We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Christina a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Christina , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

One thing about myself is that I love to learn, grow and I’m very ambitious and sometimes that means taking risks. I have done that throughout my entire life with the different career paths I have taken and even now becoming an influencer. The risks I have taken have shaped who I am today. I am an IT Project Manager and an Influencer and proud of where I am because of the risks I have taken.

Christina , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

By day, I’m an IT Project Manager for a national healthcare company. I love my job but I’ve always had a creative side too. That’s part of why I started to be a content creator and started my instagram and TikTok page: @Ms. SoFlo

My page first started focusing on the city I grew up in, Pembroke Pines. It then started to grow rapidly and I have slowly started to expand to other cities all around South Florida.

What started out as an outlet for me to share and support local businesses, quickly grew into a community.

Now, I love discovering anything and everything in South Florida and adding my unique perspective to help share their story.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

My audience through social media as grown organically in the past year. I can remember when I just had under 100 followers and it continued to grow the more I posted and shared restaurants, events, activities and more. I started with my focus on the City of Pembroke Pines. I grew up in this town and lived here for 20+ years. The city wasn’t being highlighted and I thought it had so much to offer. I was able to gain my local audience and my page began to grow rapidly. From there I slowly started to expand to other nearby cities and that is essentially how my audience grew more.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

The most rewarding aspect of being an influencer I would say is getting to meet business owners and learning about their stories behind their restaurants and businesses.

I love to meet new people and this has helped me do so. I have been able to have professional relationships with so many different business owners.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://instagram.com/ms.soflo
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@ms.soflo