10/08/2026
It has been a long minute since I’ve shared much here, and I think it’s time for a little update.
Earlier this summer, I spoke at the Spokane Women Investors Group about my life, reinvention, and midlife recalibration. Afterward, someone asked what lessons I had learned about money, and my answer was something along the lines of this:
Sometimes you have to get creative and do what works while you’re building what’s next.
Apparently, life decided to hand me a real-time case study.
Not long after that, I had the opportunity to help a dear friend with her catering and vacation rental management businesses. What started as a practical way to earn money turned into something that taught me more than I expected.
The work was hard. The hours were long. My midlife body had a few opinions.
But I also spent regular time cleaning beautiful spaces by the river, serving food in gorgeous settings, making good money, and working alongside one of my closest friends, who happens to be wildly fun, ambitious, and very good at what she does!
I also remembered a few things about myself.
I remembered that skills from older seasons of life are not wasted just because they are not currently sitting under a shiny job title.
I remembered that I can still learn new ways to cook, clean, organize, manage time, serve well, and move quickly when the moment calls for it.
I remembered that confidence often returns when we stop overthinking our capacity and simply put ourselves back into useful motion.
And honestly, I really needed that.
I had been feeling that familiar pressure between income and cost of living, and this work helped shift it. Not because it was glamorous or perfectly aligned with a five-year plan, but because it was honest, immediate, productive, and profitable. I worked hella hard and made good money, and there is something deeply stabilizing about that.
Sometimes financial flow opens when we stop waiting for one perfect door and walk through the practical one standing right in front of us.
Now that the busiest part of that season is slowing down, and I’ve wrapped up a major community event that needed my full attention, I’m catching my breath and stepping back into my own work with fresh energy.
And, because apparently midlife likes to keep things interesting, I also have a new adventure coming in the next season.
I’ll be sharing more soon, but for now I’ll just say this: reinvention does not always look like stepping away from everything you’ve done before.
Sometimes it looks like realizing all those older skills still know how to serve you.
Old dog, new tricks?
Maybe.
But also: seasoned woman, expanded toolkit.
