Three Decades, Thirty Lessons

Hard-Earned Wisdom You’ll Want to Steal

I turned the big 3-0 last Sunday. Still feels a little surreal — not just that I’ve been on this earth for three whole decades, but that I’m now officially in my thirties. Wild.

But if there’s a right way to enter a new decade, I think I nailed it: with a glass of champagne in hand, soaking in the sunshine in the South of France. Could it be more me? Honestly, no. No, it could not.

I’ll be sharing all the dreamy details from our trip soon (we’re still here, so feel free to drop any last-minute recs in the comments), but first — I wanted to take a moment to talk about the real reason for this post…

Thirty lessons in thirty years is no joke. It has to be good—the highest-value, most brutally honest wisdom I’ve collected. No clichés. No filler. Just the real, hard-earned truths that have shaped me.

Some lessons took me years to learn. Some? I had to learn the hard way (tragic). And some I wish I had figured out a decade ago because, honestly, they would’ve saved me so much time, stress, and questionable decisions.

So here it is—thirty years of life, beauty, mindset, and everything in between.

Let’s get into it.