I didn’t reinvent after the storm. I reinvented inside it — for eighteen years.
I spent 25+ years at the top of global business — senior roles at Godiva and Unilever’s Dove Spa, scaling brands across Japan, the Pacific Rim, Europe, and North America, P&Ls over $300M. Then, at 48, my husband had a catastrophic brainstem stroke. Overnight I was a full‑time caregiver, the single income, and a mother of three — the youngest just four — while supporting two terminally ill in‑laws.
I held onto the executive life for a year and a half. Then I had to become someone new to keep us afloat. So I did. I built a wellness center. Then I trained entrepreneurs. Then I started building the companies you see now. Eighteen years, one reinvention after another — never because it was inspiring, because it was survival.
That’s what I bring to a stage: not a theory of starting over, a field report. And the one thing all of it taught me — nothing you survive is wasted.
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