Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and

brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference. Welcome back to your brand Amplified

and I'm thrilled today to have one of the co-authors

of Shenominal women with us

to share her personal journey and story

and why she became part of the movement. So Carol

thank you so much for being here today. Thank you for having me it's the pleasure.

Absolutely. I'd love to hear a little bit about your backstory and your journey to become who you are today.

Well, I grew up in British Columbia, Canada in a small town in the Canadian Rockies and took off and went to college in Vancouver where I got my degree in design and marketing.

I worked for a while with tours in Canada and had a great time traveling.

Wow.

We're telling everybody why they need to come visit us up in Canada,

the Great White North, which eventually led me

to work for a sporting goods chain, designing and setting up and teaching their

staff about their products. And that eventually brought me to California

where we opened up a chain of stores down here. I did that for about two years and then on my one trip I happened to meet my now ex-husband and when I went back to Canada, you know, I figured we were done it was you know it was a fun summer romance type of thing and they brought me back to California for another about three months and at that point I never went back.

Wow.

Married and kind of the rest became history.

Once I got married and we started a family I was blessed to be able to be a stay-at-home mom and in between that time I used the talents that I acquired to do things within my kids school. I became an active volunteer within the

community and ended up being the executive director of the local museum here

which I absolutely loved. It kind of allowed me to enjoy my passion for history learning about where I was now living. But it also allowed me to do a little bit of the design work and helping set up displays and marketing it and setting up programs to include, be more inclusive within our community.

So that was kind of a challenge. My ex-husband's African-American. My children are

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