My journey started as a single mother with nothing but a vision and a refusal to stay stuck.

The cost of living outpaced my income, and despite working multiple jobs, I couldn’t make ends meet. I moved in with my mom, read like my life depended on it, and started rebuilding from scratch.

I had been a musician, a teacher, and a pilates instructor. But life demanded reinvention. I became obsessed with understanding how to build true financial stability. I ran on the treadmill at night, crying while watching Robert Shiller’s free economics lectures on Open Yale. That was all I could afford—and I absorbed every word.

One line changed everything:

That became my North Star.

I returned to school for finance at the University of Toronto at age 32, ultimately becoming a CFA charterholder. I’ve spent over 15 years studying behavioural finance — how our beliefs, habits, and nervous systems shape our financial decisions — and also hold a certification in Design Thinking from IDEO, giving me a unique lens on how women design their lives and financial systems.

I built a career as a financial analyst and trader — all while raising a child and navigating relentless legal and emotional stress.

Eventually, my health broke down. My nervous system was shot. I realized: wealth without wellness isn’t sustainable.

So I dove headfirst into functional medicine, trauma healing, and the science of self-regulation. I worked with osteopaths, functional health doctors, hypnotherapists, and therapists. I studied meditation, cold plunges, red light therapy, energy healing, and nervous system repair. Because if I couldn’t care for myself, I couldn’t lead anyone else.

And then came the deeper realization: I'm here to teach women that they never need to depend on anyone—a man, a financial advisor, anyone—to build wealth for their families.

Success as an investor is easy. So why aren’t we doing it?

Because the state we find ourselves in — emotionally, physically, mentally—isn’t conducive to building wealth.

Wealth building is simply the result of making reasonably smart decisions over a long period of time. That’s it. But when we’re dysregulated, depleted, or disconnected, those decisions don’t get made.

Self Invested exists to change that.

This platform brings together the tools, experts, and systems I spent years chasing— so women everywhere can reclaim their agency, rebuild their wealth, and design their lives from a place of alignment, strength, and self-trust.