About Me
Welcome to my blog.
I am passionate about helping people find and achieve their dreams. This website is the culmination of my search to find my dream and a place to share my story as I pursue this dream. I hope to encourage you on the journey of finding and achieving your dream. As a military spouse on an unexpected journey, I strive to live out my calling with the utmost authenticity and effectiveness.
For me, transparency is key. I believe that people need someone to fight with and someone to fight for. The military holds this ideology close because the service members fight alongside each other for their country back home. I aim to help military spouses fight for themselves and their dreams while sharing real-time accounts of how I am trying to make my dreams come true within the constraints of military life. Sparking conversations with military spouses will, in turn, result in enhancing self-actualization, greater personal growth and achieving their goals beyond the limitations placed upon them.
I am in the trenches battling the same obstacles that you are, and I am fighting to find a way to achieve my dream. I am going through deployments and TDY’s causing both short and long-term separations. I am going through moves that uproot the life I’ve built. I am experiencing the struggles and joys of solo parenting since we welcomed our first child in November 2022. I believe they can change the world. The Talmud says, “whoever saves one life saves the world entire.” Let’s save the dreams in our hearts and fight to achieve them, and maybe by changing our own worlds, we can change the whole world.
Hi, I’m Sarah Hartley!
Now a little about my backstory…
I graduated in the winter of 2018 from Wingate University with a degree in communications, emphasizing public relations. The biggest thing that the degree taught me was that I absolutely did not want to work in public relations. At the time, I was dating my husband, and after five months of dating, we got engaged in April 2019. (Yeah, I know…we fit the stereotype to a T.)
I had a passion that I didn’t know how to turn into a career; I had silently thought about writing a book for years, but I had many doubts about my authority on the subject. That summer, though, within two weeks of each other, my counselor and my dad came to me and told me that they thought I should write a book about dreams. They didn’t know each other, and they certainly didn’t know they had just affirmed the idea I had been quietly thinking about for the better part of a decade. So I took that as a sign this was my destiny and got to work writing.
In October 2019, I married my husband and became a military spouse. I had a new marriage and the struggles that came with it: the consequences of being part of the military, living halfway across the country from my family, TDY’s and deployments, the fact that the Air Force had such a big influence on the decisions made by my husband and myself…the list goes on and on. I found a community among the spouses, and I realized that my struggles were not unique. I met many people who had been beaten down by years of these influences. I have always resisted the “military spouse” part of my identity, but I know that my husband and I are soulmates. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, we were made to love each other. And he feels called to the Air Force. So that must mean, in some way, I am called to this life too.
In 2020, I began working as an accountability manager for the Adam Katz Agency. My job was to help people figure out their goals, stay consistent and keep them accountable. I have learned a lot about helping people to find and achieve their dreams, and I want to do the same for you. I realized that my passion for dreams has a place in the military spouse community. So often, we get left behind both literally and figuratively. I have seen so many people abandon their dreams because it felt nearly impossible to achieve them while their spouses were in service. But I refuse to believe that. There must be a better way, and I want to help you find it.
Unlock your inevitable dreams today.
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