From a suitcase and a dream — to breakdown, healing, and becoming who I was always meant to be.

I came to the U.S. in 2006 with a small suitcase, a 1.5-year-old daughter, no support, and no real plan — just a dream and a willingness to work for it.

I was an immigrant, a young mother, and a woman determined to build something from nothing.

And I did.

I built a successful career from the ground up. I became a celebrity hairstylist. I taught on stages across the country and around the world. I opened Lala’s Updos and my bridal academy, launched my own styling tool, and created an online education platform that supported thousands of artists.

I lived the kind of success most people dream about.

But in 2021, life cracked open.

Years of pressure, responsibility, and holding everything together began to take their toll. By early 2023, my body collapsed. I was diagnosed with Raynaud’s and arthritis — my hands swollen, in pain, and suddenly unable to do the very work that had built my career.

Losing my health meant losing more than my work. It meant losing a sense of identity I had spent years building.

I stepped away from the stages I once loved. I closed my Bridal Academy. And for the first time, I was forced to sit with a question I had avoided for years:

Who am I if I'm not performing, producing, or holding everything together?

That question became the beginning of everything.

I turned inward. I stopped searching for answers outside of myself and began learning how to listen. I studied neuroscience, trauma work, nervous system regulation, intuitive development, and emotional awareness. I got certified. I got quiet. I got honest.

And slowly, I began reconnecting with the woman I had buried under years of pressure, expectations, and achievement.

This work isn't something I learned from books alone — it's something I lived.
Through ambition. Through loss. Through the fire of reinvention.

What I've learned is simple, but not easy:
We can't live a life — or a version of ourselves — that doesn't feel true.

Everything I share now comes from experience — not theory.
From building, losing, questioning, and choosing again.

I speak and mentor from that place.