HI! Thank you so much for visiting my site! My name is Katie Ann Jessup. I'm a born and breed Jersey Girl, Army War Vet, Single Mom, and Entrepreneur!! I'm on a mission to help women live a more confident and beautiful life!
A little about me... I never knew what I wanted to be as an adult. I had dreams of Broadway and Movies, but TBH I never believed in myself enough to make it there. I did, however, know that I was destined for something wonderful!
Long story short - with High School over and College not fitting quite right, I choose the rebellious antics of poor choices and life going nowhere. Trying to find a job but preferring to party, knowing something HAD to change, I found myself in an Army recruiting station summer/fall 2002. Then the beginning of a war began, 2003. I was shipping out on April 28th. I wasn’t scared though. I lived with no fear back then; after all I was only 20, I didn't know any better!
I served in the Iraq war for 13 months. I learned heartache, I learned loss, I learned peace, I learned Faith, I learned the truest meaning of friendship. I walked out of Iraq with my own wounds, the kind no one can see. I left the service a changed woman of 25…I won’t lie, I was dying to come home and be “normal again.” I didn’t realize that my “normal” wasn't anyone else's normal. I’ve been out of the military for 10 years now, and I still have a very different idea of what normal is.
Feeling different didn’t stop me though. I got a job at a Psychiatric hospital and I loved it. It was busy work mostly, but it was enough to keep me out of my own head. I worked there for 1 year with a small hiccup where I thought I could make a living in California. WRONG! I just didn’t know what the hell I was thinking and returned to Jersey and my previous job.
I finally left the Hospital after another year of work...to move in with my long distance boyfriend. An Airmen from Oklahoma, who I had met through family, I feared this would be California all over. However, fear was not in God's plans. Come January of 2012, my greatest life accomplishment arrived. My beautiful baby girl!
Feeling terribly home sick, I returned home once again and have settled in Jersey, with my daughter ever since. This is where my should come alive! We love the beach and are Jersey Girls to the core.
And here we are today.
It's been a crazy ride... and I can't wait for more!
