About Mea

I've spent much of my career helping businesses, leaders, entrepreneurs, and organizations navigate growth, operations, communication, complexity, and change.

My background spans executive leadership, business development, operations, marketing strategy, publishing, hospitality, aviation, entrepreneurship, and advisory work across corporate, nonprofit, and founder-led environments.

Over the years, I've led complex initiatives, worked alongside federal agencies and airline task force teams, served as Director of Sales and Marketing for a AAA Four Diamond resort, built businesses of my own, and worked closely with leadership teams making important decisions in fast-moving environments.

Those experiences taught me a great deal about business.

More importantly, they taught me about people.

How we grow.

How we adapt.

How we navigate uncertainty.

How we define success.

And how those definitions often change as life evolves.

Over time, I found myself becoming increasingly interested in a different set of questions.

Not only how people build businesses, but how they build lives.

How work shapes us.

How creativity influences leadership.

How our homes, relationships, ambitions, wellbeing, and sense of purpose are often more connected than we realize.

And why so many accomplished, capable people eventually find themselves asking whether the life they've built still reflects who they've become.

I understand those questions because I've asked them myself.

Today, my work lives at the intersection of creativity, business, leadership, personal growth, entrepreneurship, and thoughtful living.

I write nonfiction and fiction that explore reinvention, resilience, entrepreneurship, meaningful work, creativity, personal growth, and the evolving relationship between ambition and a well-lived life.

I am the author of Not So Fast, Disrupt Your Default, and Write That Book Already, with additional nonfiction and fiction projects currently underway.

In addition to writing and speaking, I occasionally work with select business owners and leadership teams while continuing to explore new creative ventures and publishing projects.

Alongside my husband Steve, I'm also building Copper & Vine Living, a creative ecosystem centered around storytelling, thoughtful living, creativity, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship, hospitality, travel, and the intentional creation of a meaningful life.

Across every season of my work, the through-line has remained remarkably consistent:

Helping people clarify what matters.

Connecting the moving parts.

Creating structure from complexity.

Asking better questions.

And helping people move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and intention.

I'm based in Arizona, where desert mornings, books, meaningful conversations, creativity, family, friends, and a growing appreciation for slower, more intentional living continue to shape both my work and the life I'm building.

More than ever, I believe meaningful success should support your life, not consume it. I also believe some of the most important things we'll ever build aren't businesses at all. They're the lives we choose to create around them.