You are the fire underneath.
Before Orlando, before the staging company, before anyone called her a designer — she was Commissioner for the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency. She partnered with builders and developers on housing policy. She shaped how people in an entire state accessed homes.
In 2021, she was diagnosed with stage three cancer. She didn't just survive it. She used it as a crucible. When the world stopped and her body was in the fight of its life, she asked herself the question most people never dare to ask: What do I actually want to do with my time?
That question became Crafted Interiors. A 2025 “Best of Florida” design firm. Not just staging homes — redesigning the emotional architecture of people's lives during their hardest transitions. Divorce. Loss. The moments when everything you thought you knew falls apart.
She doesn't just pick out furniture. She holds space. Her clients become her friends. She walks into a man's empty apartment after a divorce and she doesn't see four walls — she sees a person who needs to remember they're still whole. And she builds that reality around them, physically.
She turns crisis into calm. She turns empty rooms into sanctuaries. She turns the worst chapter into a fresh start. That's not interior design. That's transformation. And she does it because she's lived it.
You don't need permission to outgrow an identity.
You don't need permission to want more.
You don't need permission to want different.
You don't need permission to want nothing at all.
The Fire Horse doesn't ask. It runs.
It has always been running — inside you.
The Year of the Fire Horse
丙午年
For Adena · from the people who see her