I help Canadian women grow their net worth - and their power.

In 2017, only a few months after starting my post-MBA job at a sustainable architecture firm, I suffered a concussion that led to debilitating post-concussion symptoms. It became impossible to keep working full-time, so I reduced my hours and eventually had to quit.

That experience was discouraging — but also eye-opening. It made me question everything about my career, my future, and the risk of relying on just one source of income from a traditional job.

I started wondering:

“What happens when someone can’t trade their time for money anymore — like what happened to me?”

I’ve always been an entrepreneur at heart. After realizing the importance of passive income and multiple income streams, I became deeply interested in real estate investing. In 2020, my husband Amaury and I started Yacksmith Properties — buying, renovating, and renting out properties across Ontario.

By the winter of 2022, I’d replaced my full-time income and officially quit my job to work for myself. Today, we manage multiple successful furnished rentals, and I get to spend my days doing what I love: helping others create freedom through real estate, side hustles, and financial confidence.

This is where Piece of the Pie was born.

We started this company because we wished something like it existed when we were starting out — a non-judgmental, unintimidating, and truly solid source of education and community for women who want to build wealth.

I wanted a bigger piece of the “wealth pie” — and I definitely didn’t want to wait until 65 to enjoy it. It sounds cliché, but this work has completely changed my life, and I want other women to know about it too.

If all those rich millionaire men can do it, why can’t we? (Spoiler: we absolutely can.)

I live in Ottawa with my husband and our two daughters, and when I’m not working on our businesses, you can usually find me traveling — preferably somewhere warm and near the ocean.