After a month and a half of travel — including our recent family trip to Boston — I’ve been sitting with how much the idea of an “office” has changed for me over the years. From the car, family rooms, porches/decks, camps, resorts, and now my desk here in our Florida home, the work hasn’t stopped. Client projects kept moving. Volunteer priorities advanced too. Client projects kept moving forward. Homefront Hustle mentorship calls happened right on schedule. Deliverables were completed…

After more than two decades supporting nonprofits and military families, one thing has become very clear: my background in nonprofit leadership and advocacy makes me significantly more effective as an operations consultant. Before becoming a consultant, I served as Operations Director for the Military Spouse Business Association and currently serve as Executive Director of the Society of Military Spouses in STEM. I also advocated for the passage of the Military Spouses Residency Relief Act. These experiences gave me a deep…

This week marks a major life change: my husband Nathan officially retired from the Navy. As we step into this new season, I’ve been thinking about how much my own journey has shaped the work I do today. One of the things I’m most excited about is having more capacity to support people through Homefront Hustle, my 13-week one-on-one mentorship program. I created Homefront Hustle because I know how overwhelming it can be to start or grow a business while…

I currently have three openings for new Business Operations Consulting clients and would love to support more founders, nonprofits, and small-business leaders who need reliable back-office help. This week, after 24 years of marriage and supporting my sailor through 16 moves, my husband will officially be retired from the Navy. As we step into this new chapter together, I’ve been thinking about how the lessons from military life continue to shape the work I do today. For over two decades,…

Our time in Key West has ended. My husband put together a beautiful date for our final night on the island. We checked into a hotel two blocks from Duval Street. We had dinner at a quaint restaurant where we were the only diners. After dinner, we walked to have drinks and dessert at a restaurant that caters to sweets and quality time for couples. After dessert, we brought the leftovers back to the hotel and then strolled up and…

Here we are in Key West, sharing laughs, stories, food, sunrises, and sunsets with friends we met back in 2009–2011. Nathan retires from the Navy in just two weeks. The fact that we get to spend one of these final active-duty weeks in such a beautiful place with dear friends feels like a true blessing. These friends were assigned to the same duty station as my sailor all those years ago. Back then, we were younger, renovating our first home,…

Today, I revisited the 2019 Military Spouses in STEM Survey conducted by SMSS. Then I compared it side-by-side with the 2025 Blue Star Families Military Family Lifestyle Survey. The overlap is striking and continues to show how much work remains. Military spouses in STEM are some of the most highly educated members of our community. Yet many of the same career barriers we documented in 2019 are still present today. Here’s what the data shows, then and now, and how…