Wild & Free
Finding unconventional freedom at the intersection of entrepreneurship and motherhood. Writing about how life-first, content-fueled entrepreneurship can reconnect you with yourself, bring in the fun money for your family, and design your wild & free life.
[Day 2]: Who will you be a hero to?
Welcome to Day 2 of Wild & Free Entrepreneurship Week, where I’m giving you the process for: ⚡️ Redesigning Your Life to be Wild & Free (Even If You’re Stuck in a Corporate Job or Income-Generating Commitments That Are Costing You Your Freedom). ⚡️ Yesterday, I kickstarted the series with a prompt to get you thinking about what you really want. So often, we don’t have an ideas problem when figuring out what to do in our business; we have the challenge of narrowing down into ONE clear thing to...
[Day 1]: Redesigning Your Life to Be Wild & Free
Welcome to a new week. And this week is extra special because I’m dubbing Wild & Free Entrepreneurship Week where I’m giving you the process for: ⚡️ Redesigning Your Life to be Wild & Free (Even If You’re Stuck in a Corporate Job or Income-Generating Commitments That Are Costing You Your Freedom). ⚡️ This series was inspired by a lot of private conversations. Conversations with fellow moms who are exhausted from juggling career and family. Conversations with business partners who feel burnout...
🐮 Entrepreneurship, motherhood, and raw milk
Yesterday was field trip day (probably my favorite of the homeschooling days). Our new place to explore: A dairy farm that produces raw milk. As we got our tour of the farm, I couldn’t help but dream of life in the country running a dairy farm (and, yes, absolutely looked at farm land on Zillow while my husband drove us the hour and a half home). It all seemed so simple yet beautifully hard. It was work the family LOVED doing. You could hear it as they smiled and shared their life. It was...
Paws and Pages and Personal Connections
Last night, my boys and I went on a rare adventure that kept us out past dark (I'm usually in leggings and a sweatshirt by 5 p.m. because comfort). We went to read to the dogs for our local animal shelter's Paws and Pages program, and as we were introduced to the whole experience, I was struck at the parallels between a simple act of connecting with dogs and our role as creators. The first parallel that was abundantly clear was the whole lead-up to the program. This experience isn't usually...
nevertheless...
When I had my first baby, I was in the thick of freelancing. I spent hours at networking events (the local Chamber of Commerce even threw me a baby shower). I spent hours in meetings. I spent hours away from my computer doing the actual work I love doing (writing). Needless to say, that lifestyle just wasn't going to work while I raised my son. And it certainly wasn't going to work with two babies under two, which happened just a year and a half later. Thankfully, I had my network to lean on....
This is THE tipping point for building a life-first business
AI is great, isn’t it? 🤖 It suggests new shows for you to binge on Netflix (anyone else feeling bummed that the latest season of Love Is Blind is over soon?) 🤖 It lets you get answers faster than waiting for someone to answer your question on the phone (something I waited 2 hours for yesterday) 🤖 It can take the jumbled to-do list in your Notes app and arrange it on your calendar in a beautiful way so you don’t have to spend hours juggling your calendar And while AI is doing such a great job...
Networking tip (from someone who hates networking)
I’m awkward. You might be a little awkward, too (it’s okay if you are). Have you ever walked into a room at a networking event and looked around only to realize you don’t know anyone? Or maybe you know someone’s face, but you’re not buddy-buddy in the way that you can beeline through the chatting groups to start a conversation. Or you might recognize someone and instantly look down, hoping they won’t make eye contact because the last time they talked to you, you felt like they were after...
What if you're underthinking it?
Last year, we took our boys skiing for the first time. My husband grew up skiing, I did not, so sitting in that chair lift we had three nervous people worried about getting down the hill and one nervous person worried about how he’d safely get everyone he loved on that mountain down the hill. We got off the lift without falling (A FEAT IN MY BOOK) and shuffled our way awkwardly to the start of the downhill. I looked at my oldest and started trying to coach him as best my amateur brain could...
You Are Not Worth Ignoring (But Your Writing May Be)
Last weekend, I rented a VRBO with a few other women to have a girl’s weekend in celebration of my cousin who’s getting married. We had fun, but not the late-night, drunken, crazy kind of fun. We played games (quietly inside), did yoga, took sunrise walks, cooked delicious food, and even indulged in a reality TV show one afternoon. The second morning we were there, eating our breakfast quietly around the dining room table, we spotted a woman just behind the wall. She happily put up a sign,...
How I Find Calm in the Chaos of Homeschooling & Entrepreneurship
Anyone who’s ever juggled homeschooling with a soul-sucking 9-to-5 knows this: It's like trying to sip coffee while emptying a load of laundry one-handed and talking on the phone. There was a time not too long ago when I was drowning in client deliverables, pushing my limits on what I said yes to workwise, and had calendar without any margin. That was before I had kids. When I found out I was pregnant with my first child, I knew something had to change. I was constantly stressed, and the joy...
Finding unconventional freedom at the intersection of entrepreneurship and motherhood. Writing about how life-first, content-fueled entrepreneurship can reconnect you with yourself, bring in the fun money for your family, and design your wild & free life.