Meet: The one who does the Social Media for this magazine!
Know: She is in real estate by day.
Feel: Her passion for female empowerment.
Understand: She moved to Colorado 2 weeks before COVID hit, so new friends are still welcome!
Hello, Arvada! I’m so excited to finally introduce myself!
I am in real estate full time, a lover of (almost) all exercise, and your Social Media Director! My ideal weekend includes a long run and/or scenic hike, sleeping in, lots of cooking for the week ahead, and splurging on some Fire On The Mountain wings or checking out somewhere new. I enjoy all things creative, but it broke my heart not to attend any sporting events last year (ahh, the smell of a tailgate). I was born & raised in Indiana, graduated college in Florida, but Colorado is hands down, my favorite place I’ve ever lived. Here’s what I have learned, along the way, about the importance of female empowerment.
20 Empowering Moves to Make as a Woman
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Don’t wait for a partner to make your dreams come true - buy a house, a dog, that trip to Paris, whatever your heart aches for!
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Unapologetically express your feelings and emotions because guess what… we all have them, we’re all human after all…
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Buy yourself the flowers. If you’re anything like me, you’re going to end up perpetually disappointed waiting around for someone to buy you the amount of flowers you wish for.
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Spend time with you - take yourself to dinner, buy yourself a drink, enjoy a solo hike or vacay. Take time to hear YOUR voice, opinion, and energy the loudest.
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Fulfill all your curiosities or prepare for them to eat you alive.
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Sit with your strengths and weaknesses so that you can supportively sit along side another person’s strengths and weaknesses. And if you can’t sit with it, work on it!
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Imperfections are endearing, but never stop taking care of yourself.
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Always make time for extras. No one relationship, job, or hobby should encapsulate you.
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When you stop trying new things, you stop growing. It’s a short life in a big world. LIVE.
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When your unhappiness outweighs your fear, courage is born.
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Patience is a virtue, but don’t be an idiot.
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You can be easy going and understanding without being a doormat.
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Develop a savings account. Your friends will still be there if you stay at home one weekend. If not, then they’re not real friends. Financial freedom is power.
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We each have been dealt an unlucky hand, which is only our burden to bear - not our significant other’s, not our friends, not our employer’s. But don’t be too proud to know there’s a time and place to accept help.
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When all else fails there’s yoga, essential oils, wine, a $2 face mask from Target, and the short lived miracle that is Dry Shampoo.
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I know this seems counteractive, but empower women without hating all men. Treating others how you’d like to be treated is the ultimate goal afterall, right?
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Aging is a completely natural human process that is BEAUTIFUL. My mom met her soulmate at 46 years old after having 3 kids. Hence the word, s o u l mate.
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Your gut and intuition are your ultimate guide. Without sounding too much like Grandmother Willow (90’s kid til death!), I feel like people don’t follow this enough and I wholeheartedly believe in it. Your boss somehow makes you feel treated differently because you’re a woman? Leave. Something about the way that guy even carries himself gives you red flags? BYE.
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Be authentically you. Whatever that is or looks like because what goes around comes back around. And that’s the kind of company you want, around.
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Buy a car without a man to protect, fight for, or guide you. If I can do it, you can do it.
