I’m Annie Atwood.
A storyteller, strategist, and brand voice architect who does her thing from the road.
With a background in theater and a brain wired for messaging, I’ve built brand stories from scratch, led marketing campaigns across multiple industries, and helped businesses show up online with clarity and confidence. Now, I travel full-time helping brands turn their real-life moments into content that actually connects.
I’ve always been the goal-chasing type. I spent childhood designing houses on graph paper, writing menus for dream restaurants, snapping thousands of overly saturated photos (as one did in the early 2000s), and obsessing over projects that let me make something out of nothing. I had a deep creative streak—and a selective attention span that didn’t exactly thrive in a traditional classroom.
On top of that, I was a theater kid. Theater taught me how to improvise, problem-solve on the fly, build things with my hands, sew, run a lighting board, and study people like a psychologist in Converse. It gave me a toolbox I still reach for every day: presence, adaptability, and a sense of when to take center stage—and when to quietly pull the strings backstage.
Naturally, I took all that ambition and applied it to...bartending.
I spent 10 years mastering logistics, communication, emotional intelligence, and the art of reading people like a book.
The service industry was where I learned everything a degree couldn’t teach me. Anyone who’s worked it knows—it’s not just a job, it’s a front-row seat to the human condition. I got a crash course in patience, persuasion, grit, and grace under pressure. And underneath all of it, I stayed a quiet little writer. I'd scribble poems during slow shifts, write short stories in cafes on my days off, and dream about the day I’d get published.
That’s when I met two women who changed my life and became soul sisters of mine. They introduced me to the world of copywriting and digital marketing—and flipped the switch. Up until then, I’d thought marketing was unethical rigamarole. But I came to understand that marketing is what you make it. It can be persuasive, purposeful, and powerful. I can use it to amplify voices I believe in and support.
I took a digital marketing course. Put in my two weeks. Had no clients, no experience—but I had drive, two mentors who fed me everything they knew, and my first few gigs writing for women-owned businesses who were kind enough to teach me while letting me learn on the job.
Around that same time, I met a group of adrenaline sport athletes. One of them converted a bus to sleep 25 people and invited me on a road trip across the country.
So I did what any restless creative with a laptop and a dream would do: I moved out of my apartment, put everything in storage, and hit the road full-time—cooking meals for a bus full of cliff jumpers by day, writing brand strategies and website copy by night. I hiked national parks. I learned to cliff dive. I built a career from the passenger seat.
I solo-traveled through Europe and Southeast Asia while directing content and marketing strategy for brands.
Then I met Aaron. When I saw what he could do with a camera, something clicked. After the seventh week of asking a client for content they never sent, I said, “Screw it—I’ll make the content myself.” I asked Aaron if he wanted to hit the road with me, client to client, filming and photographing as we went.
And just like that, A&A Content Productions was born. We packed up my Subaru with cameras and camping gear and started building the creative studio we’d always wanted to hire: one that brings strategy, vision, and soul to every piece of content it creates.