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Business & Badassery For women who know they're not finished yet. Building businesses through the beautiful messiness of midlife. Real conversations. Big dreams. Zero bullsh*t.

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My daughter just turned 17. My son is about to turn 20.And apparently, we're entering the phase of motherhood where I'm ...
10/08/2026

My daughter just turned 17. My son is about to turn 20.

And apparently, we're entering the phase of motherhood where I'm supposed to let them figure s**t out for themselves.

Ummm...excuse me?!

I've spent nearly two decades fixing things. Solving problems. Making things better. Being the person they come to when something goes wrong.

And now I'm supposed to just... watch?

I know they need to make their own decisions. Their own mistakes. Find their own solutions.

I WANT that for them!

But knowing what's best for them and convincing my mama brain to stay the hell out of it are two VERY different things.

Nobody tells you how hard it is to go from fixing everything to being the person they can call while they figure it out.

I'm still learning.

And occasionally biting my tongue to keep from interfering.

T**s up, ladies!

Business & Badassery has a new home.Well...an updated home.Is it perfect?Nope.Am I going to keep fu***ng with it?Obvious...
10/02/2026

Business & Badassery has a new home.

Well...an updated home.

Is it perfect?

Nope.

Am I going to keep fu***ng with it?

Obviously. 😂

But for the first time, the website actually feels like the Business & Badassery that's been taking shape in my head.

When I originally started this, it was supposed to be about helping small business owners with their marketing.

Then life had other plans.

And somewhere between raising kids who are becoming adults, caring for aging parents, losing my mom, navigating changing relationships, perimenopause, building a business and asking myself some pretty big "what the hell do I want now?" questions...

Business & Badassery became something different.

Because I'm different.

It's becoming a place for women building businesses in the middle of midlife.

Not AFTER we get everything figured out.

Not when the kids don't need us anymore.

Not when our parents don't need us anymore.

Not when our hormones cooperate, our relationships make sense, our houses are clean and we finally have enough uninterrupted time to pursue the things we want.

Now.

While we're in it.

The website will keep evolving. So will Business & Badassery.

Hell, so will I.

But this is where we are today, and I'm pretty damn excited about where it's going.

Take a look around. Tell me what you think.

businessnbadassery.com

T**s up, ladies. We're just getting started.

FeralAtFifty

Well, if that isn't the most relatable fu***ng sentence I've heard in a while. 😂My friend Niki said this during a quarte...
09/25/2026

Well, if that isn't the most relatable fu***ng sentence I've heard in a while. 😂

My friend Niki said this during a quarterly planning call this week and I immediately thought, EXACTLY!

Because seriously.

Imagine what we could accomplish without all those pesky distractions like...

Kids who need us.

Spouses who need us.

Parents who are getting older and need us in entirely new ways.

Appointments.

Groceries.

Laundry.

Hormones doing whatever the hell they've decided to do this week.

The house.

The dogs.

The emotional labor nobody puts on the damn calendar.

And somewhere in between all of that, we're supposed to sit down, focus, grow a business, make money, chase the dream and apparently drink enough water.

Sure. No problem. 😂

But here's the thing I'm starting to understand:

My life isn't getting in the way of my business.

My life is my life.

And my business has to be built inside of it, not in some imaginary version where I have unlimited time, unlimited energy and nobody needs anything from me.

That might mean it takes longer.

It might mean the plan changes.

It might mean some weeks I absolutely crush it and other weeks keeping the damn thing moving counts as a win.

Maybe we need to stop measuring ourselves against what we could accomplish if we didn't have a life...

and start giving ourselves a little more fu***ng credit for what we're building while having one.

Because building a business is hard.

Building one in the middle of midlife?

That's a whole other level of badassery.

Shoutout to Niki with No Dumb Blonde Accounting for saying what the rest of us were thinking, and Tracey with GRiT Coaching LLC for bringing us together.

T**s up, ladies! We're just getting started.

Whimsy & rage.Honestly, that pretty much nails how I feel these days.I'm actively looking for more whimsy in my life.Mor...
09/23/2026

Whimsy & rage.

Honestly, that pretty much nails how I feel these days.

I'm actively looking for more whimsy in my life.

More fun. More ridiculousness. More things that make me laugh. More moments that have absolutely no productive purpose other than they make me fu***ng happy.

And then there's the rage.

Not necessarily screaming, throwing-s**t rage, although that might happen every once in a while. Nothing a rolled up towel and a mattress won't fix.

More like Bruce Banner.

"That’s my secret, Cap… I’m always angry."

I'm fine! Everything's fine! Thanks, Ross!

But somewhere just beneath the surface is a woman who has had QUITE ENOUGH, THANK YOU!

Maybe that's part of this season of life too.

Wanting more joy while having significantly less tolerance for bu****it.

Learning what you actually want while becoming increasingly unwilling to keep doing what you don't.

Finding the whimsy without pretending the rage isn't there.

Turns out, there's room for both.

And frankly, I think they look pretty damn good together.

T**s up, ladies. We're just getting started.

Nobody warned me about this particular feature of perimenopause.I was prepared for hot flashes. Mood swings. Maybe rando...
09/14/2026

Nobody warned me about this particular feature of perimenopause.

I was prepared for hot flashes. Mood swings. Maybe randomly wanting to murder someone because they were chewing too loudly.

But the absolute AUDACITY of my body to quietly change the terms and conditions somewhere along the way?

Ms. Ma'am!

I had been operating under the same general food agreement for decades.

Then apparently somebody updated the contract without my consent, and I've been paying the penalties ever since.

So to every woman who has looked at the scale and thought, "What the f**k? I didn't even DO anything."

I see you.

At this point, I'm pretty sure I can gain weight just by smelling something delicious.

T**s up, ladies. We're just getting started.

MidlifeHumor

09/11/2026

I couldn't remember the name of the makeup line.

I couldn't remember the name of the eyeliner.

I was convinced one of them had the word "moon" in it.

And because all THREE pairs of my readers were sitting on my bathroom counter, I couldn't read the damn package when we found it.

But did I walk out of Ulta Beauty with the HALF MAGIC eyeliner I went in for?

You're damn right I did. 😂

Shoutout to the very patient woman at Ulta who somehow translated "it's not a pointy pencil, it's like a flat line" into exactly what I was looking for.

Midlife memory: questionable.
Eyesight: also questionable.
Determination: fu***ng undefeated.

T**s up, ladies. We're just getting started.

Dolly Parton was just always there.She was part of the soundtrack of my childhood.Her voice on the radio. Her movies. Th...
08/26/2026

Dolly Parton was just always there.

She was part of the soundtrack of my childhood.

Her voice on the radio. Her movies. That hair. Those outfits. That laugh.

And Islands in the Stream.

That one hits differently now.

It was my parents' song, and I can still picture them dancing to it.

Since losing my mom, hearing it already brings up all kinds of emotions. Now I imagine it always will for another reason too.

Dolly was one of those people who just seemed completely comfortable being Dolly.

She was over the top and she knew it.

She made fun of herself.

She wasn't afraid to laugh at herself.

She didn't seem particularly concerned with whether everyone approved of her.

And damn, could that woman tell a story.

In her songs. In interviews. Just talking about her life.

But underneath all of that personality was this incredible sense of gratitude and generosity.

She made a lot of money. She was wildly successful. And she gave so much of it back.

I always admired that about her.

Be ambitious.

Be grateful.

Be generous.

Laugh at yourself.

And for God's sake, be who you are.

The world got a whole lot of Dolly Parton because she never tried to make herself smaller for it.

I'm really glad we did.

Rest easy, Dolly.

The ampersand is the whole damn point!When I started Business & Badassery last year, I had a very different idea of what...
08/25/2026

The ampersand is the whole damn point!

When I started Business & Badassery last year, I had a very different idea of what it would be.

I wanted to create a place for solopreneurs and micro business owners who were trying to figure out marketing without the budget to hire someone to do it for them.

Then life happened.

My son graduated from high school. Two weeks later, my mom died the day after my birthday. I found myself navigating grief, caring for my dad, changing family relationships, marriage struggles, perimenopause, a kid becoming a young adult and all the complicated feelings that come with realizing your own life is changing right alongside theirs.

Business & Badassery got put down for a while.

When I picked it back up, I tried to make it what it had been before.

But it didn't fit anymore.

Because I wasn't the same woman who had started it.

And eventually I realized that was the thing I'd been missing.

Business & Badassery.

The business and the life happening around it.

Building something and questioning what you want the rest of your life to look like.

Supporting your kids as they figure out who they're becoming and realizing you get to figure that out again, too.

Aging parents. Changing relationships. Hormones. Grief. Reinvention. Fear. Ambition. Exhaustion. Starting over. And still having this little voice inside you saying, I'm not fu***ng done yet.

That's what Business & Badassery is becoming.

Not a place where I'm going to teach women how to have everything figured out.

A place for women building something in the middle of figuring it out.

Because maybe badassery isn't having your s**t together.

Maybe it's continuing to create a life that's yours while life is happening all around you.

T**s up, ladies. We're just getting started.

08/24/2026

Nobody warned us about trying to build a business in the middle of ALL THIS.

Kids. Parents. Relationships. Hormones. House s**t. Money s**t. Life s**t.

And somewhere in there, you're supposed to focus, be consistent, grow your business and apparently have a morning routine.

Sure. 😂

Building a business in midlife hits different.

Not because we're less capable.

Because we're building while carrying a whole hell of a lot more than anyone sees.

And THAT is a whole other level of badassery.

Welcome to Business & Badassery!

T**s up ladies! We're just getting started!

This weekend I took my daughter to Waco for her first college visit at Baylor University.She's about to start her junior...
08/11/2026

This weekend I took my daughter to Waco for her first college visit at Baylor University.

She's about to start her junior year of high school, so no, we're not picking dorms yet.

But college suddenly feels a whole lot less theoretical.

My son, who's about to start his sophomore year of college, came with us too.

And there's something a little surreal about walking around a college campus with both of them.

One already a year into figuring out this whole college/young adult thing.

The other just beginning to ask what she might want hers to look like.

And me?

In a lot of ways, I'm figuring out my next chapter too.

I'm building a business. Thinking about where I want to take it next. What I want my life to look like over the next few years. What I want more of. And probably just as importantly, what I want less of.

All while still being Mom.

And I think that's something we don't talk about enough when we talk about women building businesses.

We're not building in a vacuum.

We're building while raising kids who are becoming young adults.

While helping aging parents.

While relationships change.

While life changes.

While WE change.

Sometimes all at the same damn time.

So no, the business doesn't always grow according to the perfectly mapped-out timeline we had in our heads.

I'm learning to be okay with that.

There's no one right way to build a business.

There's no one right timeline either.

Sometimes moving forward looks like a great client meeting, signing the contract or finally getting the thing you've been working on out into the world.

And sometimes it looks like getting in the car with your kids and heading to Waco because one of them is ready to start imagining what's possible for her.

I'm starting to think that's a big part of what Business & Badassery is becoming for me.

Not becoming a badass...because I know I'm already one.

It's about building businesses and lives in the middle of all of this.

Motherhood. Careers. Aging parents. Changing relationships. Big decisions. New chapters.

And somewhere in there, remembering that we get to have a next chapter too.

My kids are both figuring out what's possible for them.

Turns out, so am

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