I didn’t build Lavender Collective because life went according to plan.
Some of the biggest things I’ve built came from seasons I never would have chosen.
I’ve been an entrepreneur, a marketer, a sales professional, a nonprofit founder, an advocate, a student of psychology and criminal justice, a mother, and someone who has had to learn what rebuilding looks like when the future you expected changes completely.
For years, I thought all of those parts of my life had to exist separately.
Business belonged over here.
Advocacy belonged over there.
Creativity was something different.
Education was another chapter.
Motherhood was its own world.
Eventually, I realized they were all connected.
The years I spent building businesses taught me how to create, sell, communicate, and lead.
Advocacy taught me the power of telling the truth clearly and using lived experience to challenge systems that are not working.
Education gave me a deeper understanding of people, policy, behavior, and the structures surrounding families and communities.
Motherhood changed the reason behind almost everything I do.
And rebuilding taught me something I never expected:
Starting over does not mean starting from nothing.
You carry every skill, lesson, mistake, relationship, experience, and piece of wisdom from the chapters before.
That belief became one of the foundations of Lavender Collective.
I didn’t want to build another company that existed only to sell something. I wanted to build an ecosystem where creativity could support business, storytelling could create connection, advocacy could create change, and success could create greater capacity to help others.
So I stopped trying to fit everything into one box.
I built a bigger table.
And that became Lavender Collective.