about me

I’m a digital marketer based in Atlanta, Georgia. On the weekends, I spend my time freelancing and consulting with other organizations, reading, learning languages, social dancing, and drinking tea.

I dropped out of university when I was 19. I had lots of friends there. My grades were great. My future was bright. But I was unhappy and restless. Most of all, I was feeling unfulfilled. So instead of taking out student loans and finishing my degree, I quit.

We talk a lot about “living intentionally.” But during my unfulfilling time at uni, I really came to understand what that means. Going to university right out of high school just because “that’s what you’re supposed to do” isn’t living intentionally. I had no idea who I was or what I wanted out of life, and it occurred to me that perhaps I would be just as clueless and lost upon graduation day.

I didn’t have a business idea or plan for what to do when I quit. I didn’t have a job lined up. I quit uni “the wrong way” according to most people. It was “the risky way,” “the stupid way.” But I survived. I made it work. And I’ve loved every second of the adventure so far.

We’re hardwired for thinking that taking risks and making changes will only end in disaster. We like certainty. We like predictability. We like routines. But there’s a certain danger in routine. Those things that we can “do in our sleep” run the risk of luring us into a slumber we may never wake up from. So I’ll take the discomfort of uncertainty over the slumber of routine each chance I get.

After dropping out of school, I spent 15 months in Poland, working as an au pair for a couple of serial entrepreneurs and getting my fill of pierogi. I moved back to the US, and worked for 6 months as a marketer at a fast-paced, high-growth financial startup in Charleston. After that, I made my way to Atlanta and began my work with the Foundation for Economic Education, where began managing Facebook ads and inbound lead generation, and optimizing email nurture campaigns. Currently, I work as a PPC Analyst at a marketing agency, doing Google and Facebook advertising for over 80 companies.

Through all of my adventures, I’ve learned that my greatest successes and deepest moments of happiness have come out of the things that most people would criticize or pity me for.

I’m committed to fulfilling my curiosities, playing with anything and everything that strikes my interest, and telling the truth.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness–that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what—at last—I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

—Bertrand Russell

Favorite Books

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
How to Listen to and Understand Opera by Robert Greenberg
The Odyssey by Homer

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