Every New Year brings the promise of change. But adapting to it? That’s often the hardest part. For Pam Chavez, the owner of Saucy Mama’s, change isn’t a resolution, it has always been a way of life.
Saucy Mama’s is Chavez’s pizza spot in Corpus Christi. But before she ever tossed pizza dough, in her 20s she was living out of a backpack, traveling the globe with no permanent address and no long-term plan. South America, Thailand, India, Chile, she sold nearly everything she owned to see the world.
Then life took a sharp and unexpected turn. By her 30s, Chavez found herself starting over, financially and personally. With little stability and big questions about her future, she made a decision she never would have predicted…