When Gabriella Goddard found a lump in her breast, it was a huge wake up call. Faced with her own immortality, she was forced to take a good hard look at her life. And that’s when she reconnected to her childhood dream of being a writer. She asked herself, “If not now … then when?
Gabriella took that wake up call to heart and was determined she was going to give up living life passively. She created a seven-day crash course that offered a new way for people to make powerful changes that really mattered in their lives without waiting for that wake up call.
I interviewed Gabriella to tell us more about her message she is conveying through her new book, Gulp!: The 7 Day Crash Course to Master Fear and Break Through Any Challenge to see if she could help others learn how to get more meaning out of life—before it’s too late.
Q: Thank you for this interview, Ms. Goddard. I understand that it wasn’t until you found a lump in your breast that you made an important shift in living your life. Can you tell us what your life was like before you found out?
A. Things were going really well for me at the time. I was finally getting my Executive Coaching business to a profitable place and I was attracting some amazing clients. For the first time in a long time, I felt that my life was finally on track. And then wham, out of the blue I found the lump. My world just stopped in its tracks.
Q: What thoughts went through your head when you found out you might have breast cancer?
A. The weird thing is that it didn’t really sink in at first. My more practical nature kicked in and I made an appointment to see the doctor. Part of me just didn’t believe that this could happen to me—after all I was still young. But when the doctor confirmed my findings, she looked really serious. And that’s when it started to dawn on me. I was referred to a specialist and he found not one, but two lumps, and he made further tests. Then the postal service went on strike and my results got lost in the post! That’s when it really hit me. I realized that part of me was in denial (and very thankful for the postal strike). That’s when I got really depressed. It was hard to get up every morning. For the first time in my life I faced my own mortality. And it was a real wake-up call.
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