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From business to personal, these are my stories on entrepreneurship, careers, writing, speaking, failing, parenting, creating, and growing.

The Fearless Woman Podcast Feature

In an episode called Finding Your Voice with Liz Navarro, I had the honor of having a conversation with Amanda Smith, the host The Fearless

How to be an entrepreneur: Written by a toddler

Because we’re excellent parents, we’ve established a reliable system of rewards and consequences to encourage good behavior from Lucy....

Mom guilt: our secret weapon

I’m currently (scratch that)...I’m ALWAYS in an “it’s complicated” relationship with mom guilt. It’s been hard to wrap my mind around the...

On baby names: light + bright

Lucy means light. It took us a long time to commit to Lucy’s name. I felt like naming a child I didn’t yet know--giving her a word, a...

How to be a feminist: Written by a toddler

When I was a toddler, my family visited my grandma who lived out of state. After our trip, my grandma sent my mom a book called Raising a...

Stuck in a rut? 5 ways to climb out.

This story starts as so many do: at Target. In late June 2016 I pulled into the Target parking lot alone, a woman on a mission for...

How to grow: Written by a toddler

At 20 months old, Lucy’s most confident words are trash and shoes. She’s mastered some of the basics–mama, dada, hi, bye, yeah, no–but...