Telling the story is how we make sense of it. It's also how we make it ours.
Letting Loss Lead will be my first published essay. Loss arrives in more forms than we expect. This essay is about recognizing them, finding your voice inside them, and choosing what comes next. The Women’s Anthology is forthcoming. Release in April 2026. Excerpt below.
My Own
Every woman has a story worth telling. I am building a space to change that - interviews, conversations, and portraits of women speaking honestly about their lives. More coming soon.
Other Women’s
I speak on women's resilience, reinvention, and the courage it takes to tell the truth about your own life. If you are looking for a speaker for your event or organization, I would love to hear from you.
The Stage
Excerpt from Letting Love Lead:
‘We cannot predict, nor protest how someone we love faces their mortality. All we can do is be present. So, that is what I did, I met her where she was at, without prescribing my will or projecting my hopes. For me, it was not my mom’s voice that informed my prevailing ethos, it was the deprivation of her voice. And there we were, as her time to choose herself had expired, with no last Hail Mary available to change her fate. It was too late to create the life for which she yearned. Bearing witness to this life-altering truth was profoundly poignant, even under its thick sheath of heartache.’
- Ashley Mansfield