you've already had a moment to peruse my site and familiarize yourself with a little of my world. I am honored I've peaked your interest and I hope we can become acquaintences. Many in the past have called me Dr. Millman, or Doc, but these days, I’m just Lauren. I’m a 40-something retired chiropractor, and a happy and peaceful at-home entrepreneur. I’m also an online coach and all-around Gumptionista (more on this later).

So what's a former-practicing doctor doing online these days? I once had a different life, and a much different career. I spent more than a decade owning and operating a private boutique cash chiropractic practice, and the decade before that in school. My life's mission was always to provide superior patient care and holistic health guidance. My passion, for as long as I can remember, was helping people regain their health, and help them keep it.

After almost 20 years in the industry, between my schooling, training, and the 10+ years of private practice, I burnt out. Flat out crashed and burned. By age 40, I felt like I was 70. My health was crumbling and I was drowning in everything required to maintain the level of business I was producing.

I eventually realized the path I was on wasn’t sustainable. Not only was it not sustainable, I was not going down the path I wished for myself. I had poured everything into my practice and it became clear that my business required that same level of energy indefinitely to sustain itself. I had created a monster.

One of the saddest periods of my life was when I realized I no longer wanted what I had worked so tirelessly to achieve. Both my husband and I had sacrificed beyond measure to get to where we were, a place that we could finally breathe. Once I was able to be honest with myself, truly honest, I realized I didn't want it anymore. I had fallen out of love with my business and with patient care. The proverbial glass was officially empty.

So I closed my practice and walked away. I needed time to heal and regain my bearings. I stumbled around lost for a while, trying to discover who I really was if I was no longer “Dr. Millman.” My identity had been wrapped into my business and my career, and I was no longer congruent with the direction I was going down. I needed a reboot, and I needed to have some serious conversations with God about the next phase of my life.

After a period of healing, something emerged in me that I believe had been dormant for who knows how long. I knew I had other passions I wanted to pursue, those that had been left untouched and underutilized from my first profession.

I kept feeling pulled to do something online, but I really didn’t know what. I was highly intrigued with working from home but how could I use my skills from home? What would that even look like? How could I possibly help others if I wasn’t providing physical patient care?

I started immersing myself in this entirely brand new concept of affiliate marketing. I can confidently say that affiliate marketing found me, I didn't find it. It checked all of my boxes: I could talk about and promote things that I loved and endorsed, work at my own pace, and work from home.

Affiliate Marketing was very attractive to me. Not only did it provide the freedom that I so craved, it appeared by all accounts to produce a very generous income. Affiliate Marketing seemed very vast and vague in the beginning, yet the mysteriousness of it all intrigued me. I dug deep in researching the many avenues I could pursue. It seemed like teaching and guiding people about healthy and holistic decisions was the obvious answer. I've been sharing, promoting, and spotlighting holistic products and services with my patients since the beginning of my practice, so affiliate marketing seemed like an obvious and natural next phase... just on a much larger scale than what I'd already been doing.

I also knew that if I could figure this affiliate marketing thing out, I would teach it to others. People who wanted more for their lives, those still exchanging their time for money, like I used to, craved this information. Teaching people how to make a handsome income from home, while living the life you have always wanted, seemed like a dream come true for me. What if I could help others achieve not only better health but financial freedom as well... the financial freedom that doesn't come at the expense of one's health, time, or sanity?

I don't want to say a light bulb rose from my head, lit up, and the glass broke when I decided upon all this.. but it was close. I will say that the motivation to begin this new, exciting journey seemed to come together nicely... and organically.

I'm still passionate about helping people on their journey to a better life through achieving better health; however, now, I also help those achieve financial freedom as well. I’m combining an old passion with a new one: health and wellness with financial freedom. They truly go hand-in-hand.

So that’s the back story (sorry, bad chiropractor joke). To continue reading about my journey, follow my blog as I document my journey with affiliate marketing.