Hello

I'M SOFIA ROPER

Chief Untangler

I help women untangle what comes next. It’s easier when you’ve had to do it yourself first.

My Inventory

Austrian-born. South African-raised. American by choice. Five careers. Three continents. Two collapses. Three men and one woman who taught me lessons I didn’t know I needed.

I spent 20+ years as a goldsmith. When my marriage imploded at 29, I was thrown into running the business alone. I wasn’t thrilled. Then I realized I was actually good at it. Turns out divorce can be an excellent career accelerator.

When the bench work wrecked my eyes, I moved to San Diego and became a financial advisor. For nine months I followed the company script and made $9,000. Then I threw out the scripts, started talking like a human, and became the top advisor across five branches. I specialized in women in transition, helping them navigate divorce, career loss, and the financial fog that comes with starting over.

Along the way, I did the other work too. Three relationships with the same woman circling through all of them taught me that the pattern you keep repeating isn’t bad luck. It’s data. Five years of being single, healing childhood wounds, and learning forgiveness didn’t just change my relationships. It changed how I built everything after.

At 29: Divorce wiped out my business. Rebuilt it better than it was with two people running it. At 42: Moved continents. New country, new career. Discovered I was a strategist, not just a craftsman. At 60: Financial collapse. Borrowed money from a friend for the first time in my life. Drove Uber to pay off debt. People loved the accent, asked about my life on three continents, tipped well. Rock bottom has surprisingly good networking.

Then a client hired me as Chief of Staff at 63. I didn’t manifest my way out of that Uber seat. I strategized my way out.

At 66, I still work remotely for that company while building this in my margins.

What I Untangle

Women our age aren’t stalling because we lack experience. We’re stalling because there’s a knot. Mental clutter, old stories, relationship patterns on repeat, identity fog that keeps us from seeing what we already have. Mindset work alone won’t fix it. Strategy alone won’t fix it. You need both, because they’re inseparable.

I clear the fog first. Then I hand you the tools to build from that place of clarity.

What You’ll Find Here

Money and strategy. A spreadsheet will always outperform a vision board.

Relationships and identity. The patterns we repeat in love and how to see them as data, not destiny.

Tech and tools. AI and digital systems, translated for people who remember life before Google.

The psychology of reinvention. Your past isn’t baggage. It’s inventory.

Where to Start

Scene Notes from the Second Act is my Substack. Real stories, sharp thinking & practical tools on reinvention, identity & the mess between who you were & who you're becoming. From a professional untangler who's done it more times than is probably advisable.

Free subscribers get weekly posts plus three tools in the welcome email: The Translator (turns your resume into three Second Act paths in 30 seconds), The Wisdom-to-Wealth Diagnostic (which business model fits your life), and The Drop (a 30-second practice that clears mental fog in one week).

Your experience isn’t a knot. It’s the thread. We just need to untangle it.

Client Love

SELWYNA TETANCGO

"Sofia is an exceptional Financial Planner and coach, because she understands that one’s psychological point of view fundamentally influences one’s financial decisions and quality of life as well."

KATRINA LEMPENSKI

"Sofia is the best technology consultant I’ve ever hired – I recommend her for any and all technological needs. She is incredibly knowledgeable, efficient, kind, patient and simply a joy to work with! Not only is she an expert in the field of technology consulting, she is also a superb and professional businesswoman with phenomenal consulting acumen."