For about 15 years, I’ve worked in tech, mostly in operations. Customer ops, incident management, escalations, trust and safety, programs, people, process. If something was on fire, there’s a good chance I was holding the extinguisher, or at least the spreadsheet tracking where all the extinguishers were.

I’m also a mom of two. My kids are 11 years apart, so I’ve done the newborn years twice, in two very different seasons of life. I was raised in Arizona, and I live in Sydney now.

The thing I’m actually good at

Somewhere in all of that, I figured out what I’m actually good at. It isn’t spreadsheets, although I do love a spreadsheet. It’s translation.

• A messy thought into words you can actually send
• Years of experience into evidence an interviewer believes
• An awkward situation into a script
• A pile of overwhelm into one next step
• Chaos into a system

I’ve done it for teams, for leaders, and for myself more times than I’d like to admit.

So what is this?

standups & snacktime is for people who want a career they’re proud of without losing themselves, their family, or what actually matters. It’s written mostly for working moms, but you don’t need kids to be in the right place.

Here’s what you’ll find:

• Career: growth, interviews, money, boundaries, and wanting more without apologizing for it.
• The hard stuff: the actual words for the email, the pushback, and the 1:1 you’ve been avoiding.
• The mess: systems, templates and AI that take mental load off instead of adding homework.
• Real life: motherhood, moving, routines, and the parts of life that don’t fit on a resume.

Yes, the name is a joke. Standups at work, snacktime at home. The overlap is real, but it isn’t the point. The point is more career, more options, and still you.

What this isn’t

No LinkedIn voice, no hustle pep talks, and no pretending any of this is easy. I’m not a guru and I haven’t figured it all out. I’ve figured some things out the hard way, and I’d rather you didn’t have to.

So pull up a chair and grab a snack.