It’s a long story, sorry.

I have an oddly shaped resume. 

My first job was cooking at a catering company. 

Actually, it was dishwashing. But, eventually, they let me cook and I loved it. 

Every day was a chance to turn ingredients into something new and break free from my proudly Italian mother’s weekly rotation of red sauce + pasta + red sauce + polenta + “tacos” + more pasta. 

In college, while my business classmates were interning at accounting firms, I interned as wedding coordinator. It was fabulous. 

The next summer, I completed a culinary rotation at a fancy NYC restaurant. It was also fabulous. And miserable. I worked so many hours a day that my toes turned blue.

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I wasn’t a huge fan of the blue toes so after college I took a job in corporate sales at Waste Management. 

I didn’t loooooove it. 

Eventually, I worked up the courage to quit and took a job as the chef for the LA Kings hockey team. 

Again, it was fabulous. It’s also what brought me to where I am today. 

Being back in the kitchen gave me space to realize that creativity is the common thread in just about everything I enjoy and, more often than not, the missing piece in what I don’t. 

And then after that, I just got lucky.

I didn’t know much about advertising, but one day I found myself at 72andSunny’s office assisting a friend on a food styling shoot. 

I could feel the creative energy. The people were great. The outfits were great. The office was cooler than most placed i’d ever been. 

That day I decided I wanted to work at 72.

Eight months later I was hired as an executive assistant. 

A few more months and I set my eye on copywriting. 

A couple years of portfolio school and moonlighting as a copywriter later, I finally landed the real deal. 

And here we are.

If you read all of that, thank you. I hope it will spare us both from a 15 minute explanation of how I wen’t from selling trash to cooking for athletes to copywriting when we hopefully chat sometime soon!