Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and country music; Michelle was blessed with unique assignments that only California dreams are made of.  She worked as a paralegal for the L.A. Dodgers, where stadium lease agreements, player contracts, and reviewing Hollywood movie scripts represented a day in the life.  She was later signed by the Angels, where she served as Gene Autry’s personal assistant, putting software and a database in place to secure royalties for “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer” amidst 737 other songs.  She would next start a custom embroidery/screen printing business and place product in over 319 resort shops.

The highlight of her career?  It wasn’t the crack of the bat nor front row seats at the ballpark; It was a trip by vehicle ferry to a tiny, port city on Vancouver Island that would reveal her true passion and shape Michelle’s career going forward.  Not long ago, as district sales manager for the leader in court reporting equipment and software, she traveled to that tiny island on a not-so-typical sales call.  There, she met a few court reporters using old software and duct tape to hold their equipment together. After a few hours of equipment and software demos, Michelle recognized a deficiency in the industry.  Their daily lives rooted in tech. fears and old equipment, these guardians of the record were risking it all.  One equipment failure would mean a loss of thousands of dollars and weeks of production.  It was not a matter of if, but only a matter of time before DOS, introduced in 1981, would fail.  After converting a few and witnessing their tears of joy, Michelle had one mission accomplished, and a new love for technology that changes lives.

Through 12-plus years as a software trainer, her mission remains … to peel back the layers, dispel the fear, and encourage highest and best use of technology.  She recently launched Plan Girl, where her focus is on encouraging others to embrace technology to secure lifelong financial stability.