I’m a wife, mom of two, entrepreneur and founder of The Adair Collective.
Founder of The Adair Collective
Hi, I’m Jillian
I live in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with my husband and our two children. I’m endlessly curious when it comes to wellness and could happily spend hours researching the latest health topic. I’m also the person who’s always planning something, helping someone or taking care of the people I love.
For a long time, I believed I’d finally slow down once life became less busy. It took me years to realize I wasn’t looking for a different life. I simply wanted to be more present in the one I already had.
That journey is what eventually led me to create The Adair Collective.
That realization became the foundation of The Adair Collective.
She was the hardest-working person I’ve ever known. I don’t think I ever saw her sit down in the evenings. She was always baking cookies for someone, tending to her home, running an errand or finding another way to care for the people around her.
She had a way of making people feel deeply loved.
She also believed there would always be time to slow down someday.
She would always say she’d have time to travel someday. Someday she’d retire. Someday life would slow down. But she never got the chance.
After losing my mom, I realized life is simply too precious to spend waiting for “someday”.
Within a single year, I got married, welcomed my first baby and opened a restaurant with my family. Life became beautifully full. Motherhood, business ownership, responsibilities and a calendar that always seemed packed.
Somewhere along the way, I realized I was spending so much time managing my life that I wasn’t always fully experiencing it.
I wasn’t looking for a different life. I simply wanted to be more present in the one I already had.
More than anything, I want my children to remember how happy we were - not how busy we were.
I want to actually live my life.
Adair was my mother’s middle name and The Adair Collective is, in many ways, an ode to her.
My Story
I’m so glad you’re here.
It means taking the trip you’ve been dreaming about instead of waiting for the “perfect” time.
It means watching the sunrise before the house wakes up.
It means getting on the floor with your kids and seeing the world through their eyes.
You don’t always need to do less to feel less busy.
Sometimes, it’s about changing the way you move through your day.
Maybe your evenings are filled with baseball practices, dance lessons and school pickups. Slowing down doesn’t always mean clearing your calendar. It might mean rolling the windows down on the drive. Singing along to your family’s favorite playlist. Bringing your favorite iced matcha to enjoy from the sidelines. Talking with your kids instead of rushing to the next thing.
The schedule may not change.
But the way you experience it can.
That’s the kind of slow living I believe in.
Some days I get it right. Other days I catch myself rushing from one thing to the next. But I keep coming back to the same reminder: life is happening right now.
Actually living means appreciating what’s right in front of you.
For a long time, I thought slowing down meant doing less.
Now, I believe it has much more to do with how we experience the life we already have.
What I Believe:
She's slowed down a lot over the years, but our walks together are still some of my favorite moments.
I have a 13-year-old rescue dog named Milly.
I love planning travel almost as much as I love taking the trip.
Something I love
I’m distantly related to Laura Ingalls Wilder, which may explain my love of simple living and stories rooted in family life.
According to our family history...
Then I became pregnant with my first child and somehow it became one of my favorite foods.
I used to hate the taste of chocolate.
with fantasy romance books. If you have a recommendation, I'm always looking for my next read.
i have an embarrassing obsession...
I still love to dance, although these days you’re more likely to find me doing yoga, Pilates or dancing around the kitchen with my kids.
I studied dance in college and graduated with a dance minor.
