Surrender and Strategy Can Co-Exist
I grew up in a world both full of love and marked by complexity. Even as a child, I understood that life is fragile — hardship came early, long before I had words for resilience.
But I was also a dreamer. Creativity and vision boards became my language of possibility, and many of those dreams eventually took shape in real life.
At twenty-one, I met Costa, the love of my life.
By twenty-three, I had launched my career in management consulting — learning how systems, clarity, and structure could create order out of chaos.
At thirty, our daughter Nova-Mae was born — the answer to years of prayer and waiting.
And then, everything changed.
Costa was murdered, and in a single night, my life was torn apart.
In the years that followed, I walked through loss that words can hardly hold.
But I also encountered Jesus in the most personal way — not as an idea, but as the only reason I could keep breathing.
Through Him, I made the hardest decision of my life:
I forgave the man who killed my husband.
That forgiveness didn’t erase the pain — it released me from it.
It was my act of freedom, my declaration that love would have the final word.
Starting over meant rebuilding everything — faith, finances, and identity.
I moved across the world with little more than courage and conviction, supporting my mother while raising my daughter and sustaining a demanding career.
For a long time, I was simply surviving — balancing boardrooms and bedtime stories, holding it all together on sheer will.
But over time, God began transforming that exhaustion into purpose.
With the guidance of mentors, I realised that my consulting work wasn’t about corporations — it was about people.
Helping teams find clarity.
Helping individuals believe in themselves again.
Finding grace and purpose in every system I touched.
That revelation changed everything.
LifePlaybooks™ began as something personal — a system I created for myself when life felt too heavy to hold.
I started building small frameworks to bring rhythm back into my days, so I could create space for what mattered most: faith, writing, and time with Nova-Mae.
Those simple systems helped me breathe again.
They reminded me that structure could serve the soul — that peace could be designed on purpose.
And then, one day, I felt that unmistakable conviction from God:
“This isn’t just for you.”
That whisper became my mission — not only for women like me, but for anyone carrying too much:
People carrying too much.
People who are strong but tired.
People who want to live with purpose and peace, not just productivity.
LifePlaybooks™ became a bridge between strategy and surrender — tools that help women hand things over with confidence, embrace what matters most, and build rhythms that last.
Today, I’m a wife, a mother, a consultant, and a writer.
I help people and teams move from chaos to clarity, from survival to rhythm, from exhaustion to peace.
My purpose is simple:
To build systems that honour people.
To create space for meaning in the middle of motion.
To remind you that you don't have to carry it all — and you were never meant to.
Because this isn’t just about getting organised.
It’s about getting free.
One day, I hope Nova-Mae sees what God built through my surrender — and says with quiet pride, “That’s my mom.”
That’s the story I live.
The testimony I carry.
And the legacy I’m building — one LifePlaybook at a time.
Find out more about what I do at MondiGale.com