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Essays & field notes.
Long-form thinking on family law, founding technology for women, sobriety, motherhood, and what it actually takes to wake up to your own life.
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Wake up to your own life.
The phrase that started The Awake Woman, and why I think it's the only conversation that matters right now.
April 1, 2026 · The Awake Woman · Essays
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April 15, 2026 · Lifestyle · Essays
A life that fits.
Notes on building a life — the rituals, the rooms, the small choices — that actually fits the woman you’ve become.
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April 1, 2026 · The Awake Woman · Essays
Wake up to your own life.
The phrase that started The Awake Woman, and why I think it's the only conversation that matters right now.
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March 12, 2026 · Family Law · Money
Twenty-two years of family law taught me one thing.
It isn't the divorce that breaks women. It's discovering, mid-divorce, that they never built the structures that would have protected them.
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March 1, 2026 · The Awake Woman · Motherhood · Essays
Madrid, and the practice of freedom.
In 2023 I packed two daughters and a life into a city where I knew almost no one. Freedom, it turns out, is not a feeling.
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February 22, 2026 · Sobriety · Essays
Sober since June 2004.
Reinvention is not a moment. It's the discipline of refusing to keep being the person a previous life required.
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February 20, 2026 · Founders · Tech
Building tech as a non-technical founder.
Three companies later, here is what nobody tells you about founding software products without a CS degree.
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February 5, 2026 · AI · Motherhood · Founders
Working mothers should not be the last people handed leverage.
Why I built MomMind AI in 2026, and what AI literacy actually looks like when your hands are full.
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January 18, 2026 · Founders · The Awake Woman
The companies, and why in that order.
TheQuickDivorce.com (2020), Separia (2025), MomMind AI (2026). They are not three pivots — they are one argument.
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