About Wara
I was the girl who was smart but still felt behind.
Repeated a grade, failed college once, got fired more than once, and still built the life I used to only dream about. Here’s the short version, and I’ll tell you the rest over coffee.
The short version
Hi, I'm Wara. Nice to meet you.
I grew up in Sarasota, Florida with a single mom who was my whole support system. I had big energy, big feelings and undiagnosed ADHD, and for a long time I was told I was too much and not quite enough. I believed it for longer than I should have.
Then I bet on myself, one class at a time. That bet took me to Purdue, to hotels in Taiwan and the US, into enterprise software, and eventually to the city I fell in love with as a student: Sevilla.
Today I live here with my family, a dog and two cats, renovating an old house in the old city. I lead teams of consultants by day. I check my birth chart and go to moon ceremonies. I also build project plans. That isn’t a contradiction. It’s the whole method.
I did all of it. And I'm here to help you do yours.
A few chapters
Every dream on this site, I built first.
Not from the sidelines. This is the method, lived. Some chapters I save for when we talk.
Busy, loud, loved, misunderstood.
School was the place I was least understood: a bright kid put in a slow-learner class in sixth grade, acting out, asking for help without the words. A girl with ADHD in the nineties, when nobody looked for it in little girls.
"Hey, it gets better. Life gets amazing. You don't have to be perfect. You just have to try."
One class. If I pass, I keep going.
I repeated tenth grade. I watched everyone else go to college. I enrolled in community college and failed out. Then, working at a hotel and tired of being treated like I was stupid when I knew I wasn’t, I signed up for English 101 as a last chance. I passed. Then another. Then full time. Then an associate’s degree. Then Purdue.
I started a whole new life.
First time away from home. I joined every club and put myself in every room, scared or not. Bachelor of Science in Hospitality and Tourism Management, minor in Spanish, nearly top of my class. A semester in Sevilla, and a city I never got over. The inaugural Purdue student at the Shangri-La management internship in Taiwan, where I led a team of 35.
Where I learned systems, and people.
One of four graduates chosen for Marriott’s Management Development Program. Five years running food and beverage in Houston and Tampa, leading teams of 30 or more through the busiest shifts. Training programs I built reached teams in Taiwan, Paraguay and the Philippines, and as far as India. Then a travel company, where I grew a customer relations team from one person to five, handled up to 24,000 reviews a semester, and designed a feedback system that cut response time by two thirds.
"Can I do this?" Turns out, yes.
I moved into enterprise software consulting scared and unsure, and learned by doing: leading implementations for companies from five million to a hundred million in revenue, and leading and mentoring up to 15 consultants, with as many as seven on a single project at once. Discovery, design, build, go-live. If that sounds like the 4 Ds, now you know where they came from.
"Why not? Let's do it."
Living in Spain was a dream I’d had since I was a teenager. When the chance came, we figured it out, hit walls, pivoted and made it happen. Built with a spreadsheet and a lot of nerve.
"You did it, girl. Just keep trying, keep going, stay curious."
The Dream Architect.
Somewhere in there, BTS reminded me of my own worth, not by building me from scratch but by reflecting back what was always there. If I could feel that from the outside in, I could help other women feel it from the inside out. So I’m building this. I’m not "arrived." I’m becoming. And I want you to know you’re not too late, too messy, too behind, too emotional, too scared or too much. You just need a plan, and someone in your corner.
How I'm wired
Strategy and soul.
"Strategy without soul is just another plan that doesn't stick. Soul without strategy is a beautiful vision board on a wall."
My top gifts, because knowing how you're wired is step one:
