§ About — N° 001

The work I do now started twenty‑one years ago.

I've spent two decades inside the same conversation with women — what they want, what they tolerate, what they keep apologizing for. The Factory is what came of it.

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§ 01The long version

In her own words

"I built The Factory because the women I love kept paying for comfort with their lives."

For more than twenty years, I've worked with women. For over a decade, I've owned a salon. If you want to know what women carry, stand behind the chair long enough. They tell you things they don't tell anyone else.

I started noticing patterns. Then I started studying them.

The same themes kept showing up: self-abandonment disguised as loyalty, exhaustion mistaken for responsibility, lives built around obligation instead of choice. The advice people were being handed felt soft around the edges and ineffective at the center, so I became a mental health coach to better understand what was happening beneath the surface.

At the same time, I was doing my own rebuilding.

I'm a mother, salon owner, and coach. I'm sober. I've ended relationships that weren't working, built businesses from scratch, and rebuilt parts of my life that looked perfectly fine from the outside.

That's the work behind the work.

The Factory isn't therapy. It isn't self-help. It isn't influence.

It's a workroom.

A place for people who are ready to stop negotiating with the things that keep them stuck. You bring the material. We'll cut through the noise and build something stronger from what's left.

§ 02The credentials, briefly

Practice

Salon owner, 21+ yrs

Two decades of holding space for women in a chair — and listening differently.

Training

Mental health coach

Trained to work with patterns, identity, and the choices we keep making.

Lived

Sober. Mother. Builder.

I do not teach what I haven't walked. Personal transformation is the foundation.

Voice

Podcast host

Host of The Factory — where work comes before comfort.

Stage

Speaker

Keynotes, workshops, and panels on patterns and reinvention.

Studio

Creator of The Factory

A platform built around one idea: work before comfort.

§ 03What I believe
  1. 01

    Clarity beats motivation. Always.

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    Obligation is a slow form of self-abandonment.

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    Comfort is not the same as safety.

  4. 04

    Choice is a muscle. It atrophies if you don't use it.

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    You can be soft and unflinching in the same breath.

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    The work isn't the breakthrough. The work is the repetition.