Although I’ve always been drawn to storytelling and creativity, I started my career in business, completing a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business (with an Urban Land Economics major). Inspired by the travels of my childhood, I moved to Melbourne after graduation, 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, curious following through storytelling, strategic media relations, brand partnerships, activations, and social media planning. It was a surprise success — we even gained 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 storytelling worlds together — brand, film, fiction, and other stories.
