If you’ve read anything else I’ve written, you know I treat my rental property like its own little creature: it has its own account, its own profit, its own emergency cushion, and I don’t just dip into it whenever I feel like it. That property doesn’t fund my lifestyle — it funds itself first, and stays ready for whatever breaks … Read More
First Weekend, Fresh Start: The Money Ritual That Keeps My Whole Life on Track
There’s a version of personal finance that’s all stress and avoidance, where you don’t look at your accounts because you’re a little scared of what you’ll find. I lived there for a while. It’s exhausting. Then I did something almost embarrassingly simple: I picked one weekend a month and made it the weekend. The first weekend, every month, no matter … Read More
You Don’t Need a Longer Warm-Up, You Need More Movement Throughout Your Day
I don’t have twenty minutes to warm up anymore. I have a toddler and a job and a life that does not include a leisurely pre-workout ramp where I slowly coax my body into being willing. If it takes me twenty minutes to get ready to work out, I’m never working out. There isn’t time. That window is the whole … Read More
What a Baby and a 90-Year-Old Taught Me About Movement
Here is my life right now: In the morning, I might be on the floor with my 15-month-old daughter, watching her drop into a flawless squat to pick up a Cheerio- heels down, spine long, hips loaded, a position half my grown clients pay me to help them get back. And later that same day, I’m standing in a room … Read More
I Will Not Be a Mom on the Sidelines
I want to start with a confession, because I think it’ll save some of you a lot of self-loathing. I know nearly everything there is to know about fitness. Not as a hobby — as a profession. I have spent my adult life inside the art and the science of how bodies move. I currently run a fitness department. I … Read More
Getting Your Pink Back- and other dumb shit sold to mothers
She looked at me and said, “They say it takes two years to get your pink back.” What? I had spent 35 years building a life rooted in ambition, purpose, and adventure. A thriving career I built myself, brick by brick, from scratch. A tidy, organized, systemized home. And this comment — surely meant to be encouraging — was somehow … Read More
A Case for Keeping Women in the Kitchen
Most nights, I’m at the stove with onions and garlic going in a pan, and I’m not really thinking about it. I can hear when the onions are about to turn on me. I can smell when the garlic wants butter. I know when the meat needs to be flipped without looking at a clock, because it tells me. I … Read More
ChatGPT Will Not Fix Your Consistency Problem
You can now get a perfect, personalized, expert-designed workout plan out of ChatGPT in nine seconds. For free. Sets, reps, progressions — the whole beautiful thing. It will do nothing for you. Not because it’s a bad plan. Because a plan was never what was missing — same as the last plan, and the app before it, and the trainer … Read More
I Got a Job to Get Out of My House
(and other dumb shit sold to mothers) Every Friday I do the same stupid thing. I exhale. Some animal part of me still believes the weekend is coming to save me — that it’ll feel the way weekends used to feel. Relaxing. Spacious. Two whole days with room in them for activities, for rest, for being a person. And then … Read More
The 3 Supplements That Changed My Life
The 3 Supplements That Changed My Life I have a complicated relationship with supplements. Ever since I started my career as a personal trainer, there was always pressure to sell pills, powders, shakes, detox teas, fat burners — you name it. When I worked at a big box gym, supplement sales were practically baked into the job description. And I … Read More