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Yet Life has a way of making us feel helpless.
We get stuck in cycles. We distract ourselves with routines. We chase approval, success, or fear. We lose purpose in the shuffle. We bury it under bills, obligations, and the endless grind.
You're not broken if life feels this way for you, too.
The ability to create a life of meaning, adventure, and purpose is always within you. It’s time to step out of the patterns that hold you back and step into the life you deserve.
Messy doesn’t mean hopeless. Messy means real.
What if today was the day you started writing a new chapter?
We all want to be the visionaries of our own lives.
Once dubbed a “little happiness factory,” Megan DeMatteo has carved out a career of storytelling, adventure, and service.
Based in New York City, Megan is a self-employed writer with a knack for translating complex ideas into compelling narratives. She’s a service journalist, travel writer, digital creator, and fractional editor who collaborates with top brands and media outlets. Her bylines have appeared in Yahoo, Sherwood News, Dwell, Fodor’s Travel, Marie Claire, CNBC, and more.
As a consulting editor, Megan has teamed up with leading digital art marketplace OpenSea, personal finance app Empower, and TIME’s former financial advice hub, NextAdvisor, among others.
Megan’s work shows what happens when curiosity meets determination. She’s built a career on connecting ideas, telling stories, and creating opportunities where others see roadblocks.
Meet Megan DeMatteo
Let’s Rewind
In 2012, Megan’s AmeriCorps service brought her to a tiny sunsoaked tourist town in southeastern Utah, tucked between the red rocks of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. The landscape was stunning, but her life was anything but polished.
Living on a shoestring stipend in a setting cinematic enough to double as a Hollywood western, the year planted the seeds for a life rooted in community interdependence and resilience.
Perfection was never part of the plan
Growing up in a family affected by alcoholism, Megan often relied on a mix of ambition and resourcefulness to cope, always seeing every new place or adventure as a fresh start.
Instead of chasing conventional paths, she tried her hand at whatever came her way — teaching yoga, couch-surfing, and even sleeping in her car en route to new opportunities. Along the way, she figured out that a meaningful life doesn’t have to be neat or planned, but a little knowledge does help. That’s why she started writing — to research and learn the skills that filled in the gaps and gave her the leg up she needed to pursue her goals. In 2019, she pitched an article to Business Insider about the decision to start a freelance writing side hustle, and that put her on the path to become a money reporter.
When New York City Calls …
In early 2020, Megan accepted an offer to write for CNBC, where she interviewed experts and reported on their financial advice. The pandemic hit soon after, and she and her team answered readers’ questions in over a thousand advice articles in 18 months.
She quit in 2021 to follow her dream of becoming a full-time freelance writer. So far, her writing career highlights include:
Covering digital assets and co-hosting the Masters of Web3 podcast
Helping her editorial clients secure $20M+ in VC funding and create brands worth buying
Contributing regular articles to CoinDesk, the publication that exposed former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried
Writing pieces cited in Senate proposals and bestsellers like “The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less” and “The Everything Token”
Earning over $500,000 in her first three years freelancing. (She breaks down how she did it for new freelance writers in a free email course … sign up for it here!)
Make bold moves
(Go on, Do it for the plot.)
Megan’s story is about figuring things out, one step at a time, even when the path forward isn’t clear. She never had a blueprint, just a determination to turn her life into one she wanted.
Why does that matter? Because if you’ve ever felt stuck — whether in a cubicle, a relationship, or a cycle of self-doubt — Megan’s journey is proof that bold moves lead to big changes, and you can always become the heroine of your own hot mess.
Through writing, consulting, and courses, Megan helps women and creative entrepreneurs find the courage to rewrite their stories. She’s been where many are, wondering what’s next, and she knows what it takes to find the answer.
Today, Megan writes about personal growth and meaningful travel in her Substack newsletter, The Unimaginably Good Life, and weekly travel column for Yahoo.
Megan is open to brand partnerships and consulting collaborations with aligned brands and destinations.
