I didn’t inherit fine china or antique furniture—I inherited creativity. I come from a family of makers, artists, and quiet visionaries who treated imagination as a way of life. My grandfather was a chef who turned food into art. My mother painted. My aunts wrote poetry and designed beautiful things. My sister became a costume designer. Even my dad, a computer programmer back when computers filled entire rooms, approached his work with a deeply creative mind. Creativity wasn’t something we talked about—it was something we lived.

I started out telling stories through movement. Ballet was my first creative language, until a car accident closed that chapter and invited me to find a new way forward. Photography, writing, and eventually teaching became the place where everything I’d learned—discipline, curiosity, and creative devotion—came together.

That journey led me to write Making Creativity a Lifestyle and to speak to creatives who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to keep showing up for their work. Through my talks, workshops, and conversations, I help people build habits, routines, and rituals that make creativity sustainable—not just inspired, but lived. Because creativity isn’t something you wait for. It’s something you practice. And when you design your life to support it, everything changes.