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PRELUDE
April 2, 2025
In 2021, I became a mother to the cutest Swiss-Filipino-Brazilian baby.
Then this happened:
Jomie, the entrepreneur.
Jomie, the nomad traveller.
Jomie, the project manager
Jomie, the small business COO.
The only identity I knew I was for sure, was MOTHER. Amazing, sure, but really problematic. Especially since I was also a business owner at the time.
Who did I want to be? What do I want to do now? Nothing I used to do or want seemed to matter just as much. I always thought I knew myself, but this really had me questioning EVERYTHING.
I mean everything.
So in classic spiralling Jomie, I self-sabotaged my last business venture and went back to my safety net: I freelanced doing what I do best.
(Thank goodness I was still sane enough not to take a 9-5. Not that I’d qualify for corporate anyway; I’d get fired my first day.)
And now that I have some space, after 4 freakin’ years, I feel it’s time for another reset. A gentler one.
Because while I’ve changed my life a few times in the past, I did it all drastically:
- I left a 5-month corporate stint to work online
- I left that to start an ecommerce company.
- I abruptly closed down that successful ecommerce company
- Then I literally fled my home country and never looked back
The ability to pivot and change has always served me well, but the abruptness no longer fits me.
Consider this new brand a blank canvas a playground for me to reset more gently, honoring the mother in me, without forgetting everything I’ve already built.
I’m building what’s next for me, in public, and I invite you to watch me make a total fool of myself on my way to winning again. (Cuz my competitive side is still alive, b*tches )
I’m not looking for a rewrite of my story. I’m simply coming back to myself, to what I know is true, and start there.
Here you’ll read about my pep talks to myself, my troubles, and because I’m the heroine of my story… how I overcome all of it.
So that maybe, one day you’ll have the courage to build something for yourself too. Even if you think it’s too late, too hard, it’s not you, or you don’t have time.
This is me building the village I wish I had.
It’s never too late, and there is never a wrong decision. There are just opportunities to do differently and choose differently.
Let’s hit refresh.