WynterStar Studio

05/20/2026

Nobody wants to pay for the queen.

Everyone wants a worker bee who is busy, executing, and checking boxes. The work gets done but the work getting done and the work moving you forward are two very different things.

Without the queen, the one who sees the whole hive, knows which direction to move in, and understands why any of it matters — all that busyness is just keeping you stuck.

You don’t have a capacity problem. You have a clarity problem. And that’s a different hire entirely.

05/12/2026

Different rooms. Same need. I belong to communities for my business, my creativity, my body, my soul. They don’t all overlap — and that’s okay.

But every single one of them holds me.

Through grief, wins, fear, growth. Someone always showed up.

That’s all I ever wanted. To be held. To belong. To walk into a room and know someone is glad I’m there.
If you have that — protect it.

04/30/2026

Elevate and Inspire did not disappoint.

Amazing speakers, real conversations, and a room full of people who mean business — in the best way. I reconnected with people who have been in my corner through a genuinely heavy year and met some incredible new ones. Doc Williams, Darrell Vesterfeld, and Alisa Kay — already grateful for those conversations and excited to see where they go. I loved the addition of nightlife this year for that extra connection time.

Came home with two books I can’t wait to dig into — Mundane Magic by Molly Donlan and Sponsor Magnet by Justin Moore. And more ideas than I know what to do with right now, which is honestly a great problem to have.

This weekend reminded me why I keep saying yes to the room. There’s something that happens when you’re surrounded by people who are genuinely building something and rooting for each other to succeed. You leave different than you arrived.

Thank you, .henson .and.v and the rest of the team! It was amazing!

04/27/2026

I still can’t believe this happened! 😳Just in case you can’t tell by the reaction. 🤯 Thank you so much .hi. Truly grateful! I can’t wait to get started.

04/15/2026

There’s a moment when you walk into a room and realize — oh, these are my people.

That happened to me last year at .henson Elevate and Inspire at the insistence of someone who had no idea what she was opening for me. ( you already know.)

Over the past year I’ve been in rooms where I laughed until it hurt, cried until I felt lighter, and said my biggest fears out loud for the first time. People I met at that event held me through grief. Cheered for me. Accepted me completely.

I’m going back this year with a full heart and a long list of people I can’t wait to hug.

Community like this doesn’t happen by accident. But when you find it — you show up for it. As much as you can! 💜

03/27/2026

I’m a certified Operations Director who waited in line for the Hello Kitty Cafe truck in a Hello Kitty sweater. I build SOPs and process maps for clients. I also build custom minifigs at the Lego store because it makes me happy.

I earned multiple certifications during one of the hardest seasons of my life — and I hid them for over a year because I didn’t think they counted.

You know what else I used to hide? Unless you know me personally, you may not know that I’ve loved Hello Kitty since I was 4. That I need play to function. That the version of me who shows up for clients is the same version who will absolutely lose it over Hello Kitty.
I’m not doing the thing anymore where I only show the polished parts. Or pretend I’m too serious for joy. Or act like credentials and cat ears can’t coexist. They can. They do. This is me.

03/19/2026

In Like a Lion. Out Like a Container.

March has a way of arriving loudly. Unfinished projects. Scope creep. Things knocking at the door that weren’t scheduled. So I’d like you to meet Cary.

Cary represents the work that doesn’t follow you home.
He once tried to renegotiate scope. He has shown up unannounced. He has attempted to peek under the boundaries door. He has since been redirected.

Cary is the reminder that not everything gets access, not everything gets expanded, and not everything is yours to carry.

Inside a Spotlight Intensive, we choose one clearly defined operational priority. We finalize scope before we begin. We work inside a container that closes.

In like chaos. Out like a closed container.
This is March.

What is that one thing that’s been lingering for you? Let me help you get it done!

02/11/2026

It’s been a season. Those of you who know me personally or have been following along know that.

I sat down with on The No BS Human Design podcast a while back and got real — about imposter syndrome, people-pleasing, and what it actually feels like to come back to yourself. There were tissues involved. 🤧

The episode dropped this week, and listening to it now — hearing myself be that honest and that confident in the middle of everything — was something I didn’t know I needed. It reminded me of who I am at my core. Even when things are hard, especially when things are hard.

I won’t lie — having people hear this makes me nervous. Every word was my truth and I stand behind all of it.

You’ll have to listen to find out how tea played a part in our connection. 🍵

If you’ve been in your own heavy season — you’re not navigating it alone.

01/21/2026

I hope this photo makes you smile and even giggle. Playing with Chatgpt a little too much but I couldn’t resist. It’s the first thing that made me just laugh out loud in the last few days. I’ve had a lot of time to sit and reflect as I move through something that I was preparing for. You can brace yourself for an event and do everything you think you can to protect yourself from the pain afterwards. The problem is that no matter how much you prepare, you don’t know how it will hit you when it does happen.

I haven’t written this except in texts and private messages so it’s still difficult to express. I had visited my grandma the past few weeks and she passed away last week. Knowing the inevitable didn’t make it any easier. My grandma was one of the best people I knew. She was kind, loving, giving, and had a great sense of humor. We celebrate her life on Saturday!

The next few weeks I plan to move through things at a slower pace and with intention. This year has already felt like a lot. I have been carrying 2025 and honestly even 2024 into this year. Things feel very heavy and I’m just trying to get through. Between grief, working, other things I won’t name, and being sick during the holiday, I haven’t had any time to regulate my system and I’m feeling it. Thank you for those that continue to check on me. I appreciate you

📷Me modeled as an AI stuffie
📷Me and my grandma at her bday celebration on my bday, hence the tiara.

This was not generated with AI. You probably figured that. No em dashes. Just me sharing a little too honestly how I’m feeling.

Check on your people! You never know what they're going through. 💜

12/29/2025

I released my first audio product right before the holidays.

Quietly. Sent it to a few people privately. Didn't announce it.

Part of me thought, "Who am I to help people with overwhelm when I still feel it myself?"
But that question is exactly why this matters.

I know what it's like to wake up already feeling behind. To carry containers of unfinished projects everywhere you go. To think the only way forward is to burn it all down and start over.

Start Your Intermission is for that moment — when you're stuck in the "in-between" of your business and you just need to pause before you make any big decisions.

It's the talk I gave at the Her AI Era Summit in October, now in audio format. 8 minutes. Something you can take with you, pause when you need to, replay when it hits.

No worksheets. No action plans. Just a compassionate reminder that you're not alone, you're not behind, and you don't have to fix everything right now.

Link in bio. Introductory pricing: $9 through Jan 15 (then $17)

You deserve the intermission.

Start Your Intermission is a gentle, creative reset for the days when everything feels like too much. It’s your personal pause button — a reflective audio moment designed to help you exhale, regroup, and return to your work with clarity instead of overwhelm. This short, compassionate talk meets ...