I’m powerless to ignore a tag from John Taylor, as it was in a private forum that I met and learned much of what I know now about internet marketing from him and the others who were there. While I’m not a meme junkie, I’ve enjoyed reading incarnations of the “25 Things About Me” post from others as well, like Jack Humphrey and Michel Fortin. So let’s get it on!
Twenty-five random things about me, Michelle MacPhearson:
1. Some jobs I’ve had: admin assistant, selling leads to car dealerships, selling cars to people online, marketing assistant at a brokerage-type firm, tutor for a Sylvan Learning Center kind of place, clerk at a pet store, clerk at The Limited. Job suck, although I did have fun working in the car sales business.
2. I broke my wrist when I was 6 but we didn’t realize it was broken for a few days. It started to heal and when we went to the doctor, they had to re-break it. To do this, they grabbed my wrist and snapped it. No drugs cuz I was little. It hurt.
3. We have a Red Bone Coon Hound and a Lhasa Apso. They’re a weird combo of dogs to have.
4. I bite my nails.
5. For a short time, I “rode” with some Hell’s Angels guys.
6. I’m a San Francisco Bay Area, California girl, through and through. We live up near Lake Tahoe now and I love it here too, but I think I’ll always call the Bay Area home.
7. I got into internet marketing from an SEO side of things and a lot of what I learned/did back then was blackhat stuff.
8. I want to learn how to fuse and blow glass.
9. We drive simple cars – not the “internet marketing lifestyle” kinda thing you see a lota guys bragging about. Two Ford trucks and a Scion. We got the Scion to be a bit kinder on the environment (better gas mileage) for day to day errands. I think I want a Land Rover one day, but am gonna wait for the kids to get a bit older and less destructive. I have no desire for a Porsche or Lambo or whatever (although my husband might disagree on that one…)
10. My first car was a 1965 Oldsmobile 442. I used to drag race it. I’ve also had a 1965 Comet Cyclone and a 1968 Plymouth Barracuda. Right now, our “classic car” stable consists of a 1972 Datsun 510, it’s sweet!
11. Some of my favorite movies: Blow, Casino, Grosse Pointe Blank, Almost Famous, Snatch, Legends of the Fall.
12. When we first moved here to the country (we have 5 acres) we got chickens and put them in the coop in our barn. They all died from some disease the previous owners’ chickens had. We’ve been afraid to get new chickens ever since.
13. One of our favorite places to go for a weekend trip is Mendocino, on the California coast. My husband used to live there, so he knows all the cool local, non-tourist-y beach spots and killer restaurants.
14. I was born and raised San Francisco Irish Catholic. My grandparents are from Ireland (Wexford and Nenagh), and the story of how they came here with nothing and built an incredible life & family, with my Grandpa now the current President of the Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge inspires me so much. If I can do only half of what they’ve done with their lives, I will be content.
15. My husband is 3 years younger than me. Does that make me a cougar?
16. My second son, who’s now two, was a homebirth. That means he was born at home, no hospital, on purpose. We had a midwife. It was intense, but awesome.
17. Because we live out in the middle of nowhere, a lot of our friends come here for a little mini-vacation. This means we have houseguests A LOT. One person just left Friday after being here a week, we’ve got 2 coming next week and then a big party with probably 20 people in mid February. I love that everyone is comfortable enough to just come here and hang out, but I also like quiet downtime. So sometimes I hide in my office.
18. Some of my favorite authors: Hunter S. Thompson, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac. I’ve read everything those 3 have ever written.
19. While I’m not into fancy luxury cars, I do like collecting art. My husband is also an artist. One of my favorite galleries is Julie Baker Fine Art. We have several pieces from the artists she represents. I also have an awesome giant piece of a city skyline by Sabrina Ward Harrison. I’m into contemporary young artists.
20. I went to Ireland in the 90’s with San Francisco’s Mayor at the time, Frank Jordan. We were part of the San Francisco/Cork Sister City group. We spent time with the Mayor of Cork as well as the sitting President of Ireland, and Jean Kennedy Smith (John F. Kennedy’s sister), who was the US Ambassador to Ireland.
21. Pork chops are one of my most loved foods. I also like a nice tri-tip and can make a marinade that’ll cause a tiny explosion of happyness in your mouth with every bite.
22. We have two quads to ride around the property on – a big one and a kids one. I like dirtbikes too, but we don’t have any of those right now.
23. Guilty pleasures: I love watching crap reality TV. Biggest Loser, The Hills, Wife Swap, Top Chef and Real Housewives of Orange County are some of my favorites. I do enough thinking in real life, when I watch TV I want it to be mindless. Everything I watch is Tivo’d, I don’t channel surf.
24. I rarely drink caffeine, and when I do it makes me anxious and I regret it.
25. I rolled my truck exiting Highway 13 onto 24 East in Oakland a couple of years ago. Just lost the backend for no reason, was even driving under the speed limit. Scared the heck out of me, but I wasn’t seriously injured. I’ve been in 3 pretty ugly car accidents.
I’m tagging some of my favorite Twitter friends and/or Internet Marketing This Week co-hosts: Alejandro Reyes, Paul Colligan, Lynn Terry, Mari Smith and Brent Hodgson.
Here are the rules guys:
Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a post with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose five more people to be tagged. You also have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you. To do this, you simply link to their blogs so that they know you responded to their tag.
My note: it’s a good idea to Tweet or email folks when you’ve tagged them too, just to make sure they know. That’s how I knew John Taylor tagged me! Can’t wait to learn more about all of you!
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Lovely post Michelle,
It is nice to read the human side of marketers.
I have one chicken and she lays one egg everyday. She is more pet than anything else and almost talks ! I have a farm with lots of them but this one is worth all of them ….my little city chick.
Don’t give up on getting some more chickens. They are great little “people”.
@Millionairemumma: We will try again, for sure. I really want Nigerian Dwarf goats, they’re so adorable and little! but after what happened with the chickens, I’m terrified of killing a whole goat!
Very creative idea. It was really interesting to read about your life, especially about your parents and grandfather.
Wouldn’t you love to run into the Dr. who broke your wrist today?
How awesome that you met Jean Kennedy Smith! What a story to tell your children.
Best!
Michelle Trent
Hi Michelle,
I’m beginning to wonder if all internet marketers are closet bikers and petrol heads!
I agree with Millionairemumma’s comment that it’s good to see the person behind the business and one of the reason’s that I was pleased to be tagged.
Take care
John
Your favorite 3 authors and the fact you’ve read all their stuff intrigues me. But I surely would never go anywhere with you unless I’m driving.
Get the Nigerian Dwarfs and Michele just put the chicken coup somewhere else. I knew Michelle was generous but now I think your cool,too!
@John Taylor: Funny thing, seems like a lot of IM’ers are into go-fast cars and whatnot! Thanks for tagging me John!
@Michelle Trent: Jean Kennedy Smith was, truly, a lovely lady. That classic style of hospitality and grace you don’t see much of anymore…
Hi Michelle, you just went straight to the top of my really cool people list. Not becuase of your mesmerising good looks, not because your the go to person in social media but becuase you keep it real, refreshing and honest.
BTW, low tech organic video’s are the best. it shows everyone and encourages newbies to have a go without thinking they have to creat a hollywood epic.
Case in point, remember that crapy quality numa numa movie that has 1 billion plus hits now ?
Drinking coffee makes me anxious and i worry if i drink too much.
C
Hey I also love watching those corny reality TV shows- they’re so much fun!
Living out in the tootlies- I don’t think I could do that- unless they were gorgeous mountains.
Natural home birth- you are so courageous!
I had 3 cesarean births and I felt the childbirth pains before getting cut- nooooo thank you- not enough money in the world to make me go through that again.
Anyhoo.
I enjoyed reading your 25 things. 2 friends tagged me for 7 odd and interesting things about me. I guess I have to go write up that post
Blessings,
Eren Mckay
While reading your 25 things I came across you stating one of your favorite authors being John Steinbeck. Over the years I met him many times when he would come and stay at his sister’s place in Watsonville. When I was a kid I lived across the street from his sister (Ester Rogers). She lived on a large place very close to down town. Had a lot of fruit trees and a large garden. She used to give me 50¢ for every gopher I would catch. One time she had a couple of owls living in a old water tower in her back yard yard and she would pay me to keep the Owl Pellets that dropped cleaned up.
Anyway…. John kept to himself, but would we would talk from time to time…Don’t remember about what. I was about 12 then. We move away (to Oroville) in 1959. After high school graduation I moved back to Watsonville and lived with my dad while I went to college in Santa Cruz. I ended up working for a grocery store that was right next to John’s sisters house. When John would come to visit, often he would call the store and ask for me. I would put his order together and deliver. No one else was allowed to make those deliveries. I just find it interesting that I would have these long talks with him and it was later in life I finally figured out who he was. I just knew him as Mrs. Rogers brother. This was in the early-mid 60’s
@Jim: What an amazing story Jim – thanks for sharing. Sounds like he liked you maybe just for the reason that you didn’t know who he was… He got to have a “normal” conversation with you. Incredible story!
Sarah and I grew up in the foothills (Foresthill and Cool)of the Sierras and it is a perfect place to raise kids.
We raised five who are now scattered all over the country with kids of their own.
Great Memories!
Sorry about your chickens…
@Bruce – We live in Georgetown/ Garden Valley so I’m intimately familiar with Cool! Did you know the Von Borstel’s?
Greetings from Ireland.
Found your site via the Market Samurai blog …. thanks for the videos!
I like people who tell the truth. I like you:-) Hope you check out my Social Network and download my Free ebook and give me your honest opinion; It’s a Biblically Based Fiction account of the 40 days Jesus spent with his disciples after his Resurrection. I am not a religious nut! I am passionate about truth and GOD… I discovered linking on my own by accident. I know just enough about Internet marketing to be dangerous.lol Enough for now I’m a going to read your pdf. download.
Thanks.
Hi, loved the post michelle…I have to comment about the chicken’s dying…so sad. I can definitely understand you won’t want to go through that again. It’s really hard to find a cure for a chicken disease if you don’t know exactly what the cause is. Most people don’t realize that chickens can die or get disease from a chicken coups that are damp and cold. Or that if they are not cleaned out regularly that this can also contribute to disease. A lot of disease can be prevented with having the right chicken coup conditions. Years ago you could just put up any old coup made of tin and bits of wood but the world has changed with the introduction of bird flu, antibiotics , hormones etc. http://thechickencoups.com/backyard-chicken-coups
I enjoyed my chickens when I had them and mated my Rhode Island Red rooster with my Araucana hen. Rhode Island Reds lay brown eggs and Araucanas lay blue eggs.
When her chicks grew up, they laid green eggs. Everyone thought they were duck eggs.
When you do get chickens, try it.
Nice to learn a little more about you whats ur Lhasa Apso name?
My mom had a Lhasa Apso but he got stolen from our front yard a few years back. Ever since then my Mom is to afraid to losing another dog so she wont get another, his name was Toby.
-Andrew
p.s. re-open crowd mountain already, I missed the last launch.
@Andrew – Our Lhasa’s name is Brody – sorry about your mom’s dog! I wonder why ppl steal dogs, there’s tons at the pound that need a good home!
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