About

Hi, I'm Christina, but you can call me Stina.

A brand strategist and creative advisor for founders who are ready to build something that finally feels like them.

I believe a brand should be able to hold all of you, and grow as you do.

For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to the thing that makes someone unmistakably themselves, the center underneath everything they do. My whole career, even the parts that did not look like branding yet, has really been one long practice of finding that center and helping people build around it.

Creativity was the beginning. I was the kid who was always making something, voted most artistic in middle school because I never stopped doodling in class. That turned into designing graphics and building websites for fun back in the Myspace days, long before any of us knew it could be a career.

At twenty-one I started a clothing line with a friend, and looking back, it was early. We were growing an audience on Instagram and Facebook before anyone was calling that a strategy. It was my first taste of building something from nothing, and it led me into fashion and eventually being a stylist and content creator for a fashion tech company for the next four years, where I learned how to read a person and capture what makes them feel like themselves.

Then came the decade that shaped everything. I moved into brand strategy and spent ten years helping people build their brands from the ground up. I watched small businesses grow into names people recognize across the country. I helped founders turn a rough idea into a real, best-selling product. I mentored entrepreneurs through branding themselves with intention, so they could move toward their goals with far less guessing. The work I loved was always about helping someone bring an idea to life in a way that actually moved them forward.

Somewhere in that decade, I understood what my clients were really coming back for. It was my thinking. The strategy, the judgment, the direction they could not get anywhere else. That is when I grew into the advisor I am now, the person a founder keeps close so the big decisions feel less heavy and a lot more clear.

How I work

The center everything orbits.

Everything I do comes back to one idea. Every brand has a center, a core it is really about, and when you build from that center, everything else gets easier. Your offers line up. Your content stops feeling like guesswork. The whole thing starts to feel like you. Finding that center, and mapping how it comes to life, is the heart of how I work now.

Why I care

This work has never been abstract for me. As a second-generation daughter of immigrants, I know what it means to build something you were not born into, to make a place and a name that are truly yours. That is the feeling I want for every person I work with, and it is why I treat every brand I touch with the same care I would give my own.

When I am not deep in a client's world, you will find me in Sacramento, in the garden, writing, or chasing the next idea before it gets away. I have always lived a bit of a portfolio life, many passions running at once, and I have come to see that as the whole point.

by Stina Faye
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