I've never had one straight career. Every time my life needed something different, I rebuilt around it instead of forcing the old model to fit.

Where it started

I started as a pediatric speech-language pathologist, until a move to the mountains of western North Carolina meant my license didn't transfer, and recruitment was what happened to be available. I ended up the first recruiter a small tech consultancy had ever hired, seven employees, under $3 million in revenue, so I built the systems for that department from scratch. My CEO noticed, pulled me into the rest of the business, and by the time I left we were 28 employees and over $5 million in revenue. Somewhere in there, I became COO.

Where it broke

Then I had my daughter, and none of it held.

I was still COO when she was born. I went back to work assuming I could perform the way I always had. I couldn't, and it took me years of burnout to understand why. I hadn't built the infrastructure, for myself or inside the business, that I needed to show up in the capacity I was actually in now.

The part that took me longest to accept: I wasn't the founder. I could see exactly what needed to change, and I still couldn't reshape the whole business around what I actually needed. Somebody else owned that decision.

So I left, and built my own thing, one that let me pick my daughter up from school instead of around a version of me that stopped existing the day she was born. Once I was doing that for myself, I saw how badly other moms needed the exact same thing.

Postpartum is brutal for high-achieving women in a specific way. We go back to work assuming we can perform the way we always have. We can't. Once you actually accept that, the real question shows up: what's next?

That's where I come in.

The thing nobody told me: my business and my life were never two separate problems. They were one system, and I'd only ever built infrastructure for half of it.

After two years of doing this work with clients, I kept seeing the same pattern. The problem was almost never only the business or only the home. It was the specific place where the two ran into each other. I started calling those collision points, and finding them is the first thing I do with every client now.