About Mary Curran

They say write what you know. Mary is a former news reporter and avid equestrian who owns and shows hunter/jumper horses in Michigan and Florida.

Her real passion is storytelling. In fact, she spent most of the second grade sitting in the corner — punishment for regaling classmates with wild tales.

Fresh out of college, Mary wrote obituaries for her hometown newspaper, The Royal Oak Daily Tribune. Following a most unfortunate (and somber) incident, in which Mary accidentally sent two families to the wrong funeral homes, the editor sent the young journalist packing to a smaller, somewhat more forgiving newspaper in the Berkshires.

The North Adams Transcript assigned Mary as beat reporter for the quaint and esteemed Williamstown, Massachusetts.  Filing enough stories to fill two full pages daily, combined with working with other young up and coming journalists, including Daniel Pearl, served as a grueling, yet powerful training regime for any new journalist.

Eventually Mary worked her way over the Taconic Trail and into her first television news reporter job at WRGB. While her journalism skills proved strong, her on camera presence was not quite ready for a market in such close proximity to New York, leading her boss to throw a shoe at his TV and send Mary packing once again – this time back to Michigan and a more suitable starter station in Flint.

From here Mary’s on-camera career thrived. She worked at an ABC affiliate, followed by a unique UPN/CBS station in Detroit and later, she worked freelance for CNN.

Along the way, Mary grew passionate about riding hunter/jumper horses and eventually left television for a corporate job. While she started out calling the work “boring” corporate news and training, she grew to love the industry and still enjoys writing and facilitating motivational sales training courses today.

She lives in Michigan with a husband, a horse and a young and mischievous dog.