You can grieve the life you thought you were building and still believe there’s something good ahead.

In this episode of NanceDrewClub, I’m joined by my good friend Crystal Stanfield, a VP of Talent Acquisition whose life changed after a devastating car accident. Through seven surgeries and learning to walk again, Crystal began reconsidering how much of her life she’d given to work and what she wanted to make room for.

Together, we talk about holding hope and pain at the same time, learning to ask for help when you’re used to handling everything yourself, and figuring out who you are beyond your career. I share my own experience of losing my job, trying to build a business, and believing something meaningful was ahead even when I wasn’t sure how I’d pay my bills.

An honest conversation about what’s still hard, what’s changing, and why you don’t have to make your story sound inspiring while you’re living it.

Feel it. Call a friend. And keep going anyway.

What if you don’t have to see the whole path to take the first step?

Last summer, my friend Jarrett and I were both starting businesses, dreaming about what came next, and even trying to launch a podcast together. That idea didn’t quite come together, but we each kept building in our own way.

In this episode of the NanceDrew Club, we unpack the journey: taking a chance on yourself, navigating plans that change, and finding your footing when belief gets tested. We talk about where we started, where we are now, and what we’re still figuring out.

If you’ve been waiting to know exactly how it’s all going to work before you begin, this conversation is for you.

You don’t have to see the how yet. Believe it anyway.

What if the voice telling you that you are behind, too much, not enough, or supposed to have everything figured out is not actually yours?

In this episode of Nance Drew Club, Nance sits down with her dear friend Rna for a candid conversation about the beliefs we inherit, the feedback we internalize, and the ways we learn to make ourselves smaller for other people. They explore why criticism sticks, how to separate useful feedback from projection, and what changes when you stop treating someone else’s opinion as a fact about you.

Rana shares how she learned that strength does not mean handling everything alone, why asking for help is human, and how she is turning down the persistent voice that says she is running out of time.

Not every voice in your head has earned the right to narrate your life.

The question is: whose voice is it anyway?

That’s your clue. Follow it.

What are you waiting to feel ready for?

In the first episode of NanceDrewClub, we’re talking about what happens when you stop waiting for confidence, certainty, or the perfect plan and start anyway.

We’ll dig into why “I’m not ready yet” can sometimes be fear in disguise, what it actually looks like to take action when you don’t know how things will turn out, and why doing something messy might teach you more than another month of thinking about it.

I’m also taking my own advice. Starting this podcast is part of my own experiment in showing up before I have every detail figured out.

We’ll talk about the risks we’ve taken, the things we’ve overthought, what happened when we finally moved, and the clues that only appeared after we took the first step.

You don’t need the whole plan. You just need somewhere to start.

Do it scared. Do it messy. Do it anyway.