{"id":74,"date":"2024-10-26T19:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2024-10-26T20:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T20:29:06","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/?page_id=74","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-accent-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-669513ed wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1da03c2a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1017\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5766-3-1017x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3\/4;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5766-3-1017x1024.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5766-3-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5766-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5766-3-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5766-3-1526x1536.jpg 1526w, https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5766-3-2035x2048.jpg 2035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-stretch is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"has-system-sans-serif-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;line-height:2\"><strong>Colleen Lawson<\/strong> (<strong><em>AKA Awesome Lawson<\/em><\/strong>) &#8211; is a proud product of agriculture education and the FFA. A three-time wildcat, she earned her Bachelor\u2019s degree, Teaching credential, and Masters\u2019 in Ag Education from Chico State. Her career began in the agriculture industry as a commodities sales representative where she broke the glass ceiling as the first female commodity rep for her company. Her first month in the field she doubled sales of a dwindling product and within her third year negotiated a million-dollar sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-system-sans-serif-font-family has-medium-font-size\" style=\"line-height:2\">Her passion for <strong>youth leadership<\/strong> and CTE programs brought her back to the classroom in 2012. She spent a decade as a high school agriculture teacher while simultaneously engaging with <strong>partners in education<\/strong>, mentoring new professionals, and motivating audiences across the state. Colleen leads with fearless authenticity and is driven to help every audience activate the change needed to take their vision from almost to &#8220;awesome!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-system-sans-serif-font-family has-medium-font-size wp-container-content-0733e5d0\"><em>When you align your vision with the next right action of intention, ANYTHING is possible.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-border-color wp-element-button\" href=\"mailto:contact@thecolleenlawson.com\" style=\"border-color:#58855c;border-width:2px;color:#ffffff;background-color:#3eb489;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Contact Me<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleen Lawson (AKA Awesome Lawson) &#8211; is a proud product of agriculture education and the FFA. A three-time wildcat, she earned her Bachelor\u2019s degree, Teaching credential, and Masters\u2019 in Ag Education from Chico State. Her career began in the agriculture industry as a commodities sales representative where she broke the glass ceiling as the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolleenlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}