09/21/2026
I’m incredibly grateful to be nominated for The Journal Record’s Woman of the Year.
Sometimes I think about the younger version of me who started working in a restaurant kitchen at 16. She was just watching her parents work hard, helping her family, and figuring life out as she went.
I’ve spent most of my life just putting one foot in front of the other. Building businesses, raising our boys, empowering children, making plenty of mistakes, starting over, and trying to use what I’ve been given to do some good along the way.
To be recognized alongside so many women in Oklahoma who are doing meaningful work in their own fields is something I’m truly grateful for.
I don’t know if you ever really feel like you’ve “arrived.” I know I don’t. I still feel like that girl who is learning as she goes.
https://journalrecord.com/2026/08/21/journal-record-woman-of-year-honorees-2026/