Hi! I’m Carissa.

a Boston-based creative strategist, writer, researcher, well-being advocate, and coffee enthusiast.

Let’s Connect!

check out my social platforms, where I’m exploring new creative ideas and developing my portfolio in real time.

I am energized by project-based and long term collaborations involving but not limited to:

social media content strategy
- ideation, development, editing, management
event planning and execution support
- bts content, on-site coordination, administrative support
podcast production services
- ideation, guest outreach and booking, filming and interviewing, editing, social media promotion
writing opportunities
- one time or ongoing contribution to existing publications
- strategy and launch of new publications

If you’re building something that celebrates community and creative expression—especially in lifestyle, travel, food, event planning, or wellness spaces—I’d love to be part of it.

these are a few of my favorite things, gallery style:

travel! I can often be found romanticizing the airport

routines and rituals, my mornings currently include a passage from The Pivot Year by Brianna Wiest

to me experiencing a city is experiencing its cafes, Sofra Bakery and Cafe 2025

behind the scenes: what self talk means to me

//the inner monologue

Mid-way through college I became aware of how destructive the words I was using towards myself were. As Miguel Ruiz writes in his famous Four Agreements, I was, chronically, “using the word against myself”. Every day.

That’s a lot of negativity coming from inside the house.

Words are our most powerful tools. They can be catalysts for bringing our dreams, desires, and intentions to life. They can also tear down, spread negativity, and keep us stuck in a prison of our own design.

This began a journey of rewriting my inner scripts and rebuilding trust and compassion with myself. I now know this to be the foundation for how I show up for everyone else in my life.

We can only meet others at the depths we’re willing to meet ourselves.

//the audio diaries

After college I moved from the Midwest, where I’d spent most of my life, to the East Coast. This will forever be known as chapter one in my plot of real adulthood.

Leaving home has continually forced me to face the discomfort of being alone and at times very lonely. Learning to genuinely enjoy space and stillness with myself has been a wise teacher and a painful process.

From this space came a tool I use almost daily to meet myself, to exercise my voice, to create the connection I’m craving from the inside out.

It’s this simple: I open the voice memo app, I speak out whatever is on my heart and mind as if I am sending a voice memo to a friend or ranting to my therapist.

At first this felt very silly, especially in public, where I still occasionally fake a phone call if I suspect someone is listening. In the most literal way, self talk is me talking to myself, out loud, every day.

These audio diaries remain essential because they allow me the ability to plug back in, and to process whatever the day brings—anytime and anywhere. They bring me back to remembering I’m the main character of my movie.