Hi, I’m Alicia — but most people know me as Leesh.
I’ve always had a “go get it” attitude toward life. I don’t sit still well. I like movement, momentum, and the feeling of chasing something — even if I don’t fully know what it is yet. I’ve pushed boundaries (sometimes extreme ones) just to see what’s possible, to keep myself busy, to stay in motion. My friends know that if there’s an adventure to be had — especially outdoors — I’m already halfway out the door. I bring energy wherever I go, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Originally from Upstate New York, I graduated from Syracuse University in May 2023. Shortly after, I accepted a job in Seattle, Washington — which meant packing up my car and road-tripping across the country with my best friends. Two weeks, countless playlists, more gas station snacks than I’d like to admit, and conversations that stretched late into the night.
That drive changed something in me.
It made me realize how much more life has to offer when you allow it to. When you say yes. When you don’t cling too tightly to comfort.
Seattle became my playground for the next chapter of my life. Over nearly three years, I immersed myself in the outdoors — hiking new terrain, pushing myself to get better at skiing, chasing mountain views, and exploring more of the West Coast than I ever imagined I would. I grew not just professionally, but personally. I learned what it means to build a life somewhere new. To create community. To step into independence.
Then, in August 2025, I felt that familiar pull again.
I accepted a new job based in Los Angeles, California — and once again packed up my life and drove it down the coast. A different road, a different version of me, but the same belief: growth lives on the other side of movement.
This space is where I document it all.
The road trips.
The solo travel.
The runs that clear my head.
The yoga flows that ground me.
The playlists that define each season of my life.
The slow moments where I step back and try to understand what truly makes me, me.
These are the core development years of my life, and I don’t want them to blur together. I want to remember the risks I took. The cities I called home. The friendships that shaped me. The moments that felt small but ended up meaning everything.
While this blog is primarily a space for me — a digital journal of memories and milestones — I hope it becomes more than that. I hope it inspires other like-minded young women to take risks, to chase the job in a new city, to book the solo trip, to say yes to the uncomfortable thing.
Life becomes worthwhile when you participate in it fully.
If this space can bring together a community of people who encourage one another to grow, to move, to reflect, and to live boldly — then it’s doing exactly what I hoped it would.
Welcome. I’m so glad you’re here.
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