Jackie J. Singer
writer. editor. podcaster.
Early Advocate
At age 4, my twin sister, Mollie, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. We wanted to help find a cure. So we started fundraising and were young spokeswomen participating in interviews, celebrity Public Service Announcements, and presenting at conferences for the next 20 years.
Diabetes Advocacy
By age 10, we garnered over $100,000 in donations for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). We lobbied our representatives and testified before congress to increase funding for medical research. Following the media attention surrounding the Children’s Congress and Promise to Remember Me Campaign in Washington, D.C, Good Morning America flew us to NYC to interview us and began a 2 year long video diary on living with diabetes.
Online Mentoring
When I was 15, after several years on Xanga and Livejournal, and contributing to my sister’s blog, Curemoll, I co-hosted/moderated an online forum for teens with diabetes. For the next 10 years, we would email and mentor via a pen-pal resource called, Online Diabetes Support Team, a program also affiliated with JDRF.
Diabetic Angels
By age 20, I was selected as a DoSomething.org Award finalist. My cause, The Diabetic Angels, was featured on their sponsor’s Frito Lay Nacho Cheese chips. The Diabetic Angels began 10 years prior as an in-person club turned Ning social network to bring about awareness and combat bullying towards people with diabetes. Our resources reach communities and villages on 6 continents.The same year, we returned to NYC to participate in a Teen Vogue Magazine story for their “M.U.D.D. Girls Move the World” campaign, and also were selected as 2 of the 5 Most Caring Americans the Caring Institute in Washington, D.C.
Music City
After a series of tragic family events, our careers took a new direction. By 25, we started and ended a music career. We went on to record and release a couple singles and music videos, both of which supported campaigns with Medtronic, JDRF, and JDRF Canada.
Freelancer
I began to freelance, using my skills as spokesperson to assist for other companies. I represented more than 50 different businesses as their sales/promotional assistant when they visited Las Vegas for conventions. I helped create the PDF and present via PPT the onboarding process for training groups of new insurance agents for several years as well as import, map and manage over 700k contacts for a major local talent agency’s CRM to name a new projects.
Entrepreneur
We also started our own business, Twinco New Media, which strategized and managed small business’ social media accounts. With our business, I have ghostwritten, edited, posted, and managed 8 years of clients’ social media, blogs, bio’s and website content.I have strategized and designed social media schedules of varying time and budgets for authors, musicians, talent agents, music producers, podcasters, professional speakers, actors, tech startups, security firms, non-profits, printing, manufacturing, distribution, health and wellness products, and holistic brands, business coaches/consultants, and others on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Clubhouse, and Medium.While social media is my business, my clients’ requests have often had me reaching beyond the traditional apps and platforms. I’ve gone from Zanga blogging to Zoom breakout rooms and Livejournal to Loom, Ning, BigCommerce, Kartra, Canva, Podia, Shopify, Slack, Discord, Skype, Trello, Ocho, Constant Contact, Circle, and Zoho CRM with its extensive suite of apps, set up POS and VoIP integrations, plus various high risk merchant accounts and payment processors.Finally, as our business evolved, based on the feedback we received from years of our concierge clients we are currently developing a digital product to be delivered in 2023.
Stories That Shaped Me Podcast
"Writing" a podcast might seem odd, but some stories just aren’t meant to be shared in a traditional way. It’s fitting actually, since the true-life story I’m telling is about a set of tenacious twins who accomplished a series of untraditional things at a time when tradition was expected to be upheld.Each season will cover a different season in the lives of these Chicago girls. My mom and her twin sister set out to see the world, which they definitely did. Instead of staying the course, they unexpectedly ended up changing the world of another set of twins.With “Stories that Shaped Me,” I can’t wait to bridge the past with the present and take my listeners on a journey with a few surprise detours along the way too. Episodes to be released soon! :)
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