I’ve spent over two decades teaching creative intelligence. This is the lived skill set of noticing patterns, generating options, and shaping reality through choice.

The purpose, life and work came out of breakdowns, hot mess mornings, snack-based avoidance strategies (bless you, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups), the scrolling, the meltdowns, and the kind of research binge only a former academic administrator and strategic planner could pull off. Add in strong coffee, a wall of sticky notes, 70 pounds lost, and my derpy corgi sidekick, Yogi—who couldn’t care less about mindset but absolutely insists on showing up for the good snacks and belly rubs—and I built a system that not only stabilized me, it grows with you when you rise.

I come from a line of women who knew how to cut through the noise with one glance and a single sentence. My mum could scorch you while smiling at the neighbors.

Me? I channeled that same fire into weaving together the real challenges women face and the science of how we grow—translating new knowledge into something familiar and usable. My superpower is helping people connect what they learn back to their actual lives.

My work, and current life, didn’t come from a whiteboard. It came from losing my husband to ALS, then my mom to cancer, and watching my entire identity implode in the aftermath. I left the home I’d built for over half my life and landed in Kansas City, where nobody knew me, what I had accomplished, or what I had survived.

Even the best mindset tricks and self-help books couldn’t stop the water from pouring into the sinking boat. (Trust me, my browser history would amaze you.) So I stopped looking for a fix.

Wildcard Power gives you the internal infrastructure, not just to weather life’s messiness, but to create life forward from it.

Action without creativity is just reaction.
I don’t want a life built out of reactivity.
I want a life I get to shape.