Hi, friend! I’m so glad you’re here —
God writes each of us a unique story, but for years, I resisted the story He wanted to gift me.
Because obeying Him meant not fitting in with my peers, and I hated that.
My family moved from Ukraine to the U.S. as religious refugees when I was 8. I didn't speak English for two years because I was scared my classmates would mock me for my accent. Instead, I read every book I could find to learn the English vocabulary.
I was the first in my family and one of the few women in my Slavic community at the time to go to college (most girls I knew got married between 18 and 22). I was one of the handful of women at my university to major in finance and economics, and became one of the youngest editors of my college newspaper.
When God opened doors for me to go to law school, friends and family told me that law school wasn't for Christians or for women; that no one would want to marry me and surely my decision to get educated meant I didn't want to be a mom (how that's correlated is beyond me!). It was a lonely path - I didn't meet any other Slavic female lawyers until 8 years after I graduated from law school!
As I watched most of my friends and seven of my 11 siblings get married and start their families, my life took a different direction as I:
Interned at the Missouri Attorney General's Office and for the Department of Justice
Graduated law school
Built a career at the biggest accounting firms in the world, including doing international tax consulting at a big 4 firm
Published a book
Founded an international online ministry for Christian girls
Bought and remodeled a house
Traveled
Lead teen ministry at my church
And so much more.
At 29, I met a handsome, Jesus-loving cowboy on Instagram. His vision for his life was parallel to the vision God put on my heart: living in the countryside with our kids, owning farm land, cattle ranching, a family business, multiple income streams, and growing a thriving ministry to encourage and equip young women to thrive in the single season (me), young men to become strong leaders (Daniel), and to help young couples thrive in marriage.
Within six months of meeting, we got married in May 2021. It was a decade of answered prayers.
Nine months later, our firstborn was born, and two weeks after our second son was born in 2024, we left city life, my husband quit his corporate job at John Deere and we bought a three acre homestead and a seed business in a small lake town. It was a risk, but we couldn't say no to the doors of opportunity God was opening for us.
Swimming against the current of what everyone else around you is doing is hard.
But a thousand people are waiting on the other side of your obedience to whatever God is calling you to do.
Because our God is not a God of copy and paste.
As we try to fit in and model our lives to look like the people around us or what we're told by society what we should do and who we should become, God is waiting for us to step into a story that is more than anything we could imagine for ourselves.
God's plans for us are greater than our dreams.
But few people will discover that for themselves.
Few of us are willing to take a leap of faith and step away from the crowd. To be the different one. To walk into the unknown. To build a life of impact and purpose. To leave an enduring legacy.
That's why my passion is to help women build a strong marriage, a purposeful life & an enduring family legacy.
It's time to build a life based on what matters most to you.
It's time to take a step in obedience towards the life God wants for you.
It's time to be a faithful steward of what God has entrusted to you in this season.
Let's grow our portfolio lives together?