If it's scary it must be right, right?

So I’ve had something up my sleeve for what seems like forEVER … and this year, I finally decided to GO FOR IT. I haven’t really talked about it much because those niggling voices in my head have just been so damn loud - you know the ones, maybe you have them too? - The ones that tell me I can’t do this, that I’m not qualified enough, that I don’t have enough letters behind my name, or enough experience, or that people will think I’m foolish, or that X, or that Y, or that ……….. ad infinitum.

Or maybe most recently, the voices that say, we’re in the middle of a f&*%ing GLOBAL PANDEMIC and this is the WORST possible time to do something like this. And the other ones that say BLACK LIVES MATTER so much more than this, so now’s not the time to shift focus away from the fight for justice.

But here’s the deal. There’s NEVER going to be a good time. It’s ALWAYS going to be scary. If we weren’t in a pandemic, I’d find something equally as nerve-racking to slow me down. So instead, I’m just going to put it out there and GO FOR IT. 

Drumroll please. 

Today I’m launching my new website, my new venture, and what I hope will catapult me into the next phase of how-I-want-to-help-make-the-world-a-better-place-in-addition-to-raising-three-tiny-humans. 

I’m launching it even though I can’t realistically hold space for more than one or two projects because my tiny-humans are going back to school virtually in the fall so I am full-time teacher-mom again. And I’m launching it even though the entire premise of the business is based on being TOGETHER with PEOPLE in a ROOM. (Yes, there’s Zoom, and I can work with that too, even if it wasn’t the original intention). But I’m just going to do it anyway because I want to look forward to the day when we can be together, to gather, connect and create. And hug. And share space. And breath. And dream big. 

So I hope you’ll take a minute to check out this new site. Share it with a friend if you know someone who might be interested in finding out more about working with me. And (most importantly) sign up for my newsletter at the bottom of this page. (Which will mostly just be me attempting to brighten your inbox on a semi-regular basis with new blog posts and inspiration around the theme of staying connected).

Thanks friends!

(also, that picture above? Me and Zoe, my almost 3-year old, and the driving force behind why I am choosing to be brave and launch this despite the niggling voices that tell me not to. What would I tell her to do? Would I tell her to play it safe, take the easy route, stay comfortable? Hell no! So why would I choose that for myself?)