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Last year I quite literally had £0 MRR

Danielle Theobald
Danielle Theobald
Social Media Strategist · 12 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
Last year I quite literally had £0 MRR

Last year I quite literally had £0 MRR

then I got pregnant

march 2025 I didn't like my business

so I went travelling for 3 months, in a DEEP grind

i spent months building a new offer, new funnel, new branding - it was all ready to go

so I dropped all my clients, finished up contracts, tied everything up nicely so I could start working on a blank slate

£0 MRR

not 1 client to keep cashflow, no money in savings, nadda

Then a few days after I landed back home in Bali

a late cycle, 2 lines on the test, and u know the story from there

I had to chuck those 3 months of grind and planning in the bin

build something better from scratch whilst quite literally sleeping 16 hours a day and puking every hour

but to my absolute shocketh to the core...

9 months later when my son was born, I had more profit than I've ever had before

more automated than ever before

AND better client results than ever before!

don't get me wrong, they were the most excruciating 9 months of my entire life

and not just because I grew a whole child on a diet of stilton and berries (thank u pregnancy cravings)

when I got my plans ripped out from underneath me almost exactly 1 year ago, it led to something astronomically big and better than I could have ever dreamed of

something I now praise God for multiple times a day

(there's actually a MUCH deeper role of God amongst all of this, I'm kinda scared to share it but maybe I should, lmk if u want to hear it)

The past year I've learnt more about myself and business than I did in 25 years of life

and I couldn't be more happy that all my plans burnt to the ground

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