A Transformational Experience for Single, Child-Free Women Ready to Break the Spell of the Fairy Tale Script.

and Audaciously Write Your Own "Happy Ever After”

If you’re like me, then you were raised on fairy tales.

Fairy tales all follow a formula—

Once upon a time...

... and they end with Happy Ever After.

They are the unofficial scripting of every women’s lives. They tell us what comes next the “natural order” of life - they are also societal conditioning.

These tales condition us to believe that there is only one possible ending. That there is only one path, one choice, one way to get to the “Happy Ever After”. It’s programing to accept the status quo and keep women entrapped in a “tolerable level of permanent unhappiness”.

It encodes a belief system and establishes the framework of a world where girls should be passive, pure, and waiting. That her life is incomplete without romance, love or a prince to rescue her. That she should desert her intuition in favor of magic or spells in order to navigate security. She is required to prove her love in a self-sacrificing, self-depleting way. Self-love, self-care and personal agency are seen as being selfish. Marriage is an escape from “ordinary” life.

The story ends with marriage and presumed motherhood.

You weren’t just told the fairy tale—you were conditioned to become it.

Groomed to be “a good girl”.

Programmed to submit.

And reprimanded when you didn’t.

But what happens when you break the script?

When you choose you instead?

What happens when you reimage “Happy Ever After” and start pursing happiness as your birthright?

I’m LaDonna Rae, and I Know What It Means to Risk It All for a Life You’ve Never Seen Modeled

I was raised in a Christian cult.

Not a figurative one—a literal, doctrine-driven system rooted in the ideology of Dr. James Dobson, who rebranded eugenics as “traditional family values”; that reinforced stereotypical gender roles calling it “Biblical Womanhood” and turned submission into salvation.

By age two, I was labeled “a strong-willed child”.

By nine, I was in full-time training to become a “TradWife” aka a 1950’s era housewife.

Because in my world, marriage wasn’t just expected—it was the only way to be considered worthy.

Men led. Women submitted.

And if you questioned it, you were “difficult,” “sassy,” or not a “good girl”.

I was taught that my ultimate achievement in life was to devote my life to my family—and anything else was selfish. My worth wasn’t in my character, my voice, or my confidence. It was in my ability to produce, serve, and submit.

By 18, I had changed over 10,000 diapers and found myself engaged to the first boy I ever dated. I knew I wasn’t in love. I was just using marriage as a “Getaway Car”. But something inside me—intuition, emotional intelligence, rebellion—rose up. Somewhere inside me—beneath the guilt, the shame, the scripting—was a voice.

A whisper.

A sassier, bolder, braver version of me who refused to settle for a life of quiet despair and tolerable levels of permanent unhappiness. I longed for a life of different that the women that surrounded me – my mom, my aunts. I wanted to be happy. Nothing about TradWife life seemed happy-I had a front row seat, these women were not happy.

So I did the unthinkable:

I broke the engagement.

I believed marriage was inevitable, so I started out hoping to simply delay it. I launched what I called “a social experiment of one”. It was a bet on myself. The biggest (and only gamble) I had ever made.

Could I be just as happy—maybe even happier—single and child-free?

The road was unpaved, there was no script or playbook. I couldn’t find mentors, coaches, or even a community with other single child-free women. There didn’t seem to be any resources or anyone who could show me what was possible. The grief of what I “given away” haunted me. But what haunted me more was the idea of surrendering to a tolerable level of permanent unhappiness.

That wasn’t the only almost unsurmountable challenge I had.

Just as I was really stepping into agency and autonomy, leaning into my “real adult – single life”, my mother received multiple chronical diagnosis and was told it was just a matter of time for any one of them to be terminal. At age 29, I was manipulated and coerced back into the home/church/cult I had escaped. I was single (therefore available) so I began a reprise of my role as a parentified, eldest daughter, isolated, and emotionally responsible for everyone but myself.

I was thrust back into the situation I had escaped and again burdened will all the responsibilities of long-term commitment—devotion to family. The same responsibility I had attempted to avoid by staying single.

What I thought would be a 2-year commitment turned into 11 years.

And during that time, I almost lost the most important thing I had: me, myself, my identity, my voice.

I was burned out.

Depleted.

Invisible.

Objectified.

Striped bare of agency, autonomy and personal authority.

And then something unexpected happened.

And that’s when it hit me:

I had spent my life waiting for a fairy tale that was never meant for me.

Happiness wasn’t a place, a destination it was a state of existing.

The Problem Isn’t That We’re Single and Child-Free—It’s That We Were Conditioned to Believe It Meant Failure. Failure to launch. Failure to achieve the fairy tale defined “Happy Ever After”.

We are the first generation of women to have full agency and autonomy over our lives—and yet we’re still haunted by the scripting fairy tales teaches us to blindly follow.

We’ve deleted the dating apps.

Refused the blind dates.

Walked away from hookup culture.

We’ve said no to tradition, and yes to ourselves.

But, there is so much grief, so much anxiety and single-ness feels so alone.

This big dynamic culture shift, where, for the first time in the history of the entire world, women have agency and autonomy we are culturally changing. We no longer need our lives cosigned. We don’t need a marriage or man for financial security.

Loneliness is this byproduct of a shifting culture, in which men are keeping pace with change.

Single women are acknowledging that the old social structures are out dated, few marriages are based on friendship, the conversation is moving off the porches and the playgrounds where women traditionally have community onto online digital spaces.

Everyone is focused on the male loneliness epidemic. But the problem isn't just male loneliness. Women, single women, are also experiencing loneliness. As usual, men are noisy, men are loud, and men are being attention whores—shouting in anger as their soft life disappears. Their nose is a reaction to losing the life they expected as woman make more informed decisions.

In that ruckus women’s voices are being drowned out. Women are also facing life they didn’t expect and coping with guilt and grief for not following the prescribed fairy tale. They are being robbed of romance - their dreams of fairy tale ending and Happy Ever After crushed.

Women’s loneliness is not an attempt to cling to antiquated systems but to build new ones that serve them better – than ever before. Its a need of multi-generational empowerment and “aunties” of the community proving to younger generations that single life, a committed relationship with one’s self and where pursing a new reimagined “Happy Ever After” is possible.

Additionally, we feel the weight of everyone’s judgements and expectations. Friends, family, coworkers—waiting to see what happens to us.

Can we make it?

Will we survive without a spouse?

Who will take care of us without a built in “Emergency Contact”?

The weight we carry because our relationship status of SINGLE – is viewed by others as availability .

Availability to work the extra overtime.

Availability to give away (or give up) scheduled PTO.

Availability for them to objectify us, use us as an “enhancement” to their lives.

All while struggling with a society still sees unmarried women as less than an adult with agency, autonomy and personal authority. That sees us as a failure to launch vs. a powerful, strong, independant adult.

And beneath it all?

We carry a silent grief that we’re not supposed to name. The grief of not getting the fairy tale; not having the Happy Ever After we were promised, not getting the romance, the partnership, the comrade or “our person”.

We live in the guilt of not wanting it,

or not wanting todays “dating experience”.

or the personal risk dating involves.

or the overwhelming off balanced amounts of responsibility that comes with marriage. 

Guilt feels like penance for our rebellion of singleness. Happiness is often the last thing we have the energy to pursue.

So, we stay stuck—trapped in a tolerable level of permanent unhappiness. It doesn’t matter how they keep us unhappy - as long as we are unhappy they win. Our unhappiness erodes our confidence and our lives literally depend on our ability to find a new, bolder, more expansive happiness set point.

See, we’re raised on fairy tales that say marriage is the highest achievement - the pinnacle of success, children are the purpose, and romantic love brings happiness.

But what if we’ve been sold the wrong story?

Because here’s the truth no one wants to admit -
You can be free and still not know what to do with it.
You can have independence and still feel like something’s missing. You can build an amazing professional life and still not have personal confidence. You can choose yourself and still not know how to find happiness.

But What If You Could Write Your Own Happy Ever After?

What if the story wasn’t about waiting to be rescued by your prince—but choosing yourself, becoming your own hero and finding a deep happiness that wasn’t defined by traditional fairy tales?

A happiness that was confident and unshakeable?

What if romance wasn’t the reward for waiting, being the obedient “good girl”, but the natural overflow of self-love and self-acceptance?

What if your Happy Ever After had nothing to do with marriage—or devotion to family?

What if happiness was the whole point—the entire point and not brief fleeting moments of time—such as a wedding or a birth?

We’ve been conditioned to chase a happy ever after that was never built for us.

We’ve been taught that anything outside of marriage and motherhood is failure.

We’ve been tricked into thinking that our confidence must be earned through self-sacrifice, being a “good girl”, and staying small.

That’s not tradition.
That’s not family values.
That’s control - manipulation - coercion.

And it’s time to break the cycle.

That’s Why I Created

💋 SASSY BABES ACADEMY 💋

A 12-Month Immersive Experience to Help You:

✅ Recode the fairytale you were handed
✅ Reclaim your confidence without apology
✅ Redefine love, happiness, success, and fulfillment—on your own terms
✅ Collapse time using the happiness–confidence loop + solo travel
✅ Build a life that feels like freedom, not a compromise

This isn’t group coaching.

This is a revolution.

We blend historical context, identity work, intuitive strategy, and solo adventures to help you create a happy ever after that’s actually designed for you.

Because Here’s the Truth:

🖤 Confidence is the key.
🖤 Joy is a rebellion.
🖤 Happiness is a revolution.

We don’t do waiting rooms.
We don’t do watered-down goals.
We don’t do tolerating what you were taught to accept.

We do bold.
We do healing.
We do real happiness.
We do booking cruises to celebrate ourselves—not escape from life.

This is for you if:

💫 You’re single and child-free by choice (or circumstance) and ready to own it out loud

💫 You’ve outgrown the fairytale but still feel like you’re mourning it

💫 You’ve done therapy, coaching, or inner work—but still feel like something’s missing

💫 You want to feel happy again without needing to “earn it” through burnout

💫 You’ve built a life you like—but want one you love

💫 You know there’s more to life and are tired of existing in a tolerable state of permanent unhappiness

💫 You’re ready to write your story audaciously, unapologetically, and on your own damn terms

But Let Me Be Clear—This Is NOT for Everyone

This is not for women who are still hoping someone else will come save them. This is not for women who want to keep playing small to stay safe. This is not for anyone still clinging to the old script.

This is for the rebel. The visionary. The woman ready to be a confident Bad Ass.

This is for the woman who is tired of tolerable unhappiness and ready to make the ultimate bet on herself.

🔥 Here's What You Get Inside Sassy Babes Academy:

This isn't just a program.

It's a 12-month permission slip to build your happy-ever-after now—no prince required.

🌊 Monthly Confidence Labs

Live, immersive sessions focused on rebuilding self-trust, decoding fairy tale conditioning, and upgrading your inner narrative—so you walk taller, speak bolder, and live freer.

🧭 Self-Led Navigation Guides

Downloadable tools, journal prompts, and identity-mapping exercises to help you explore and own who you are without the pressure to perform, people-please, or prove.

💋 Private Sassy Babes Community

Connect with like-minded, single, child-free women who get it. Share wins, ask questions, swap cruise tips, and feel seen in a space that doesn’t ask you to shrink.

🎙️ Bonus: Confidence on Cruise™ Workshop Series

Your crash course on how to use solo travel (especially cruising!) as a tool for real-time identity expansion. Packing lists, planning hacks, budgeting tips—plus how to emotionally prepare and come home changed.

🎉 Quarterly Virtual Retreats

Mini-getaways via Zoom to reset, recharge, and reconnect—with themes like "Reclaiming Rest," "Playtime’s Not Just for Kids," and "Solo Doesn’t Mean Settling."

Let’s Flip the Script

You’re not too much.
You’re not too late.
You’re not broken.

You were just handed a story that was never written for you.

It’s time to reclaim the narrative—and write your Happy Ever After.

🔥 Are you ready to collapse time and step into the life you were meant to live?

Doors to

Sassy Babes Academy

are now open.

🎯 Join now.
🧭 Recode the narrative.
💋 Rewrite your happy ever after