My Journey to Now

In this solo episode, I go deeper into my own story, the version before Crown Affair existed. I talk about being a B-plus student in a small town in South Florida who found the first thing she was ever good at in an art history classroom, and how that feeling of awe became a North Star I’m still chasing. I share the story of a marketing class at NYU where a guest speaker named Gary Vaynerchuk cracked something open in me, and the years that followed: working for Emily Weiss at Into The Gloss before anyone called it influencer marketing, meeting Ara Katz through a LinkedIn notification I wasn’t even supposed to send, and eventually building my first company, Levitate, before I ever built Crown Affair.

I also get into what it actually felt like to take the leap in April 2019, and how every art reference I love, from Ed Ruscha to a Doctor Seuss quote in our very first product sample, ended up woven into the world of Crown Affair.

Tune in for a look at how ambition, curiosity, and the people you choose to work with quietly become the foundation for everything you eventually build.