I don’t know what freelancer or solopreneur needs to hear this:
It’s ok to be in-house or get a full-time job. You’re not a failure. You’re not basic. It’s really freaking great, actually.
Personally I’m LOVING the switch to team camaraderie with benefits + more space to grow👌🏽
@AmandaMGoetz
Was just reflecting this morning on “do I want to be well-known and liked by internet strangers or those in my IRL community?”
(Both obvs 💁🏻♀️) but IRL wins every time.
Some news: I was laid off. 😭
4 months in a groove, a promotion on the horizon, + great team camaraderie…it stings.
Since I got the news Friday, I had a (sucky) weekend to reflect.
More to come, but keep me in mind for content/editorial/community 🫶
This /workingmoms thread sentiment is SO devastatingly helpless and yet SO common.
I say a lot, “I honestly don’t know how parents with slightly different circumstances do it.”
Turns out they can’t.
me: *crunching on a snack*
Google Meet: "ARE YOU TRYING TO SPEAK BECAUSE YOU'RE ON MUTE BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE TRYING TO GIVE INPUT ON THIS MEETING"
✨ Personal news ✨
Yesterday was my last day breastfeeding my son. I am so proud of him and myself for doing it for 14 months.
Sharing here to normalize the convo/encourage other mamas.
🤱🏻
@stefanoscalia
I went to use Answer the Public and looks like Niel took over and I have a negative physiological response to his headshots in my SERP lol
I'm tired of the narrative (or lack thereof) re: childcare for remote workers.
Just because the mom (yes, it's always about the mom) works full-time remotely doesn't mean she can have the little(s) at home.
Full stop.
Some people make it work, yes, but that's not the default.
how it started ➡️ how it’s going
excited to be officially starting this week as Head of Marketing & Partnerships at
@VoyageSMS
/
@LiveRecover
!
Excited to work alongside
@Corey_Epstein
@SteveLeq30
and more to champion DTC/e-commerce builders! 🔥🚀🛒
Onboarded a freelancer this week who, when my boss looped me into the already-happening convo, said she’s been following me on LinkedIn for a while and is honored to work for me.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHO IS WATCHING AND WILL HYPE YOU UP IN FRONT OF YOUR BRAND NEW BOSS 👏🏽
Job hunt update:
My 2 leading opps are from people who reached out to me because they like *me.* No job listing. Just "we need a Maria."
I love this for me. Not just posting to brag, but to encourage you to 👏 SHOW UP AS YOUR DAMN SELF.👏
You never know who will want a you.
My boss (also laid off) left me a lovely recommendation on LinkedIn 🥹
My fave line sums up what success means to my career:
"Maria brought expertise, energy, accountability, and trust to the team. She immediately leveled up everyone around her."
Ready for what's next! ✨
The worst part is they could’ve just let it be without his big ol’ headshot on everything. We would never know. Now, they lost all the smart marketer users 🥲
My husband just got back from the grocery store with the baby and said, "Everyone thought he was so cute and was talking to us!"
I was like...........no one ever cares when I'm there with a baby. 🥲
LOOK! A FATHER IN THE WILD DOING AN ERRAND!
The Voyage /
@LiveRecover
team is thrilled to welcome
@mariabestwest
to the team as Head of Marketing & Partnerships! 🎉
Maria comes with a deep network in ecom, including a 60+ DTC Women Slack community and her DTC Mom consulting biz.
Say hi and give Maria a loud "Ahoy!" 👋🏼🛳️
@ThatChristinaG
👋🏽 I’m Maria!
📱 Tweets: content / copy / branding / mom / job search
💼 Currently dabbling in freelance after 8 years of in-house & agency content marketing (pandemic layoff).
📈 Also working on a new thing in B2B SaaS with my hubs.
🤗 Enneagram 3w2, ESFJ, Slytherin
3 years ago - laid off, with a 4mo, thrown into the shark tank that was the Florida unemployment system.
So grateful for all that’s changed, how I’ve grown, and the opportunities that came since then!
Peep the bio 👀
Excited to announce my new full-time gig in the AI / HR tech space!
Brand & Editorial Manager for
@erudit_ai_tech
👩🏻💻💖
Follow Erudit on LinkedIn and stick around for the same Twitter chaos with a little sprinkle of people-first business culture.
just saw an IG ad: “I can’t stop ordering these washable rugs!” oh really, Jessica? you can’t STOP ordering RUGS? do you have a RUG addiction??? where are you possibly putting all these rugs?
PERSONAL NEWS (x2)! ✨
we’re expecting bebe boy
#2
due February 🧢
AND
after 7 years in Jax, we’re moving to ATL this fall! 🍑
can’t wait for this new adventure and to take the boys to lots of GT games 🐝
about to make being a boy mom my personality ✌🏽
Since we celebrate these things here in
#MarketingTwitter
, I have 800+ followers now. Yippeee 🎉
I know, I know — time to up your influencer budget for me. 💁🏻♀️
Here’s to 1k+ in 2021!
@lokkju
@BecomingCritter
yea this. I often talk about this with my SIL who is a PICU nurse (so inherently high stress) but she just clicks out and doesn’t have to think about work when it’s not her shift.
I am a marketer in tech and some of my “work” happens, like, in the shower 🥲
Heads up, friends: I'm on the lookout for my next FT role! ✨
This time, in Community Marketing: looking to use my content background to build/manage a B2B community effort (or content @ community-led growth co)🫶
📍 Hybrid Atlanta or remote
*Taps mic* I'm looking for a new full-time role! ✨
Eyeing going back into B2B where I can use my learnings in the consumer/ecom space to connect to the emotional beings behind the “B.”
More details for what I'm looking for and how to help here:
Good news: first day of new job went amazing. ✨ It feels so good to be in-house in this season of life.
Bad news: nanny totally flaked and blocked me (??) so she did *not* want to be in-my-house, apparently.
reason # 28,340,928 not to sleep on simply showing up and being yourself on Twitter. You never know who's lurking!
I didn't even know Corey was following me until he reached out on LinkedIn a few weeks ago with an opp at his company, and lo and behold, here we are! 🥹
only 50 pages in but omg this is so good. Thought I’d hate it from the gaming theme but it’s soooo well done and cute and I LOL a few times. Hosting my neighborhood book club for this one so that’s a relief 😅
(thx for the rec
@kvlly
)
I won this free shirt from
@Dropbox
recruiting team at an event and just stuck it on bc it’s so soft…. BUT OMG WHAT WHO DESIGNED THIS 💀💀💀💀💀 I am howling
Just got back (at 6:45pm) from a “noon years” party and we did the countdown at 6pm and everyone had little kids and it was perfect. 🥂 now I can rest in peace by 8:45 knowing I blessed 2023 already.
My words are in the wild at Target 🥹✨
So fun working on this retail holiday display campaign with
@native_cos
! 🎅🏽
Going on two years with them after
@hellothisismeng
reached out to me Thanksgiving week 2021 ❤️
More in store.
wrote the creative copy for a CPG brand’s holiday end cap displays at Target (!!) so crack me open an eggnog and call me Dasher because I’m ready to tangle some tinsel 🤶🏼
#MarketingTwitter
- when did you learn about the area of marketing you’re in?
In college I wished there was a way for me to be a writer (but not journalist) and use strategy. I didn’t discover content marketing until my first FT job.
“I simply no longer want to consume other people's lives with the same ferocity with which I live my own.” -
@kat_boogaard
Some TRUTH for your weekend 👏🏽
touch grass, roll in the grass, smell grass, be one with the grass.