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rite Stuff Resources provides strengths-based one-to-one career coaching and writing services including professional résumés, LinkedIn profiles, and books. Founded by Wisconsin’s first certified ghostwriter, the company is located in historic Cedarburg, Wisconsin, just north of Milwaukee.

Write Stuff Resources’ mission is guide, inspire, and empower people to write their authentic stories of success.

Laurel A. Kashinn: Career Excellence Strengths Coach | Professional Résumé Writer | Certified Ghostwriter

Laurel A. Kashinn is a Certified Ghostwriter (CGPD), Career Strengths Coach, and Professional Résumé Writer with 18+ years of experience helping clients one-to-one achieve success. Passionate about helping people discover their natural talents, she coaches using reflective writing, CliftonStrengths®, the AH Emotional Guidance Scale, and other processes, while co-writing with clients their professional résumés, LinkedIn profiles, biographies, books, and more.

Prior to establishing Write Stuff Resources in 2012, Laurel co-founded and served as Director of Design, Quality, and Operations at DanceArtFX, LLC a graphic design firm servicing an international niche market with custom full-color art t-shirts and promotional products. In that role she excelled at creating a positive collaborative work culture and custom job-tracking-CRM software before such apps were widely available. Prior to DanceArtFX, Laurel operated Blue Rose Studio LLC serving hundreds of clients writing professional résumés, books, newsletters, magazines, brochures, catalogs, and direct sales campaigns.

Early in her career, Laurel served in the marketing department at Gareth Stevens Children’s Books and managed telemarketing and operations at Penworthy Publishing /American Media Corporation. She also was a producer of The Larry Meiller Show and worked in the news room at Wisconsin Public Radio after earning a BA in Journalism from UW-Madison.

A fine artist in pastel and pen and ink with interests in natural health and healing, ancient wisdom knowledge and philosophies, the environment, and science fiction, Laurel enjoys spending time with her artist husband, Anthony (AnthonyKashinn.com) and her musician daughter, Ellie Kashinn, and their several cats. As an Orthodox Christian as well as student of Abraham Hicks and A Course In Miracles, she finds inspiration reading the lives of the saints and contemporary elders. She is an active member of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, past board member of Cedarburg Green: Friends of the Community Forest, and of GreenSquare Foundation for Integrative Health. In 2022, Laurel picked up a part-time side gig serving her local community as a school bus driver.