The Founding of Between Seasons Media

Hey there! I’m Olivia. 

I have a passion for hearing people’s stories and retelling through words and pictures. My idea of a great day is getting to grab coffee with new and old friends and just hear about everything that’s going on in their life. And through Between Seasons Media, I get to help business owners tell their story every day through blogs, emails, social media posts, and logos.

I’m passionate about telling the stories of Kansas City entrepreneurs and the businesses they create. I partner with entrepreneurs to nurture their ideas from baby saplings into blossoming trees with blooming results. 

But how did I get here? Well, that’s a fun story.

Basically, I was like any other high school graduate. Anticipating the end of senior year, excited to finally branch out and study topics I actually wanted to learn, embarking on all kinds of college tours (ask me about the time I thought I wanted to go to college in Michigan. Wild). Anyways, when it came time to actually apply for college, I had absolutely NO idea what I wanted to do. 

I knew I loved English grammar, but there are about a billion different things you can do with an English degree. I could be a teacher, or a journalist, or a movie script writer for goodness’s sake. But none of those career options quite appealed to me. So what did I decide to do?

I took a gap year.

Yup, you heard me right. The girl who for years dreamed about attending an elite college, finding a cute boy, and working a corporate dream job (if those even exist) threw all those dreams out the window for a gap year.

I had no idea what I wanted to do after graduation. Until I saw a job post on Indeed for an internship position with a lifestyle magazine. For the first time I thought, “Gosh, this is a career I could actually see myself loving!” So I applied, and within a month I was typing my little heart out at my cozy desk.

That internship unlocked a passion in me that I didn’t even know existed. If you would have met me a year ago, I would have told you that I am the least creative person you know. But now, I live and breathe creativity. Ideas for new blogs, website designs, and fresh content are constantly bouncing around in my mind. 

But soon I faced another set of challenges. My internship was coming to a close and I wasn’t sure what next steps I should take. 

But I decided to take a leap of faith and start networking with business owners in Kansas City. Basically, I got to take small business owners out to coffee and hear their stories. Literal dream job right there. I knew I had a passion for hearing people’s stories, I just never knew how I was supposed to use that passion.

Well, as I listened to their stories, I noticed a common theme. These entrepreneurs were wildly successful in their industry, but they lacked the time, capacity, and creativity to create original content for their website and social media pages.

My experiences networking and freelancing got me thinking. Since graduation, I had bounced in and out of consistency, going from one transition to another, and there were several times when I felt completely lost. I soon realized that if I felt this way as a recent high school graduate, chances are that other graduates — and normal adults for that matter — must feel the same way.

That’s why I decided to create Between Seasons Media, a place for business owners and entrepreneurs to share their stories, bounce off ideas, and communicate their vision with all the ‘um’s’ ‘uh’s’ and ‘mhm’s’ you don’t get in polished content.