I don’t believe people need to leave corporate to find themselves but I do believe that self abandonment is not career strategy, and when the time comes that corporate is no longer your best option you will wish you’d paused long enough to remember who you are. That’s the work that brought me to this work.

In 2023 I left what looked from the outside like a dream job leading a global business at Google Cloud. In that time away from corporate I ran the leadership cohort called Liminal Space which brought together dozens of tech leaders to talk the real talk. I launched ERA, a coaching and consulting business that brings high achiever back in touch with their creative agency and I stood up a vacation and retreat space called Salt and Soul Beach House. When I made my way back into corporate it was with with the awareness that my day job is just one source of my revenue and my inspiration. I’d diversified.

I live in my hometown of Seattle with my sweet family who helps me see myself in ways I might otherwise overlook. The picture below is me and my two daughters one beautiful afternoon in Port Townsend, WA.