The Mompreneur Edit

04/14/2026

Some people might say having three drinks at once was a personality flaw…
Turns out it’s just how I function as a small business owner.

At any given moment I’ve got:
Water (because I’m trying to be responsible)
Diet Coke (because survival)
And a fully creamed up coffee doing the emotional heavy lifting

And yes… I rotate between all three like it’s completely normal.

Then I heard that Sarah J. Maas talked about having the SAME emotional support beverage lineup in her interview with Alex Cooper on Call Her Daddy and suddenly I felt very validated.

So now I’m convinced… this is just a thing.
Hydration, caffeine, and a little emotional support carbonation.

If you only have one drink at a time, I honestly don’t know how you’re doing life.

Tell me I’m not alone… what’s in your emotional support beverage lineup? 🥤☕

03/28/2026

This week was a reminder of why we chose this path.

One of our kids had a medical emergency that turned into an ER visit and surgery the same day. Everything else immediately became irrelevant.

As a small business owner, in situations like this, I didn’t have to check with anyone. No asking for time off. No worrying about how it would be perceived. No reshuffling “allowed” vacation days.

Five years into building our businesses, we’re not where we ultimately want to be financially yet—but we’ve built something just as valuable: the ability to be present when it matters most.

The work will still be there. The emails, the bookkeeping, the content… all of it can wait.

Time doesn’t.

And right now, I feel incredibly rich in that.

03/24/2026

I said what I said.

Winter. Twins. Overstimulation. Miss Rachel on loop. The phase I will absolutely not miss.

Grateful and miserable can coexist. Loving your kids doesn’t mean loving every second.

If you’ve ever been trapped inside with toddlers during sick season, this one’s for you.

Read it. Laugh. Feel seen.

On raising twins, Miss Rachel, and the psychological warfare of staying home with sick toddlers

03/17/2026

My biggest life flex is not marrying a loser.

It’s funny — but it’s also the truest thing I’ve learned about life and business. Choosing the right people determines almost everything.

This one is personal. It’s about partnership, reputation, and why desperation is the enemy of good decisions.

If you’re building something meaningful, I think this will resonate.

What choosing the right people in love and business taught me about building a life that actually works

03/16/2026

There’s a moment a lot of moms don’t talk about out loud — when you realize the life you worked so hard to build doesn’t actually fit the one you’re living anymore.

This piece is about that moment. The night rocking a sick baby. The daycare pickup panic. The quiet math of PTO days vs. real life. And the decision to stop trying to squeeze a family into a career that wasn’t built for it.

I didn’t leave corporate because I hated my job. I left because I wanted a life that fit my kids and me. Entrepreneurship didn’t make things easier — it made them mine.

If you’ve ever felt torn between being the parent you want to be and the professional you were supposed to be, this is for you. And if you know a mom standing in that exact crossroads, send it to her. We’re all building this plane midair.

Read it here 👇

How walking away from engineering helped me build a life that finally made sense

03/10/2026

I shared something new today about what small business actually looks like behind the scenes — and it’s not the polished Instagram version. It’s long conversations, shifting seasons of life, figuring things out out loud, and the kind of community that quietly keeps entrepreneurs going.

This one came from a two-hour conversation with another business owner that reminded me how human this whole journey is.

If you’ve ever run a business, thought about starting one, or wondered what it really looks like day to day, I think this will hit home. 💛

The conversations, seasons of life, and quiet moments that build a business no one ever shows.

03/10/2026

I walked away from a six-figure engineering career.

401k match. Subsidized health insurance. The “safe” path.

And I was terrified.

Starting a business is hard. Staying in a job you don’t like is also hard. The only real question is: which hard are you willing to live with?

This is the most honest I’ve been about the golden handcuffs, the fear, the money, the sacrifice — and the time freedom that made it all worth it.

If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re allowed to want more, this one’s for you.

Why walking away from the golden handcuffs was the best decision I ever made

03/04/2026

I discovered something funny today.

I apparently brought home six or seven forks from the office without realizing it.

Which made me laugh because if you run a public space, you quickly learn that certain things simply… disappear.

Coffee mugs.
Spoons.
Plates.
Forks.

Sometimes things break.
Sometimes people accidentally pack them in a lunch bag or laptop bag.
Sometimes items just quietly migrate into the wild.

It’s honestly just part of running a community space.

Some items we actually want people to take — pens, branded merchandise, little Office Evolution goodies. That’s marketing.

Other items, like forks and plates, are technically supposed to stay in the kitchen… but apparently that’s more of a suggestion.

At the end of the day it doesn’t bother me much. When hundreds of people share a space, a few forks walking off is just the cost of doing business.

03/03/2026

Everyone is trying to out-advertise each other online… and most of it is just noise now.

The businesses actually growing? They’re showing up in person. Shaking hands. Having real conversations. Building trust the old-fashioned way.

I wrote about why in-person connection is quietly becoming the biggest competitive advantage in business again 👇

Why showing up in person is becoming the most powerful growth strategy again

03/01/2026

Shout out to everyone attending Mass from the church lobby today.

If you saw me pacing 1,000 square feet of entryway while whisper-praying the Our Father and preventing a toddler from reorganizing the Knights of Columbus raffle table… yes, that was us.

Twin one-year-olds are not pew people yet. They are explorers. Sprinters. Public address systems. And apparently very interested in the church office door.

We make it about 15–25 minutes in the sanctuary before someone loudly announces their personal revolution and we execute the humble aisle walk of retreat.

But we’re still there.

We hear the homily through the speakers. We say the Creed. We bow our heads while intercepting small humans mid-sprint.

If you’re a lobby parent — I see you.

If you’re an older parishioner — thank you for smiling at the chaos.

02/27/2026

I think I just hacked mornings.

Why have I been using tiny 8–12 oz coffee mugs with baby handles when an 18oz ceramic beer stein exists??

Full grip. Fewer refills. Emotionally supportive beverage volume.

This feels like the kind of off-label use that changes a woman.

Breakfast tea, but make it efficient. 🍵🍺

02/25/2026

There are CEO days.
There are visionary, boss-mom, “let’s scale this thing” days.
And then there are days where you look at your calendar, look at your kids, look at the group text lighting up… and realize the only thing getting scaled is your blood pressure.

So yes. If rescheduling a “quick tag up” because the kids are feral and mama needs a minute to recalibrate her nervous system is the mood… then consider me fully aligned with the vibe.

Entrepreneurship with small children is not a productivity hack. It is not aesthetic. It is not color-coded planners and quiet coffee shops.

It’s:
• negotiating with tiny irrational humans
• answering texts from employees while someone is crying about the wrong color cup
• trying to remember if you ate lunch
• and occasionally deciding that protecting your sanity is the most strategic move of the day

Sometimes leadership looks like closing the laptop.
Sometimes it looks like a boundary.
Sometimes it looks like rescheduling the damn meeting.

Because I can run companies.
I can negotiate contracts.
But I cannot out-logic a toddler on 6 hours of sleep.

And if you’re in a season where survival is the KPI?
You’re not failing.
You’re just building a business and a life at the same time.