About

Where I Started

I wasn’t allowed to have boundaries growing up.

I learned early to read every room, manage every mood, and make myself whoever I needed to be to keep the peace. It worked… mostly. But it meant the real me stayed quiet. And I carried that into six businesses, one marriage.

I built things from hustle and grind, the way I was taught. Shoulder in. Push through. Do more. I could get to a certain level of success — but I always hit the same wall. Exhausted. Disconnected. Wondering why, with everything I’d built, it never felt like enough.

Then I read a Brené Brown quote that stopped me cold.

I saw my whole life in that sentence. I had been fitting in everywhere and belonging nowhere — not even to myself.

The Turn

That was the moment everything started to shift.

I stopped building the way I expected. I started listening to something quieter — an inner signal that had always been there, waiting for me to trust it.

Here’s what I discovered: boundaries weren’t just something I needed to learn. They were the missing infrastructure beneath everything. Every time things fell apart — in business, in relationships, in my own sense of self — the root was the same. Unclear boundaries. Borrowed expectations. A system built around everyone else’s needs and expectations but mine.

For years, I would tell my clients that boundaries are the bridge to everything. And for years, I struggled to fully claim that as my work — my specialty — my gift. I thought it wasn’t enough to offer. I was wrong.

Boundaries are the bridge. They always have been.

Human Design — The Layer That Explained Everything

For a long time, I was drawn to Human Design but kept circling it, not quite ready to go all in. When I finally did — taking an extensive practitioner certification, everything clicked.

Human Design is a map of how you’re wired as a human being. How you make decisions. How you operate. What depletes you and what restores you. For me, it explained why trusting my intuition always led to my best outcomes, and why forcing the masculine approach to push harder always led to the same wall.

When you combine that self-knowledge with Boundaries OS™, something remarkable happens. The boundaries become guardrails — not restrictions, but the structure that gives you the freedom to be fully, unapologetically yourself. To lead from who you actually are instead of who you thought you needed to be.

Add in more than three decades of building, failing, pivoting, and succeeding in real businesses. What I offer is something rare. Hard-won wisdom, a proven framework, and a way of seeing people that most will never find.

What I Bring

I’ve built six businesses over more than 30 years. Two significant exits. Industries ranging from hospitality to coaching to alcohol-free mobile bar service. I’ve led teams, navigated burnout, redesigned systems, and rebuilt from scratch more than once.

I’m a Certified Co-Active Coach, a Certified Human Design for Leadership & Business practitioner, and the creator of Boundaries OS™. I work at the intersection of clarity, boundaries, self-trust, and how humans and businesses are designed.

I connect the dots most people can’t see. I get to the real issue fast. And I hold space for what’s hard while holding you to what you said you wanted.

Lovingly known as the hand-holding ass-kicker.