Celebrating Women – Featuring Kristi Dosh

Well, this has been an amazing month! We had the pleasure and great opportunity to Celebrate dynamic women sharing their personal challenges and their successes.

Our last celebrated woman for the month of March is…. Kristi Dosh! a publicist who helps busy entrepreneurs and authors establish their area of expertise and become more visible through media opportunities.

What great success! however, it didn’t start off this way, there was a turning point in her life that unearthed her passion, bringing it to success.

Her turning point

One of the biggest struggles in Kristis’ was a pivotal turning point that changed her career for the better. She was laid off from her job as a young attorney at her dream law firm just two years into her career, she was devastated. The recession had greatly impacted her practice area and young associates were being laid off from firms across the country. It wasn’t just the six figures of law school debt that made the situation tough – “I had genuinely loved my job and the people I worked with and felt like my world was ending.”

But, with every ending is a new beginning, so they say. It can be tough to see that when you’re in the midst of it, “but now I can look back and see that moment as a pivotal one in my career. Today, I’m no longer a practicing attorney – and that’s ok because I’ve discovered and experienced things I would have never experienced if the recession and my layoff had never happened.”

Turning her passion

Being laid off allowed Kristi to focus more on a hobby she was increasingly passionate about – blogging about legal issues in sports. Within just a couple of years, that blogging led Kristi to a book deal from a major publisher and a job offer from ESPN to become its sole sports business reporter. “I was able to turn my passion into a new career, an opportunity I would have never had without being laid off.”

Not only does Kristi continue to write about sports business today for Forbes, she’s also used her experience as a journalist to start her own boutique publicity firm, Guide My Brand. Using what she’s learned as she got publicity for herself, she now works with entrepreneurs and nonfiction authors to establish themselves as experts in their own field through traditional and online media placements. “If you’d told me 11 years ago when I was graduating law school that I would be a journalist and publicist now, I would have laughed – but the joke would have been on me.”

People! Join with me in celebrating this remarkable woman – a professional writer, speaker, sports business analyst, attorney, author, and entrepreneur.