A Memoir by Kettia Etienne Ming
For the woman who has outgrown who she used to be, and doesn't yet know what comes next.
Run the Mile You're In is a memoir about starting over, and the permission you didn't know you were waiting for. A story, told honestly. No framework, no homework.
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This book is a mirror, not a manual.
Run the Mile You're In is my story, told the way I would tell it to a friend at the kitchen table.
I built a childcare company from my basement into four Manhattan locations. I sold it in a multimillion-dollar acquisition, the kind of ending that looks like winning from the outside. Then the company that bought it sued me for $1.5 million over a non-compete, and the legal battle that followed nearly broke me. My marriage did not survive it. I chose a strategic bankruptcy to keep my business open long enough to sell it, and then came the hardest part: figuring out who I was when everything I had built, and the woman I had built myself into, was gone.
This book will not hand you a plan for your life. It does something different. It gives language to what you have been feeling and proof that a woman can lose the identity she spent decades building and find something truer on the other side.
The promise is simple. You may not finish this book with all the answers. You will finish it knowing you are not alone in the question.