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I've had every reason to become bitter about life
Chemo Mom · Breast Cancer Survivor
Caregiver · Grieving Daughter
Cancer has woven its way through my family in ways I never imagined
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And yet, those experiences have made me more convinced than ever that life is filled with...
Miracles worth noticing
People worth serving
Moments worth being grateful for
Perspective Reveals Miracles ˙ Gratitude Changes Everything
Yep
This is one of the last photos I ever took with boobs.
Two weeks earlier, I'd been diagnosed with breast cancer.
I could have stayed home and worried.
But worrying harder wasn't going to change the pathology.
So I put on the dress.
I went outside.
I laughed. I loved. I lived.
Because if you're waiting for the perfect moment to live your life, you may be waiting forever.
And worse...
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oh by the way...
Hello Sunshine
I'm Cal - your newest gal pal
For more than a decade, I’ve coached women to become stronger in their minds and bodies while building multiple six-figure businesses of my own.
I thought I understood resilience. Mindset. Gratitude. Perspecitve.
Then life handed me the ultimate opportunity to practice what I’d been teaching.
Not one cancer diagnosis in my family, but three.
My son’s. Mine. My mom’s.
Suddenly, the tools I’d spent years teaching weren’t just things I believed in. They became the tools I needed to survive some of the hardest chapters of my life.
And here's what I know now:
Perspective isn’t pretending the hard stuff isn’t hard.
It’s refusing to let the hard stuff make you miss the life that’s still happening.
Watch me live it
This video was recorded just days after my 20-month old son was diagnosed with cancer.
There was no hindsight.
No happy ending yet.
No polished lesson.
Just a terrified mom trying to practice the very things she'd spent years teaching.
No production studio. No edits. Just raw, live emotion.
I had been showing up LIVE with my community almost daily since 2016. Cancer didn't change that.
You're Not Alone
And you're not the only one who's found hope here.
Real words from real people i've had the priviledge to walk alongside
"Thank you for being so candid. Your journey helped me through one of the hardest seasons of my life."
~ L.indsey ᐧ Social Community
Some people say Superman is their hero? You're mine. Thank you for normalizing real life and authentically sharing all that you have gone through and how you move through powerfully.
Tawni ᐧ Social Follower
I used to be stuck in the past, feeling that I had not accomplished what I wanted in life and believing that it was too late to do anything about it. Now all I see is endless opportunities ahead.
~ Pixie ᐧ I AM: Journey Client
I never know if I'm gonna laugh or cry harder... but usually it's both. You're show makes me feel a little more normal, but it also makes me want to get a little bit better each episode.
~ Sara ᐧ Podcast Listener
Before I started this program, I felt I was failing in most areas of my life. Changing my mindset has been life altering! The biggest suprise is that I lost 70lbs after joining! Not because of a diet, but because my mind is clear and things are just easier.
~ V.ivien ᐧ I Am: Jouney Client
Let's Be Friends
Follow along the authentic journey.
So... where do we go from here?
There are a lot of ways we can do life together.
Pick what brought you here - or them all.
I AM: Journey
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Stories Connect Us
Perspective changes us
I don’t speak from a textbook. I speak from a life that has asked me, again and again, to practice what I’d spent years teaching.
My conversations are honest, emotional, funny, sometimes uncomfortable — and always rooted in the belief that we have more influence over how we experience our lives than we realize.
I don’t come to tell people to “just stay positive.”
I come to make them laugh, make them feel, and hopefully send them home seeing their own life a little differently.
Real Stories.
Raw Conversations.
Authentic Persepective.
I AM: Journey
Simple practices. Stacked together.
A life that feels better.
You don't need to overhaul your life to make it better.
I AM: Journey helps everyday women simply stack foundational habits that support their minds, bodies and lives - in a way that's practical, fun and actually doable.
Small practices. Real Life.
Lasting change.
... and Instagram
The social where I have no idea what I'm doing, but I keep showing up anyway...
It's also the only feed I can actually show you here, so go ahead... snoop away.
Let's Be Friends
One of my favorite (and free) ways to connect is through socials.
WARNING: I don't share the highlights. I share the entire shit show...
the good, the bad, the ugly, the embarassing - and the beauty that lies in it all.
Facebook: Where most people my age go to hang out.
TikTok: Where I accidentally learned to love making videos.
YouTube: Podcasts + the really long crying stuff.
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Coming Soon
The Book I never planned to write
58 infusions. One little boy. A whole lot of life in between
I thought I was writing a book about my son's cancer.
Turns out, I was writing about what happens when life doesn't go according to plan — and how we choose to live anyway.
A memoir about motherhood, perspective, gratitude, laughter and learning how to really live in the middle of the hard.
Sometimes meaningful. Sometimes inappropriate. Always real.
Two friends. Six kids. Babies in our 40s. And a whole lot of life we did NOT see coming.
Mature(ish) Mommas started with two friends trying to navigate motherhood later in life — and quickly became conversations about everything women are actually living through.
Motherhood. Marriage. Hormones. Friendship. Health. Cancer. Grief. Reinvention. Raising kids while still figuring ourselves out.
Nothing is off limits, and nothing is perfectly polished. We tell the stories, laugh at the ridiculous parts, cry through the hard ones, and somehow almost always find our way back to perspective and gratitude.
Stay in the sunshine
A little perspective. A little gratitude. A whole lot of real life.
I don't believe we need more noise in our inboxes. But every once in a while, we could all use a reminder to look up.
I'll send you the things worth sharing: perspective shifts, encouragement, what I'm learning, what's coming next - and probably a little inappropriate humor along the way.