Meet The Team

Head of Content

Dog Mom, sweet tea lover, Co-owner of Optimus Strength ATX. She currently lives in Austin, Texas, but her dream is to one day live in a secluded house on the lake. As a fitness enthusiast she enjoys exploring new ways to stay in shape! CrossFit, Gymnastics, and Yoga are her top 3 favorite forms of fitness.

Fashion Editor

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Lover of French fries, travel, fashion, and the comfiest workout clothes.  She is from the beautiful, San Francisco Bay Area and currently resides in Barcelona, Spain.  In 2018, she followed her passion for writing and published for the first time in a tourism magazine called Barcelona Connect.  She continues to contribute to various online and print publications.  In her free time, she enjoys doing yoga, teaching an occasional spin class, and a glass of red wine with a good book.

Lifestyle Writer

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List-maker, thinker, soccer-fan, and all-around potato lover. Liv spent her childhood on the East Coast but is now a Buckeyes fan living in Columbus, Ohio. When not working full-time in digital textbook publishing, she can be found teaching yoga, talking to her plants, reading, collaging, or watching Fleabag on repeat. You can read her content across several publications, as well as on her blog muchmess.com.

Travel Writer

Digital nomad with a love for travel, books, and the outdoors, Maura writes as she wanders and wonders about the dustiest corners of the globe. She typically refers to her car’s license plate when asked for a good mailing address and currently enjoys Utah as her main squeeze. In the moments she is able to curb her itchy travel feet, you can find Maura hiking and trail running, singing off-tune to an old guitar, re-re-reading Hemingway, and keeping an open eye for the next (mis)adventure.

Contributing Writer

Chocolate enthusiast, lover of astrology and music fanatic. She is a Kentucky-born, Tennessee-schooled student of personality and human behavior. She uncovered her love of walking alongside women on their unique journeys of empowerment while navigating her own self-discovery mission. For her, to write is to breathe as to hike is to eat. These are the necessities of happiness.

Contributing Writer

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Lover of sappy romance novels, discovering new salsas, and hyper-fixating on new hobbies. Hannah currently resides in the heart of Kansas City, Missouri. When she’s not working full-time as a product copywriter, she can be found taking care of and snuggling with her local community cats.

Contributing Writer

Hailing from Ohio, Claire fell in love with words at a very young age. Her other loves include: cooking and baking, live music, and finding the best bookstore in every town she visits. Nowadays, you can find Claire in Denver, Colorado or traveling to new places to grow her ever-expanding postcard collection.  

Contributing Writer

Emma is a book lover, coffee connoisseur, dog mom and digital creative just trying to navigate her mid-twenties. Emma has experience as a marketing coordinator and content writer, but her true passion lies in social media content creation. In her free time, she loves to film and edit videos for her small YouTube channel where she posts about all things book-related — including book hauls, monthly reading lists, book recommendations, reading vlogs and more. You can follow along with Emma (and her ever growing TBR pile) here. 

Contributing Writer

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Sam Slupski brings their passion for mental health advocacy, compassion, empathy, and community care to the page. They write to better understand the world and to take care of themselves. When they are not writing, they are cooking vegetables, wearing linen pants, and nurturing their inner child. The hill they will die on is that a Midwest sunset is superior to all sunsets. To find out more, follow them on Instagram at @theyaresam and on their website.

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