About Me

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Hey, I’m Mara.

About ten years ago, I cracked my life open without meaning to. 

At the time, I was a bored, introverted stay-at-home mom in my mid-40s with no college education and no clear plan. On a whim, I started an online business, not realizing that small decision would set me on a long path of becoming.

That first leap led me into entrepreneurship, coaching, and leadership, where I worked with women who wanted to build meaningful businesses and real connection, especially in online spaces that often feel curated instead of human. 

Creativity has always been part of me, so I followed that thread too.  After retiring from coaching and leading a team, I used my love for creativity and married it with my addiction to journals, notebooks and paper to create a line of low content books available on Amazon.  Creativity has a way of asking for more than pages. I then, found myself being led quietly into floral design.  After nearly two years as a floral designer, I took another leap and bought the shop I worked in.

For a year, I lived the dream of owning a floral shop, until it ended sooner than expected. The shop closed in August 2024, and I returned to the corporate world full time. It was a loss, a reckoning, and a reminder that becoming doesn’t follow a straight line.

Along the way, I’ve gathered over a decade of lived experience, including co-hosting a podcast with a longtime friend, WTF: What The Fifties  where we talk honestly about life in midlife; menopause, motherhood, friendship, aging, and everything we were never taught to name out loud.

Today, I’m a proud grandmother to two baby girls, a role that has slowed me down in the best way and sharpened my sense of what matters.

This blog is where I want to stay present with my own life. I’m committed to writing more consistently, more truthfully, and less perfectly. 

This is my Second Act—still unfolding, still becoming.

updated 02-15-2026