✨ Six Months Later: The Magic, the Mess, and Rebuild ✨

 Six months.

It’s wild how much can change in half a year, how a life can completely unravel and rebuild itself at the same time. Six months ago, I struck a match and lit my entire world on fire. Not out of recklessness… but out of survival. I walked away from the job with the title, the salary, the routine—the job everyone else thought was “the dream.” But my mind, my body, my soul were begging me to get out.

Honestly, I’m still scared as hell. But scared doesn’t mean wrong. Scared doesn’t mean failure. Scared means you’re standing at the edge of something powerful.

My soul sister stood next to me the whole time, holding a torch of her own. Her world fell apart before mine did, years ago, and her story is still being written. Someday she’ll share it when she’s ready and trust me it is beyond inspiring. Together, we walked out of the only career in healthcare we’d known and into a new path… one rooted in women’s health.

Kind of ironic, right? Two women who dreamed of empowering women, supporting women, and building a witchy sisterhood… now working in OBGYN care, helping women every single day. Fate has jokes, but she also has incredible timing.

But here’s the part people don’t put on Instagram: I took a huge pay cut. Huge. The kind that makes you stare at your bank account and feel your stomach twist. The kind that forces you to ask for help when you’re used to being the one who holds everything together. The kind that makes your heart pound out of your chest thinking about your girls and how we’ll pay for bills, food, basic necessities. The kind that gets ya thinking you’re a bad mom for doing this.

But it is also the kind that humbles you and wakes you up. And through it all my family, my friends, my little circle of ride-or-dies—have held me up and continue to do so to this day, in a way I will spend the rest of my life trying to thank them for. You don’t forget the hands that pull you out of quicksand. You don’t forget the kindness that shows up when you’re at rock bottom.

Yes, I’ve hit lows I never imagined I’d experience. Yes, I’ve panicked, cried, questioned everything…still do and will. I have moments where asking myself “What the hell am I doing?!” makes my heart feel like it’s going to explode. But if you ask me would I go back? Would I undue blowing up my world?

Not. For. One. Second.

This fear I feel, this anxiety—it’s not a warning. It’s fuel. It’s my body saying:

“Keep going. You’re not done yet. This isn’t your forever. This is your rebuilding.”

Today, I’m working full-time in OBGYN care. Part-time at another healthcare company. Building a business with my soul sister. Selling hair extensions to salons. And raising two daughters who are watching me grind, rebuild, cry, get up, and keep going anyway, because women are forces of nature. We bend, we break, we rise, we rebuild, we don’t quit.

Oh and that’s why we named our business 716 Coven & Company. Not because we’re spooky (I mean spooky season is my absolute favorite)—but because we believe in the power of women who refuse to be burned down.

Back in 1692, they feared women with intuition, independence, and influence, so they called them witches and got rid of them. 

Today? We reclaim the word. We honor it. We wear it like armor.

A coven is a circle of women who stand together, protect each other, and make magic out of whatever chaos life hands them. And let me tell you—we’re building one badass coven right here in Buffalo. One where everyone is welcome. One where laughter is a love language, kindness is the currency, and the vibe is: “Mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.”

We want this community to feel like home.We want you to laugh with us, cry with us, grow with us. We want you to feel seen, supported, understood, and empowered. And hey you can shop our online store and get some bomb apparel and know you are helping 2 besties dreams come true 🫶🏻 

So six months later… I’m bruised, I’m tired, I’m scared, but I’m also grateful, hopeful, and most importantly I’m becoming exactly who I was always supposed to be.

 This coven, this community, this wild little dream my soul sister and I are building from scratch, It’s only just beginning ✨💜