A Story Made with Intention

I became a mother at fifteen. Before I understood profit margins or supply chains, I understood what it means to show up — every day, without exception, for something bigger than yourself. That kind of responsibility teaches you things no classroom can. It taught me that circumstances are a starting point, not a ceiling. It taught me that the most meaningful things in life are built slowly, deliberately, and with your whole heart. Those lessons are in everything MAYDE touches.

My path was not a straight line, and I would not trade a mile of it. I built a trucking company from nothing — negotiating dedicated lanes, managing drivers, learning what it takes to keep promises when the margin for error is zero. I worked in finance, where I learned discipline. Real estate, where I learned how people fall in love with spaces. Retail and e-commerce, where I learned that the details customers never consciously notice are the ones they feel most. And floral design — where everything I had learned finally found its form.

Each chapter looked different from the outside. From the inside, they were the same education: how to build something people can trust.

I grew up in El Dorado Hills. I watched the Palladio being built — the cranes, the scaffolding, the slow arrival of something beautiful in a place I called home. I remember thinking that one day I wanted to build something worthy of a place like that. Opening MAYDE at Palladio at Broadstone is not a business decision to me. It is a homecoming. This community raised me, and this boutique is how I give something lasting back to it.

MAYDE reads the way it sounds — made. Everything here is made with intention: the arrangements our designers compose by hand, the gifts we curate one relationship at a time, the way you are greeted when you walk through the door. I did not set out to open another flower shop. Folsom has flower shops. I set out to build a destination — a place people return to for the moments that shape a life. Birthdays and apologies. New homes and hard goodbyes. Anniversaries, promotions, Tuesdays that deserved more than they got.

This is not just a business. It is a legacy in the making — for my family, and for every person who walks in looking for a way to say something that matters.