Everything is Storytelling. 5 years at the Academy of Art in San Francisco taught me this. I would never have known at 18 that moving through 3D/2D/Stop motion animation, sculpture, graphic design, and illustration majors would build the work ethic and creative thinking I would need in my 40’s to run Gilding Light, my live stream video production company or co-lead a team of writers and artists with my husband for our massive new Bard based gaming campaign book Sirens: Battle of the Bards.

Of course, it’s not just school that builds “character,” but travel and exploration; experience. In the 2000’s I traveled the world exploring my sensuality, experimenting in the world of adult performance the way you only can in your 20’s. Over the last 10 years, I made the switch and focused on what is important most to me: Charity & Community. After the Escapist D&D web series in 2008, I spent most of my time building the Dungeons & Dragons gaming community at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood. There I founded Celebrity Chari-D20 with Eberron setting creator Keith Baker. In 2010 we had a WILD idea: Stream Dungeons & Dragons games online with celebrities so everyone could fundraise from the comfort of their own home. In 2010, I invented live-stream DnD gaming with video and we made a lot of mistakes trying to figure out how to do it. By 2012, we had it locked down. It was a crazy idea that we evolved into the live streaming that is still formatted in the games watched today.

At the same time, I dove into the Hollywood comic book community running DrawMelt, a life drawing class at Meltdown for artists of all experience levels. I’d started writing and drawing a graphic novel series in 2011 called “New Praetorians” with RK Syrus. We managed three 77 page Graphic Novels. You’ll recognize some of the faces in the books as I took photo references from my friends in Los Angeles for each panel. Jason Shawn Alexander (Spawn), Stephanie Inagaki (Miyu Decay), Bill Sinkewitz (Marvel) & David Mack (Kabuki) drew the covers. The Action Heroine’s Journey was born at this time. As a strong female action heroine writer, I wanted to dive into the psychology of what would drive a female to become a hero. It’s a study of story creation using Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey” and Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

All of this was done while focusing on Dungeons & Dragons and the global community. I want to bring everyone together! So, in 2016 I co-created a live stream company, and we made many live shows. We traveled the world from convention to event. After leaving the company in 2019, I started my own production company, Gliding Light, and have evolved it to allow everyone in our Discord community the chance to run their own Live games, much like the old Cable Access shows of the ’80s & ’90s. I was given a great opportunity at Geek & Sundry in 2017 with GMTips & Sagas of Sundry: Dread. From there, I joined the Dungeons & Dragons team as their Community Manager & official Ambassador for a year in 2018! I want to encourage everyone to follow their dreams and to creativity live as free as I’ve been able to.

Now, I throw global events to bring communities together. I run Seminars for companies to show how dynamic storytelling and gaming work in business & team building. I speak at businesses and colleges about community, story & leadership. I’ve dedicated my life to being a positive role model for other creative business-minded minorities of all ages. Having been born in the Philippines, I support Philippinx-American creative communities. As a survivor, I support Childhood Trauma & Recovery programs.

Healing is incredibly important and since 2022, after a series of stumbling blocks, failed businesses, online cancellation, bullying, and a failed suicide attempt, I’ve come to the other side — in 2024, I am a stronger and more driven person. There is no rock bottom too deep. I have utilized cutting edge healing modalities from modern science and medicine to ancient wisdom & psychedelic therapies. I know what is possible because I have been there and I have survived and now: Thrive.

I’m currently wrapping up Sirens: Battle of the Bards campaign book for release in Q4 of 2024, returned to college to one day get a Ph.D. in Social Cognitive Behavioral Psychology. I’m obsessed with Longevity and Anti-Aging and have been experimenting with the latest scientific innovations in peptides, supplements, fitness routines, and biohacking. With the launch of my new Podcast, Youtube & Facebook group Feel Younger, Think Wiser, and a new mushroom based supplement line, I hope to educate my fellow 40+ year olds that everything before 40 is to prepare us for the next 60+ years of life and that we don’t have to fall into the stigma of social norms of aging. At 43 years old I’m on a healing journey with science and psychology to optimize my human self and live vivaciously for the rest of my years with my peers.