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07/02/2025

🎧 The Women in the Field Podcast is here!

Isabelle sat down with me to share her story - from job hunting after graduating during Covid… to “totally winging it”… to building a thriving consulting company!

In our debut episode, shares:
🔥 Why she ditched the traditional career path
💡 Her scrappy, experimental approach to business building
🌟 How visibility became her secret weapon
💰 The money mindset shifts that changed everything

The best part? She’s proof that you don’t need to have it all figured out to start. Sometimes the messiest journeys lead to the most beautiful destinations ✨

Perfect listen for anyone feeling stuck, considering consulting, or ready to bet on themselves.

06/17/2025

Happiest second birthday to my heart and soul. ❤️

09/24/2024

This community…the Women in the Field Collective…has been a dream on my heart since one weekend in South Sudan when I was totally lost and directionless, wondering how the hell I got into the work I was in (child protection for s*x trafficking survivors) and wishing on the one hand I could go back to ignorance and on the other knowing deeply I was made for this work. I used to envy friends back home who were posting about pumpkin spice lattes (a memory I think about every year around this time) and thinking how nice it is *not to know*… not to know about the reality so many live every single day. Nice not to know things you can never UN-know that change who you are in the most fundamental way. What a privilege and what a burden. I know for many it’s probably incredibly un-PC to say that, but I don’t care. I’m not PC, I’m a human. I can only speak of my own experience. And it was heavy and I wanted nothing to do with it not because I didn’t care … but because I *was not resourced.* I was simply not equipped to do that work and it brought me to my knees. For years.

I thought to myself: I don’t want another woman who has this calling (for lack of a better word) on her heart to do extremely difficult work in a difficult world to be alone. I never want another woman to go into it with naïveté, like I did. I want to somehow be a part of inspiring, preparing, supporting (at whatever stage), encouraging, and collectively carrying women doing this service-hearted work (in a hundred different ways) in the way I so desperately needed someone at the time.

(Continued in the comments 🫶🏻)

10/13/2023

This photo was taken a little over a year ago.

I wasn’t yet pregnant with my son and those closest to me could attest to the fact I was at peace whether I ever become a mother or not.

I was 37 and I loved my life. I had never felt more confident in my skin or more at peace with myself.

I loved my freedom, I loved to travel, and I relished in my ability to listen to myself and live my life my own way, changing my mind, my direction, and my choices in alignment with my intuition whenever it felt right to do so.

One of my favorite things to do was to eat alone on a terrasse in Paris, watching the world go by, taking my time sipping a glass of wine and reading a book. Especially when no one knew where I was and I put my phone on silent.

Off the radar. Present for myself.

In the first week after my beautiful son arrived, I remember being crippled by the feeling that I was going to be anxious every day for the rest of my life. (Thankfully this was fleeting).

The feeling was so foreign to me because up until that point I was a pretty chill person. Even in some of the most volatile places in the world I wasn’t anxious.

Here I was with my three-day old and I thought: my life as I knew it is over and I’m going to be stressed every day all day because this miracle now lives outside my body and I can do nothing but my very best to protect him and surrender control for that which is uncontrollable.

Man, I missed the version of me in this photo at that moment.

I was envious of my former self. So chill and in control and SO much less vulnerable.

I could handle almost anything if it was happening to ME, but with my new mama heart broken open, I couldn’t bear to think of anything ever hurting my baby (from a kid being mean to him at school through to the unthinkable, like the parents in Israel (and Gaza) are experiencing right now).

I don’t have a conclusion to this post … every day I’m learning this new role, identity, and reality … with every smile of his that melts me to every fussy period I have no clue how to soothe.

While I, truthfully, still sometimes miss that girl I was before, I am so grateful to be growing into this new woman, Mama. ❤️

09/02/2023

Living a (very sleepy) dream 🥰 Nine weeks with Arthur. ❤️

08/04/2023

When you have a six week old and your Mama watches him so you can do something that makes you feel like you ❤️ 🌈

07/08/2023

My favorite cold pressed juice in Paris, 🥬🥒🍋🥕 (their almond milk and bone broths are amazing, too!). Rather than a tool to “cleanse” or “detox” (the body has the best, built-in capacity to do this that will ever exist!), I’ve always thought of juice as an up level. In other words: it delivers so much good stuff, supports elimination, and improves hydration. As I navigate breastfeeding for the first time (you experienced Mamas know!) hydration is incredibly important but so is the fuel you give your body. I love to cook and eat, but in the beautiful sleep-deprived haze of caring for our son, caring for myself is more of a challenge than ever before, but never more important. 🙏🏼💗 Mamas, curious what wisdom you have to share on increasing milk supply?! 🍼 Leave a message if you’re interested in a blog post with nutrition tips for new mamas and the postpartum phase (whether breastfeeding or feeding another way - we support ALL the choices here 🫶🏻). I’ll make sure to do a round up of the advice from the amazing Mamas who have already supported me so much ❤️… .v.sands 🌸

06/01/2023

It’s difficult to overstate how transformative great hair is … especially weeks before becoming a Mama 😌 Thank you for the beautiful cut and even better conversation and energy! ☀️

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