I created a strategic partnership with the Dallas Business Journal (DBJ) while the Executive Director of the Addison Treehouse. This partnership served to help promote the Treehouse and our members.

My “provide value” mindset has defined my collaboration with the DBJ, allowing me to be a trusted source and placing many of my collaborators in their publications.

Note: a subscription is needed to view the full article. I am working on finding the original article and posting it here directly. Stay tuned.

One of the leadership programs I graduated from asked me to provide an opinion piece about the organization and my time in the program. My approach here was to provide valuable content to the reader and entice them to apply.

As an independent journalist, I provided human interest-like stories to the regional magazine in East Texas, IN Magazine. I was assigned this story with minimal direction.

The uniqueness of this article is that my contact’s wife had passed away the day before. He and his wife were co-founders and partners in an African Safari company, Wilde Journeys, and the article was supposed to be about said company. The contact wanted to continue with the interview, and I drove to meet him at his home to gather the story. I hope you enjoy this bittersweet piece.

I drew upon my reflections as a babysitter to a child with autism for this particular piece. Though I was not assigned the article and proactively provided it, we managed to publish this piece during Autism Awareness Month coincidentally.