Keynote Speech - Aflac
Agency: PencilboxIt’s a big deal to put words in a person’s mouth. This speech had a lot of words on employee retention from reports, interviews and PowerPoint presentations, which I smoothed into a fun and conversational tone.
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Brochure Copy - Holiday Inn
Agency: BEN MarketingThis franchise support brochure was easy to write. All I had to do was tap into precious childhood memories of road trips in our family station wagon and nights at the Holiday Inn. It’s always such an honor to work with iconic brands.
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Interview - Paul McCartney
Publication: Paste MagazineThey say you should never meet your heroes, but talking to Paul McCartney was a surreal delight. He was funny and thoughtful and even offered a couple off-the-record asides. We covered a lot of ground in a conversation that stretched well past our allotted 30 minutes.
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Video Script - KPMG
Agency: direct client contactKPMG’s Branding U series prepares recruits for partner and client interactions. We approached this script on dining etiquette like a Saturday Night Live skit, drawing on Atlanta’s top improv talent to make the jokes land. The video - which can be seen here along with the shooting script - was fun to shoot and is still a hoot to watch.
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Travel Commentary - Visiting the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
Publication: Creative LoafingI wrote my Duffel Bag columns on the assumption that most people reading it would never go the off-the-road places I wrote about. I wanted to offer the visceral experience of travel. This is probably my favorite sample on this page.
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Podcast Production - Alive Again
iHeartPodcasts / Psychopia Pictures ↗My background in interviewing, writing and editing was a natural fit for Alive Again, an iHeart series about people whose lives were transformed by brushes with death. As a story producer, I interviewed survivors and built their experiences into long-form narrative episodes through writing, editing and sound design. What interested me most wasn’t the near-death experience itself, but what people learned from it — and what they wanted the rest of us to know about living.