Select your Kadie

All four share one calendar and one coffee supplyit’s really just one very tired pot.. Choose wisely.

The Thomas family together at a waterfall

Heart of home

Wife and mom, first thing in the morning.

Before any of the other titles kick in. This is the one that started all the others.

Get to know us

then the coffee kicks in, and this happens…

The strategist

Chief operating officer, systems builder.

I build the systems that actually get followed. Finance, HR, and daily operations, all under one roof.

Work with me
Kadie Thomas in business dress

then I trade the spreadsheets for a microphone

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The host

Host of I Got Kuestions.

I ask people why they do what they do — on mic, out loud.

Listen now

and some Kuestions took an entire book to answer

The storyteller

Self-published author of The Rose Dress.

Still not over that I finished writing it. Every rose has its story — this one’s mine.

Read the book
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The Strategist

Chief Operating Officer

I make the companies I work for stronger — financially, operationally, structurally. Finance, HR, and the daily operations that hold everything else up.

Kadie Thomas, Chief Operating Officer

What I run

Operations leadership at Frederick McRae, an architecture and interior design firm based in the Cayman Islands.

How I think

I look at a company holistically, then build the plan of action — policies, procedures, and structure that people actually follow.

Currently learning

How to fold AI into daily operations so the work moves faster without losing the rigor.

Credentials

MBA, International College of the Cayman Islands — graduated with a 4.0, with a lot of support from family and work along the way.

How I lead

I'd rather build a system once than fight the same fire twice. Documentation, clear ownership, and a plan everyone can actually follow.

Outside the office

The same structured thinking comes home with me — it's part of why the other three sides of this site run as smoothly as they do.

Connect

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"I don't see failure — I see lessons I needed in order to be ready for whatever came next."

Worth Watching

Fortune · COO Summit 2026
Breaking Silos: The New, Dual Realities of the COO Role

Fortune’s Phil Wahba sits down with Toast’s Kelly Esten — who holds both the CMO and enterprise COO seats — and Tapestry’s Scott Roe, who runs operations and finance, on what actually changes when one person carries two mandates, and why the walls between finance, strategy, technology and operations are coming down.

Kelly Esten, Toast · Scott Roe, Tapestry · Moderated by Phil Wahba, Fortune
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Why I keep coming back to this one

I watched it twice. The premise is that the walls between the C-suite seats are coming down and that none of them is changing faster than this one — and the two people on stage are proof of it. Two titles on one business card, in both cases.

That isn’t only a big-company problem, though. It’s my Tuesday. Finance, HR, and daily operations all run through me, and the honest version is that they were never really separate to begin with — a hiring decision is a cash decision, and a process nobody follows is a margin problem wearing a different hat. What the panel says out loud is the part I had to learn the harder way: when you hold two mandates, you can’t run them as two jobs. You build one plan and make it answer to both.

The other thing that stuck with me is how plainly they talk about priorities competing. Some weeks finance wins and operations waits, and pretending that isn’t happening is how a team stops believing the plan. I’d rather name which one is winning this week, and why.

So my takeaway isn’t “go collect another title.” It’s the reminder that the whole value of this chair is being the one person who can see the company at once and then build the structure that keeps it moving — which is the job I signed up for in the first place.

Articles Worth Sharing

LinkedIn Pulse · Darren Makarem
What Is a COO?

A good breakdown of the role beyond the title — the COO as the person who turns a CEO's vision into disciplined, measurable execution.

Read on LinkedIn →
Forbes Business Council · Expert Panel®
19 Traits To Look For In A Chief Operating Officer

Nineteen Forbes Business Council members were asked what to look for when hiring a COO — while CEOs set the mission and vision, COOs manage the day-to-day operations that get the company there. The traits range from grit and listening skills to “the ability to transform chaos into clarity.”

Read on Forbes →
The Storyteller

The Rose Dress

A self-published memoir — my story, told the way only I could tell it.

The book

The Rose Dress, out now, self-published and written on my own terms.

Why I wrote it

Because some stories only get told if you're the one who tells them.

What it's about

The moments that shaped me — the ones I almost didn't write down, and the ones I couldn't stop thinking about until I did.

For the reader

It's not a polished highlight reel. It's honest, sometimes uncomfortable, and written the way I actually remember it.

Get the book

Cover of The Rose Dress, a memoir by Kedeshia S Thomas

The Rose Dress — out now

Order the memoir on Amazon and read it for yourself. Every rose has its story — this one's mine, start to finish.

The Rose Dress is out now. Available as an ebook and in paperback on Amazon — every rose has its story, this one's mine, start to finish. Get it on Amazon →

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The Interview

Books & Bush Tea · Cayman Marl Road
Student Authors of ICCI

Host Annikki brought me on to talk about The Rose Dress — where the memoir came from, and my connection to the International College of the Cayman Islands.

Hosted by Annikki · with Dr. Mark Giddarie, ICCI · Streamed live, September 2026
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Every rose has its story. This one's mine.

The Host

I Got Kuestions

The podcast where curiosity meets conversation. Nothing is off-limits and no question is too random, too real, or too honest — come laugh, reflect, and get a little uncomfortable in the best way possible.

● Season 3 — now playing

New season, same nosy energy

Season 3 opened with “Is That The Rose Dress?” — the season where the podcast and the memoir finally sit in the same room. Start with the premiere or jump into whatever question grabs you.

Listen to the show →

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Recent episodes

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New Here? Start With This One

Season 3 opened with “Is That The Rose Dress?” — the episode where the podcast and the memoir finally sit in the same room. If you've read the book, or you're curious about it, this is the one to start with.

Listen to the premiere →

Recurring segments

No Stupid Kuestions — the ones everybody wonders and nobody asks out loud. Kuestion of the Week — one question, put to whoever's in the chair.

The format

Long-form, one-on-one conversations. No script and no gotcha questions — just genuine curiosity about how people got to where they are.

Why I started it

I've always been the person asking "but why though" at dinner parties. This just gave that habit a microphone.

Where to listen

Ask the real question. That's the whole show.

The Heart of Home

Wife. Mom. Kadie.

Before the titles and the mic and the byline, this is the role that starts the day and closes it out.

Off the clock

I'm outgoing, I love people, and I'm the only one who thinks I'm funny — which has never once stopped me.

What grounds me

Family support got me through my MBA and keeps showing up behind every other title on this site.

The balancing act

Four titles, one calendar. The trick isn't doing it all at once — it's knowing which one needs you right now.

Everyday joy

The best part of any day is still the ordinary stuff — dinner together, bad jokes, the noise of a full house.

All the other sides are built on this one.

In the Kitchen

What's for Dinner?

Recipes I actually make on repeat.

Classic Beef Stew

Martha's version is the one I finally stopped tinkering with. Low, slow, worth the wait.

Comfort food Recipe from Martha Stewart ↗

Easy 20-Minute Chicken Tacos

Twenty minutes, start to table, and nobody here has ever argued about taco night.

Kid-approved Recipe from Fork and Pan ↗

Jamaican Brown Stew Chicken

Browned down proper. The smell alone pulls everybody into the kitchen early.

Sunday dinner Recipe from Jamaican Foods and Recipes ↗

Authentic Jamaican Oxtail

Not a weeknight move. This one comes out when it's somebody's day.

Special occasion Recipe from Jamaican Foods and Recipes ↗

Nobody remembers the fancy meals. They remember the table.

Worth Bookmarking

Universal Orlando, The Real Tips

The stuff beyond “arrive early” — Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure is the ride that can make or break your whole morning, and as of July 1, 2026 it's no longer covered by Express Pass, which makes staying on-property for Early Park Admission the move. Also worth knowing: Epic Universe is big enough that it needs its own separate day rather than being tacked onto the other two parks.

Family trip planning Tripster travel guide →
Sixteen Years

Still Us, Sixteen Years In

An anniversary, and the part of it I can't get over.

16 years married

Sixteen years, and we're still in awe

My husband and I are celebrating sixteen years of marriage — and the number isn't even the part that gets me. It's how much we've both grown up inside it. We started out as two people figuring it out, and we became the adults we are now side by side, right through every other title on this page.

Sixteen years down · still each other's favorite

We didn't just stay married. We grew all the way up together.

Borrowed Wisdom

Let's Stay Married

Marriage advice I've collected, not invented.

“Never put divorce on the table in the middle of a fight. Some words don't go back in the box.”

Saved from an online marriage thread — not my words

“Fight the problem, not each other. You're supposed to be on the same side of it.”

Found in a comment section somewhere — not my words

“Ask ‘what do you need from me right now?’ before you decide you already know.”

Picked up from a relationship forum — not my words

“Say the small thank-yous out loud. The big ones are built out of those.”

Passed around on social media — not my words

“Marry the person you'd want to be stuck in an airport with for nine hours.”

Read on someone else's blog years ago — not my words

I didn't write any of these. I just kept the ones that worked.

Mom Mode

I Am the Mother

On raising a teenager, one surprising day at a time.

The eye roll isn't the end

It's punctuation, not a verdict. Give it ten minutes and someone's back in the kitchen asking about snacks.

Car rides do the heavy lifting

No eye contact, decent playlist, nowhere to escape to — that's when the real conversations show up.

Say less, ask more

My best parenting move is usually a question I don't already know the answer to.

She's watching how, not what

Not what I say about handling pressure. How I actually handle it, on a Tuesday, when it's not going well.

Getting a Teen Back-to-School Ready

The checklist isn't just uniforms and stationery — it's the boring stuff that actually makes the first day easier: re-establishing a bedtime routine and cutting back the screen time creep before the shock of day one, not on it, plus giving their room a reset so they've got a real space to study. And a note for the parents too — get the school dates on the calendar and emergency contacts sorted before term starts, not during the first fire drill of the year.

Prepping now for the smoother version of week one. Full checklist →
Why the Routine Is the Whole Point

Eight tips backed by actual research, and the thread running through all of them is that structure is what gives a teenager a sense of control — which is the thing they're usually short on. The sleep math is the part I keep coming back to: they need eight to ten hours, most high schoolers get under seven, and you fix that by walking the bedtime back over a week or two instead of announcing it the night before. Screens off for the hour before bed, dinner together with the phones down, and — the one I didn't expect — real downtime on the calendar, because an overscheduled kid burns out no matter how good the schedule looks. It closes with the warning signs worth taking seriously rather than waiting out.

The boring structure is the part that holds. Newport Academy →
The Same Routine, From Her Side of the Door

The two above are the parent version of this — the checklist and the research. This one is the other side of the door: a teenager walking through her own after-school routine, step by step, made for kids in the nine-to-seventeen range rather than for the adults trying to schedule them. That's exactly why I kept it. Nothing here is being handed down — it's a kid showing how she builds the shape of her own afternoon, in the order she actually does it. I've gotten further borrowing a routine a teenager already owns than installing one from the outside and hoping it takes.

Routine demonstrated, not assigned. mouno on YouTube →

I'm not raising a kid anymore. I'm coaching a whole person.

The Photo Album

The Three of Us

A couple of favorites from lately.

Same three people, every version of the story.

Our family sitting together on a rock in front of a rainforest waterfall

We don't need therapy; we've got family game night! The three of us, off the clock

Contact

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