I decided I was going to start this blog about me, but I didn’t really know where to begin. It all started with a conversation I had in Starbucks this summer, with Jen Marchetti, founder of Ridgewood Moms. We were talking about what I had been up to, and what I was doing, and she said, you are selling yourself. This is who you are this is what you do. You need to brand yourself.
I went home after that conversation and thought about what she had said, what we had talked about. I realized she was right. Although I was doing many different things, I was the common “brand” behind them all. People wanted to use me for their website design because they wanted to work with ME. They wanted to use me for my interior design because they liked and trusted ME. They wanted to try the new, safer products I was passionately sharing with them because they believed ME.
Sometimes, it’s hard to realize that you are your own brand, but as a person with a marketing background, I got it. I needed to get myself out there, be authentic and show you who I was. Yes, I make money on these endeavors so my family and I can live, but I’m not doing them to make money, I’m doing them because I love doing them, because I believe in what I’m doing, because I’m helping others in doing them.
I’ve gone from job to job because I’ve always looked to do the most I could to help others and make a difference in the world. I’ve always had this calling to do something to make a difference. And, in time, I’ve learned to follow my heart (not my head) and do what I know to be the right thing. It’s how I ended up at college in Maryland – Loyola wasn’t even on my radar, but I went there, and my heart told me, this is where you belong. It was right, I met my partner in life (and business and everything else) there, as well as many of my best friends. If I didn’t follow where my heart was leading me, I wouldn’t have built the life I have now.
And so, sometimes, I have to tell myself to slow down and listen. Listen to my heart and what it is telling me. That’s how I’ve come to this blog, to exposing ME to the world wide web. In hopes that my stories, my feelings, my ramblings will help you with whatever you’re going through. Or, at the very least maybe they will at least be entertaining to you.
Or, they may suck. And that’s okay too, you don’t have to come back 🙂
