Hi! I’m Dawn Evans
I aim to live my life as a sovereign woman – a woman who defines for herself who she is and what she wants and governs her life accordingly.
I didn’t always orient my life this way, though. I was a person who did what was expected of her, more than anything. The one who saw what needed to be done and did it, whether it was mine to take care of or not.
It’s often messy and confronting to live this way. But it is also freeing in a way I never could have imagined.
Sovereignty is a practice
I built this website around the ways that I practice it:
- I write to help me understand what motivates me and what I truly want.
- I create for the joy and freedom of it.
- I work on my personal finances to build sustainable security and prosperity.
- I advocate to turn my experience of economic abuse into systemic change that will help many.
So, welcome!
I’m glad you’re here, truly. I don’t view myself as an expert in any of these matters. I am a constant questioner, though, and an avid learner. This is where I share the insights and wisdom I’ve learned along my journey towards sovereign. I hope you find some inspiration to claim more of your life for you, too.
Money Matters
I have a real curiosity about how our beliefs about money shape so much else about our lives and our sense of self. I want to hand people practical tools for building the kind of independence I had to fight for.
That’s grown into a library of resources and the Everyday Money podcast where I talk about both the mindset and mechanics of money.
Advocacy for Financial Justice
My dream is that no one ever has to stay in a job, relationship, or place that’s harming them because of the financial barriers to leaving. It’s why I have been sharing financial resources for years. I know how much personal financial empowerment matters. I know it because I’ve been stuck in places I knew weren’t good for me and I know what that cost me.
After years spent trying to get a legal divorce, I’ve also come to understand the role that institutions and government play in a person’s ability to access financial sovereignty. This is where I share my story of economic abuse and what I’m doing to help make it so that less women are harmed by these systems the way I was.
Writing
Writing is at the heart of how I intentionally move through the world. What do I think, feel, and need in this moment? Honest answers to those questions always lead me somewhere unexpected and honestly, magical. I firmly believe that you can go anywhere you want in life. You can’t go anywhere without starting where you are though (not where you wish you were.)
My background is finance and business and honestly, I still don’t fully know where a comma belongs in a sentence. These things also have nothing at all to do with the act of writing as I mean it – which has only one intention – to be honest.
That honesty turned into poetry. Poetry turned into my first book, Love, Sex and Codependence. The writing didn’t end there, though — there are new books quietly taking shape, and the writing page holds the rest of it: poetry to feel your way through, and essays that are essentially a constant questioning on paper, for anyone who’s committed to being more intentional with how they’re living.
Photography
Taking pictures around my home of Newfoundland helped me become an appreciator of the rugged, natural beauty right in my backyard, and someone who sees magic in places most people miss. It’s become an integral part of who I am and how I interpret and interact with the world.
Even the process of learning photography shaped my ability to tackle new challenges and to be ok with imperfection. It’s been a wonderful journey that brought me closer to myself and my true ability. I wouldn’t be who I am or where I am without it.
I’ll always take pictures of the beauty around me, and my favorite shots are available for purchase to anyone who’d like some of that beauty on their walls to appreciate.
