Midwest born.
Northwest bred.
SoCal based.
Which means I’m wholesome with a hint of hippie.

I tell stories that entertain, inform, and make you feel all the feels. I hope you laugh, cry, swear, learn something, and—most of all—step into your power, ready to conquer the shit life shovels our way.

I've been spinning yarns since I was a tiny tot. When I was 4, I narrated family road trips into a cassette player. At 7, I penned my first short story, Nancy the Nanny Goat, and throughout elementary school, my passion for Judy Blume’s truthful tales fueled me to write my own chapter books, which my teachers read to the class at story time. At 12, I became the youngest person to place in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. My story and photo made the front page of the local paper, which was nifty and convinced me I might be onto something, so I kept writing.

Over the years, my passion for words evolved into a career in corporate storytelling and communications, features journalism, essay writing, scriptwriting, and speechwriting. I’m a two-time Microsoft alum and spent 10 years in corporate communications at the tech giant. I hosted the company’s Modern Communications series; was one of three employees (out of 180,000) hand-selected to regularly moderate the monthly Employee Town Hall with Chairman & CEO Satya Nadella and the senior leadership team; and co-hosted and produced the podcast, Managers 1:1, a storytelling series with Microsoft leaders about their journey managing people.

I caught the entrepreneurial bug at the age of 8, when I set up a record stand in front of our house and sold Cheap Trick 45s. Many moons later, I founded NICO, a boutique firm specializing in marketing communications for Fortune 100 companies including Disney, Kraft, Pfizer, Microsoft, and American Express. In 2021, I opened Tulla Productions to help brands and notable people tell their story through podcasts, speeches, on camera, and in writing. In 2022, I launched the podcast Here For Me to talk with inspiring people about their life disruptions, derailments, and transitions, how they steered their lives back on course, and learned to show up for themselves with the love, honor, compassion, and encouragement they readily give to others.

A lifelong comedy nerd, I studied and performed improv and sketch comedy in New York with Groundlings alum Holly Mandel and Second City veteran Armando Diaz, and studied comedy writing with former SNL writer Liz Cackowski. My articles and essays have appeared in Fodor’s, The New York Post, The Seattle Times, and the anthology Doing Good for Goodness' Sake.

Libra sun, Pisces moon, Cancer rising. Discuss.