I started out as an ambitious young woman who wanted to see the world, build things, work hard, and make life interesting. That drive carried me into business, marketing, leadership, service, and aviation.
Work took me to Canada. That trip became one of those unexpected turning points that changed the entire direction of my life. I met an Aussie rugby player, moved to Australia, and started building a life that looked nothing like the one I had originally imagined.
In Australia, I became a wife, a mother, and a business owner. We were blessed with three incredible kids, and I helped build an award-winning business from the ground up. Our BBQ sauce was named best in Australia. Our event won best in Australia too. Multiple locations, countless events, and a brand people genuinely loved.
It was exciting, exhausting, successful, messy, and full of lessons I never could have learned from a textbook. I learned how to adapt, problem-solve, lead, serve people well, make decisions under pressure, and keep going when the plan changed.
Eventually, life shifted again. After years of building, adapting, and holding things together through bushfires, COVID, inflation, business pressure, and major personal change, I moved back to Texas with my three kids and started over with more perspective than I had before.
That season taught me that adapting is powerful, but alignment matters. Sometimes the version of life you learn how to function in is not the version where you fully thrive.
Now, I bring together writing, business consulting, aviation professionalism, yoga, motherhood, and lived experience. Different paths, same thread: clarity, awareness, resilience, and the willingness to keep learning.
That’s not a perfect story. That’s real experience.
I’m also a lifelong sports fan and a former fast-pitch softball pitcher. I grew up around competition, teamwork, practice, and pressure. That competitive fire never left. I just learned how to channel it into building, rebuilding, and showing up with purpose.