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THIS WEEK:

- The Article: Hiding in the Height of Business

- Who We're Celebrating:

Marci Foglietta & Carlos Kachal

- Elevate Corner: What's in the Pipe?

Hiding in the Height of Business

2022 was the financial height of our business. It was also the most peaceful season of my life — our three children were little and healthy, we had a large home inspection team, and for the first time in years I felt business and family were starting to get easier. Like copy and paste our systems kind of easier. By every outward measure, things were working.

And underneath it, I was quietly falling apart.

Not from exhaustion, but from misalignment and suffocating fear. Fear that I couldn't hold every relationship together — because in our company, that was my role. I was the connector. The one who built trust through enthusiasm and showing up with joy. And somewhere in the middle of that peaceful, successful season, I ended up on my knees in the basement of a home inspection unable to catch my breath. My first anxiety attack? Perhaps. I was saying yes to tasks, events, clients, projects that were creating chaos in my entire body.

So I hid.

I was confident that if anyone knew I had an internal struggle my business would suffer because I was a weak and can't-hack-it girl, not a knowledgeable business owner and home inspector. There was no single moment where I disappeared. I just slowly stopped showing up the way I used to. Less present physically. Less present socially. Somehow I hated all of it, and considered shutting down the business to take a year off and sit pray think write. A little dramatic, I know! I also quietly waited for people to reach out. When they didn't, I took it personally. I second-guessed every relationship I'd built — in business, in church, everywhere. Were any of them real, if this many people let my 2-year silence go unquestioned?

Here's what I didn't see at the time: people weren't pulling away from me. I had made myself impossible to reach. The isolation I feared most — being known by only a handful of people — happened when I was quietly trying to hold everything together.

“Burnout was never proof I was doing too much. It was proof I'd drifted from myself.”

I've watched this industry wear burnout like a badge of honor. We talk about the grind, the hustle, the being "always on," like exhaustion is proof we care enough. I believed that too, for a while. But burnout was never proof I was doing too much. It was proof I'd drifted from myself — from the joy-filled enthusiastic wife, mom, and leader I actually am, into a performance I thought I owed everyone. That's not commitment. That's misalignment. And it deserves to be treated like a red flag, not a résumé line.

Nobody rescued me from that season in one conversation. There wasn't a single day everything changed. What actually shifted me was slower and less dramatic than that: Reading, praying, journaling, and without editing myself. And talking — really talking — with a handful of trusted friends who also owned home inspection companies and understood exactly what that pressure looked like from the inside, because they were carrying versions of it too. None of it alone would have shifted me back into alignment. Together, it compounded. Quietly, consistently, until the version of me that was so incredibly uncomfortable and out of alignment was replaced by the genuine outgoing joy-filled strong and plucky Jaymie I was created to be!

I certainly don't have it all figured out, and I know I'm not the only one who's ever smiled through a season while quietly coming undone behind it.

So if you're in your version of 2022 right now — successful on paper, peaceful in pieces, and still somehow disappearing — hear this: You can do hard things. You can learn new things and break through ceilings you never knew you could! The right hard things feel amazing! Though if you find yourself on a path that gives you a negative anxious twist in your gut feeling of burnout it is not the badge you think it is. It's a signal that you are in misalignment, and you will not recognize yourself until it's corrected. You don't need one dramatic turning point. You need people who'll tell you the truth, a little more honesty with yourself than feels comfortable, and enough consistency to let it compound.

I am no longer hiding at the height of anything. I'm just here — all of me, confidently intending to light up every room I walk into, growing my businesses and my family. Because why not?

-Jaymie

Don't let outward success be your measure of how you're actually doing. A peaceful, thriving season can mask real internal struggle. Check in with yourself, even (especially) when everything looks like it's working.

Real change doesn't come from one dramatic moment, it comes from consistent honesty with yourself and a few trusted people who understand your specific pressures, compounding quietly over time.

Who We're Celebrating

Marci Foglietta (Quest Realty)

Carlos Kachal (Icon Realty Experts)

We love to pause and recognize top agents who consistently choose Elevate Inspection Group as their trusted inspection partner. Marci and Carlos, your continued confidence in our team, and the support you show us with every referral, is vital to our success. We don't take that trust lightly — it's a privilege to be part of the process for you and your clients.

Thank you for being an important part of our journey!

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