About Me

For nearly two decades, I built a life defined by achievement.

I led nine-figure partnerships in Silicon Valley, managed global teams at companies like Twitter and Meta, and learned to measure my worth in titles, traction, and results. On paper, I had everything a woman is supposed to want.

And yet—something was missing.

In my early forties, amid burnout, perimenopause, and the relentless emotional labor of motherhood, a quiet question began to surface: Is this the life I want to keep living? When my five-year-old came home from kindergarten describing her first active-shooter drill, that question became urgent. Shortly afterward, during a sleepless night, I found a crumbling Austrian villa online and clicked Make an Offer.

That single decision unraveled the life I had carefully built—and opened the door to another.

I resigned from my career, sold nearly everything we owned, and moved my family to a small village outside Vienna in search of a different way of living. What followed was not an escape, but a reckoning: with identity, ambition, motherhood, and the truth that wherever we go, we bring ourselves with us.

I am the author of Me, A Name I Call Myself, a completed literary memoir told through lyric essays about motherhood, midlife, reinvention, and belonging, set against the backdrop of life abroad in Austria. Structured across the seasons, my work explores what it means to come of age in midlife—to honor the many selves we carry, and to build a life that makes room for joy, meaning, and truth.

Since moving to Austria, I’ve chronicled expatriate motherhood and creative reinvention through my Substack, Lilith Pond, which has been regularly featured among the Top 5 Rising Substacks in Parenting. I write about the sacred hidden inside the ordinary: kitchen sinks, apple trees, winter darkness, and the quiet moments where transformation actually takes place.

My work sits at the intersection of story and strategy. Alongside my writing, I bring deep experience in leadership, communication, and brand-building—skills that shape how my stories live in the world. I’m currently developing a television adaptation of my memoir and securing both Austrian and international production partners.

I write for women who sense there is more—more truth, more tenderness, more life—waiting on the other side of the stories they’ve been told to accept.