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BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Jey Davis is the tenth
daughter -- in a family of eleven children -- born and raised in the
rugged, small southwestern town of Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the base
of the beautiful Sandia Mountains. Her mother is an Italian immigrant
and her father, of Western European descent, is from Dallas, Texas.
After graduation from high school, "LJ" (as she became known by friends
and colleagues) attended the University of New Mexico, majoring in
(among other things) journalism and communications.
At the age of nineteen, just before entering college, Lisa Jey became
pregnant with her first child. It was an unplanned pregnancy. Filled
with the wide-eyed innocence and with the influences of those good ole' “Catholic morals”
she’d been raised with, Lisa Jey decided to give birth to, keep and
raise her own child. Though the baby’s father wanted to marry, Lisa Jey
was skeptical of their chances for success and determined to go it alone
as a single mother.
Despite the difficult odds she faced in her new situation, Lisa Jey went
off to college with high hopes. Soon, childcare costs and the struggle
to find suitable living arrangements put a strain on her studies and the
time she had with her son. She learned very quickly how to make
excellent money through various small business ventures, but she was
never able to devote enough time to school or work to be highly
successful at either. During her freshman year of college, duties of
motherhood and the allure of business ownership drew LJ away from her
schooling for a time.
Her first business, DATASAVERS, later known as AVISO Information
Management Services, met a dire need in the late 1980s for computer
services, desktop publishing, and marketing within her small
southwestern community. LJ seized this opportunity as a small business
owner to capitalize on her now flourishing talents in marketing and
public relations.
LJ’s creative instincts and knack for communicating effectively led to
writing for regional publications, television news segments, radio
programs, and later for televised entertainment industry events.
She became involved in several community and media organizations, and
her business was nominated for artistic awards in direct marketing
campaigns for writing and design, from the state chapter of the
Communication Artists Association.
Lisa Jey served as Vice President of Communications for the Coalition
for Responsible Government, a grassroots organization in New Mexico in
the mid to late 1990s. Additionally, she acted as lobbyist for select
issues important to the organization.
An extreme wanderlust and an adventurous spirit took LJ on a journey
into the unpredictable world of employment in television production. After
undertaking a degree in Communications & Journalism at the University of
New Mexico, and subsequently interning as a production assistant for local news (operating
teleprompter, camera, and serving as sometime news desk assistant), LJ
went on to associate produce the news part-time at a local network news
station in Albuquerque. Careers in television were few and far between
in that little corner of the southwest, so LJ and her family moved to Southern California, where she began to pursue a career
in L.A.’s thriving entertainment industry.
When Lisa Jey was 36, her husband moved out of the state,
abandoning her and her two sons, who were ages six and seventeen. In the
midst of it all, however, she landed her dream job, as a talent manager
working with fashionistas, celebrities, and television
producers at MTV, CBS, the NFL and more.
She has worked with legends like Sting, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin,
and popular artists and celebrities like Sheryl Crow, Incubus,
No Doubt, Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale and
Matthew Perry, just to name a few. Though her niche was in the
management of talent, after a few years LJ missed the creative work
she’d grown accustomed to as a marketing and public relations consultant.
She soon found
herself working most often in marketing, PR and copy-writing than in
television production. One "fun" visit with a palm reader at a
trendy Hollywood party, reminded Lisa Jey of something she already knew:
She was a writer, and she needed to write.
Lisa Jey has been labeled in the past with many monikers (not always to
her liking), from MILF -- or a “hot” mom --
to even "cougar" (most recently, and much to her chagrin) -- by many of her young friends and acquaintances, both at
work in television production and in her social life. She has been lucky enough to
receive VIP passes to some of the most exclusive concerts and shows, entertainment events, and
after-parties in Los Angeles, New York, Miami Beach and elsewhere. She has been flown
around the country to help produce some of the most widely watched
television programs in the world (Super Bowl concerts, MTV Movie
Awards and more), and she has enjoyed cocktails and toasted champagne
with some of the most fabulous celebrities of our time. And, in her
spare time, Lisa has become quite the fitness buff - becoming a yoga
instructor and teaching at the Aspen Club & Day Spa, as well as
obtaining certification in one of the hottest and fastest growing
fitness trends in the country:
SPX Fitness, for which she teaches weekly classes at the founding
studio in West Hollywood, California, to droves of hot-body wannabes.
She has more than two decades of involvement in various women’s media,
professional and political groups. Her
life’s work is to relate to and represent women for her clients as both
a freelance writer and a marketing and PR professional. She knows what it is
to start anew in a dream job or career and can translate that into
real-life examples for women branching out into unchartered territories in their
own lives.
For the past two decades, among her other creative pursuits, Lisa Jey
has continued to serve as marketing and public relations expert to a
varied clientele, including such industries as entertainment, Internet, technology,
professional services, and publishing. She has lent her expertise as a
freelance writer to various media outlets and publications such as
The Associated Press, Aspen Sojourner Magazine,
Mountain Parent, The New York Review,
Mountain Home Style, Fifth Column Magazine and
Albuquerque Monthly Magazine, as well as numerous other print
and online publications and blogs.
Once LJ chose to stick with what she did best—marketing, consulting, and
writing, this opened up the possibility of working anywhere USA. THE
anywhere for Lisa soon became Aspen, Colorado, in addition to her home in
Los Angeles, where she now lives. She still owns and operates her own
marketing and public relations firm and works on various projects,
speaking, and participating in occasional television projects.
A dynamic and gifted communicator, Lisa Jey packs her message with deep
insights, contemporary relevance, and humorous, real-life anecdotes,
whether writing for select columns or speaking to a group of colleagues,
congressmen, or to thousands at a women’s conference.
In 2007, Lisa Jey, with a strong desire to help other single mothers
achieve their goals and live the life of their dreams, began to write a
portion of her life story,
Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood - Memoir of a Hot Mamma,
which went on to win
Best
Unpublished Manuscript at the 2007 NY Book Festival.
Content to stay the course, knowing the adventures will only continue, she
relishes the journey, looking for opportunities to
inspire, be inspired, and make her mark wherever possible.
Register
to find out when/where to find
the Book, read new blog posts, attend seminars, conferences and more!
Find out what Lisa Jey's Been up to at
her Blog:
Ms. Cheevious
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Enjoying Every Moment.
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Books in Development
by
Lisa Jey Davis
A funny,
timely book about a hot mamma and the exciting world she
built around her.
Beautiful women are so much more than meets the eye. They
may even be articulate,
intelligent, successful, thinking individuals! Imagine that!
This humorous, truthful memoir offers juicy details of single motherhood
- key word: SINGLE, while dishing on Hollywood celebrities.
It disproves
the notion that becoming a single mom is a death sentence. In fact, for
Lisa Jey, it was quite the contrary.
Addresses the opportunities (realized or not)
made available by expanding our circles and learning about or
awakening to opposite
walks of life. An interactive website offers a place to get to know your opposite,
as well as a private forum to discuss articles, published books, and
to simply converse.
Future
Projects
Several works by Lisa Jey Davis are coming soon!
Click here to
read or view recent articles. Stay tuned for the
sequel to Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood as well as the
real world answer book to "I Don't Know How She Does It."
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