Work With Taylor

Speaking, hosting, and partnerships rooted in storytelling, movement, and motherhood.

Thoughtful conversations. Meaningful experiences. Real connection.

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Ways to Work Together

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  • For conferences, panels, keynotes, workshops, and community events.

    • Keynotes

    • Panels

    • Fireside chats

    • Workshops

    • Moderating

    • Podcast and live interview appearances

  • For brand events, panels, launches, wellness activations, and live conversations.

    • Event hosting

    • Panel moderation

    • Live podcast recordings

    • Brand activations

    • Community conversations

    • Fitness and wellness events

  • For campaigns and experiences that align with motherhood, wellness, movement, family, home, and community.

    • Sponsored social content

    • Podcast sponsorships

    • Spoken-word campaigns

    • Run-club partnerships

    • Community events

    • Brand ambassadorships

Taylor speaks, moderates, and hosts conversations at the intersection of motherhood, identity, wellness, movement, community, and social impact. Her approach is thoughtful, warm, and grounded in both lived experience and professional expertise.

    • Motherhood, Matrescence + Identity
      The emotional and identity shifts that happen when becoming a mother, and how motherhood changes relationships, ambition, self-concept, and everyday life.

    • Maternal Mental Health + Emotional Wellness
      Honest conversations about the mental load of motherhood, overwhelm, self-regulation, support systems, and the emotional realities of early motherhood.

    • Movement, Body Image + Postpartum Confidence
      How pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood can reshape our relationship with our bodies, fitness, confidence, and movement.

    • Community-Building + Belonging
      Why meaningful community matters, how to create spaces where people feel genuinely supported, and the role connection plays in wellness and motherhood.

    • Storytelling, Vulnerability + Social Impact
      Using personal storytelling, spoken word, and honest conversation to create connection, shift perspective, and make complex experiences feel more human.

    • Race, Wellness + Inclusive Leadership
      Conversations about race, belonging, representation, wellness culture, and building more thoughtful and inclusive communities and organizations.

    • Reinvention, Purpose + Becoming
      Navigating major life transitions, evolving professionally and personally, and making room for who you are still becoming.

  • Taylor brings together experience across media, human rights, fitness, education, and community-building.

    She holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University and a BA from NYU in Drama and English & American Literature. Her professional background includes human-rights programming, DEI education, nearly a decade in fitness and wellness, and community-centered work with organizations including Columbia University, NYU, Reebok, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Girls Inc., and Rumble.

    She is also the creator and host of Since I Became a Mother, where she leads thoughtful conversations with mothers and experts about identity, maternal mental health, relationships, wellness, and the realities of becoming a mother.

    Taylor has experience as a speaker, moderator, host, interviewer, educator, and facilitator, making her equally comfortable leading a panel, interviewing a guest, delivering remarks, or guiding a live conversation.

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Career Highlights

  • Moderator

    Peanut x Tommee Tippee
    Matrescence and Maternal Mental Health

  • Host

    Dr. Cassidy Freitas
    Mom Needs a Moment Book Launch

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    Speaker

    Girls Inc.
    Elevate Her Essence Annual Leadership Conference

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    Girls Inc.
    From the Outside In Panel

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    Columbia Center for Justice
    Prison Education Panel

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    NYU Tisch
    Acting & Activism Panel

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    Women’s Health and Men’s Health
    Reinventing Yourself Panel

The Experience Behind the Work

  • Education

    Taylor brings an academic foundation in literature, performance, human rights, and social-impact research to her work as a storyteller and speaker.

    • Holds an MA in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University, where her research examined mass incarceration and access to movement, exercise, and outdoor recreation for incarcerated women of color in New York correctional facilities.

    • Earned a BA in Drama and English & American Literature from New York University, graduating with honors and receiving the Founder’s Day Award.

    • Has contributed to academic communities through student leadership, human-rights programming, research, and advisory work.

  • Media, Hosting & Storytelling

    Taylor combines a background in performance with a natural ability to lead honest, emotionally resonant conversations.

    • Previously created and hosted On the Outside, a podcast centered on belonging and the experiences that leave people feeling unseen or excluded.

    • Previously worked as a professional actor, including a role as June in Succession and on the Broadway National Tour of Motown the Musical.

    • Experienced as a speaker, interviewer, moderator, event host, voiceover artist, and spoken-word storyteller, with motherhood poetry reaching millions of viewers online.

  • Fitness & Wellness

    Movement has been central to Taylor’s professional life for more than a decade—and continues to shape how she thinks about identity, community, and well-being.

    • Spent nearly a decade working as a professional boxing, strength, and group-fitness trainer.

    • Former Reebok athlete and FP Movement Ambassador, where she led the brand’s flagship run club in partnership with HOKA.

    • Founder of STRONG Run Club, a Brooklyn-based community helping mothers reconnect with movement and one another without pressure or performance.

  • Human Rights & Advocacy

    Her advocacy work focuses on transforming complex social issues into human, accessible conversations that inspire reflection and action.

    • Served as Assistant Director of Just Ideas at Columbia University, supporting educational programming inside New York correctional facilities.

    • Co-founded ACTIV-ISM, an anti-racism wellness company created to build more inclusive and equitable fitness spaces.

    • Co-authored ACTIV-ATING: Your Vocabulary, a practical guide for navigating conversations about race and racism.

  • Leadership, Education & Community-Building

    Across education, fitness, media, and events, Taylor has consistently built spaces where people feel welcomed, supported, and equipped to participate.

    • Former DEI Manager at Rumble, leading inclusion initiatives and education across a national fitness organization.

    • Has designed and facilitated workshops for companies and communities on race, wellness, belonging, and inclusive leadership.

    • Brings experience overseeing programs, partnerships, events, instructors, interns, and cross-functional teams while keeping connection at the center.

  • Brand Partnerships

    Taylor works with brands to develop storytelling that feels polished and strategic while remaining personal, useful, and genuinely connected to her community.

    • Creates campaigns across motherhood, wellness, movement, home, family, and lifestyle.

    • Develops concepts from beginning to end, including creative direction, scripting, on-camera hosting, voiceover, production, and audience engagement.

    • Offers social campaigns, podcast integrations, live activations, custom spoken-word work, and community partnerships through STRONG.

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