I need to tell you about the day everything changed for me.

It was 2020. I had just had my first baby—a tiny newborn girl—and I was sitting in her nursery at 2 AM, holding her and crying.

Not happy tears. Not exhausted new-mom tears. These were angry tears. Frustrated tears. The kind that come when you realize something fundamental about your life that you can’t unsee.

I remember looking down at her and saying out loud: “I’m not going back.”

How It All Started

Let me back up a few months.

I was nine months pregnant and working at a big company. I had a good career. I’d worked my way up, and honestly, things were going well. But towards the end of my pregnancy, I wasn’t feeling great. My feet were so swollen I could barely walk.

I worked in this building with three towers, and just getting from my car to my desk was this ten-minute walk that left me sick by the time I sat down.

So I went to my boss—we had a good relationship—and I said, “Hey, I just need to work from home for the last two weeks of my pregnancy. I can’t do this walk anymore.”

We were already working from home one day a week. It wasn’t a crazy ask.

She said no. The company just wasn’t doing that.

I called my mom crying. I was like, “I’m nine months pregnant, I’m sick, my feet are swollen—and they won’t let me work from home for two weeks.”

My mom said, “Just trust God.”

About a week later, the world shut down.

The Moment Everything Changed

I had my daughter right as everything was happening in 2020. And at first, we all thought it was going to be temporary. Two weeks. Maybe a month.

But then things started getting tense. There were talks about compliance, about mandates. And I remember expressing to my boss that I wasn’t comfortable with certain requirements that were being discussed.

She paused and said, “You might not have a choice the way this thing is shaping up.”

That made me sick to my stomach.

Because I don’t believe I ever don’t have a choice. About anything.

I realized I might lose my job if I didn’t comply. My husband’s job was also at risk—we both had reduced pay during this time. And I’m sitting there holding this newborn baby, watching news coverage about how people who don’t comply might lose access to basic things like grocery stores.

That’s when it hit me: I don’t actually have control over the most basic things my family needs.

And that’s the moment in the nursery. Me and my daughter. Just the two of us. And I said out loud: “I’m not going back to that office.”

It wasn’t fear. It was anger. It was this echoing “NO” in my chest.

No one gets to use my family’s access to food as leverage. Ever.

What We’re Building Instead

That moment launched everything you see today.

My husband and I made a decision: we want to be self-sufficient by 2030. Not because we’re doomsday preppers. Not because we think the world is ending.

Because we refuse to live in a world where our family’s access to food, water, and shelter can be used as leverage for compliance.

So we started building. We started with food—learning to preserve it, store it, grow it. We built up a year’s worth of food security (you can read about that here).

Then we moved to water systems. Energy. Health. All the major areas of life where we were vulnerable to someone else controlling our access.

And here’s what I’ve learned: having options changes everything.

When you’re not backed into a corner, when you’re not desperate, you can navigate what others present to you—whether it’s your employer, your doctor, or your government—with clarity and balance.

You’re making informed choices from a place of strength, not fear.

Why This Matters for You

Maybe you lived through 2020 and felt something shift in you too.

Maybe you’re realizing that the systems we’ve relied on our whole lives aren’t as stable as we thought.

Maybe you’re just tired of feeling like you don’t have a say in how you feed your family, what goes into their bodies, or how dependent you are on things outside your control.

If any of that resonates, you’re not alone.

This is exactly why I created the Sovereignty Blueprint. It’s where I teach families how to build real independence across food, water, health, energy, and more—starting right where you are.

You don’t need to move to a farm. You don’t need to quit your job. You just need to start building options. One system at a time.

Because when 2020 taught me anything, it’s this: the world can change overnight. And the families who have options are the ones who can navigate that change without panic, without compromise, and with their values intact.

That’s what I want for you too.