What happened in 2024 (and why it changed everything I believe)
In 2024, I did the responsible thing. Took on one full-time job. Dropped the clients, dropped the side business, dropped everything else that had quietly been keeping me afloat for two decades. It looked like growing up. It looked like finally focusing in and picking a lane.
Then we got DOGEd in September 2025. (Yes, it was still happening then.)
Suddenly, I had nothing and had to start over from scratch. Not because I hustled too hard — because I'd stopped tending to all of the parts of myself. The single full-time job wasn't the stable choice it was supposed to be. It was a single point of failure with a benefits package, and I'd handed it the whole plate.
The hustle was never the risky part. So when I tell you I know what it's like to be talented, capable, and completely exposed anyway — I'm not reading that off a slide. I'm rebuilding The Professional Adult the same way I'm asking you to rebuild your own plate: on purpose, in public, semi-polished. You can watch the whole thing before you ever pay me a dime. Don't trust me because I said so. Run the checklist yourself.