Thirty-five years in Media, PR, Marketing, Advertising, Promotions, and Live Special Event Production is only a sentence to describe my decades of in-the-trenches-hands-on experience. I never liked being a one-trick-pony... so it wasn't enough to take a broadcasting career as a news catcher-turned-media news PR pitcher. I had to become a writer and a producer, in TV, Radio, Film, Theater and Music, become a graphic artist, a studio pastry chef, viticulturalist, OEM troubleshooter & spec sheet designer, horticulturalist, a pioneering technology promoter in the 90s, green planet supporter, humanitarian, a women's leadership mentor, author, and ghostwriter for a book on California State Law Taxation, a media judge, co-chair, program director, a cowhand, calligrapher, billboard painter, poet, warm-fuzzy altruist and a virtual wizard of "odds."
My unique journey led me here to being the Southland's Media Monster, an FCC Licensed Storyteller for every PR, Marketing and LIVE event client I have ever had the privilege of working with across the United States, while developing 150 charity-based benefactor tie-ins and promoting community. Industries include Entertainment/Media Arts, Culinary, Health & Wellness, Technology , K9 Law enforcement, Architecture, Fashion, Beauty, Eco/Environmental, Architecture, Legal, Automotive, Naturopathy/Metaphysical Gemology, and Agriculture. Here I ended up creating a diversified career unlike any other because I was caring for a mother with Alzheimer's disease for 26 years, as she was in remission with breast cancer, which led me to 20 years of neuroscience/psychology studies, Juggling this, I graduated from three schools, executed leadership initiatives, and worked an unearthly Hollywood career existence rooted in my humble beginnings born to WWII parents placed in the U.S. Japanese Internment Camps. I fulfilled what some call defying a few odds, chance, and luck, while overcoming my own myriad of health challenges working 24/7 where I was now learning Zen & work/life balance to overcome obstacles. Success for me all boils down to hard work, relentless spirit, solid work ethic, gusto, chutzpah and grit that make me who I am with core principles and values, integrity and wisdom.
Life-long supporter of diversity & inclusion and advancing women and small business, I champion the underdog I am for the little engines that could and the big engines who become humbled by circumstance who need my octagon-peg agile diversification of skills and experience across thirty-three industries in B2B and B2C lifestyle space with a global philanthropy backbone of pure-heart intention. Helping to PROMOTE PROGRESS, CREATING CHANGE for the bigger picture of the GREATER GOOD is what I am about as a half-Hippie Global Philanthropic Humanitarian and a half-inventive-Corporate Capitalist hybrid maverick with unconventional creativity, as a sleuth-hunting problem-solver, and curious insatiable newshound. My visionary outlook of infinite possibilities is merged with a 'dare-to-dream but has the actual chops to deliver into a reality' productivity and I'm ready to take on your next creative campaign.
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