Episode 16: Dawn Finlay Noahubi (Widow With a Sledgehammer) Is Restoring Properties And Her Own Life
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On June 24, 2016, Dawn Noahubi’s husband Lem died tragically when the Polaris he was driving flipped over and killed him instantly. Their children were 7 and 2 at the time. Dawn spent several months in a blur of grief.
A timely renovation gave her the opportunity to demo a wall for the first time. And she was hooked!
She started with a bathroom renovation, that led to a kids’ clubhouse renovation, that then led her to her business flipping houses. Restored Life Properties was born.
Dawn found love again with her business partner Stefan, and the happy family of four are now enjoying life on a 7 acre farm, complete with ducks, donkeys, goats, and pigs!
She has started a local widows group called “Sisters of Widowhood.”
Dawn credits her Type A personality, her love of goal-setting, and her penchant for always learning new things with helping her heal her grief.
Takeaways from this episode:
Dawn started writing. She started a blog to get her feelings out because that energy needed to go somewhere. She called it Love Like Lem and you can go and read her posts there.
She told me she started drinking about 8 months after Lem died. She said that’s when it really hit her - just how exhausted she was. Doing the job of 2 parents and having the grief take its toll on her.
Grief can bring out the worst in people and cause relationships to change. Dawn says the way that she grieved the loss of her husband is completely different from the way her in-laws grieved the loss of their son. And it caused their paths to change and grow apart.
