Work With Me
Writing, speaking, and selective one-on-one advisory
I've spent my career in environments where sky-high expectations, ambiguity, pressure, competing priorities, and difficult personalities were just part of the job.
Over time, I realized that success—at work and in life—comes down to a handful of questions:
What's actually going on here?
What’s real, and what are the stories I'm telling myself?
What do I actually want, separate from what other people expect of me?
Am I making this choice because it's right for me, or because it's familiar, comfortable, or easier than changing?
Whether I'm helping someone navigate a difficult boss, a career transition, a complicated relationship, or a life that no longer feels quite right, the work is always the same: paying attention, telling the truth, and making choices on purpose.
That's the through-line of everything I do.
Writing
Personal essays and fiction about endurance, identity, ambition, caregiving, reinvention, and the strange emotional calculus of adulthood.
Modern Love — The New York Times
My essay in the New York Times Modern Love column tells the story of loving my husband through severe depression and electroconvulsive therapy — from a surreal afternoon in an Apple Store to the double doors of a psychiatric unit. Read
Working Without a Net — Blog
Essays on love, endurance culture, motherhood, mental health, and growing older as a Gen X woman who has seen some things. Read
Rom-Com Rehab — Serialized Novel
A story about heartbreak, hitting bottom, and redemption by romantic comedy. Set in late-90s New York City. New chapters published every month-ish on Substack. Read
Public Speaking
For conferences, corporate events, and leadership audiences.
Keynotes & Breakout Sessions
I speak about mental health, caregiving, creativity, work, reinvention, and what happens when the life you carefully constructed stops working the way it used to. My talks are radically honest, unexpectedly funny, and grounded in lived experience.
One-On-One Advisory
For people at an inflection point.
You May Ask Yourself
A private, six-week advisory for people navigating pressure, change, burnout, complicated dynamics, and difficult decisions.
Some of my clients have worked with me on:
transitioning to a new kind of professional role
reconnecting with an estranged family member
respectfully ending a relationship that has run its course
navigating emotionally unhealthy work environments.
