The Broker
A broker who does the work.
I am an introvert. In my line of work, people find that surprising, but it may be the most useful thing about me. I would rather study your market than work a room, and the quiet ones are usually the ones who did the homework. The only time you would never know I am an introvert is when the topic is business. I thrive in creativity and love a conversation with a creative solution waiting in it. My friends joke that I can turn almost anything into a company. They are not wrong. This brokerage is the proof.
Before real estate, I built brands and strategies for other people’s companies. I was good at it, and it was costing me the things I actually cared about. I was a single mom then, and too many nights ended with my daughter asleep on my office couch while I finished someone else’s work. That stopped looking like a life for either of us. So I stopped building other people’s dreams and started building ours. I got my license, then my broker’s license, and when I could not find a franchise whose values I was willing to put my name under, I built The Estate Collective instead.
Here is what I did not expect: I never stopped building other people’s dreams. It turns out that is the entire job, and it is the part I love most. Only now, instead of clocking in from nine to five, it looks like a first home, a clean sale, an agent’s business that finally fits their life. I take every one of them personally, because I remember exactly what it costs when the life you are building and the life you are living stop matching.
The rest of me is simple. Mother first. Homebody by choice, unless hiking and a beautiful view are involved. Married to a man who thinks an AI build night is a perfect date night, which works out, because so do I. I notice everything in a house, and I will tell you the true thing before the comfortable thing, every time.
The Best of St. Tammany awards draw more than 105,000 votes, and you cannot enter yourself. Someone has to put your name in. In 2025, this firm took silver and bronze at six months old. In 2026, gold in both Real Estate Company and Real Estate Broker. We are just getting started.
