💚🔥 The Weight I Carried, And the Strength I Found

📖 From the launch of The Leadership Leap

I was also a mother.

A single mother.

And I was trying to navigate the impossible balancing act of ambition and responsibility, not because I had the luxury of time or support, but because I had to. Because something inside me refused to give up on the vision I had for my life, for my daughter, for the impact I knew I was meant to create.

The weight of the role pressed into me.

Like the strap of a laptop bag biting into my shoulder, sharp, constant, and inescapable.

Not just physical weight, but emotional. Financial. Invisible expectations from the world, and even heavier ones I placed on myself.

I showed up to meetings with baby spit- on my shirt.

I breastfed with one hand while coding with the other.

I sat in interviews pretending I wasn’t panicking over who would watch my daughter if I got the job.

But here’s what no one tells you: leadership is forged in the fires of everyday resilience.

Not the kind that headlines articles.

Not the kind that’s applauded in boardrooms.

The kind that’s quiet. Gritty. Tender. Tenacious.

The kind that grows in the tension between your love for your children and your hunger for purpose.

The kind that asks you to show up again and again, with no safety net but your own soul.

🔥 I didn’t take a leap because I was fearless.

I took the leap because I was ready to stop shrinking.

This book, The Leadership Leap, is not a textbook.

It’s not filled with bullet-point wisdom or sterile frameworks.

It’s a lived experience.

It’s my body pressed against a chair in a office room, reading my own words aloud with trembling breath

And knowing I made it.

Not just for me, but for every other parent, dreamer, and leader who’s been made to believe they had to choose either/or.

💚 You don’t. You can lead with your whole self.

With your messy, magical, magnificent humanity.

And if that’s you, if you’re standing at the edge of your own leap

This book is for you.

🐉 Because even dragons feel the bite of the strap.

But we rise anyway.

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