HI, I’M
Rose.
I help people create lives that feel more like their own.
Through writing, courses, art, travel, and conversations about change, I help people stop living on autopilot and start building lives that actually fit them.
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.