Seeing Reality Instead of Potential
When you are a strategist — when your entire career is built on identifying potential, mapping pathways, and helping things become what they are not yet — it is very easy to bring that skill set into spaces where it does not belong. I am good at seeing what could be. That is not always a gift. Sometimes it is the thing that keeps you sitting at a table you should have left.
No Access Without Accountability
No access without accountability. No presence without consistency. This is not a rule I made up because I was hurt. It is a standard I reclaimed because I let it slip
Going to Two Is Wild
I thought I had it figured out. I really did. I had the schedule. I had the village. I had the nanny, I had Nakia, Diedre and Ebony, and I even had the girls’ father cohabitating. I had learned — painfully, slowly, with more grace than I would have expected from myself.
The Village Is Not a Metaphor — It's Infrastructure
The Village Is Not a Metaphor — It's Infrastructure
Everyone says you need a village. Nobody tells you how to actually build one.
It Is Not Who Shows Up. It Is Who You Build Around You.
Nobody Builds Alone — They Just Pretend They Do
Your village will not show up on its on. You have to build it with guardrails and not prescriptions.
Nobody Told Me I Was Allowed to Fall Apart
Nobody told me that failure was ever an option. I had to learn — slowly, without anyone giving me permission — to be overwhelmed. I had to learn that the only permission I needed was my own.
