about me

 When I was thirteen, my mother handed me her Swiss Tarot deck and a guidebook. I didn't fully comprehend what I was holding, but something in me knew exactly what it was. Then life did what life does, and that path went dormant for a while.

I spent a decade as a sound engineer in the music industry, and followed that with seven years in television, starting backstage on live sets and working my way up to associate producer. Live TV is a completely different animal than scripted or episodic work. Both industries were heavily male-dominated, neither was particularly forgiving, and I held my own in both. Along the way, I traveled extensively and fell in love across borders and cultures, accumulating the kind of experience no classroom could replicate. I have rarely dated within my own country; my life and my perspective have always been inherently global. Hello Sun in Sagittarius!

Following my amicable divorce, I went through a long dark night of the soul, one that often found me seeking solace at the bottom of many, many bottles of beer and wine. People always laud the phoenix after it has risen, but nobody talks about the part where your tailfeathers are on fire and you ultimately die after getting consumed by the flames. 

I'm fond of saying: "I messed up so you don't have to."

The person who finally came out on the other side of that ash was an entirely different person. I was my core self. I was stronger, wiser, and far more discerning of who deserved my precious time, love, and energy. People I thought were true friends, and parts of my life I once thought were key, fell away like brittle branches. Honestly, I didn't fight it. I didn't want to. I was finally the person I was meant to be, and she had been waiting, maybe since I was thirteen, for me to find her again. Today, I keep learning, seeking new knowledge, connections, and adventures with the absolute certainty that the past is exactly where it needs to be.