About EVAN

Hi Everyone! To begin, I want to thank you all for coming to my site to learn a little bit more about me and my life. I created this website in the summer of 2017 as a way for me to express my feelings about whatever topics kept me up at night.

I’ve considered myself a writer of sorts since I was a child, collecting journals from the age of 6, and caring for them as prized possessions. Something about empty pages bound together made me feel empowered and smart; because I knew I had the ability to fill them with material worth reading.

For as long as I can remember writing has always given me a sense of pride. Every time I allow myself to become vulnerable on paper, I run into a wall of doubt. All the fear I have manifested has been so damaging to my soul.  I love the feeling writing has given me and to run from that because of my own insecurities would be doing a disservice to myself.

In 2008 I moved from my home town of Sacramento, California to Orange County to attend The University of California, Irvine. Admittedly, I never had much direction in undergrad, and my grades and academic stability suffered because I simply couldn’t get it together. I did so poorly my first quarter of college that if I didn’t drop out, I would’ve been kicked out. After rebuilding my grades in summer school, I was graciously readmitted to begin my second year. It was then that I decided my focus would be in Film and Media studies. My grades and overall happiness drastically improved from that point on and put me in a decent position to not only graduate on time in June of 2012 but be admitted to graduate school; which was never a part of my plan, because I never had one. This is where I feel my life really began, and I started my first phase into adulthood.

Immediately after I graduated college I moved to Los Angeles to begin an internship with media news show, Entertainment Tonight while waiting to begin my Telecommunications graduate program at California State University, Los Angeles. In two years, my program was complete, and I earned my master’s degree in Communication Studies with a focus in film and television. After working a few jobs in my field, I decided to quit to travel with my now husband as he worked on various films - a pivotal point. Since then, we’ve gotten married and had our first child, a baby girl in August 2018.

My life has changed greatly in the last few years, and if I’m being honest, I expect more from myself; creatively and professionally. I feel very fortunate to be able to travel with my husband, but I crave more fulfillment outside of being a wife and a mother. Lately I have feared being judged for feeling this way. Unfortunately, I fear many things, but I’ve made the decision to set all doubts aside and use my limited time on this planet more wisely. So, I created EvanNoel.com.