Meet Ren. Bougie hippie. Brand strategist.
Believer in magic and Oxford commas.

Where stardust meets strategy.

Inspired Ideas Become Beautiful Brands

You can do all the inner work in the world
and still be invisible
if your brand doesn't reflect who you've become.

There's a unique, beautiful creative energy in the messy middle.

And that's the gap I help you close.
I've learned one thing.
I bring more than two decades of Fortune 100 communications experience – spanning brand strategy, digital storytelling, and executive messaging.

I spent five years as Marketing Director for Dr. Joe Dispenza's NeuroChangeSolutions, leading all marketing communications for his worldwide corporate training program. 

I oversaw communications inside global organizations. 
Shaped how leaders show up and are seen.
Translated complex ideas into language that moves people. 
And spent years in the nonprofit and volunteer space...
because sometimes the most important work doesn't come with a paycheck.

And I've done the deeper work, too.
Years of studying consciousness, neuroscience, and our place in the cosmos.

Now I bring those two worlds together.

The work behind the work.
Starstuff Studio exists for this moment...
the in-between, the becoming.

For those ready to build a brand that finally tells the right story.

Not all of this work is visible... but it shapes everything that is. 


I see you. And I'm one of you.
The bio that reads like a too-polished résumé.
That headshot from three jobs ago.
Dated stock photos that look like every beige coaching site.
The copy that sounds professional enough...
just not like you.

The quiet knowing:
If people could see what you see:
the vision, the transformation you're here to create – everything would change. 
And yet... your brand still tells the old story.





Sat with the discomfort. Done the gratitude journaling and meditations. Attended the retreats. Hired the coach. Taken all the courses.

Or maybe it's your organization that's changed... elevated its mission, deepened its impact, or outgrown the story it started with. 

Dared to believe, "My work has evolved into something helpful I can offer the world."

You've Already Done
The Hard Part

is your brand
telling an old story?

At some point, your brand has to match who you've become.

Starstuff Studio was born from a truth I've lived on both sides of: corporate and consciousness.

You can do the inner work.
You can understand tools and mechanics.
You can have the vision.
You can know, with every part of you, who you're becoming.

But if your brand still looks and sounds like who you used to be...
the world will keep meeting you as your old self.

My truth.

In late 2025, something shifted, and the universe made a decision before I did. 

There was a moment when the corporate role I was in, the one I built my life around, ended.

And yet, it didn't feel as jarring as I would have expected.

Because somewhere along the way, I had already started listening differently.

I was paying attention to the things I used to brush off. 
The energy in the rooms.
The quieter signals.
The ones that don't announce themselves... they're felt.

By then, I had spent years studying consciousness, neuroscience, and mind-body work.
All of it had given me a framework for this kind of moment:
It wasn't a crisis – but an invitation.

The kind where you stop trying to create a new version of your old life.

You build what's been waiting. 

The invitation.

My passion became a career.
Then a craft.

Then something deeper:
Who I am.

I was good at it. Really good.
Consumed by it.

Yet somewhere along the way, I forgot the part of me that giggled at the magic of snowflakes and dripping icicle fonts.

I loved it.

Not just the news – the typography.
The way a single design choice could make words feel even more alive.

That's where the nerdness was born.
The love of language and imagery.
The belief that how you say something is inseparable from what you say. 

That instinct stayed with me.
Into a decades long career in mining, publishing, real estate, and telecommunications – witnessing American telecom history unfold, from the Bell System breakup to the digital present.

I was ten years old, schlepping newspapers through western Pennsylvania winters in a small town called New Castle.

Quite the culture shock for a New York City kid.

But somewhere between frozen fingers and ink-stained hands, the foundation of a career was quietly being laid.

The local paper, the New Castle News, used to change its logo font whenever it snowed in the winter to include snowflakes and letters with dripping icicles.

Where it all began.

frozen fingers, Icicle Fonts, and The Beginning of Everything...

My work lives at the intersection of neuroscience, strategic communication, and the deep knowing that comes from decades of consciousness work. Everything I do flows through these three pillars:

The Three Pillars

how i work

Words aren't decoration. They're architecture. Strategic copywriting that expresses your voice, communicates your value, and captures the kind of resonance that turns browsers into believers. 

Language.

Your visual brand is your first conversation – and your first impression. Think atmospheric brand photos, lifestyle imagery, and portraits created with AI, designed around you. No boring cliché stock photos. 

Image.

coherence.

When everything finally works together – your words, your images, your story, all saying the same thing. Your brand stops feeling like a costume and starts feeling like a homecoming. 

A portion of every Starstuff Studio project goes directly to the Golden Angel Fund at Golden Retriever Rescue of the Rockies, providing medical care for golden retrievers with special needs. Because every golden should feel love.

Max has been my steadfast reminder, through many corporate deadlines, reinventions, and all the in-between seasons. 

He has no interest in product placement, performance, positioning, or five-year plans.

He just shows up daily as his authentic self.

Just like your brand should.

Golden retriever.
Director of Barketing.
Chief sparkle distribution officer.

And then... there's Max

A life that shapes me...

I live for 3 a.m. Ubers, overstuffed suitcases, bustling terminals, and passport stamps. Whomever decided to phase out passport stamps owes me a personal apology.

Airports make me genuinely happy.

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This is either evidence that it works or evidence that I need it. Probably both. Either way, I'm keeping the practice and no, it's not too long. If I don't answer the phone, you can find me in The Field. 

I meditate 2-3 hours every day.

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One daughter. One son. One son of choice (my son-in-law). Five grandkids. And one great-grandboy who has already mastered the art of being the most important person in the room. The math on the love our family has is incalculable. Except on game nights.

My family is my whole entire universe.

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I've volunteered with Golden Retriever Rescue of the Rockies as a foster mom and a contributing writer. Max – my Director of Barketing and Chief Sparkle Distribution Officer – was my most recent senior rescue. Life goal: a mountaintop sanctuary for every senior golden who needs a soft landing. I choose to believe mine are waiting for me at the Rainbow Bridge.

Golden retrievers are my love language.

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It involves an obscenely good oat milk dark roast that no coffee shop can top – thank you. There's also a high probability I'm working on my relocation astrology certification and French language skills. 

My morning ritual is non-negotiable.

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a bio tells you what I do.
Here's who i am.

The Unabridged Version

My brand identity was coined by my grandchildren. Grandchild #1: “Gram, you’re so bougie.” Me: “I am not!” Grandchild #2, laughing: “Um, yes you are. But you’re also a total hippie.” The chorus, gleefully: "A bougie hippie Glam-ma! That’s absolutely who you are!” I have never felt more truly seen in my entire life.

I've been officially, accurately branded.

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My playlist makes absolutely no sense and I love it.

Certified Swiftie. Also: Eminem, Andrea Bocelli, Bob Schneider, Peter Gabriel, Linkin Park, Dave Matthews Band, classical, Dr. Dre, Alanis, Blink-182, and ambient space music. Yes – on different devices, sometimes at once.  And if you've never belted out the 10-minute version of All Too Well at the top of your lungs with the sunroof open – are you even living?

Three days with Fred Alan Wolf on parallel universes. Mind completely, irrevocably blown. I've spent the decades since constantly digging deeper in rabbit holes – quantum physics, consciousness studies, fringe science, the nature of reality. I consider this my lifelong quest.

My understanding of reality cracked open in a Houston auditorium in the 1980s.

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Outlander is the best book series and TV series, bar none.

Jamie. Claire. Sweeping vistas. Epic love across centuries. Secret standing stones and past-life teleportation? Honestly sounds like another Tuesday in my world. 

I'm the daughter of history and am going home.

I'm applying for citizenship by descent and planning a move abroad to France. My father and his family survived WWII persecution – a story of resilience, displacement, and grace that shaped everything about how I move through the world. And one I'm finally writing down. Some chapters take a lifetime to be ready for. 

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the next step

let's begin the conversation

Aurora borealis over Colorado, captured with my son – proof that magic shows up when you're paying attention. 

No pitch. No pressure.
Just a conversation about where you're going – and what it might look like when you get there. 

I'm currently offering complimentary AI brand imagery sessions – a simple way to see your brand vision come to life and experience what it feels like when your images finally match who you are.  

Ready to See What's Possible?