A few places, a few pivots, and a lot learned along the way.
My path here hasn’t exactly been a straight line, but looking back, every chapter taught me something I now bring into the work I do with my clients. About finding your voice, trusting what feels like you, and realizing you don’t have to have everything figured out before you start.
here’s a little of how i got here...
Then I put everything I owned in my car and drove south to Los Angeles to work “in the industry”.
After my college years at the University of Montana, I did a short stint back home in the Seattle area.
Did I have a job lined up? I did not. Did I know where I was going to live? Nope. But thank goodness for those fearless early 20-something years, friends who are willing to literally share their bed, and supportive moms who will answer the phone at all hours to decipher through tears, “what have I done?!”
There’s a lot of “just be yourself” that gets thrown around in life, especially in our 20’s, as if it’s just that simple. To “just be ourselves” we have to first have a very clear idea of what that means, which I might argue is a process we will be working at until the day we die. But I can tell you this: I found a lot out about who I was not while living in LA. Fun was had, so much was learned, and after three years, I’ve never known anything as sure as it was time to go.
Los Angeles
It was here that my blog was born, Pumps and Plaid, and it was through this journey that I found my love for social media.
I moved back to Seattle, where I spent the next six years. I fell back in with my old best friends, made some new ones, and made the most of city life.
I got a little sick of my own face, so started to slowly distance myself from being a “blogger”. Around the end of 2020, I felt comfortable saying I no longer ran a blog, but continued in the world of social media, doing freelance work here and there, and continued on to where I am now.
Seattle
2020 was also the year that I finally decided it was time to move back to Montana.
It wasn’t very long after I left in 2010 that I knew I needed to get back there one day, and the right time would present itself.
Turns out the universe had my back, and I made my final decision to leave Seattle in January 2020, and we all know what happened next.
March 2020, and the world that followed gave me the nudge and then the confidence to end up where I am today in my business.
The love I have for the Montana community and the life I’ve built here is something I used to long for, which makes my appreciation for the work I get to do in this place that much deeper.
montana
But it doesn't have to feel that complicated.
I'll help you step back, make sense of what you're doing, and figure out what actually makes sense for you and your business. Whether you need help finding your voice, building a strategy, planning your content, or just talking through a question, I'm here to help you feel a little more confident every step of the way.
You know your business. I'll help you know what to do with it on social media.
You don't have to figure it all out on your own.
Social media can be a lot to keep up with. There are always new platforms, new trends, and new things you’re supposed to be doing.
