Soft Launch: Finding My Rhythm in a Season of wandering

Life Hasn’t Stopped Since Houston

It’s wild to think my last blog post was in March, just after the Houston Rodeo and that electric burst of food, culture, and storytelling energy.

Since then, life has been nonstop — in the best and busiest ways.

I’ve spent the past several months deep in travel, press events, and project planning for my next big leap: officially immigrating to Europe. This isn’t a “soft return” so much as it is a spiral forward — full of movement, alignment, and meaning.

I had my first Euro summer (which I plan to get into in full in a future blog post soon) but it all began in June in Aspen, Colorado, where I covered the Food & Wine Classic — one of those career-defining trips that reminds you how far your work has come.

Between mountain air and champagne pours, I met Sheila Johnson, Chef Mawa McQueen, and Regina King, three powerhouse women whose stories of perseverance and elegance felt like mirrors. Aspen was an awakening — proof that wellness, luxury, and representation can coexist beautifully when Black women are centered in the conversation.

From Mountain Peaks to New Passports

After Aspen, I made a QUICK stop at Essence Fest in N.O. and hopped straight on a plane from New Orleans and into the European summer I’d been manifesting for years.

My first stop of Euro summer was Portugal. Lisbon felt like a homecoming.

My first stop was Portugal— and it took my breathe away in every aspect. But that was only my first stop. I did it all.

I indulged in a solo summer and enjoyed Lisbon’s tiled hills to Croatia’s party-filled coasts, Montenegro’s fjord towns, Italy’s Dolomites and small northern towns, and a quick stop in Germany. The season became a living archive of everything Well & Wild stands for — movement, culture, and connection. I scouted studios, led mountainside Pilates at boutique hotels, and began planted the early seeds of the Well & Wild Global Wellness Tour.

In between flights, I’ve also been navigating the less glamorous side of travel — visa paperwork, digital nomad research, and a crash course in patience as I prepare for my permanent move abroad. This immigration journey has tested my discipline and deepened my intuition and trust in myself. It’s reminding me that freedom isn’t about escaping one place; it’s about building the kind of life that I have always yearned to have.

Not to mention, I turned 40 this summer.

Me after a long ancient fortress hike in Kotor, Montenegro this summer.

I spent a week in Montenegro (which happens to be on my astrological Sun line, I found out later) to celebrate my milestone birthday and prepare for my next season of life. It was a beautifully grounding and adventurous solo trip to a beautiful country that I plan to return to every year for my solar return in the future.

CURATING MY Next Chapter

So, what’s next?

In many ways, everything. I’m building a new chapter that’s part travelogue, part business expansion, part personal evolution.

My Project Atlas is taking shape.

My brand, Well & Wild, has evolved into something global and groundbreaking— a living archive of wellness storytelling, research, and cultural travel.

Since I’ll be on the road indefinitely while I wait for my visa, I’m finally setting up the affiliate and partnership side of this blog, so future posts will feature curated travel tools, wellness essentials, and products I actually use on the road while I collect the data, research and stories for the Atlas.

This is my soft goodbye to the U.S. and a hello to the world as I’m walking in my dream of being a global citizen.

Thanks for catching up with me. Stay tuned for what’s next — and if you’ve ever dreamed of living abroad or merging wellness with adventure, you’ll want to follow this journey closely.