A Gal, a Golden & a Dream

Hey there — I'm Sam.

Bartender by night, sometimes a fitness instructor in the mornings, but a real big dreamer all the time.

Life has been eventful, and sometimes not so eventful. But if I'm honest? I've been beyond blessed. Even when things felt really bleak — like there wasn't anything to swim back up for — life had a way of reminding me to smile and laugh.

I'm not here to hand you tips and tricks for being happy, healthy, and successful. I'm still finding myself every single day. But it's gotten a lot easier as I've gotten older.

In my twenties, the insecurities were real. I didn't think I was insecure at the time — I was sure I didn't have the same hang-ups as everyone around me. I was wrong. I made a lot of mistakes. My heart got broken a couple of times. I partied. I lacked discipline and real ambition. But I wouldn't take any of it back. I just didn't have the confidence and the love I needed yet — and at some point I had to stop waiting for someone else to hand it to me. I had to let go of the comparisons, stop keeping score, and decide that whatever I had and whatever I'd learned was enough to build something with.

Then some tragic things happened right before COVID took us all for a spin. So I packed up and headed east — to a tiny island I've now been calling home for almost six years.

What I assumed would be one summer and then back to college turned into the place I fit. Nantucket brought me peace, hope, and a new way of looking at the world. It hasn't been all rainbows — but it's given me the chance to meet people with genuinely good hearts, heal parts of myself I didn't even know needed it, and completely shift my perspective on life and the people in it. I can't imagine anywhere else I'd rather be sitting right now, writing this.

It's also where Out of Office Gone Rogue was born. A brand built on doing life adventurously, a little recklessly, and always off the beaten path. It's just me, my Golden Bowie, and a dream to build a life for the two of us.

So strap in, Rogue Riders — we're just getting started.