Jess Barron (@jessbeegood) is a writer, author and swashbuckling storyteller. She's CEO and co-founder of EpicVacay (@myepicvacay), a transformational retreat company. Her nonfiction personal essay "The Money Tree" is published in the anthology (HER)OICS: Women's Lived Experience During the Coronavirus Pandemic on Pact Press/Regal House. (HER)OICS is included on Buzzfeed's 2021 list of "18 New Books from Small Presses You Won't Want to Put Down." Jess's writing has appeared on Wired, Yahoo!, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fortune, and LIVESTRONG, and she's been a speaker at SXSW, BinderCon, and Create and Cultivate. Jess lives in Ashland, Oregon with her husband and two elderly doggos, and she's working on completing her first novel.