A place to get unstuck.
I write about identity, language, and the decisions people carry alone. Read a Case File, listen, or sit down with me.
Bring me in to speak.
I have been doing this in taxis and waiting rooms my whole life. I would rather do it on purpose, in front of your people, with time to go deep.
What I speak on
- Identity, naming, and who told you who you are
- The language we use against ourselves
- Deciding well when the stakes are real
- Starting over after fifty
- Faith, assignment, and the cost of obedience
Who I speak to
- Churches and congregations
- Women’s conferences and retreats
- Community and nonprofit gatherings
- Colleges, graduations, and commencements
- Workplace and leadership sessions
Keynotes, workshops, panels, and full-day sessions. I travel. Fee depends on format, length, and distance. Tell me your date and who will be in the room.
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Work you can hold in your hands.
No More Cursing Myself
Book and companion workbook · paperback and Kindle
Why the words we use on ourselves matter more than the ones we aim at other people, and how a habit quietly becomes a character. The workbook is the part you do with a pen.
More titles coming
Who I am
I am Miss V. I have spent my life in rooms where people had to make hard calls with incomplete information, and I have made a few of those calls badly myself. That is most of what qualifies me.
The Assignment Room is where I work out loud. Every Case File starts with something real that happened, usually to me, and follows it until it says something useful. No verdicts handed down from a height. I put myself on the page first.
I am a builder, not an influencer. If you are looking for tips, there are faster places to get them.
I help people think clearly.
See clearly. Choose wisely. Live accordingly.
The Case Files
Numbered essays, published on Substack. Free to read, free to subscribe. Start anywhere.
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The same work, spoken. Conversations built on the Case Files, released as audio.
Launching soon. Subscribe on Substack and you will get the first episode.
Work with me
Clarity Call
You bring one decision you have been circling. We take it apart together and you leave knowing what is actually yours to decide. Introductory rate while I build.
Self-Sabotage Audit
For women who keep arriving at the same wall and cannot name why. We find the pattern, trace where you learned it, and write down what breaks it.
Mediation
Two people who need to be heard by someone who is not on either side. I screen every matter before taking it, so start with a note telling me what is going on.
Say what is going on
Booking, mediation, speaking, or a question about something I wrote. I read every one of these myself.
Send me a note