I grew up with a father who arrived in this country with nothing. A political refugee who fled Chile after the 1973 coup, he built a life here from scratch and let absolutely nothing go to waste, because he knew firsthand that everything can disappear in a moment. That wasn't hoarding. It was assessment. You looked at something, figured out if it still had life in it, and you put it to use. I grew up doing that without thinking about it. Turns out it shaped everything.

That history is not separate from my work. It is the foundation of it.

Nearly 20 years of knowing where the value is.

I've been in the luxury resale world for close to two decades. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, my sister and I took that obsession and gave it a center stage. We launched Season2Consign as the first live shopping platform in the US for preowned luxury goods. The format was new, the timing was wild, and it exploded. What started as a passion project became a real business built on authenticity, trained eyes, and the kind of trust that makes clients send their friends.

We authenticate and sell luxury goods, handbags, jewelry, accessories, and we do it with the conviction that buying preowned is not settling. It is buying better. I love beautiful things. A well-made bag, a perfect silk scarf, a piece of jewelry with a history. I buy less of everything and I buy it well. That is the whole philosophy in one sentence.

Alongside Season 2 Consign, I'm building Resale Lab, a Skool community for people ready to get into resale seriously or scale what they've already started. Sourcing strategy, pricing, audience building, the long game. No recycled advice. The real thing.

Then the pandemic gave us one more gift.

We bought Citizen Grove, a small farm in Loxahatchee, Florida, because we wanted our family outside and living. We planted a 1,400 square foot garden. We started renovating. And we moved everyone in. My parents. My grandmother. Our two young kids. Four generations on one piece of land, each with a role, none of us spectators.

Research actually backs this up: multigenerational living correlates with longer, healthier lives across every generation involved. We didn't need the study to know it felt right. My kids are growing up knowing their great-grandmother not through FaceTime but in real life, in a kitchen, in a garden, in the daily texture of a life lived together. That is not something I can put a value on.

And through all of it, one thing has never changed.

I think secondhand first. Not because it's a trend but because it is genuinely the smarter, more interesting, more intentional way to live. The best version of most things already exists in the world. You just need to know how to find it.

I collect classic clothing and luxury pieces, and I advocate loudly for buying less and buying better. I also have a very short list of things worth buying new. You'll find that here too.

Entrepreneur. Author. Farmer. Resale obsessive. If that's your kind of range, stick around.