From real estate cancer

# Entrepreneur of the Week Liat Gottfried
# Post 1

I'll start my story the first time I visited the United States, a girl who graduated from the military and is going to make carts to fund the big trip to South America. There I first felt the power of the land of unlimited possibilities, and dreamed of big money :)
After a few more big trips and more strollers in all sorts of places in the world, I returned to Israel with my partner, and started the regular route with a slight delay, a degree in industrial engineering and management, entering the field at Aviv (a large consulting company), a house and two cute kids (really!).
In the spring I managed significant projects in large organizations, learned how to express complex ideas through excels and presentations, delivered workshops, implemented changes and loved the work very much (and still loves). At work I became addicted to another dream, “climbing the ladder of degrees”, that's all I wanted for 6 years I was there, to progress, to prove myself, to be the best of everyone but then…
Two days after we returned from a six-month trip in New Zealand with two children in the trailer (that's a story for another post), I happened to feel a lump in my breast, after a series of tests the diagnosis came: breast cancer. It was crazy to think of myself as having cancer, and what's the deal now? I'm young and healthy, but I was determined not to let cancer win and not to let it affect my routine, so I continued to work. I worked during the chemotherapy treatments (and liderally during the chemo, I opened the laptop, made presentations and answered emails), even after the surgery I returned to work within a few days and the same with radiation. The work gave me a lot of strength and made me feel like Wonder Woman who could do anything, and you can say it worked, within a year of treatments the cancer was behind me, but at some point despite the strength I felt I started to feel something else... something that bothered me, like an annoying itch at the back of the head, which with progress This year it got stronger. It could be that the war for my life created some kind of dissonance with the priorities I had in my life until then, it could be that I simply realized that "the time is now", and that if I want my life to look different then the time to make the change is... now! And these new feelings were accompanied by the usual thoughts about my workplace, that climbing the ladder is a goal over which I have no control, but is controlled by some boss who must like me, I felt a rising and increasing pressure that was probably always there but with the new urgency to live my life now the fur fell And I finally took the step of quitting my job and actually leaving the career I had nurtured for 6 years?
I had no idea what I would do after "spring", I knew I was not going to work in any other organization, and you could say "I was looking for myself" for a few weeks, at the same time a company we knew in New Zealand (#Noa Cohen Shabtai) entered the real estate world in the US B and already started making deals (after very nice deals in the country), I knew I wanted her with me in my first deal, she accompanied me and taught me everything there is to know (well not including what to know, but you got the idea). Noa is sharp, smart and patient and I, love to study, and love data (especially when they are neatly arranged in Excel;). Thanks to our wonderful friendships, the chemistry, the contrast that complements, the way was paved for an amazing partnership that yielded us in a very short time so far beyond our expectations! In four months of partnership, we closed 4 rental transactions and another 2 flip transactions !!! (For us and our investors)
Practicing real estate allows me to work relatively little, enjoy my spouse and children, go on spontaneous vacations, sit with a friend for breakfast, or go for a walk in nature even in the middle of the week, read a good book in the middle of the day, and sometimes… just hang out! What fun I made this step and thanks to the cancer I have brought so far :)
So what will we have this week? Since I am an organizational consultant, I have brought into Noa and mine's business a lot of management tools that have upgraded our Big Time business, and I want to share with you some tools and work processes that can propel your business forward. So worth following, promises to be interesting :)