My conservative Christian family was blue collar construction and farming focused.  So when I fell in love with computers... 

WHAT? 

WHY DO YOU WANT TO GO TO UNIVERSITY? 

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

Me. That's it. I'm just me. 

I loved the creative process of writing code to create something new on the latest devices. I loved it just as much as I loved drawing floor plans and capturing candid photos for the yearbook. 

Are you in the least bit wondering where I went and what I did? I'm here to tell you, it was an intriguing journey into the great unknown. But really, it is not exceptionally interesting...

Canada.  Cold.  Carefree @theUofS !

I worked at it, until I finished a degree in Computer Science. Then I spend my days coding until I couple little humans shifted my focus. 

Staying home with babies was actually pretty dreamy. I enjoyed music on a whole new level,  upskilled on renovations, and practiced implementing lessons from the developmental psychology courses I thoroughly enjoyed.

And when the two little humans started to outsmart me, thinking their teachers in elementary school and their coaches on the soccer field were doing a better at the job than I was? Well, I let them do their thing but not without pulling out the gold medal received in the high school provincial soccer championships! 

And I started on my next thing. 

Cause every life is a journey.

Expanding my photography business that was growing steadily. Upscaling my marketing and design specialties, and then upscaling it again in the world of ambulance manufacturing.

Eager for more of that illusive corporate career potential, I returned to University. I blended marketing and human resources, because I just couldn't get enough of the applied psychology courses. Some days I thought I should have become a Psychologist, but it wasn't in the cards.

Convocation. Again. Yay!!!

On to a professional certification in Human Resources and Coaching, the next level of applied psychology, while running a non-profit and fast tracking the financial goals, blowing the execution of residence and hospitality operations out of the water. I was changing the trajectory of a cultural community, and I loved knowing I was making a difference without the pressure of becoming exactly like the people I served.

I was in love with leveling up!

Skip ahead to the present day, after having explored a personal health journey and applied my entrepreneurial and creative spirit to the food industry in a bakery I expanded into a cafe and clubhouse for all ages. 

External factors such as the covid shutdowns, and learning to set boundaries around verbally abusive treatment in relationships, brought me back to my first loves... 

Construction, customer service and applied psychology. 

I did it while living life on the edge of obliteration, homelessness and worked around realities that can only be characterized as emotional chaos.

And in the journey of self-acceptance, learning to love myself the way I had always been longing to be loved, I finally let go. People will be who they chose to be and do what they chose to do.

Yet I wondered, "What if they wanted to do better but didn't know how?"

Either way, once again, I will just be me. Take it or leave it. I am who I wish to be.  And in this realization, I embraced the calling to bring the light I see, to others struggling in a world of competitive division and emotional void. 

And as I grew in my multifaceted journey, learning to stive all over again so that I could thrive, I had a no-brainer choice to make. 

And as if by magic mushrooms... LuMIC.