She Planned 500 Weddings. Then One Hurricane Changed Everything.

After planning more than 500 destination weddings, you'd think there wouldn't be much left to surprise Sandy Malone.

Apparently, there was.

I listened to Mayank Gangwar's conversation with Sandy on Dear Paarijaat, and what stayed with me wasn't the glamorous side of destination weddings.

It was the chaos behind them.

Hundreds of people, impossible timelines, unpredictable locations, family drama, last minute disasters... and somehow you're expected to make everything look effortless.

But then Hurricane Maria changed everything for Sandy.

Her business was devastated, and she had to completely rethink what came next.

What I found interesting is that after years of solving other people's problems, she eventually turned to something completely different: writing fiction.

Sometimes starting over doesn't mean rebuilding what you had.

Sometimes it means finally becoming something else.

Would you have the courage to start over after spending years building the same career?