MEET ROSE
Writer • Artist • Teacher • Curious Human
Through writing, art, courses, travel, and conversations about change, I share the tools that helped me stop living on autopilot and start building a life that actually fit.
I help people create lives that feel like their own.
MY STORY
I spent years building the life
I thought I wanted.
By my late thirties, I ‘had it all’. A thriving business, a successful career, a brand-new house with an ocean view, cars, designer furniture. I should have felt on top of the world.
Instead? The gap between who I was and who I wanted to be was creating problems. Stress. Anxiety. Vertigo. Back pain. Numbness in my arms and legs. Muscle spasms. A trip to the emergency room confirmed I wasn’t having a stroke. I was simply that unhappy inside.
Yikes.
I started asking a lot of questions. Why was I more concerned about pleasing others than myself? Who was I trying to impress? Did all these markers of success make me happy? If not, what would? Was I happy? What would happy even look like to me?
AN EXTRAORDINARY DREAM
As a child I had this idea that my life would be extraordinary. Full of adventure. I’d fearlessly walk into the unknown. I’d do everything!
In my teens and twenties I was an avid artist, I rock climbed, I took up skydiving on a whim and wound up jumping from airplanes and hot air balloons hundreds of times. I got a degree in sociology and then another degree in economics. I minored in business. I was going to change the world! I picked up hiking and traveled through Central and South America climbing mountains through the jungle. I picked up running and then triathlon and raced multiple distances including the Ironman distance.
I launched a food business. I had no idea what I was doing, but with enough work and a lot of hustle that grew from a small two-person shop up to our eyeballs in business debt to employing almost fifty people and grossing millions.
Yet, by my late thirties - I had unwittingly given up sovereignty over the direction and fullness of my life in an attempt to be nice, humble, kind, loved.
Changes were made.
Now I split my time between two places I love.
Part of the year is spent in a hundred-year-old home in a small fishing village on a Greek island overlooking the Aegean. The other part is spent in a log cabin on a lake in the Pacific Northwest, surrounded by towering evergreens.
Along the way, I learned something important: I didn't need a different life. I needed to stop forcing myself into a life that didn’t fit.
Today I write, teach, paint, travel, cook, care for rescue cats, and spend my days doing work that feels aligned with who I am. I help people pay attention to what they truly want, question assumptions they've inherited, and intentionally build lives that reflect their own values instead of someone else's expectations.
What I Believe
Attention
Shapes Reality
Your attention is your most precious resource. How you choose to spend it shapes existence.
CURIOSITY
OVER CERTAINTY
Better lives come from asking better questions and leaving room for the unknown leaves room for future growth.
SOVEREIGNTY
IS freedom
Taking personal responsibility for the direction of your life and your actions is the key to freedom.
LIFE SHOULDN’T
BE HARD
You don’t have to try to fit a life that you’ve outgrown. Find out what fits you best now, and you find joy!
IT’S ALWAYS
THE RIGHT TIME
It’s never, ever, ever too late. Life is meant to be lived the whole time and reinvention is a gift you can give yourself.