MEET THE LIFE TO PAPER FAMILY
Tabitha Rose, Founder & Chief inspiring officer
50-ft of brown paper unfurled with black sharpie scribbles, surrounded by candles, bear Tabitha's life story.
Surrounded in community, she makes ‘home’ an inside-job wherever she goes.
Compassionate, intuitive and deeply rooted to the meaning of legacy, Tabitha is committed to helping others put their Life to Paper.
Energy can and should be used for the benefit of all is Tabitha's motto, and storytelling gives her energy to build dreams (hers and others) upon.
Tabitha is at her brightest in a room filled with souls and sugo (tomato sauce), creating and sharing stories about life, perseverance and connection.
Proudly sober. She is best known for making sure nobody gets left behind or forgotten… ever.
Michelle Kauntz: Senior Editor
Michelle's main philosophy in life is to love, cook, eat, and write well, face fears (albeit sometimes tentatively), be kind, playful, capture the beauty of the world in words and images, never act her age, and say yes to interesting opportunities.
After spending years as an award winning Canadian and destination wedding/portrait photographer, a certified yoga instructor, an entrepreneur, a singing clown, and a bakers assistant (as well as a dozen other bizarre work experiences), she returned to her first love as a wordsmith.
Currently she's absorbed in learning everything possible about self-transformation, manifestation, and energy-work. She's also just started restoring a 1982 cutter ketch sailboat that she previously lived and travelled on for a year/5000 nautical miles without any idea what she was doing...
Monty Langford: Director of Cinematic Content
Monty Langford started his film career in Toronto, Ontario, in 2018. He started working as a post-production Coordinator, working on projects such as Star Wars, Spider-Man, Hobbs & Shaw, and Monster Hunter.
Monty later transitioned into working on the sets of short films and music videos, cutting his teeth as a PA, and part of the G&E teams. Soon after, Monty realized his passion for writing and directing, and has been building a portfolio to show the world.
Monty’s favourite film genres are adventure, historical, fantasy, and science-fiction, while saving some time for a good comedy. "I love telling stories, and I love the hustle on set. I hope to one day make something as epic as my favourites and cause someone to cry like I do every time a Phil Collins song comes on in Disney’s animated Tarzan, from 1999."
Crystal Adair-Benning: Copywriter to the Stars. Story Supercharger. Bio Badass.
Crystal is best known for not being known at all. A secret weapon Copywriter, her work has catapulted clients' bestsellers, products, and services to stage-making stardom. She's a go-to call when strategy needs to meet evocative, engaging copy you want to read.
When it's time to Write or Type words into sentences that slay, we call Crystal. With a background in Live Events, Marketing, PR, and Media her strategy is more practice than theory. Always keen to think outside the book and push envelopes, she inspires clients to go after their dreams with zest and tenacity.
When not writing (so, like 2.2 secs a day) she can be found chilling with her homegrown chickens, her dog, or her dimples-for-days husband, Rob on their farm or jet-setting the globe in search of the next great global novel or story.
Stay wild. Write more. Change the World. That's Crystal.
Katya Fishman: Creative Project Manager
A few years ago, Katya experienced a life-threatening Crohn’s flare (a serious autoimmune condition) that drove her to start living more in alignment with her dreams; supporting creatives to actualize their dream projects.
Katya leveraged her years of experience as an english teacher and started ghostwriting and editing. She specilizes in helping dedicated but often overwhelmed creative humans streamline their processes so that they can achieve their goals faster and with more ease.
Katya later began working with my grandfather to capture his life stories. She listened to him for hours, helping him translate his Russian style of English into something everyone could understand. After he unexpectedly passed at just 77 years old, she realized how much she treasured journeying to the past with him, learning from his mistakes, and philosophizing about the nature of being human together.
Katya believes in the transformative and healing power of capturing someone’s story—whether it’s communicating to loved ones, leaving a legacy, or growing your business.
Elspeth Chalmers: Storyteller & Senior Writer
Elspeth is a culture junkie and storyteller. She is endlessly curious and loves to learn about and from different people.
Elspeth loves every medium of storytelling but her favourites are prose, music and food. She likes to look for stories in unlikely places, like around the dinner table.
Elspeth completed her Master’s of French Literature at the University of Toronto before spending a year in Paris, tracing the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir and Ernest Hemingway.
Elspeth believes that every life is important and every person has a story worth telling. She hopes to help tell the stories that are often overlooked. Her dream is to see a world where all voices are heard.