ABOUT US

It started in 1998 with a Compaq computer, a stack of business books from Waldens at the mall, a dozen weekly trips to the local library (yes library) a Yahoo chat room I'd refresh after the baby was down for his nap, and a dream that didn't match anything the world was offering me.

I was a young first-time college student and mom building a business in a corner of my small 2 bedroom home. In a space no one had built for me. The conferences were three states away. The mentors were men in suits. The "work-life balance" content was written for executives with assistants and nannies, or for women who'd already arrived. Never for the one still in the middle of it, raising kids while she was raising a business, working a full time day job while building something on the side.

So I made my own way. Church groups helped with faith-based support. The library was my “Google”. Long drives to attend the seminars I couldn't find at home. A community of one, mostly.

The years moved. I went back to college because I assumed this is what you did when you couldn’t find your people or got stuck. Got married, had two more children. I worked in the medical field at the hospital while running a business on the side. Social media arrived, then virtual chats evolved a little, then online groups… but none of it was built for a woman like me just yet. Still searching. Everything was either led by men, structured for executives, or centered on the upper-middle-class whose lives didn't look like mine.

Twenty-five years later, married, three grown children, a grandmother now, going from empty nester to bird watcher to my young adult kids. Standing on the front porch of a home we rebuilt after a series of storms demolished it — I've lived every chapter of this story. Burnout. Identity crisis. Career casualties. Marital peaks and valleys. Growing pains with the kids. Job pivots. Business woes. The pandemic. Family losses. The hurricanes. The illnesses. The rebuilds — of houses, of connections, communities, of selves.

I built The Weekday Woman Co. to be the beacon I never had.

For the woman doing the double shift — paid labor all day, unpaid labor all night — and invisible labor mentally in between; still showing up on Monday. For the young ambitious single woman, the student, the new mom, the wife, the worker, the entrepreneur, the caregiver to aging parents, the empty-nester, the grandmother still not ready to retire and just getting started because now she has time. For every stage of the journey, and every version of herself in between.

For the woman who is exhausted but still ambitious. Tired but not done. Stretched but still showing up.

This is why we exist. For you!