For most of my life, I was the person everyone called. The one who had it together. The one who showed up when things fell apart — for family, for friends, for everyone who needed something. I was the strong one. And for a long time, I wore that like a badge of honor.

But strength that carries everyone else's weight eventually runs out. And mine did.

After my house fire and the loss of my brother in 2024, I found myself in a place I had never been before — uncertain, exhausted, and doubting everything. The voice that used to push me through had gone quiet. And in that quiet, I had to face something I had been running from for years: I had been so busy being strong for everyone else that I had completely lost myself.

That season humbled me. It also changed me. Because in learning how to sit with my own pain instead of pushing through it, I discovered what I now teach every client: you cannot build an intentional life on top of unexamined patterns. You have to go underneath them.

I went back to school, deepened my coaching practice, and committed to understanding the patterns that keep women stuck — the silent strength, the endless rebuilding, the self-doubt dressed up as perfectionism. I studied them because I had lived them. And I built Intent and Thrive to be the space I desperately needed and couldn't find.

Today, I work with women who are done surviving. Women who are ready to get honest about what's keeping them stuck, learn the pattern underneath it, and build a life they actually chose — not one they fell into. That's the work we do together. And it starts with a single conversation.