There’s a difference between keeping moving forward and moving up. Everyone can move forward but, in the scheme of things, few people actually level up. When successfully pivoting, it’s important strategize how to move up to get to where you want to go.

Executive director of Dining Out Jersey Shore, Tara Jean McDonald, joins me on this episode to discuss how to deal with idenity loss when moving up.

Tara Jean McDonald is Publisher of Dining Out Jersey Shore magazine. She is a versatile journalist who has researched, interviewed, and produced for content in publications such as Dining Out Jersey Magazine, Fashion Haunts Magazine, Our Town News Publication and NJ Discover. She has 15 years of experience in Production and Postproduction of TV Commercials, Live News Coverage, TV Entertainment Segments and Live Theatrical Events. She has co-hosted a live talk show for radio and TV with NJDiscover TV, and she is currently helping to create Dining Out Jersey’s YouTube channel.  She consistently brings a special warmth, caring, insight and humanity to her stories and her reputation flourished with on sight reporting about Hurricane Sandy, homelessness and Tent City, pervasive hunger in New Jersey, and Jersey’s iconic music and film scene. She remains at the epicenter of what’s happening around the county and state.