I didn't come from the polished, predictable path.

I went from secretary to entrepreneur. From outsider to insider. From wondering whether I belonged in the room to raising capital, building companies, advising leaders, and selling my first company in a multimillion dollar exit within 21 months.

I learned how to walk into rooms I was never trained to enter.

I learned that experience isn't the only way to know something. Sometimes curiosity, instinct, observation, and the willingness to question what everyone else accepts will take you somewhere experience can't.

And I learned not to confuse the way something has always been done with the way it should be done.

That lesson has shaped almost everything I've built since.

I question assumptions.

I connect ideas that don't obviously belong together.

I look for the opportunity behind the opportunity.

I pay attention to what people say, what they don't say, and what everyone else seems to be overlooking.

And I have very little attachment to conventional wisdom simply because it's conventional.

That doesn't mean being different for the sake of being different.

It means being willing to see another answer when the obvious one isn't good enough.

My work today lives at the intersection of business, strategy, people, opportunity, reinvention, and possibility.

Sometimes I'm helping someone rethink a business.

Sometimes I'm helping them turn decades of experience into an entirely new source of income.

Sometimes I'm creating something that didn't exist before.

And sometimes I'm simply asking the question that changes everything that comes after it.

Different thinking has changed the trajectory of my life.

Now it's at the center of everything I do.