Not Your (neuro)Typical Female Founder.
To Whom It May Concern:
Every thirteen years, my plans for the future and life as I know it have ceased to exist, overnight and without warning— forcing me to accept the facts and reimagine the future; these haven’t been the only times, only the times of greatest upheaval.
Before Life Uncommon became the name I gave my company as a newlywed it was the song that saved my life while I picked up its pieces in 2005; I was 26, and ever since, I’ve lived by giving purpose to the moments life has brought me to my knees and broken me.
Life Uncommon reflected that way of living and standing in the wreckage of the life I built in my recovery and the Company I built as a newlywed, I believe that if I were supposed to be or do any different from here, this would’ve been someone else’s journey.
When I joined the ranks of Female Founders instead of Lawyer-Moms as a newlywed in 2015, I hit pause on my writing career to focus on the first five years on Life Uncommon/8616 Group’s development, planning to resume work on my Young Adult Memoir “Most Likely to Self-Destruct” in year six, or 2021, but that didn’t happen.
Though I spent year six writing, it wasn’t “Most Likely to Self-Destruct;”
I spent 2021 writing to rebuild my capacity for organizing thought to speech,
I wrote to reconcile the dissonance between my lived experience and the record of LU/8616’s first five years,
and I wrote to reorient my mind to reality after inhabiting a charade that bore a striking resemblance to The Truman Show from 2016-2020.
Life Uncommon’s 2016 payment for twin LU/8616 Operating Agreements anchored a charade of fraud, breaches, and betrayals to my reverence for the Law and privilege of its practice.
From 2016-2021, three unaffiliated male Lawyers used their Duty to my Companies to advance a Business adaptation of the cyclical economic and psychological violence commonly referred to as “invisible,” and typically seen in Women’s personal lives, expecting a smooth progression between my Consent entrusting partners to hold 51% to 100% Control of both LU/8616 by April 1, 2019.
Unfortunately, when I needed help getting out, unknown impairments caused me to retain Counsel who refused any role except Devil’s Advocate, seemed to believe I was asking for it, no matter what it was, and insisted an Operating Agreement couldn’t be Rescinded for Fraud in the Inducement of Consent until The Court saw no issue Rescinding Life Uncommon’s and Awarding 50K damages on that basis, and eventually co-opted The Court requested a Judicial Council Form at prove-up to exclude the basis “Fraud in the Inducement of Consent” from the Default Judgement.
I don’t know if it’s a fact most new businesses fail in the first five years, or just something that’s commonly said, like “never trust a partner with the Majority,” but in year three I broke the supposed Cardinal Rule twice— on April 17th and November 12, 2018, and in year five, 100% of Life Uncommon’s ashes and liabilities were restored to my personal holding.
My life and Life Uncommon were reduced to ashes by the conduct of four male Lawyers who believed my Consent to a CoManaging Membership that entrusted partners to hold 51% of Life Uncommon would be irrevocable, once obtained; one was Plaintiffs Counsel and the other three betrayed their Duty to my Companies to facilitate my fall from equal earner to dependent liability in my marriage.
Since 100% of Life Uncommon’s ashes and liabilities were restored to my personal holding by The Court, I’ve been writing to reorient my mind to a reality in which women aren’t just worth Equal Protection— we have a right to it.
I believe further recovery will come by attending the shameful, unnecessary wreckage of my life and Life Uncommon to remedy unpaid Employees, Landlords, vendors, and by addressing the catastrophic economic devastation caused by the specific conduct of individual Counsel to Life Uncommon, 8616 Group, and me between 2016-2021.
“No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.”
— from “The Promises,” Alcoholics Anonymous