About

I am a business owner, an association leader, but also a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend… and much more! 

Born in the late 1980s, I am a millennial, a pure southerner, coming from a region where if you don’t have a driving license, your range of possibilities is significantly reduced, where a family meal necessarily lasts more than 4 hours, where you eat tapas all year round, and where if it rains, you stay indoors with a blanket and chocolate.

Since I was little, I have been the leader of the group: eldest of the siblings, class representative, rapporteur of the TD group, association representative, designated volunteer, administrative correspondent… Natural leader, or just a pain in the neck, your choice. 😅

The name La Cheftaine came naturally, and reflects the state of mind that drives me at the time: many questions, a desire to surpass oneself and a need to share.

How did I come up with the initial idea?

Mid-January 2023, the holidays are already a long way off, it’s freezing outside, the tramontane is blowing at 90 km/h, and I no longer fit into my favorite jeans: a depressing winter day! I’ve been dragging my feet for months, with everything in fact, without really knowing what’s happening to me… The atmosphere of the day is giving me a little more of a blues 😖.

To top it all off, the 24/7 news channels only have one topic: pension reform! And then, boom ! Something hits me, something I’d never even thought about: I’ll be 64 in almost 28 years. I’m not even halfway through my professional life, maybe not even halfway through my life at all 😱… Can I HONESTLY see myself staying as I am with my frustrations, my regrets and my lost illusions? This is the beginning of my awakening, and probably also of my mid-life crisis.

Coincidence of the calendar, life, or my horoscope, the very next day, I participated in a meeting with a wonder nugget , who would push a little further the doors that I had half-opened. What followed was a long period of questioning a little bit of everything: my job, my family, my relationship, my past, my present, my future… I experienced an emotional desert crossing, before I became aware of my value and my abilities, during which what was then only a blog, helped me enormously.