Uncorked

At the end of 2025 a few experiences stirred up memories I didn’t expect to revisit. In early December while sitting in the audience at the Massachusetts Conference for Women, listening to Mel Robbins speak candidly about a business failure that nearly devastated her family, I felt it in my body. Real, physical pain. Then, just weeks earlier, hearing that one of my mentors—Urban Grape—was closing its doors reopened a wound I thought had long healed. It brought me right back t