Maybe when you were growing up, you wanted to be an astronaut, a teacher, a doctor, or a professional athlete. I wanted to be a copywriter.

As a frustrated tween (is there any other kind?), I’d read ads, seen commercials, and thought, that’s stupid. I can do better. So from grade school through high school and college, I wrote. Not ads (yet), but stories, songs, screenplays, and one particularly cringeworthy letter to the editor.

Then I got my big break.

I made friends with a couple who owned an advertising agency. They found out I liked to write, and handed off test assignments, Mission Impossible-style (literally—detailed instructions sealed in unmarked envelopes).

Several covert tasks later, I completed the mission and officially became a copywriter. Because the agency where I worked was small, I was asked to take on some account management and strategy. I liked this, too.

Soon, I was able to mash up all my career interests into content marketing, launching a practice within another agency that specialized in technology clients. Since then, I’ve successfully built, nurtured, and scaled three content marketing practices from the ground up.

I’ve also always been a geek, driven to test and apply AI and other emerging tech to boost productivity and performance 72%. This has mostly been a good thing, except when my peers find out and stop by to ask a lot of questions when I’m trying to focus. It’s ok. I don’t mind. Much.

These days, I’m seeking my next career challenge. I’m accepting freelance B2B copywriting work and interviewing for full-time technology content marketing leadership positions. Between those tasks, I enjoy travelling and going to movies with my family, reading voraciously, petting cats, and spinning records.

Want to learn the details of my career path? Visit my LinkedIn profile.