Why My Career Path Makes So Much Sense in Retrospect

What did you want to be when you were a kid and what do you do now? Well, after my modeling debut (pictured below) I thought briefly that perhaps I was meant to be a super model. I very much was not. What I remember wanting to be most as a child was a lawyer

Can We Normalizing Talking About Things We’re Still Working On?

Seriously though, can we stop waiting until we’ve won to post? There’s a big difference in how I see a journey after I’ve arrived, versus while I’m in the trenches and both perspectives have value. As an enneagram three, I have a tendency to want to wait until my efforts have been successful to share

Trying to Help Friends & Family Dealing with Mental Health, but Coming Off Judgmental

There are people who I love that I can tell are struggling severely with their mental health. I want to help. I do. But I have now been told – again – that I need to stop being so judgmental. I was a foster parent for about eight years and primarily worked with children who

5 Euphoria Inspired Makeup Looks

The makeup on the show Euphoria is so groundbreaking and already setting so many trends to watch for over the next year or so. We see rhinestone gems, neon eyes, geometric eyeliner shapes, winged eye drama, 90’s and 00’s inspired looks and so much more. I chose looks that I felt were true to each

I’m Baaaaaack

If you’re here you may have noticed that there is a HUGE time gap between this blog post and the last one published. Over the last several years I have taken a break from blogging on this site to grow and focus in other areas. So what have I been up to? Well for starters

Serenity Hair Design is Moving and Merging with Malena’s Hair Design

SERENITY HAIR DESIGN TO MOVE AND MERGE WITH MALENA’S HAIR DESIGN Serenity Hair Design, currently located on the corner of State Road 26 and Creasy Lane, right next to D&R Market. The salon will move and begin accepting clients at the new location starting July 1st, 2013. Malena’s Hair Design is located on 3461 Union

BehindTheChair.com’s New Virtual Community for Salon Professionals

Behindthechair.com (BTC) is an online-based company that provides education, retail and industry-related information to salon professionals. With over 600,000 members world-wide, behindthechair.com has built a strong reputation withing the salon industry. About a month and a half ago, BTC launched its own virtual community on behindthechair.com. This community is open only to salon professionals (stylists,

NickMom uses Social Toaster to create a Semi-User-Generated Content Buzz

Social Toaster works to help companies increase presence in social media through encouraging a company’s current audience to share content via social media. Social Toaster then tracks activity to help assess effectiveness. I am going to discuss how NickMom.com is using this program and why I think that it is successful.    NickMom.com is a

The images we consume…

I would like to discuss how people perceive images in the media and the affects those images have on society.  Most of the images that we view have been altered to create an ideal or a fantasy, as opposed to a reality. Most Americans are probably aware that advertising images are altered, but that does

IU Health Live Tweeted a Living Kidney Donor Surgery!

At today’s PRSA Hoosier luncheon, we heard from Kristofer Karol and Gene Ford, who discussed how they pulled off Indiana’s first real-time transplant Twittercast. In efforts to raise awareness about organ donation and organ transplants, they decided to tweet highlights, during an actual living kidney donor transplant. Tweeting the live surgery was a little bit