About Writer Speaker Philanthropist Antoinette Lee
Antoinette Lee, MBA, is an outdoor industry influencer, model, and brand ambassador for several top-tier outdoor companies, including Carhartt, Kokatat, and Badfish SUP. She is the co-founder of Diversify Whitewater and founder of the American Adventure Sports Club with a mission of providing free adventure sports training to anyone with a financial need.
Antoinette is a DEI marketing implementation consultant who serves on the America Outdoors DEI task force.
She can usually be found in the North Woods of Wisconsin, stewarding the forest and river around her homestead while living the adventure sports lifestyle.
Her debut book is Four Hours to Live—A Soldier’s Journey of Adoption, Assault, and Advocacy. Aside from an amazing recovery journey from using a walker, a service dog, and a full-time caregiver after a traumatic brain injury, spinal injury, and PTSD, Antoinette shows you how to create your “new normal” and live the “biggest life” you can envision.
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Antoinette Lee, MBA — is an American Adult Cross-Cultural Kid (ACCK) and Third Culture Adult (TCA). American by birth with ancestry from Nigeria, Ireland, Spain, and Indigenous Arawak.
Antoinette Lee is also a freelance writer, most notably at America Outdoors Association, Paddling Magazine, and Culturs, a global, multicultural magazine that creates content for people living “in-between” cultures.
In addition, Antoinette is the Producer of AdventureTV, where people, places, and products come together to create an inclusive adventure sports lifestyle community.
What I do
Writer
credit: Culturs Magazine
Antoinette Lee, MBA, is an American Adult Cross-Cultural Kid (ACCK) and Third Culture Adult (TCA). American by birth with ancestry from Nigeria, Ireland, Spain, and Indigenous Arawak.
Today, Antoinette works as a full-time writer, a blogger on the New Normal Big Life blog, and is a Contributing Writer at Paddling Magazine and Culturs, global multicultural magazine where she writes content for those living “in-between” culture, race, ethnicity, nation, or location.
CULTURS ENHANCES BELONGING FOR CROSS-CULTURED INDIVIDUALS THROUGH MEDIA, PRODUCTS AND EXPERIENCES – BECAUSE EVERYONE SHOULD FEEL LIKE THEY MATTER. — Culturs Magazine
Before a career in writing, Antoinette worked as an Information Technology Chief Executive Officer (CEO) marketing executive, program manager, IT project manager, software designer, and a certified IT call center manager for several Department of Defense and other federal, city, and state agencies.
She proudly served eleven years in the United States Army during the Gulf War era as a database administrator, dental clinic manager, Army recruiter, dental assistant, dental hygienist, and an air assault qualified, expert field medic throughout her military career.
SSG Antoinette Lee
credit: U.S. ARMY
Her exciting life in several business sectors on two continents has provided her with an endless array of characters, locations, and experiences for her freelance and personal writing works of fiction, nonfiction, and educational writing.
Speaker
Antoinette trained for transformational public speaking with Lisa Nichols and Susie Carder at Motivating the Masses.
Through her ‘New Normal Big Life’ program, she helps people end sadness, excel at work and school, and create the relationships they have always dreamed of.
She began her speaking career by discussing innovative ways information technology professionals can provide exceptional customer service amid supporting an ever-increasing number of devices, applications, and computing platforms.
Later, Antoinette became an advocate and historian for the technical programs she designed and developed for government agencies. You can read about Antoinette’s work in TechRepublic and Crosstalk — the journal of defense software engineering.
These days, Antoinette talks to corporations, veteran’s groups, people of color, youth groups, schools, and others about overcoming life’s challenges to create their new normal and live as big a life as they can envision.
She also speaks on how to engage people of color to become conservation advocates. And is a consultant in the outdoor industry with America Outdoors Association and others.
Content Creator
At AdventureTV, we strive to create a community for paddlesports enthusiasts, professionals, industry leaders, land and waterways conservation and restoration organizations, allied outdoor adventuring, and those who are just curious about the outdoor lifestyle.
AdventureTV is a place where everyone is welcome to come and be entertained, to share their whitewater stories, to learn, and to enter and excel in Whitewater paddlesports like kayaking, rafting, canoeing, and standup paddleboarding, while learning about other types of extreme outdoor adventure sports. AdventureTV is where the people, places, and products come together to support your adventure sports lifestyle — welcome to the adventure family!
Logo Design By: Hailey Thompson —Watercolorwoods
On XOTV.me, in partnership with Culturs magazine, Antoinette brings you interesting interviews from the celebrities you love, the experts you admire, and the epic, outdoor adventuring locations that you cannot wait to see.
The New Normal Big Life channel on XOTV.me, offers videos and stories covering health and fitness, relationships, and career from the multiethnic, multicultural, blended family, in-between cultures — military B.R.A.T, Cross-Cultural Kid (CCK) / (ACCK), Third Culture Kid (TCK), Domestic TCK, Cultural Fluidity/Cultural Mobility, Missionary Kids, Third Culture Adult (TCA), refugees, the world traveler perspective,) and more.