This is one of life's bittersweet moments. I'm choosing to lose sight of the shore in order to get back to the ocean I love. After five amazing years, I have decided to leave Barrie D'Rozario Murphy and return home to Southern California.
Partnering with Bob Barrie and Stuart D'Rozario and everyone at BD'M has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. Bob, Stuart and I always joked that in 2007 we ran off together to join the circus – an experience I will always cherish and would never trade. We had fun. We did well. Together, we built an award-winning agency that earned the confidence of clients such as Dell, Lands End, Del Webb, Wagner, Medtronic, Applied Materials, Best Buy and United Airlines. Along the way we were named "Best Small Agency in the U.S." by the 4As. We won some EFFIES and a Gold Lion in Film at Cannes. Not to shabby for our "grown up start up."
While I'm sad to leave the many friends I have in Minneapolis, my decision to return home is a happy one because it will allow me to spend more time with my daughters, plant roots and have just one place that I call home. Also, those who know me well know that I'm a sea critter – I am happiest by ocean. And as luck would have it, Lambesis overlooks the beach. (Several of my friends told me they knew something was up when I posted recently on Facebook that I was no longer selling my boat. I have clever friends.)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain
Here's to knowing when it's time to set sail for new lands, and to knowing when it's time to point the compass back towards home.
Homeward. Onward.
