About Renee
Hi, I’m Renee.I help women build a business that fits the life they actually have.
Some of you are just getting started. Some of you have been at it a year or two and can’t work out why nothing’s moving. Either way, you’ve got decades of real experience, and you’re tired of advice written for someone half your age with a ring light.
Find your stage, freeYou’re probably not as far behind as you feel.
Maybe you’ve caught yourself thinking one of these.
“Everyone else figured something out that I missed.”
“I have all this experience and I can’t get anyone to pay for it.”
“I’m starting over at 55 and I don’t have time to waste.”
None of that means you’re doing it wrong. Usually it means you were handed a map drawn for somebody else’s business, and then blamed for getting lost.
How I got here.
I started working online in 2008, and it took a few tries to find the right shape. I set out to be a life coach. That didn’t pan out.
So I went where my skills were. Virtual assistant, then tech VA, then boutique website designer, then the person people called when their website broke.
That last one became Geek in Your Pocket, and I ran it for the better part of a decade. I still look after around 45 websites. So when I talk about systems, I mean things I’ve built and fixed with my own hands.
In 2024, my husband Rick and I sold what wouldn’t fit in the car, loaded up our dog Fozzie, and drove 17,000 kilometers from Alberta to the Guatemalan border.
The business I’d built didn’t survive the road. Color-coded calendars and a giant tech stack are no use on one bar of signal in the desert. So I took it apart and rebuilt it around the energy I actually had, with fewer tools and client work done by voice message and email.
At the end of 2025 I said goodbye to Geek in Your Pocket and started again as the Quiet Rebel™ Mentor. Nearly everything changed. My email list came with me anyway, which taught me the thing I’d tell anyone starting over: people follow people.
Starting over turned out to be the first time I built a business on purpose.
What Quiet Rebel means to me.
A Quiet Rebel is a woman who has stopped measuring herself against instructions written for someone else, and builds what fits her life without needing anyone’s approval to do it.
The rebel part is the no. No to posting every day, going live, and feeding the algorithm.
The other half is how the no gets said. There’s no manifesto and nothing gets burned down. I build the thing that fits and let it speak.
None of this makes me shy about selling. I sell things and say what they cost, with no apology.
Everything I teach sits on the Q.U.I.E.T Method™: Quit, Uncover, Intend, Establish, Thrive.
Read the methodWhat I believe
A few things I’m stubborn about.
Experience counts.
Thirty years of knowing things is your advantage. The work is learning to name what you know so other people can see it too.
Small steps add up.
A few small actions a week, repeated, will get you further than a big push you can’t keep up.
Choosing where to show up is a strategy.
Every teacher I had told me to build on Facebook. They were right for their business. Mine runs on email, so I stopped. You can build a real, paying business without going viral or living on a platform that drains you.
Your rules, or it doesn’t count.
A business built on someone else’s definition of success will always feel a little borrowed. Yours should fit the life you’re living.
When I’m not working.
Most days it’s me, Rick, and Rizzo, our very opinionated Lhasa Apso. I collect slightly ridiculous roadside photos. Yes, that’s me with the alien.
When my mom needs help, I go, and the business has to cope without me for a while. Building it so it can became a big part of what I teach.
The long-term plan, if you’re curious, is slow travel by car with the dog and whatever fits in the trunk, and a business small enough to come along.
Where to start.
If you’re new here, start with a free one.
The Quiet Compass™
A short quiz that tells you which stage your business is actually in, and the one next step that fits it. Takes under ten minutes.
The Interruption Test
If you had to step away from your business for two weeks starting Monday, what would break first? Seven questions, about two minutes.
Everything else
The small guides, and the ways to work with me directly, all on one page.
Questions people ask me.
Am I too old to start a business?
You’re starting with something younger founders don’t have yet: decades of knowing how people and money behave. What trips women up at this stage is following a plan built for a 28-year-old with a big following. Start with one built for where you are.
Do I have to be on social media?
You don’t. I’ve stepped back from Facebook almost entirely and built my business on email. If you love social media, use it. It’s optional.
Do you work one to one?
Yes, with a small number of people at a time. The Work With Me page has every option, from the free tools up.
Where are you based?
Northern Alberta, Canada. Almost everything I do happens by email or voice message, so your time zone doesn’t matter.
If you’ve read this far, take the Compass. It’ll tell you more about where your business is than another hour of reading advice will.