Accidental Influencer to SVP of Brand Marketing

Last week, I had the chance to share my story of how I went from being an influencer to SVP of Brand Marketing for DYPER™ on my friend Brett Thornton’s podcast, Just stories with BT. I opened up about how I define failure and success in my own life, as well as what I would want other single parents to know.

Brett and I go back a couple of years. We met on the set of a Living Spaces commercial, and we bonded over our shared experience of being single parents. Brett is the VP of Visual Experience & Retail at Avocado Mattress and started this podcast to host honest conversations around success and failure, and this latest season highlights all female executives! I love what he’s doing!

I’m glad I could be a part of it, and I hope you take a listen to learn more about my perspective. I also hope any single parent or newly divorced parent especially takes a listen because I think Brett and I have a lot of great advice.

Go check it out and be sure to listen to the other episodes too! Let me know what you think!

Journey to Alignment: Trusting in Divine Timing

My dear friend Sam Harper has launched an incredible and supportive podcast called ‘Journey to Alignment.’ The goal of the podcast is to share various journeys of healing and finding true self and the wisdom that comes along the way.

Sam is an executive coach with a background in social work and therapy. She is also a single mother and an incredibly stylish human. She asked me to be on her podcast and share my journey to my own alignment. Though I’m still a work in progress (spoiler alert), I was happy to share what I have discovered so far.

I hope you enjoy listening to my experience. I hope that it encourages you along your healing journey, especially if you are someone that is healing after divorce. Just remember to take it one day at a time.

Check out the podcast here.

How Do I Rebuild My Identity & Worth?

Funny story - The man that married me 14 years ago asked me to be on his podcast and share about rebuilding myself after divorce. Pretty crazy, eh?

I count Ron Merrell as a dear friend even though we haven’t kept in touch all that well. He was a mentor to me as a post-college grad, and he has always remained an encourager from afar.

He recently asked me to join him on his podcast ‘Feel Dumb for Asking’ with his co-host Bo to answer a pretty big question - How do you rebuild your identity and worth after it has been damaged? - after witnessing my evolution over the years.

I can’t say that I have all of the answers or even claim to be an expert on this topic, but I was happy to share what I have learned along the way as I have been doing my best to do exactly that. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope this helps someone out there that is in the process of rebuilding their life.

CHICKS WHO GIVE A HOOT

My dear friend Sara Chambers, a long time blogger and PR guru, started a podcast called Chicks Who Give a Hoot where she is highlighting women who are activists in their communities and workplaces. It's absolutely brilliant, and I'm so glad she is getting these stories out there with her blog and podcast. 

I had the pleasure of being a guest on her podcast recently, and it was really an "ah-ha" moment for me because she wanted to interview me about how I champion the cause of authenticity in the digital space. I had never thought about it as a cause before nor had I thought about myself as a champion for it, but after chewing on it a bit I realized that it is indeed the foundation on which I have built my business.  To have a cause there must be a problem, and honestly, I identified the fake world of social media and blogging a LOOOONG time ago, and I've always hated it. And even though I suppose always being honest and authentic has always been a big part of who I am by nature, I realize that many people in the digital space don't really know how to take steps away from playing "the game."

It was an amazing conversation that really birthed my recent social media challenge that I shared a couple weeks back (I hope you are taking it with me). Please give the podcast a listen to hear how we really break down activism for the cause, and I would love to know if you're going to help join the cause for authenticity online.

Photos by Rennai Hoefer