Five Minutes With Mia Taylor.

Mia Taylor, Award Winning Freelance Journalist & Editor

1.What is your current occupation?

Freelance travel, parenting, and personal finance writer

2. What's your best advice for someone interested in doing what you do?

Read a lot, so that you will constantly have inspiration for story ideas to pitch editors. Be persistent, freelancing is hard. There will be ups and downs. Sometimes its feast or famine. Just keep going and keep believing in yourself. Network, network, network. With a few exceptions, the majority of my current clients have come from former editors I have worked with at staff roles, or from people I knew in the past.

3. What is something you've learned about PR since working with Comm Oddities?

What wonderful humans PR people are! Many are my friends. But on a more serious note, I've realized how PR people can really be a valuable ally - helping me to do my job even better when I take the time to develop deeper relationships with PR professionals.

4. Tell us about your favorite business or professional development book!

Two Weeks Notice - great, empowering, inspirational book that helps you take control of your professional destiny.

5. What's a fun fact about you?

I hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon with Team in Training to raise money for cancer research.

5. Tell us about your favorite meal, movie, and / or vacation spot.

My favorite vacation spot - aka - my happy place - is Sicily. I am truly at peace when I visit Sicily. My grandmother was Sicilian. But that's not why I love it there so much. It's a beautiful place to visit, wonderful food, stunning beaches, picturesque towns and more.

6. Tell us about your favorite nonprofit and why it's important to you.

Hands down, my favorite non-profit is Big Life Foundation. I personally have supported them financially for years. Big Life Foundation operates in East Africa. It's rangers work tirelessly day in and day out, walking hundreds of miles to patrol and protect elephants and other endangered wildlife from poachers. Their success rate is remarkable. I personally traveled to East Africa a few years ago to go on patrols with their rangers and learn more about their work. The rangers are Masaaii people who are supported by Big Life Foundation, so it's a win-win. Animals are being protected and locals are being provided with jobs and a livelihood.

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