I spent years at the bedside watching smart, capable women get told their labs were "normal" while they felt like strangers in their own bodies. I'd answer their real questions in the hallway, off the clock, because the fifteen minutes they'd been given inside the exam room never left room for the truth.
I couldn't unsee it. So I built something else.
That's how Everyday Nurse started — one nurse, answering the questions the system wouldn't. It's grown into a hormone health education platform reaching hundreds of thousands of women, and it opened the door to everything that came after: SVUTU, a botanical tea brand built with the same clinical rigor I bring to everything else; Brave Works, where I get to help other founders build with that same integrity; and RestoreHER Hormones, a live event that's brought thousands of women — and educators I deeply respect, like Barbara O'Neill and Dannah Gresh — into one room, together.
"I didn't set out to build a company. I set out to stop watching women get dismissed."
I'm the author of How to Feel Like Yourself Again, a keynote speaker, and — most days — just a woman trying to build something worth leaving behind.
For the woman who's done everything right and still doesn't recognize herself in the mirror.
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I'm married to Joel — also a registered nurse, and the face of Brave Works RN, which we co-founded together. We're raising six kids on a hobby farm — from-scratch food, picking eggs, growing our own. We're passing on a legacy of health, because in our experience, that's the only thing that actually matters. What we set out to do for our own family became something we now get to share with the world.
My philosophy, and the line I hope you leave with too: love the girl you're in.