For the first nine months as a financial advisor, I followed the company script and made a whopping $9,000. Not exactly retirement fund material. One particularly dismal day, I thought, "This is nonsense." I tossed the sales scripts, started speaking like an actual human, and everything shifted. I stopped "selling" and started solving. The next year, I became the top advisor across five branches.

Fast forward a few years: I became a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® (CDFA®) and trained as a mediator, spending years helping couples navigate the financial chaos of divorce. Then I devoured 'The 4-Hour Workweek' (dangerous book), caught the freedom bug, and left financial services to chase the online business dream... just in time for divorce number two at 50. Perfect timing: no income, no plan, and zero interest in a 'normal' job.

But between two marriages, painful breakups, and years helping divorcing couples professionally, I learned something crucial: most relationship advice is useless theory. What people actually need are practical frameworks for when things are falling apart. That's why I created programs like The Breakup Reset Method and Stop Your Divorce—built from 40+ years of real experience and professional expertise.

Each time I had to rebuild—financially, emotionally, strategically—those lessons became the bedrock of what I teach now.

After the divorce, I taught myself to build websites, create automations, and demystify technology. When I moved to Oregon, I launched "Tech-Savvy Sofia," helping people (mostly 50+) finally feel comfortable with computers. The business took off like a rocket.

Then life happened again. The kids moved to Tennessee so of course I had to move there too to be near my only family in the US. I tried to take the business online, and hit a wall. Here's the thing: I'm not bubbly. I'm never going to dance on Reels. I'm semi-introverted, matter-of-fact, and allergic to hype. In an online world dripping with glitter and noise, I felt like a pragmatist at a unicorn convention.

When the savings dwindled (reality: it always does), I took a job as a 401k administrator. Less than two years later, one of my clients hired me as their Chief of Staff. I still do that job, remotely and efficiently, with the help of well-oiled systems that let me work smarter, not longer.

That's when I discovered my real authority: I was brilliant at taking complex business challenges and creating simple, workable solutions. All those years of experience had given me something invaluable that I'd been dismissing as "just life."

And now? At 66, I act as a Digital Translator for women over 50.

I realized that most women our age have the Wisdom (the inventory), but they lack the Translation (the tech tools to turn that wisdom into money).

I help you build meaningful second-act businesses by stripping away the complexity. I don't ask you to become a tech wizard; I just hand you the simple, proven tools I used to rebuild my own life so you can turn your experience into an asset in about 2 hours a day.

Whether you're rebuilding your business or your life, I've been there. Multiple times.

If that sounds like what you've been searching for, I'm glad you found me.