I get to dream about what the next decade looks like for my business and think hard about how I can continue to uplift women. I couldn’t be more grateful.

So in 2014, I launched Choice. Now celebrating 10 years in business, I get to do the work I love.

choice is born

And I really missed leading women.

For the next 4 years, I worked hard, but I missed leading. 

a gut feeling

I did not want to move to Michigan, and I did not want to work full-time. And they said yes.

I followed my husband's advice: “don’t take your next steps out of fear.” Giving me the freedom to chase the life I dreamed for myself.

I took the job, but I did it on my own terms. For the first time in my professional career I advocated for myself.

next steps

This is when I realized the power of relationships.

I got laid off on a Friday—that Sunday, I got a call from a competing publisher offering me a job to overhaul their publicity department.

moving forward

 It wasn’t easy to accept, but I left proud of myself.

After working my way up to department head for the better half of a decade, I was laid off in 2010 as a result of the recession.

time to pivot

A world leading publisher, combining my love for books with my background in PR. This is where I cut my teeth working with nation media, securing client media in the New York Times, PEOPLE Magazine and more.

When I moved to Nashville, I took a job that changed the trajectory of my career. I became a publicist at Thomas Nelson...

Leveling up

...we dated, eventually got married and made the move to Nashville.

...we dated, eventually got married and made the move to Nashville.

Everything happens for a reason, because during that time, I met my husband Matt

Everything happens for a reason, because during that time, I met my husband Matt

on the rise

on the rise

I worked as a substitute teacher at my old high school as I figured out my next steps. 

After 9/11 happened, the non-profit I worked for lost funding and I was without a job. 

A bump in the road

 ...then at a nonprofit in downtown Atlanta as chief marketing officer.

Worked for Cobb County in the communications department

First job...
and second

Graduated with a degree in magazine journalism from the University of Georgia

Go Dawgs!

Graduation

Interned at the press office for the Georgia secretary of state

Where I got hooked on being a publicist

College

Token yearbook editor and “gifted storyteller” 

Where it all began.

high school

The road to success