From the Desk of Mommy

Raise your hand if you have heard this advice before. I remember hearing it when Gabby was a baby and we were trying to get her to sleep in her crib and not in the bed with us. I was a first-time mom and thought it was cruel until I realized I was being played by my brilliant bundle of joy and crocodile tears. She knew if she cried enough, she would get prime real estate in our bed.  I had to realize that as her parent, it was my responsibility to parent and discipline her to sleep independently. This...

I don't know who else needed to hear that behinds me, but I figured I would share it anyway. I was crying during my first call with my mindset coach since finding my best friend of 37 years dead from COVID. "I feel stuck. I feel so behind..." I mumbled between snot sniffs. She commended me for getting the help I need through counseling and a grief support group to properly grieve and heal, then dug deeper to identify the source of the pressure I was under. We realized it was self-imposed and unrealistic. We set business goals before the trauma and those should be...

I was overwhelmed by the love and care expressed in the stories, prayers and words of advice you and others gave me after I shared I discovered my best friend of 37 years, maid of honor, classmate and Gabby and Michael's godmother dead in her home due to COVID. With support from family and friends like you, counseling and faith-based grief support, we will get through this and fulfil the purpose behind this pain. I was booked months ago to speak at a business conference this past Saturday. I wanted to back out SO badly. I knew I would struggle to gather my words and...

Welcome to the first of my behind-the-scenes series on parenting! I'll be sharing the ups and downs in our journey to make our children's dreams realities. Last night, GaBBY and I hosted our annual virtual Vision Board Party with the Girl Bosses and moms in our Mommy and Me Entrepreneurship Academy. It was a great time of bonding and fun! Our Girl Bosses have HUGE goals and remind me so much of GaBBY when she was five years old insisting we create a barrette that would stay in her hair and seven years old launching her own business with the GaBBY Bows she pushed us to invent....