I love great stories and sharing them with the world. Love working with mission-driven organizations plugged into health care, fitness, education, local business and more.
Strategic Leadership Program email
We needed to boost the open rate for emails about the Strategic Leadership Program. I rewrote the copy, changed the design and A/B tested the subject line (the winner was "Where do you see your career in six months?") When sent, this email got a 55% open rate and 3% conversion rate.
Passion Project: Freeing the Innocent
I wrote this story on the great work the Midwest Innocence Project is doing and its ties to the UMKC School of Law. It appeared in the Fall 2018 issue of Res Ipsa, the Law School alumni magazine.
How Your Digital Diet is Making You Sick
I researched and ghostwrote the article for Healium, as part of the "Definitive Guide to Stress Relief."
Top Five Ways Healium Helps Your Heart
I ghostwrote this article for Healium as part of the "Definitive Guide to Stress Relief."
What is the Best Natural Solution for Stress? (Hint: It’s not something you eat.)
I ghostwrote the article for "The Definitive Guide to Stress Relief" for Healium. It was part of a pillar page/article strategy to boost audience views to www.tryhealium.com
Your Brain on Stress: Understanding the Stress Response
I ghostwrote this explainer article on stress for Healium's "Definitive Guide to Stress Relief," a pillar page/article strategy to increase pageviews to www.tryhealium.com
What To Do When Culture Shocks
My wife and I co-wrote this story for Anthrow Circus (formerly Culture Keeper) about our time in Medellin, Colombia.
Following the Coffee Trail to La Sierra
My wife and I co-wrote this story for Anthrow Circus (formerly known as Culture Keeper) about the exquisite coffee from the La Sierra region of Medellin. Visiting Don Gabriel and getting to know the trio of Rituales is one of the best experiences in our life.
Gary and Sherry Forsee dSAIC gift announcement
As part of a $2 million lead gift for the NextGen Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center (dSAIC), I was tasked to write a script and led creative direction for an impact video. UMKC Academic Enhancements edited and produced the video.
Entrepreneur of the Year Awards introduction video
I led the creative direction for EOY2020, the 35th annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards by the Henry W. Bloch School of Management. This intro video conveys the state of entrepreneurship: uncertainty, challenge and hope. I wrote the script and led the creative direction. JNA Advertising, based in Overland Park, KS, produced the video.
Top 5 Ways AI Benefits Mortgage Lead Management
Ghostwritten blog post for Structurely.com, an AI marketing company for real estate professionals.
The Definitive Guide to Stress Relief
Working on behalf of KHA Marketing, I researched and wrote "The Definitive Guide to Stress Relief," a pillar page and posts for Healium, a startup that uses AR and VR to relieve stress and anxiety. This pillage page is approx. 1,800 words and is the hub for 7 posts, approx. 500-800 words each. I ghostwrote each one.
View From a Pandemic: Finding Life Among Gravestones
A personal essay on how I've been dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Partnership with Kansas City R&D firm pays off for inventor
Like most inventions, Dr. Keith Beauchamp’s duck decoy motion spreader was born out of necessity.
Beauchamp, a podiatrist by profession, is an avid duck hunter who hunts on a pond near his residence in Macon, Mo., about 150 miles northeast of Kansas City. He was looking for a way to simplify the deployment of hundreds of duck decoys he used to attract waterfowl.
After trying different materials and concepts, he thought of creating a central hub with radial arms hooked onto springs that would ...
What More Latinx Murals in KC Mean For Representation
I served as guest editor for Flatland KC, the digital publication for Kansas City PBS for the summer of 2019. I worked with Vicky Diaz-Camacho on this story on Latinx Murals, helping her sharpen the focus of the story and making sure the structure was sound. After publication, this story became Flatland's first story to make it onto "Canvas," the arts blog for PBS.