Let me start by telling you a little bit about who I am and why I ended up here, writing a crypto blog at fifty one years old, slightly terrified and absolutely refusing to stop.
For the past two and a half years my little family packed up everything and spent our time traveling Europe. My partner, my son, our life in a suitcase and later a boat, and the kind of freedom that most people dream about on a Monday morning. We home schooled along the way, watched sunsets in places whose names I still cannot pronounce correctly, and yes, occasionally treated ourselves to a five star hotel because life is short and thread count matters.
Money was never something I worried about during that time. But here is the honest truth I have to share with you before we go any further, because this blog is going to be built on honesty or it is going to be nothing at all. Money was never something I worried about because it was never really something I managed. That was my partner’s domain. He is brilliant at it, he got deeply involved in crypto investing, we made decent returns, enough to keep us comfortable and curious and on the road. I contributed, I always worked, but the financial decisions? Those were his.
I do not regret a single moment of those years. Not one.
But something happens when you travel long enough and slowly enough to actually talk to people. And everywhere I went I kept meeting the same woman. Different countries, different ages, different lives. But the same look in her eyes when crypto came up in conversation. Curious. Interested. And then almost immediately, quietly afraid.
The Fear That Keeps Us Standing Still
I heard the same things over and over again sitting in cafes from Lisbon to Ljubljana. I would not even know where to start. What if I lose everything. It all sounds so complicated. Is it not just for tech people. Is it not a bit of a scam.
And underneath all of it, the thing nobody quite said out loud but that I could feel sitting right there in the room. What if I am just not smart enough for this.
I know that feeling. I felt it myself. I actually got scammed early on in my crypto journey, which you can read about in another post on this blog, and let me tell you nothing makes you feel more stupid and more out of place in a male dominated space than losing money to someone who saw you coming from a mile away. I genuinely sat with the thought that maybe this world was just not for women like me. That maybe I should leave it to the men and the boys and the people who actually knew what they were doing.
But here is the thing about that thought. It is exactly what that world wants you to think. Because when you opt out, when you hand the financial future to someone else or to no one at all, the gap between you and genuine independence grows a little wider every single year.
2026 Changed Everything
I am a big believer in timing. In numerology 2026 is a year of new beginnings and I have to say the universe has been pushing me along with both hands this year. Ideas keep coming. Energy keeps coming. I currently have about five or six business ideas I am trying not to start all at the same time, which is its own kind of chaos, but a good chaos.
Yadala is the one I am starting with. Because it felt the most urgent. Because every time I thought about all those women I met on the road, curious and afraid and talking themselves out of learning something that could genuinely change their financial lives, I felt something I can only describe as a responsibility.
I am also at a point in my life where the idea of going back to a corporate job makes my stomach turn. I have not been in that world for a long time and the thought of walking back into it does not excite me. Building something of my own, on my own terms, for women I actually want to help? Now that is a completely different feeling.
Am I scared? Absolutely. I am scared of the camera, which is going to be interesting when I start filming. But there are plenty of less photogenic people doing just fine on social media, so honestly, what have I got to lose. The worst case scenario is that nobody reads this. And if that happens it happens. Nothing to lose means everything to gain.
What This Place Is and What It Is Not
I am not here to tell you what to buy. I am not going to tell you a coin is about to go to the moon so you should pour your savings in before midnight. That is not education, that is manipulation, and there is unfortunately a lot of it in the crypto world. I have seen it, I have nearly fallen for it, and I want to help you spot it from a mile away.
What I am going to do is research topics properly and explain them in a way that actually makes sense. I am going to help you understand how to set up an exchange and a wallet, how to take your first steps safely, how to think about risk in a way that is sensible and considered and designed for women who have real lives and real responsibilities and are not interested in gambling with either.
I want you to feel informed. I want you to feel confident. I want you to feel like you are not alone in a space that was never really built for you, because you are absolutely not alone. We are figuring this out together.
Financial systems are changing. Whether we like it or not the world is moving and the women who move with it, slowly, carefully, on their own terms, are the ones who will be in the strongest position to take care of their families and build something that lasts.
Your inner voice already knows this. That quiet curiosity you keep talking yourself out of? That is not noise. That is instinct. And it is time to follow it.
Welcome to Crypto Mama’s. I am so glad you found us. 🌙