Available for the right conversations.
I'm not running a full speaking calendar yet. What I am doing is saying yes to the conversations that fit — the podcast hosts who want something honest about chronic illness, the event organizers putting together something I'd want to be part of, the interviewers working on stories that most of their sources won't talk about in specifics.
If that sounds like something you're putting together, I'd love to hear from you. What follows is what I can actually speak about today — in my own voice, from inside the experience, without the wellness gloss most of this space comes with.
Topics I'm fluent in.
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Chronic illness, lived from the inside
What nine diagnoses across four years actually looks like in a life. The structural and emotional textures most chronic illness content leaves out. Identity on the other side of diagnosis. The specific kind of grief nobody names.
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What goes wrong inside women's medicine
Diagnostic delay, dismissal, the difference between being treated and being believed. How the system ends up producing the patients it later calls difficult. What I've seen from twenty-plus specialists and what I wish I'd known going in.
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Why wellness content fails the women it claims to help
The gap between what chronic illness actually requires and what the wellness industry is selling. Why "mindset" isn't a treatment plan. What it costs women to perform being okay when they're not.
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Building what didn't exist
The story behind United Spoonies™: how a stack of personal notes became a structural methodology, and what I learned building a resource library for a population most people are still trying to ignore.
Format, briefly.
I'm open to podcasts, interviews, panels, and the occasional talk. Virtual and in person. I lean toward formats that allow for actual conversation over formats that require a polished keynote performance — but if the keynote is the right fit, I can do that too.
I'm not booking ticketed conferences or paid workshops yet. When I am, this page will say so. In the meantime, I'll say yes to the conversations that fit, and I'll tell you honestly if something isn't one.
If you're putting together something that sounds like a fit, let's talk.
Email is the best way to reach me. Tell me what you're working on, who your audience is, and roughly when you're hoping to record or host. I'll get back to you.
Email me