I married my husband Greg when I was 37 and had our son at age 40 and our daughter at age 42. Getting pregnant didn’t come easy. I was traveling all the time for work (you realize that you may travel too much when you know the Flight Numbers of American Airlines by heart and the flight attendants begin calling you by your first name). The medical equipment company had grown beyond my wildest dreams. We added a nutritional line of wellness supplements to the business and it was exploding. It was all very exciting and at the same time I was tired.

I began to feel a new “call…” something was emerging. Imagine sitting at a traffic light waiting for red to turn to green. A whisper that says, “something is over.” I grew restless. I began to question my own purpose, my own reason for being. Change was on the horizon. I happened to spy a copy of TIME Magazine at the grocery store one day in 2004 and the cover had three very distinct, diverse looking women on the cover. Something drew me in to that cover – it literally felt like a magnet. I bought a copy and here’s what I learned: the article stated that women were destined to rule the world one day but there was a problem; it appeared that women entrepreneurs were struggling with building and running successful companies.

I had just built a highly successful (wildly profitable) business and yet this article was sharing that women were struggling. My mind would not let go of this information. It was all I thought about (besides raising two toddlers). Finally, I knew what I had to do and I’ve been doing it for the last 18 years: Serving and Supporting Women Entrepreneurs to ALIGN their business and their lives so they can Find Joy Every Day.