THE BOOK
A story of resilience, responsibility, and the power of choice.
This is a true story about what it takes to rebuild your life after everything changes.
Through lived experience, from growing up surrounded by instability to leading a team through economic crisis and navigating the profound loss of a loved one, Cristie shares how life’s hardest challenges don’t have to be erased to move forward. They can be integrated with intention, honesty, and care.
Her story reflects resiliency in the choices we make, both in quiet moments and in the ways we show up in the world, that shape who we become and the lives we build over time.
Leadership Starts Within
This book explores what it truly means to lead and rebuild, not only a career, but a life.
Blending personal story with insight drawn from leadership, motherhood, and loss, Cristie shows how leadership begins with how we show up for ourselves, especially in the moments no one sees.
It challenges the idea that legacy is something we leave behind, and instead reframes it as something we build every day through how we show up in our lives, our work, and our relationships.
At Its Core
This is a story about responsibility, hope, and the power of choice.
It is about learning you have the power to break cycles.
To choose presence in the hardest moments.
And to move beyond survival into a life that feels steady, meaningful, and whole.
