ABOUT ME

I’m an unshakable optimist, always searching for the good in everyone and everything. Life is too short not to sprinkle joy wherever I go—sometimes literally!

That’s why I created The Compliment Bar, where you can buy a tiny bag of kind words for a friend (message me for details—it’s as delightful as it sounds).

Once, in high school, I dressed up as Santa Claus and delivered handmade satin gingerbread stuffies to all my friends, because why not? On the flip side, I also got in big trouble for sneaking out of Youth Group with the pastor’s son (say a prayer for me).

I was the first girl in my family to go to college, where I studied journalism and chased stories that mattered—like the time I ventured out alone to document a family living in a shack in Appalachia with a dirt floor and no electricity. That experience changed me forever.

I’m a mother to four incredible children, one of whom is in heaven, and I thank God for them every single day. Public speaking terrifies me, yet nothing makes me feel more alive than stepping off a stage, heart racing, knowing I left a piece of myself behind.

I believe the best work is often done by those who don’t feel like doing it—but they do it anyway.

I founded a nonprofit called The Mirth Project because one of my life outcomes is to cure something that ails the world. If we’re here, we might as well leave it better than we found it.

Life is messy, beautiful, and filled with moments that make you laugh, cry, and wonder how you got here.

And I wouldn’t have it any other way.