About Us

From the Founder

Hi there, Faced With Grace Community. I'm so glad you're here! My name is Kaitlyn and I'm the founder of Faced With Grace. I'd love for you to take a couple minutes to read the inspiration behind this organization. It's become my passion to pursue, the legacy I want to leave, and I'd love for you to understand it, in its truest, most raw form, so you, too, can join this movement to fix the future of workplace culture.

Back in 2018, I was going through a very low point in my life. I had a 5-month old, my parents' 32-year long marriage was ending, and I was re-entering what would become one of the most toxic workplace environments I've seen to date. 

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Many times I would cry myself to work, driving with absolute dread and misery. That awful "Sunday Scaries", rock-in-the-pit-of-your-stomach feeling...that was my every single day. At the time, I couldn't even articulate what it was that was so terrible about my job. It was the devil I knew and I could feel it slowly killing me.

That awful pang of anxiety and dread only ever hit me in the car. And I only ever felt it while traveling to work. It was always that final stretch of highway that got me. As I would exit to the hospital, the overpass curved up high, then dipped down low, sinking me back down towards that hell I put myself back inside day after day. At the top of the overpass I could see my fate looming in the distance, that cluster of buildings standing tall and proud in the sun like they had no fault or shame for the pain it inflicted on me and many of my colleagues. Like it was simply a place that helped people heal. The irony was thick and nauseating.

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On one particular morning, I started wondering if it might just be easier, better, or simpler to just let go of the wheel and let my car run itself off that overpass. I wondered if it would rid me of this gut wrenching, breathless feeling in the swiftest of ways. The tears came on. Hot. Burning. Like never before - fueled by pent up frustration and misery, drowning me in what I felt like could be my final moments. As I loosened my grip on the wheel, I found myself looking up into my rear view mirror to find my baby girl looking back at me. She was filled with innocence and peace. She was so untouched by all this toxicity, this emotion, this wanting to end it all right there. She was everything good I had left to hold onto in that moment, and she was a clear representation of God, beaming in my back seat. When I looked at her, in this lowest of low moments, I was faced with grace. The grace to carry on. The grace to stay alive. The grace to pull myself from the wreckage of my life at the time. The grace to re-tighten my grip on the wheel in every sense of the word. The grace to build her a better world to live and work in one day.

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Looking back, I now know I was riddled with extreme anxiety that stemmed not only from the life stressors I was facing, but the insanely toxic dynamic that existed within my workplace. I was a mid-level manager for a hospital. My role was to run a wound care center while simultaneously keeping the hospital who paid my salary and two other organizations happy at all times, both of which were tightly intertwined into the operational success of our clinic. The dynamic was not only toxic, it was unrealistic. Each entity had their own agenda, their own standards, and they all liked to talk poorly about one another behind their backs...to me. 

To this day I refuse to blame any one person, or even any one organization, for any of the numerous toxic workplace experiences I lived through; after all, they shaped me into the woman I am today and I will likely never know who or what shaped them into the type of people and leaders they were to me and my team during that dark time in my past. I do now recognize those people, organizations, and dynamics for what they were to me. I see clearly how they broke me down, how they ripped apart one of the best teams I've ever worked amongst, and how they forced me to grow into a stronger more resilient version of myself.

I'm so grateful for that time because it has lead me into the light, more connected to God, and more willing to leap in faith to build something bold and beautiful.

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Many years later, I felt a calling to do something bigger with my life. In 2024, that calling became deafeningly loud and clear, to the point where it kept me up at night and building Faced With Grace no longer felt like an option. I firmly believe that God walked with me through those awful moments to awaken me to my purpose. It is because of His grace that I was able to turn those dark days into something beneficial, impactful, and life-changing for women in the workplace.

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My goal is that this organization is used as a vehicle for change. I want to work collaboratively with like minded women to find new and innovative ways to break workplace toxicity, promote healthy work cultures, empower one another, and support those who are actively suffering. I also desperately want to arm future generations of working women with the tools they need to become healthy leaders, themselves, and to easily spot toxicity in the workplace from a mile away, so they never have to go through the darkness I encountered all those years ago.

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So, what do you say? Will you join me in this nontoxic movement?

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Let's go lady leaders. Let's change the world, TOGETHER.

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