Real life. Real systems. For the mom doing it on her own.
I’m Nicole — a full-time working mom, figuring out budgets, routines, and what self-care actually looks like when you’re holding it all together. No perfect advice. Just honest talk.
There is a page in my capsule wardrobe workbook called My Budget, My Reality, and it is really where the idea of a capsule wardrobe budget stopped being theoretical for me. It asks what my monthly clothing budget roughly is, where I tend to shop, what I usually regret buying, and if I could spend…
Imaan played her second netball match of the year, and this time, as a single mom watching kids’ sport whenever I actually can, I managed to attend. It’s one of the strange upsides of everything that’s happened since I lost my job: I actually have the time to show up for things like this now,…
The Honest Reset is a financial guide for single parents in South Africa, but I will say upfront, it isn’t for everyone. It’s for people, and I say people because I know there are single dads out there too, doing this exact same thing alone, who are starting over after life has knocked them sideways…
