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.
Montana
But I’d love to work together to make it work in the best possible way for you.
Personally, we can use it to inspire and be inspired. Professionally, we can use it to connect and grow in ways that were not available to us previously.
You don’t have to love it, you can leave that to me.
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I was on a reality show when I was in college.
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When I was 15, I recorded a few songs in Nashville.
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I spent the first week of my senior year of high school in the NWT in Canada
stranded in a one-room cabin with my mom and two guys.
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(20 miles south of the Arctic Circle)
