It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 10 years that I’ve been in the digital marketing world!

An entire decade! No, I’m not a millionaire, we have never traveled outside the country and I have not been in the same place this entire time, but The Laptop Lifestyle helped me be the Mom I needed to be for my kids, a present Mom.

In 2015, my eldest, Arianna, was only a few months old when I joined Network Marketing to bring in some sort of income from home. A few years in network marketing led me to love the opportunities that being a Creative Entrepreneur brings. First, I went to school for Small Business + Entrepreneurship, wanting to open a mentorship business to help other Creative Entrepreneurs learn how to generate an income through their hobbies and skillsets. When c*vid hit, I shifted to selling handmade products, custom ordered, personalized gifts.

From 2020 until 2022 I really focused on these products over any other streams of income. Unfortunately in December 2022, I had a medical event that almost took my life, but also completely shifted my perspective, wants & needs for this lifetime. Dec 15th, I suffered an ectopic pregnancy that was disguised as a miscarriage. What was usually my busiest time for business, I was completely debilitated with pain, it was so bad that I don’t remember most of that month. Unfortunately I wasn’t diagnosed or treated until Dec 29th, where it was found that it had been a slow-leaking rupture and my pelvis was filled with blood.

The first few weeks, there was no grief, only the need to stay alive. I was so worried because you only ever hear of people passing away with ruptured ectopic pregnancies, and my doctors kept telling me I was fine, didn’t need surgery despite the pelvis full of blood, and eventually it would just go away. Due to having stress-induced seizures, my goal was to keep my mind off everything, I started planning a trip to Disney. It’s not that we were actually going to go, there’s no way we could afford that at this time, but I planned everything. What snacks we would bring for the park, what we would eat at the hotel, if we would fly or drive and how we would keep the kids entertained. I planned it all. Something about it just made me feel good, way better than how I was actually feeling.

Since then, I just cant shake the feeling of needing to travel with my kids. Needing to really take everything I’ve learned in the last 9 years and put it to good use. It’s funny because most of the last few years, I’ve spent offline. I barely post anything, I don’t share much of my life anymore. But I’ve never stopped behind the scenes. Unfortunately I learned the hard way that some people are absolutely psychotic, and honestly, I was not wanting to be accessible to them. But I’m slowly starting to come back, and apparently you’re here for my journey! I’m grateful for that! There’s so much I have to share! Over the next few years I will grow my income streams with digital marketing & passive income projects. My goal, by sharing my journey, is to be able to help you do the same while avoiding mistakes I make.

I am so grateful to have a partner that has been our primary income provider the last few years, but the fact of the matter is things never stop increasing in cost. Unfortunately incomes never rise at the same rate as inflation.

Providing an income for my family is important to me, but also being able to fund the traveling I want to do with my kids. I want to build something where I can generate an income WHILE we travel, something that I can always be working on, while always being there for my family. The only life my kids have ever known, is me being a Laptop Lifestyle Mama, I love that for me, and I can’t wait to actually dive in and allow myself to grow in this space. The possibilities are endless here.