Strategy with soul. Built for women who refuse to choose between the business and the life.

How it started

An entrepreneur at 24.

I started my first business at twenty-four — before it was fashionable, before there was a playbook, and long before anyone was calling it a movement. I just knew I wanted to build something of my own. What I didn't have was a roadmap. When you're not formally trained in business, you figure it out the hard way: by getting it wrong, recalibrating, and trying again. And here's the quiet truth — even women I know with business degrees often weren't handed the real, practical information they needed to actually start and grow their own thing. So much of that education stays theoretical, or stays too broad to translate down to the specific business you're trying to build. That gap is exactly why a room of women working it out loud, in real time, matters so much. We shorten each other's learning curve.

25 years of building

Opened, grown, scaled, sunsetted, relaunched.

Over the past twenty-five years I've opened, grown, scaled, sunsetted, reopened, relaunched, and reinvented businesses to fit the life I was living in the moment. Each season asked something different of me — and each one taught me something I still use today. And I'm still in it. Right now I'm running three brick-and-mortar businesses and two online businesses, with employees, clients, and the same Monday-morning decisions you're making. I'm inside Founders Circle working on my own businesses in real time, right alongside you. These aren't antiquated teachings dusted off from a decade ago — they're up-to-the-minute, current, and tested in my own work this week. My hands are in the clay with yours.

Mentoring younger women

Pulling the next one up.

Some of my favorite hours are spent across a small table with a younger woman who has a flicker of an idea and the nerve to say it out loud. I get to be the person I needed at twenty-four — honest, encouraging, and a little bit bossy in the best way.

And it doesn't stop there. One of my deepest joys is walking with women in every season — especially women in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond who have decades of knowledge about their industries, their craft, and life itself, and are finally ready to build something of their own. The world needs you. Our communities need what you've been quietly carrying. It is never too late, and the game is never over. I started my most recent business at fifty, and I'm certain there are more businesses ahead of me. So whether you're twenty-four or sixty-four — you're not too young, you're not too old. You just need to begin.

Joy in the journey

Actually doing the work.

I genuinely love this — working in my own businesses, working on them, and getting to do the same alongside other women in theirs. Whiteboards, half-finished offers, pricing pages we tear apart and put back together — the real work happens shoulder-to-shoulder. I love the details. I love the strategy. I love the trial-and-error of figuring out what actually moves the needle for your business, not a hypothetical one. I'm not watching from the sidelines with a clipboard — I'm right there with you, sleeves up, in the work.

Consultancy

A treat of a chapter.

Consultancy has been a genuine treat — the chance to sit beside women who are serious about their craft and help them turn instinct into strategy. Hobbies into businesses. Skills into businesses. Almost anything can be monetized, and the world needs more women brave enough to try.

Wife & mother

The whole life, on purpose.

I'm also a wife and a mother, and the kitchen is just as much my office as the desk is. I don't separate the two — the business has to fit the life, not the other way around. That's the whole point.