About
I’m not chasing a title. I’m building a life.
I’ve spent years being asked to describe myself in one word, and every time the word felt like a cage.
The truth is simpler and harder: I create ideas that bring people together. Sometimes that looks like a brand strategy, sometimes a photo essay, sometimes a dinner where strangers leave as collaborators. The surface changes. The instinct never does.
What follows isn’t a resume. It’s the story of how the pieces found each other — and why they all lean toward the same horizon.
The evolution
How it came together.
The beginning
Creative curiosity
I was the kid who wrote stories, rearranged the furniture, and made everyone sit through the show. Before any of this had a name, it was just a need to make things and gather people around them.
Early career
Falling into marketing
Marketing was the first place my instincts had a job title. I learned how attention actually works, how brands are built, and how a single true sentence can move more than a big budget.
The pivot
Building businesses
I stopped waiting for permission and started building. First freelance, then something that looked like a company. I learned the unglamorous middle of entrepreneurship — the part nobody posts about.
Finding the lens
Content & storytelling
Photography, video, and writing became the way the ideas left my head. I found I could tell a brand’s story and my own with the same camera, and that the two kept feeding each other.
In the room
Events & community
The dinners and gatherings taught me the thing feeds can’t: that the most important work happens in rooms, between people, in real light. Community became the point, not a metric.
Now
One connected ecosystem
Engage Thrive Agency, creative strategy, content, events, and writing all became branches of one practice. Not a pile of side hustles — a single, coherent thing I’m building on purpose.
The horizon
The animal sanctuary
Everything points at a refuge built around healing, education, sustainability, and rescue. It doesn’t exist yet. Every venture I build is quietly making it inevitable.
A few things I believe.
01
Story first
The strategy underneath the pretty part is the real work. Find the true sentence and everything else gets easier.
02
Community over audience
Numbers fade. The rooms you build and the people in them are what actually last.
03
Build for the decade
I’d rather make one thing that lasts twenty years than twenty things that last a season.