While housesitting for friends in the Hamptons I meet Richard – who turns out to be the love of my life. Within a year we’re married.

Presenting to Step Up’s college-bound high school girls and their mentors. Their trajectory is to “graduate high school confident on their way to joining the next generation of professional women.”

With Emily-Anne at St. John’s University in NYC equipping  young women with skills to “bring kind attention to some of our most challenging self-talk.”

The impact of WeStopHate (over 1 million video views!) leads to a book deal. We co-author (and I illustrate!) FLAWD – How To Stop Hating On Yourself, Others and the Things that Make you Who You Are (Penguin Random House...

I go to the Berlin-Brandenburg International School in Germany to work with girls who are part of “the global girl community.” Together we explore life as a heroic journey – and ourselves within it.

I move to Austin, TX where I go into schools all over Austin. Here learning the “Break the Chain” and having conversations with the GEN Austin girls around stopping the violence women and girls endure.

I meet 15-year old Emily-Anne Rigal who uses her love of creating hilarious YouTube videos to start the anti-bullying movement, WeStopHate. I support her in getting her teen-esteem message out: “People who feel good about themselves don’t put others down.”

Believing girl-energy to be some of the most potent stuff on the planet, I use the cartoon character I created – Ruby – to engage with girls online to help them “find, shape and share their great girl voices.”

After completing a three month silent retreat at IMS in Barre, MA  I decide “this is the life for me” and join their staff. I get to be part of the start-up team of the Forest Refuge for “sustained, longer-term...