I grew up in California, but my career in TV news took me across the country—first to Iowa, where I worked as an anchor, reporter, and producer at an ABC affiliate. After two years, I moved to Wisconsin to take on the role of a multimedia journalist at the CBS station. That meant doing it all—finding the stories, scheduling interviews, filming, editing, writing, and presenting them on camera. Day in and day out, I told other people’s stories from beginning to end.

I thought I’d be in that career forever. But something in me began to shift.

The daily deadlines, the constant grind, and the pressure to produce content quickly didn’t leave much room for the kind of storytelling that truly moved me—the kind that made people feel something real. I didn’t just want to inform. I wanted to connect.

After spending nearly six years as a solo TV news reporter—writing, filming, editing, and presenting stories daily—I walked away from the only career I ever imagined for myself. The grind was relentless, but it taught me the full art of storytelling, start to finish. And more importantly, it revealed a deeper calling: telling the stories that truly matter. So I walked away from the only career I had ever imagined for myself, and I started my own business—one that allowed me to tell stories with heart. Stories that mattered to me. Stories that don't just inform but transform. Stories that helped people feel seen, heard, and understood.

My path here wasn’t linear. Life has handed me more than a few unexpected chapters filled with life-changing turns, deep losses, quiet rebuilds—some painful, some powerful, all of them pivotal. But through it all, storytelling remained my anchor. My ability to feel deeply became my strength, not my weakness. One of my former coworkers once said, “It takes an emotional person to tell someone else’s story well.” They were right—and now, I wear that as a badge of honor. My ability to feel—to empathize so fully with someone else’s experience that it feels like my own—is what makes my storytelling powerful.

My emotions are my strength. They make my videos emotive. They are the reason people cry, reflect, and remember what they’ve watched.

And that’s what I love most—making people feel. Creating connection in a world that often feels disconnected. Offering empathy where it’s needed most. And giving people the space and the voice to tell their truth.

Storytelling is my oxygen.
Empathy is my gift.
And the connection that comes from that is a universal language we can all understand.

As for the name of my business—Beyond Words—it was my mom’s idea. When I was brainstorming names that would reflect the emotional nature of my work, she said, "If a picture says a thousand words, your videos will leave people beyond words.”



And that’s the legacy I hope to leave with every story I tell.