In this raw and honest episode, I’m sharing a story I’ve never fully unpacked publicly: the moment a woman from my past accidentally sent me a screenshot of my engagement post with the caption: “Is she serious?”

It was years after my first marriage ended abruptly, years after rebuilding myself from the ground up, and on the very day I thought I’d finally stepped into a new chapter with peace. Yet one careless message from someone I hadn’t worked with in ages cracked open an old wound, the wound of being doubted, judged, whispered about, and underestimated.

This isn’t just a story about an old colleague or a mean-spirited message. It’s about the pressure so many women in leadership carry: to be liked, to be approved of, to be palatable, to never ruffle feathers even while building something big and brave.

If you’ve ever rebuilt after heartbreak, been the topic of someone’s group chat, or felt the sting of being underestimated, this one is for you.

The real work - the work no one sees - is learning to move from “I’ll show them” to “I trust myself.”

If I wasn't busy, I felt invisible.

I’ll share how I realized I was fueling my own burnout, why chaos can feel like comfort when you’ve lived in it too long, and how learning to love stability became my biggest breakthrough.

You hit the goals. You built the business. You climbed the ladder.

So why doesn’t it feel like success?

In this episode of Build Forward, I’m talking about the achievement trap: that quiet place where everything looks good on paper, but somehow, it still doesn’t feel like enough. I’ll share what happens when accomplishment becomes addiction, how I fell into it myself, and the shift that finally helped me redefine what “success” actually means.

If you’ve ever looked around at the life you worked so hard to build and wondered, “Why doesn’t this feel better?” then this one’s for you.

I used to believe that hitting seven figures would give me freedom, safety, and power, but I learned the hard way that you can have a million-dollar business and still be broke, stressed, and barely paying yourself.

In this episode, I break down why chasing revenue is the wrong game, why profit is the real measure of stability, and three practical steps you can take right now to start building profit into your business.

Here’s my raw admission. I burned out hard. For years, I thought the answer to every challenge was more. More hours. More hustle. More energy. But chasing more without defining enough was the recipe for collapse.

My biggest breakthrough was learning that success does not come from raising the bar higher and higher. It comes from knowing where the bar should actually be.