12/23/2025
We are women… we ALL need to hear this message: (borrowed from Leanne Ruff, who is amazing)
In every season of my life, life has not quietly handed me lessons on a silver platter. It has thrown them at my feet and said, "Figure it out."
Some of you know my story. I was never supposed to make it. And yet here I am, decades later, building businesses, writing books, standing on stages, creating rooms where women feel seen, and saying yes to tables I once only dreamed of sitting at. Not because it has been easy, but because I refused to let the hard parts be the final word.
Here is what I know right now:
You can be exhausted and still called.
You can be scared and still show up.
You can be cracked open and still be the strongest person in the room.
Survival is not the goal anymore. Survival is the starting point. The real power is what you build out of what tried to break you. The broken pieces become the blueprint for a life you are proud to live.
If you are walking through something heavy, do not mistake this chapter for your whole story. Your struggle is not proof that you are failing. It is proof that you are in the middle of becoming.
Keep living. Keep learning. Keep adjusting the dial, even when it would be easier to shut it all down.
Your future self is being built right here, in the mess, in the stretch, in the moment you decide you will not back down from the life you came here to live.
💝
