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'you're so lucky'

Danielle Theobald
Danielle Theobald
Social Media Strategist · 26 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

'you're so lucky'

'I wish I lived in Bali'

I spent 3 years doing 100 hour weeks

Fuelled by Red Bulls, free library electricity and a voice in my head that I now know was God

Understandably, people look at my lifestyle now and assume I got lucky

Maybe it was Daddy's money? No babe, I was in a refuge when I was 6, my clothes and food donations from the community

Did I do a course? Get investment? Win some kind of lottery?

No. Nada. Nothing. Zilch. NOL

I never understood what I was being led to

I didn't believe in God, I was a scientist!

But there was that voice, telling me what to do at each step

I graduated, wahoo - finally!

I left the UK when I graduated with -£1k in my Monzo overdraft and a one-way ticket to Asia

'go' it said - 'it will all make sense'

B*TCH WHAT DO U MEAN 'GO'?? IM BROKE!

I mean at this point maybe I should've admitted myself into some kind of hospital lmao

but I followed it. of course I did.

and now, the girl who had no 'purpose', no money, no backup plan...

is a mother and wife, on the other side of the world, in a job she absolutely adores

SORRY WHA?

so you got me good God, because you were right

but somehow I know that he's only just getting started...

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