I’ve always been drawn to storytelling and creativity, but I started my career in business. I completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business (with an Urban Land Economics major, of all things). And, inspired by the travels of my childhood, I promptly moved to Melbourne, where I worked in sales for one of Australia’s leading film distributors.

Back in Vancouver, my career pivoted to real estate investment. I marketed listings for one of Canada’s top commercial brokers — iconic national properties, including retail, residential, and hotel portfolios, that totaled billions of dollars in sales.

On the side, I co-created a (now retired) “secret” blog, Tales from a Bar Stool, about bars and the people we met there. We grew a large, loyal following through strategic media relations, brand partnerships, storytelling, activations, and social media planning. It was a surprise success — we even wrangled follows on Twitter from Ryan Gosling and Jimmy Fallon.

My writing career expanded to include lifestyle and travel assignments for various digital and print media — I traveled to and wrote about Norway, Prague, Paris, Guatemala, and Los Angeles. The Province Newspaper and then the Vancouver Sun hired me to author a regular blog series. I covered events at the Toronto International Film Festival for the Province Newspaper for three years. And I was invited to speak on HuffPost Live and CTV News.

During this time, I left my corporate career to shape a freelance one. And I stretched my storytelling offerings into brand strategy and copywriting.

This evolved into Studio Telltale, where I blur my storytelling worlds together — brand, film, fiction, and other stories — to create more worlds.

I currently sit on Soho House’s Cities Without Houses Vancouver committee, working to shape and grow our local creative community. (If you’re in Vancouver and interested in learning about membership, give me a buzz.)