I left at twenty-five with a one-way ticket.
Florence first. Then Sydney. Then back, by way of a few cities that kept me a while. The plan was never to settle. The plan was to figure out which version of a life would hold.
I studied sociology and never really stopped. The question that kept surfacing was the one I now train with Helena Woods in locational astrology: how much of who we become is the place we choose, and how much is the place choosing us back.
I came home eventually. To Charleston. Not because the searching was over, but because I had finally narrowed what I was searching for.
I work with founders whose business is also their life.
Founder-led, experience-driven businesses. Service providers, lifestyle brands, hospitality, creative practices, destination venues. The kind of business where the founder is still the work.
The lens is operations, strategy, and brand at the intersection. Not as separate disciplines. As the same conversation viewed from three sides. Most of what I am hired for is the diagnostic posture itself, the willingness to name what is happening underneath before reaching for a fix.