How I got here
There was a point where I was doing everything and nothing well. I was a working mum of two, supposed to be part time, but the job had other ideas. Messages at 10pm, emails on days off. The kind of creep that happens so gradually you don't notice until you're sitting at dinner physically present but completely somewhere else.
Family stuff was happening in the background. Big stuff. I was trying to hold work, motherhood, marriage, and friendship all at once and never feeling like I was doing any of it well. So I made a decision that scared me and freed me in equal measure. I stopped.
I took 12 months to just be present. We packed up and moved back to Melbourne. New house, new schools, sold one, built something new somewhere familiar. And somewhere in the middle of all of it I started properly learning AI and automation. Not because it was trending, but because I genuinely wanted to understand what was actually possible for small businesses.
I started building systems that fit how we actually lived. And I noticed something I hadn't expected. When the right system is in place, one that actually fits how you think and how you work, life gets quieter. It just reduces that lingering feeling that things are falling through the cracks.
I'd spent 15 years in corporate operations, building things that helped businesses see clearly and move efficiently. But it took stepping back as a working mum to understand what systems are actually for. They're not about productivity. They're about getting your life back.
That's why I started Simple Solutions Studio. The goal was never a perfect system. The goal was always a life that feels like yours again.