Most women learn to lead with their heart and get hurt…or lead with logic and lose themselves. But you were never meant to choose between your heart and your ambition. This is where you rebuild your life, with both.

- Vanessa, Founder of Heart & Skill Academy

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Hi! I'm Vanessa 🤎

I did everything I thought I was supposed to do, held my family together, built a career, and kept pushing through no matter what it cost me.

Out in the world, I looked like I was thriving. Behind closed doors, I was holding together a life that wasn't what it looked like from the outside. I wasn't surviving anymore, but I wasn't living either. I was performing.

Eventually, everything reached a breaking point. I walked away from the marriage. I walked away from the career. And I found myself rebuilding with two kids, no safety net, and a quiet depression I didn't yet know how to walk through.

But that breaking point wasn't the end of my story. It was the beginning of something new.

God showed me this: no job, no title, no betrayal, no time lost — nothing could ever take away who He made me to be at my core. What I thought was broken... was actually a gold mine.

Now, I help Christian women turn their breaking points into the gold mine of their strength, skills, and purpose, so they can rebuild their lives and move forward differently.

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After the Breaking Point is my podcast for the woman building something new, not picking up the same old bricks. My story, my faith, no fluff.

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