2023 so far..

I’m not even sure where to begin with this post but I did want to start blogging on my page just to keep you posted on the latest with me. If you’re here for the first time, WELCOME - and thank you for visiting! This year has been busy to say the least. The first big update was officially starting my very own dance workshop series. This is a monthly workshop where I will be teaching choreography in New York City every 1st or 2nd Friday of the Month! For more information, find my newsletter sign up here. I’m excited to get back into teaching a regularly scheduled class after taking about 2 years away from teaching, once the pandemic hit in early 2020. I’ve taken a lot of time to think about my approach as a teacher, dancer and a member of the community in New York. As the world changed, I too took the time to reflect, change and grow. I finally feel ready to come back to teaching. Whether it’s dance, social media or mentoring - teaching has always been a part of who I am. Teaching is my way of helping my younger self realize the potential he had all along. I hope I make him proud.

Now as for future me. He is in an interesting place right now. After four years of working at Dentsu Media (Advertising Agency) I have decided to end my tenure and pursue other avenues. I’m looking into other marketing roles that I’ve been curious about, while also preparing for probably the biggest career shift of my life - law. Working in media for the last eight years for some of the world’s biggest brands has shown me many sides of the industry. The good, the bad and the ugly. It was here, working behind the advertising curtain that has made me rethink the industry I have worked so hard in all this time. It has helped me develop this new philosophy I have on media, data and our digital identities. As the world continues to dive deeper into the ever evolving digital space, our mediums for communication change, the way we do business changes and the problems we face change. I want to be on the side of all of this that helps to look out for the every day person - the consumer. As the frontier of the digital sphere continues to be pushed, this opens us up as a society, to issues we have never faced before. Right now, I see a law education as one piece of the puzzle for the career I want where I can truly make a difference in this world and hopefully protect those unable to fully understand what all this really means for us.

But before any of that happens, I’ve been plotting out this journey and taking things just one step at a time. This journey I want to under take will be a massive shift in the reality I was once living in. I appreciate all my friends and family who I have seeked guidance from so far and I pray that I can make the best decisions possible to keep me moving forward. Whatever happens, all I know for right now is that this moment will be a defining time in my short life. Call it a mid-life crisis or whatever you want, all I know is that things just won’t be the same. Because for anyone that really knows me - they know that I truly believe this: the only constant in life is change. It is time to fully embrace that change.