I love playing the violin, drinking good coffee and I am perpetually on the search for the perfect chocolate chip cookie (if you find it, please let me know!). I’m also thoroughly obsessed with the wilderness.

When I was a little kid, somebody asked me what I wanted to be and I said, “A rock collector, a writer, a ballerina, a soccer player and an adventurer.”

As it turns out, I wasn’t entirely wrong: I still love collecting rocks (and climbing them), I’m a prolific writer, and I have devoted my entire life to sharing my love of the wilderness with others.

Along the way, I started writing about my experiences in the mountains – specifically, I was interested in using the lessons that I was learning in the wilderness as a vehicle for change in my “normal” life.

Life’s most challenging moments made sense to me through the lens of the trails I had hiked and the mountains I had climbed.

A near-fatal car accident changed everything. In those terrifying moments, and the weeks afterwards, I admitted to myself that I was playing small, and that I wasn’t doing exactly what I was placed on this earth to do.

With the mountains as my guide, I immersed myself in uncovering the limiting beliefs that were holding me back in life. I learned tangible techniques that allowed me to have the confidence and authenticity that I desired to share with the world. In short, I re-discovered “me.”

After nearly a decade-and-a-half in law enforcement, I quit my job and decided to devote my life to my true calling as an inspired adventurepreneur: I decided to use my deep connection to adventure and the wilderness as a vehicle to help inspire change in the lives of other, like-minded adventurous women and men.

What started for me as a love of the mountains and adventure has had a ripple effect into every area of my life – my personal growth, career, health, relationships and overall sense of happiness. When I finally learned how to get out of my own way, I realized that anything was possible.

The reality that you want is available for you too – and it is my mission in life to show you how to find the answers that have been inside you all along.