Simone Knego - Adopting a New Form of Family

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, our guest is Simone Knego, author of the best-selling book,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Extraordinary UnOrdinary You</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a wife and mother to six children, and an entrepreneur. She details her trial by adopting three of her six daughters, her climb on</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mount Kilimanjaro</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and all those amusing, frightening, and inspirational tales that have come along the way in her latest best-selling novel,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Extraordinary UnOrdinary You</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Simone holds both the Accounting Bachelor and the University of Florida Master of Accounting and is also a CPA member.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:19]</span> <strong>Learnings from Marriage</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can choose to give up or not. There are moments that everybody fights and disagrees, but you cherish the moment you have with them.  The most important part of marriage is the commitment to each other—as a family.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[6:40]</span> <strong>Splitting time to be successful</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For a long time, I struggled to get through things. But what I realized is that prioritization makes a difference. And the things that you don’t finish today, they’ll still be there tomorrow.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:34]</span> <strong>Developing Yourself</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I struggled for a long-time, seeing value in myself looking at what I was doing. Raising good humans is one of the most important things we can do. I didn’t see it like that. I saw it as if I’m not making a difference at all.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:22]</span> <strong>Choices in Life</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I used to talk abou