I’m a queer, POC, neurodivergent, multiracial, multicultural creative entrepreneur, working at the intersection of people and operations. I’m passionate about decolonizing our systems, lives and brains and I do this by infusing my values into coaching and teaching others. I believe in engaging deeply in what we’re learning rather than ripping across the surface and missing all the good stuff!

Most people who find me are progressive and radical self-identifying women and non-binary creatives who seek supportive systems grounded in their values.

My work explores how colonialism and traditional education have made it hard for us (middle-aged women, BIPOC, GenXers, neurodiverse folks and queers) to rekindle our curiosity and become intentional and engaged adult learners. The traditional education of our youth fostered obedience and conformity over creative self-determination and pure love of learning so that now as grown adults, we’ve lost our child-like sense of wonder and can’t figure out how to get it back. These days, I’m rekindling my curiosity through the practice of Digital Gardening - combining technology and systems to build my very own tiny but cozy corner of the internet.

Here’s a bit more about my journey here.

Childhood

With divorced parents from different countries, I was raised in two multi-racial households, both extremely strict and starkly contrasted from the English culture around us. This means that I held multiple perspectives and had a broad view of the world but I didn’t know how to think for myself, identify what I wanted and needed.

While my childhood wasn’t what you’d call ideal, at a young age, my dad recognized my ability to untangle logistical problems with ease and I became the go-to person for anything the grown-ups couldn’t figure out on their own and I really enjoyed playing that role in my family.

Leap #1 - parenthood + college

I missed the college offramp and instead relocated to CA when I was 21 and exactly one year after I moved, I gave birth to my son. My parenting journey was messy, wonderful, terrifying and enlightening.

When my son was little, I went back to school, thinking that having a degree would help me figure out what I needed to be doing with my life. But school was always a struggle. I could’t concentrate, I hated being in the classroom, I could never study for more than an hour at a time and I blamed myself for not being like other students - focusing and studying hard.

As a full-time student and a single parent I was also juggling multiple part-time jobs. I did a lot of food service which was great for flexibility but I also worked for multiple jewelry studios and found that I thrived in a small business environment, fascinated by the machinations of entrepreneurialism.

These were the hardest and darkest years of my life but these were also the years where I found my integrity, learned how to be ok and keep going when things were at their worst and discovered my love of small businesses, quietly vowing to one day work for myself.

Leap #2 - nonprofit and grad school

After graduating from college, it still never occurred to me to start a business or try to find full-time, stable work for a small business owner because I was conditioned to believe those weren’t “real” jobs. Eventually, I was successful and got my first “proper” job with a nonprofit in San Francisco. From the outside, I appeared to be successful; I was raising a lot of money for the organisation, I was running some great community programs and I was promoted multiple times, making more money than I ever had. But behind the scenes I was being bullied by my coworkers and I was still battling my ability to stay on task and sustain focused work for any meaningful amount of time.

At the same time, I decided to go to business school, trying to pick up this thread of entrepreneurship, not really knowing where it would take me. Higher education continued to kick my arse and I still hated being in this environment, even though I told myself this was what I wanted.

I eventually graduated, left my nonprofit job and took some time off to get my head back on straight. It wasn’t until my next leap that I would turn this quite horrible experience into something positive and impactful.

Leap #3 - East coast and self-employment

Immediately after grad school, I got married to my partner of 6 years and we moved with our dog to the east coast. Both of our families were from the east coast and it always felt so much more like home than California ever did.

I began to dabble with some contract work, initially providing general business support services but ultimately focusing on operations and employee stewardship. The struggles I had in school (being unfocused, unable to sustain working on something for more than an hour) persisted in my contract work and I constantly felt like I couldn’t keep up.

This is where I was able to take my experience working in a very toxic organisation and help my clients create better conditions for their own employees through ethical hiring and management practices and more supportive and transparent operations and systems. I loved this work and became more and more grounded in the idea that colonialism and capitalism were the culprits for harmful working conditions in corporate, government, nonprofit and small business spaces.

Leap #4 - from 1:1 to 1:many

Small business operations ultimately led me to Notion, a fantastic tool for note taking, project management and metacognitive learning. Using Notion became so prominent in my services that I eventually rebranded myself a Notion consultant. This was really fun work as I had many opportunities to build expansive systems for small business owners and their teams.

Notion was also helping me become a better learner - finding my focus and natural rhythms by designing and building systems for myself that reflected my brain and energy; it had become both a creative and a healing practice.

But something was still missing. I had customised the how of running of my business but deep down, I knew that my services still weren’t aligned.

I worked with some incredible clients, many of whom became friends and colleagues but where I was getting stuck in my work was that I felt like an employee. I was working with my clients for sometimes months and years at a time and I just wasn’t happy. I needed more variation and creative control.

So in 2025, I ran my first live workshop series and said goodbye to my last retainer client. This is where I am now, unsure of my next leap but happier and more aligned in my work than I’ve ever been.

Notes on leaping

I got this idea of my life as a series of leaps from Kening Zhu. You can check out her podcasts (part 1 and part 2) to hear her journey.