Notes From the Middle

Let’s just get this out of the way: I don’t have a grand plan for this blog.

I’m not here to build an audience. I’m not trying to become an influencer. This isn’t a content strategy.

I’m just… here.

Trying to build something real — while working, mothering, healing, second-guessing myself, wiping spit-up off my chest, answering Slack messages, and reminding my 11-year-old to put her Chromebook away before bed.

I just had a baby 8 weeks ago. My oldest is graduating high school today. I’m on maternity leave, technically. And I’m also building a startup from scratch. Trying, hard.

Some days I feel powerful. Some days I feel like I’m barely holding it together.

This blog is a way to hold something.

I don’t know what it’ll become. Some posts might be about Workfluence. Some might just be me venting about a pitch that flopped, or a night where the baby didn’t sleep. Some days I might write one sentence and hit publish anyway.

There’s no rhythm. No rules. No pressure to perform. This is just a place to be honest — because so much of building is quiet and invisible and lonely, especially when you’re doing it with no roadmap and not a lot of help.

So if you stumbled across this somehow — welcome. If you’re building something and it feels slow, or messy, or misunderstood — I get it.

You’re not the only one.

And if no one reads this but me? That’s okay too.

I just wanted to remember how this all felt.

More soon, maybe.
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