I’ll be honest — when I first joined Team Avery in 2010, I didn’t even like answering the phone. The idea of being the voice on the other end of the line, handling whatever came through the door, felt like a stretch. That was a long time ago. A lot has changed since then, and I’ve changed with it.

After more than a decade in real estate — across Team Avery, the brokerage side of the industry, and back again — I’ve built a role that I genuinely own. I’m the person behind the scenes making sure everything runs as it should: the paperwork, the photography, the marketing, the technology, the details that most people never see but always feel. On the busiest days, it’s a little like herding cats. I say that with full awareness that I have three of them at home, so I come by the skill honestly.

What I love most about this work is the problem-solving. Give me a workflow that isn’t working, a technology gap, or a process that could be smarter — and I’ll find the solution. I’m the kind of person who will research something until I’ve turned it completely inside out, and then implement it properly. That instinct serves this team well, and it’s one of the things I’m most proud of in how I show up here.

I’ve been part of nearly every chapter of The Avery Company’s story — in one form or another — and coming back felt like coming home. Kate and Kevin built something worth being part of, and I don’t take that lightly.

“Some days it’s a little like herding cats. I say that as someone who has three of them — so I’m well qualified.”

Away from work I’m a reader, a journaler, and a builder of miniatures — which requires exactly the kind of patience and precision that makes me good at what I do. I’m a gamer, a tech enthusiast, and a hockey fan. Specifically a Leafs fan. Specifically a Mitch Marner fan — which, as of recently, has become a complicated thing to say out loud in Leafs territory. The loyalty to the Leafs remains. The rest is still being processed.

At home I’m outnumbered by cats — which feels appropriate. Two of them arrived as feral colony cats and have since negotiated full house cat status, complete with all the comforts that implies. They’re a stunning Russian blue, and they know it. The third wandered into the right place at the right time — a stray who found her way into our brokerage office, and somehow managed to find her way into my heart and then my home. She picked well.

I’m not someone who seeks the spotlight. I never have been. But I’ve learned that you don’t have to love the spotlight to be confident in what you bring — and after everything this team has been through together, I know exactly what I bring.

Every acre. Every address. Every time.