During that time, I watched the Internet transition from not being much of a thing to an entire “Internet of Things.” 

I didn’t want to get left behind – or even worse – passed over. So, I became obsessed with growing my professional skills – enrolling in dozens of online courses, attending numerous conferences and hiring more coaches than I can remember – only to come away feeling even more confused than before I started. 

I knew that insulating myself from a possible layoff meant I had to shake things up a bit. So, at 49 years old, I enrolled in graduate school and began the journey toward earning my Master’s degree in Communications.  

Research shows that the average woman in midlife will need between $1 and $1.5 million to retire comfortably — yet 65% of women ages 40 to 65 don’t have a plan to get there.

That reality became my wake-up call — the spark that pushed me to find my thing and rewrite the narrative for my life.

I’ve gone from being a corporate cog to a successful sidepreneur and now, a midlife mentor showing other women over the age of 40 how to use their years of earned knowledge and experience to create new opportunities for themselves.

I spent years working as a corporate communicator.