Becoming: What I’m Building Now
Part 3 of the “After the Fire” Series
I didn’t burn my life down. I didn’t collapse. I kept going. I kept building. But something broke open anyway.
When my best friend died, the silence left behind forced a reckoning—not just with grief, but with truth. I realized I couldn’t keep running my business the same way. I couldn’t keep shrinking behind strategy. I couldn’t keep ghostwriting other people’s clarity while avoiding my own.
For over a decade, I’ve helped other people build. Nonprofits, founder-led companies, online businesses—I’ve scaled strategy, clarified voice, ghostwritten for leaders, and set up backend systems that still hold up. But through all of it, I stayed small. Quiet. Professional. Hidden.
After the fire, that wasn’t an option anymore. I didn’t want to disappear behind someone else’s clarity. I didn’t want to edit myself to stay safe. I didn’t want to keep showing up with only half of who I am. So I started building publicly—for the first time. And I started designing a business that works for me, too.
There's nothing theoretical or even terribly risky about the changes I'm making. I’ve been inundated with interest. People are asking how to leave the U.S. strategically. How to build digital income without burning out. How to move through grief and instability and still create something steady. The demand is real. The questions are urgent. And I’m reshaping what I offer in real time to meet them.
I’ve spent the last few months refining a new business model—one that lets me step back from the execution-heavy work that kept me invisible and step into a more visible, strategic, sustainable role. I’ve also had to pause and recalibrate to protect what I’ve already built. Because the truth is: I was starting to replicate old patterns.
Saying yes too much. Doing too much myself. Feeling the friction of misalignment again. So I stepped back. Re-grounded. And now I’m moving forward with more clarity.
Here’s what I’m working on next:
→ A low-cost guide to running your digital presence with minimal tools and maximal clarity. I’ve tested and refined the exact system I use to stay present online without burning out. It’ll be available in the next few weeks.
→ A transparent view of how I work now. I’ll be sharing how I’m outsourcing, how I structure my time, what I’ve stopped doing, and what I’ve doubled down on. I want to document this rebuild—especially for people like me who need models that are actually livable.
→ A living community. Not just a private forum or a course add-on. A real container for remote workers, expats, immigrants, survivors, and anyone trying to live with more strategy and less burnout. We’ll talk about relocation, operations, healing, and how to build lives and careers that hold us.
→ A full digital product ecosystem. This includes:
A suite of remote work and career tools for every stage of transition—from absolute beginners to executives leading distributed teams.
A "which country should I move to" quiz and resources to support strategic relocation, with plans to expand the Move to Lima Blueprint into a more robust global offering.
A complete redesign of my existing content archive: hundreds of PDFs and Trello-based tools, soon to be updated into Notion-based workbooks, practical downloads, and non-predatory digital products people can actually use.
→ Evolving offers and retiring old ones. I’m moving away from ghostwriting, execution-heavy client work, and low-level retainers. I’m no longer available for social media focused packages or roles. Instead, I’m stepping fully into authorship, strategy, and systems—building tools and resources at scale, offering limited 1:1 guidance, and seeking writing, speaking, and teaching opportunities under my own name.
And for the first time, I can really see the big picture. The crooked path I’ve walked—every job, every risk, every pivot—suddenly makes sense. It’s all pointing toward the future I’m building: a life where storytelling, strategy, remote work, and my love of community-centered hospitality finally come together. I want to build digital tools that help people right now—and brick-and-mortar spaces that will hold them in the future. Third places, gathering places, hubs for remote workers and wanderers and folks building a better way to live.
But it all starts here—with the ecosystem, the content, the clarity.
And here’s the most important part: if you’ve been watching this unfold, I want to invite you in. I’m building this in public—and that means you can shape what it becomes.
The blog will keep going. The mailing list is open. The waitlist for the community is live. The first few digital tools will be out soon. But none of it is just content for content’s sake. It’s infrastructure for the kind of lives we’re trying to build—ones rooted in care, clarity, and real strategy.
I know what it’s like to launch to no one. To build through grief. To design systems in the dark. And I’m not promising ease—but I am promising honesty.
If you want to build something sustainable from wherever you are—geographically, emotionally, professionally—I’d love for you to come with me.