There was no single moment where everything clicked. It basically just grew. After the call center shut down and put hundreds of people out of work, I started helping friends with their resumes. No charge, no business plan. Just someone who understood hiring sitting down with people who genuinely needed help and could not afford what was out there. At some point I realized I needed to protect my time. So I opened it up to the wider community on Facebook and charged for it. It honestly blew up. What I had essentially done without really planning it was fill a gap that nobody else was filling. Professional resume help in a small town, at a price real people could actually afford. The opportunity did not exist — not because nobody wanted it, but because nobody had bothered to build it yet. Create Your Resume was not born from a grand vision. It was born of neighbors needing help and of me being someone who could not just watch and do nothing. I have never been one to just stand idly by when there was a need at hand. Sometimes that is genuinely just how it starts.

I am currently building an app because I saw a gap that kept coming up in both my clinical work and my own lived experience. Many of the individuals I support, especially neurodivergent and disabled individuals, are expected to function within systems that do not account for capacity, energy, or fluctuation. There are tools for productivity, but very few that are built around sustainability, accessibility, and realistic engagement. Over time, it became clear that this was not just an individual challenge, but a systems issue. People were being asked to adapt to environments that were not designed for them, rather than having tools that supported how they actually function. Instead of waiting for something to exist, I began developing an app focused on capacity-aware planning. The goal is to help individuals better understand their limits, plan within them, and engage with their lives in ways that are sustainable rather than depleting. This work reflects a broader shift in how I approach both clinical practice and systems thinking. Rather than asking people to push beyond their limits, I am interested in building tools and systems that meet people where they are.