Looking back on 2018.... I think this may have been the best year of my life thus far. On January 8, during the Alabama-Georgia national championship game halftime, I took a pregnancy test. I was nervous because Alabama was behind, and I had an extra test available…. it was positive. I was pregnant! We went… Continue reading Kristen’s 2018 in review: A year of amazing, grateful change
This originally appeared on the Swarm Agency blog on April 21, 2015 during my time as a project manager there. ---------------------- As a project manager for Swarm, it’s a must that I stay connected, communicative and productive at all times. As a PM, not only am I helping to wrangle project timelines, agency resources, project… Continue reading 6 Tools That Help You Juggle Tasks
If you had told me back in January that by the end of this year, I would be working back in the local news business, I would have looked at you like you had two heads. Rewinding back to 2012... it was that year that I ran away, screaming, from my last local newsroom, after… Continue reading Circling Back and Failing Up
I've been on a wild goose chase for five years. It all started when my husband and I first relocated to Orlando from Alabama in August 2011. News and social media were my passions. I took a job managing the website of one of the local news channels. They even paid for my relocation. Six… Continue reading When Faith Supplants Fear
What a crazy few months it's been! Back in October, my husband, pup and I returned to Florida. I worked from home for Swarm Agency through January, but I'm now on a quest to find a new fit for me local to Orlando. I've dubbed it #helloorlando. This job search has been ongoing for roughly a month.… Continue reading #helloorlando
This quote has been my mantra for several months now. Let’s rewind back to what feels like a lifetime ago: August 2014, when, after just 10 weeks on the job as a contractor for Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Online, I was told my contract would end in two weeks due to budget shortfalls. I was… Continue reading “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations”
Back in June, I took on a new challenge: Account coordinator with Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Online (WDPRO). Here's the rub: It's a contract position that lives or dies by the funding available to our department. And unfortunately, the funding has dried up in this last stretch of the fiscal year, which ends Sept.30. My last… Continue reading New Beginnings: Kristen is Up for Grabs
It's been a really interesting couple of months for me. Back in April, I was laid off from my former employer, which has since sold or traded about 1/3 of its media properties. So let's just say I consider myself lucky to have been put out to pasture before the biggest -- and most unexpected… Continue reading Exploring My New Dawn in Digital Marketing, PR, CPG and More
I posted this little missive on my Facebook account today. I think it boils down what I'm feeling quite nicely. On April 3, I was laid off from my former job. And on April 22, I started a new career in digital marketing for consumer packaged goods. Talk about a quick turnaround! And I could… Continue reading The Switch: My Journey from Digital Media to Digital Marketing
I recently wrote about the great outcome of my husband's employment journey, but I neglected to mention that I'm currently undergoing one of my own. Laid off from work. Yep, that's me. A few weeks of severance, then I'll begin navigating the world of unemployment. It happened just last week. I was going about my… Continue reading Putting it all in Perspective
