Know your story. Tell it truthfully. Get paid to live it.

I grew up in Roanoke, Virginia, the kid who loved words. I earned a BFA in theater and learned how a story moves people from the outside. Then came years in ministry, and a decade raising money for arts and cultural organizations. Every grant came down to one thing: telling the true story well enough that someone wanted in.

Then I became a counselor. I learned how a story works from the inside: what we believe about ourselves, and what that belief costs us. I still do that work with adults in Maryland and Virginia.