What Started as Survival Turned into Thrive: The Story Behind Thrive at Home
I didn’t plan to build a new business while raising a baby … it just sort of happened that way.
For over a year, I worked full-time in public relations while caring for my baby full-time, too. Meetings, bottle feeds, press releases, nap schedules, it was all happening at once, usually within the same ten-foot radius. I was grateful for both roles, but the constant overlap left me wondering if anyone else was living this same exhausting, beautiful tension.
When I finally stepped away from my corporate role to launch my own freelance PR business — still at home, still balancing motherhood — I realized something bigger: there was almost nothing out there for moms like me.
So I created what I couldn’t find.
The Season That Sparked It
Before becoming a mom, I built my career in public relations: fast-paced, creative, and strategic work that I loved. Then motherhood arrived, and suddenly, everything that used to fit neatly into a 9-to-5 spilled into every hour of the day.
Instead of the dreamy “best of both worlds” Pinterest version I had envisioned, I found myself with two full-time jobs at once. It wasn’t dreamy and it certainly didn’t fit on a Pinterest board. It was trying to sound professional while trying to muffle a meltdown, finding focus in five-minute bursts, and constantly feeling like something, either work or motherhood, was being short-changed.
Over time, I realized so many women were doing this — some by choice, some by necessity — yet there was no real community that spoke to us, or for us.
I kept hearing the same story from other moms: they loved being home, needed or wanted to work, but had nowhere to turn for practical tools or honest encouragement.
What This Space Is
Right now, about one in four moms in the U.S. works from home in some capacity, and another one in four stays home full-time. That’s nearly half of all mothers at home in some form — working, parenting, building, managing — but often doing it in isolation.
Most resources were built for one of the two: stay-at-home motherhood or corporate careers. But where was the middle ground? Where were the voices saying, “You can do both, and you’re not crazy for wanting to?”
That’s where I hope this space can fill in.
To be the space for the moms building businesses during nap time, leading teams from their kitchen tables, or simply managing the full-time work of raising little humans. It’s for women who want encouragement that’s honest, tools that actually help, and community that reminds them they’re not alone.
What I Hope You’ll Find Here
Thrive at Home isn’t about telling you how to do it all, it’s about being a “me too” space.
You’ll find practical resources that make daily life smoother, encouragement that feels real (not sugar-coated), and reminders that balance isn’t a finish line, it’s a rhythm you learn to create.
Whether you’re home full-time, freelancing between naps, or managing a mix of both, this space was built for you.
Because home isn’t a limitation in your story, it’s the foundation of it. And when we work and live from that place, we don’t just get through the day. We start to thrive right where we are.
