My husband’s family once said I’d be nothing without him. Three years later, I stepped off a private jet at their annual reunion. But the real shock wasn’t the jet… it was what came next.

I never thought I’d be the type of person to arrive at a family reunion in a private jet. But life has a way of surprising you. Three years ago, I was Isabella Rossi, the disappointing in-law who wasn’t good enough for their precious son, Marcus. Today, I’m the CEO of Innovate Finance, a tech company valued at eighty million dollars. And the look on my mother-in-law’s face as that jet touched down on the field behind their sprawling estate was worth every sleepless night I’d endured building my empire.