My Story

I am not the coach who has always had it figured out.

I am the one who had to learn it the hard way.

I grew up without much money. And I learned early that financial instability has a very specific feeling — not just stress, but a constant noise that makes it hard to think clearly about anything else.

I worked hard to change that. I built a career in banking and spent a decade in financial crimes — which means I spent ten years studying exactly how financial vulnerability gets exploited. How confusion becomes exposure. How not knowing your own numbers can cost you in ways that go far beyond the account balance.

I understood money professionally. And I got to a place of real stability.

And then life shifted.

I lost my husband unexpectedly in 2023, a what I discovered, even with everything I knew professionally, is that grief and money are quietly, deeply connected. He was the person I thought out loud with. The one I would say 'does this make sense?' to. And suddenly every financial decision landed on my shoulders alone.

I found myself in an online widows’ group. And what I read there stayed me. Woman after woman, overwhelmed. Not just by grief, but by the financial weight that grief had dropped on top of them. Accounts they didn't know existed. Decisions they had never made alone. A life that needed to be rebuilt while they were still trying to survive losing the one they had.

I saw the same thing in women going through divorce, and in women navigating career loss or starting over after years of building something that had come undone.

In all of them, the pattern was the same. It was not a lack of intelligence or effort. It was that the transition had created a pattern around money that was quietly keeping them stuck.

I knew that feeling. And I knew I had the background to help.

That is where SoLuna began.