At age 12, I had a simple dream: treat myself and a friend to a lavish day at the local waterpark by the end of the summer. I didn’t have the money for this, yet knew I’d find a way — I come from a family of small business owners, including my father and grandfather, who both supported their families with construction businesses.

So I started something. I decided to go door to door selling painting services, with my brushes and tools on the back of my bike. I handed out business cards drawn and lettered by my mother.

That summer the dream came true — and my little business gave me something far more profound: a taste of sovereignty. This set my life direction — I saw and felt the power for businesses to help good visions become reality.

Since then, I’ve learned what it takes to create and sustain our most ambitious visions — for family, for our employees, and for our world.

Now it is my great joy and honor to offer counsel to a diverse group of leaders across the globe. 

These are people just like you: founders, artists, self-employed service providers, nonprofit movement-makers — all carrying potent visions and seeking to create their life’s work.

Through the ups and downs of my own journey, from executive roles to the overwhelm of creating a startup, I’ve been frequently called to look deeply inward at what limits me. I discovered that I ignored my inner workings with regularity — mistakenly blaming everyone but myself. I limited the breadth of our team’s success and my leadership to a box defined by my own fear, cultural norms, and family history.

Lesson learned: our (and my) responsibility is to embrace and transform what’s inside — our own shadow — so that what we create can finally reach its potential.