I've been spinning yarns and starting businesses since I was a tiny tot.

At 4, I narrated family road trips into a cassette player.

At 7, I penned my first short story, Nancy the Nanny Goat, followed by a series of chapter books my teachers read to the class at story time.

At 8, I set up a record stand in front of our house and sold Cheap Trick 45s to the neighbors.

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 and I’ve been writing ever since. My work has been featured in The Seattle Times, Fodor’s, New York Post, Seattle Weekly, the anthology, “Doing Good for Goodness’ Sake,” and more.

My passion for words evolved into a career in corporate storytelling and communications, features journalism, essay writing, scriptwriting, and speechwriting. I spent 10 years in corporate communications at Microsoft, where 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.

In 2005, 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 connect with their audiences through stories.

In 2022, I launched the podcast Here For Me to talk about how life teaches us—often through hardship and trauma—to choose ourselves.

Born in Milwaukee and raised in Seattle, with five-year chapters of adult life in New York, Montreal, and San Diego, I now live in Los Angeles, where the sun, beach, and palm trees make me the happiest clam.