Taylor Beal, director of client & community outreach at Bellingham Real Estate Co., has a true love for our corner of the state and the team she works with.
“There are three main things I focus on for the firm,” she says. “I’m part of our marketing department — so, managing all social media our brokers have, creating content community projects, and our event coordination. Then, I help run two community platforms that we have with Live Bellingham Now, as well as What’s Up in Whatcom. I’m also a co-producer on Building Bellingham, our business podcast, which is something I get to take on this fall.”
Background
Beal’s career path in Whatcom was a little kismet and a lot of hard work. “I was part of a junior sorority from the time I was 11 through 20, and it was the year after I aged out, after my year as state president, that I was kind of looking for my big kid job and I started at a different real estate firm, which is how I met the group I’m with today,” she says. “I worked there for about two and a half years in an agent advisory role with different communications for brokers and staff. Then, in the middle of lockdown, with a lot of different shifts happening in my life, I got a job offer from this group, and they were just some of the most phenomenal people — I always looked up to them when I was working in tandem with them and now, I got this opportunity to actually work with them. I’ve been with them for almost four years.”
Why Real Estate
Real estate was not always on Beal’s radar for a career choice, but the integrity of the people drew her in to the path she is on now. “If you had asked me five or six years ago, the industry that I would end up in, I don’t think I could have guessed real estate,” she says. “I connected with Bellingham Real Estate through my previous job, but I think it was the way that Leo and Chris and Tiffany operated as a group in tandem with the vision of this company to really showcase Bellingham and serve Bellingham to the best of their ability that did it for me.”
Beal is particularly passionate in her drive to continue to help Bellingham flourish and evolve while enjoying everything that makes the city so unique. “I’ve been able to really curate my job around meeting Bellingham, getting to know Bellingham, and getting to showcase that on our platforms, like with Live Bellingham Now,” she says.
Outside of Work
As a child, Beal was introduced to several different communities, and she notes the value of what those experiences gave her. “I was born in Tucson, Arizona, and we moved around a lot as a kid, just different job transfers my family experienced,” she says. “I went from Arizona to Nova Scotia, then Utah to Tennessee, and finally ended up in Washington, so I’ve been in Bellingham since I was 13.”
From 11 to 20, Beal was part of a junior sorority called Rainbow for Girls, a youth leadership organization geared toward helping girls learn leadership, public speaking skills, gaining confidence, feeling empowerment, and experiencing the opportunity to volunteer in the community. “I would not be the same person if it hadn’t been for Rainbow,” she says. “Now I get to advise and be a really good mentor to a lot of really phenomenal girls on the local and state level.”
Outside of Rainbow for Girls, directing community outreach within her firm and other community involvement, Beal enjoys comic books, movies, comic cons, and cosplay — particularly for Marvel.
Beal is a member of Whatcom Young Professionals and volunteers as events committee chair for the organization.
Top 7 Under 40
In her everyday life, Beal maintains a constant level of helping and empowering others. After being named one of the Top 7 Under 40, Beal views the nomination as an opportunity to continue her passion and outreach. “I know some people who have won these types of things before, and they’re all people I really look up to and admire,” she says. “I’m hoping I can also be one of those examples of just really awesome people who make a difference in our community.”
An event held at the Hotel Bellwether on Thursday, October 3rd from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. will celebrate all seven honorees and award the Young Professional of the Year. Click here for more details and to purchase tickets. Registration closes September 27, 2024.
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