# @ciarafoyinc on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DRkMdS2EX1L
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61793456-ciarafoyinc-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-27T15:49:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ciara Foy // Nutritionist • Hormone Expert • 20 Yrs (@ciarafoyinc) — https://gondola.cc/ciarafoyinc

## Caption

In 2021, in the middle of a pandemic lockdown, I decided to sell my Toronto house and move across the country to build a custom home on the lake in Kelowna, BC.

No friends or family there. Building a house from scratch. In a lockdown.

Everyone thought I was crazy.

Was it scary? Absolutely. Terrifying.

But I knew in my heart it was the right thing.

I had a dream. And I wasn’t going to let anyone hold me back.

And then something incredible happened.

After I made the decision, women entrepreneurs started appearing in my life. Existing friends resurfaced and moved there too.

All showing me I was on the right path.

Because every time I’d land in Kelowna, I’d have tears streaming down my face.

I was home. I was safe. I was protected.

And that feeling - that vision - got me through some of the scariest and darkest days of my life.

But here’s what I didn’t expect:

When I stopped playing small, everything changed.

I didn’t just build a house. I upleveled my entire identity. My business. What I believed I was capable of.

I stopped asking for permission. Stopped shrinking. Stopped waiting for someone to tell me I was ready.

Now? I have my dream home on the lake in Kelowna where I’ll spend Christmas skiing Big White with friends. 

I have a condo in Toronto because my daughter goes to school there. I jet off to Europe, Cancún, Miami, California for business.

Spring and summer in Kelowna - my heart, the water and views, my active sanctuary with all my best friends.

Fall and winter between Toronto and traveling.

This life didn’t come easy.

It came from betting on myself. Going after my entrepreneurial dreams. Upleveling my identity. And surrounding myself with the most incredible women who lifted me up!

That urge you’re feeling? To go somewhere that feels like home, even if it makes no logical sense?

Listen to it.

Your soul knows where you belong.

And so does your business.

#over40 #startingover #trustyourself #womenentrepreneurs #newbeginnings

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womenentrepreneurs, startingover, newbeginnings, trustyourself, over40

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