Editorial Strategy for Audience Growth

I figure out where your customers go for help on the internet. And I make sure your brand is there when they arrive.

Fifteen years in lifestyle, wellness, and mental health tech. Building editorial teams, content verticals, audiences from zero.

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About

Taryn Williford

I'm a content strategist and editorial leader. I've spent fifteen years at lifestyle and wellness companies figuring out how to sound less like a brand and more like the kind of person you'd actually take advice from.

The brands that grow are the ones that make readers feel understood. At Apartment Therapy, the lifestyle verticals I helped launch grew to 42 million annual visitors. At Headway, I built the content presence from a blank page and shipped a Mental Health Resource Center that hit 7,000 monthly visitors in its first three months, entirely on organic search.

Most of my jobs have been some kind of "first." First content hire. First editorial team. First publication. That's the part I love: the recruiting, the rep-building, the early arguments about what "voice" actually means. I've run teams of up to 16, managed a $120k editorial budget, and reported organic growth numbers directly to executive teams and boards.

15 yrs
Editorial & content strategy experience
42M
Annual visitors driven at Apartment Therapy
16
Largest team managed (FT + contract)

Experience

Headway
2023 – 2026
Reforge
2021 – 2022
Apartment Therapy Media
2015 – 2021

Selected Work

A sample of editorial launches, content verticals, and publications built from the ground up.

Launches

Headway · 2026
Mental Health Resource Center
SEO-driven editorial operation aimed at people actively searching for mental health information. Coordinated contributors alongside clinical, compliance, and legal reviewers to ship pieces that could hold up to scrutiny. Piloted an AI-assisted production workflow that cut cost-per-article without compromising standards.
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7K
Monthly visitors
in first 3 months
Headway · 2024
Provider Resource Center
Headway's first content publication. Built for private practice therapists running their own businesses, managing burnout and compassion fatigue, and doing operational work nobody trained them for. The category had always sounded clinical. The publication aimed to sound like a peer.
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14x
Pageview growth
in 2 years
Apartment Therapy · 2019
Wellness Vertical
Saw reader demand for wellness coverage before the category was crowded. Pitched the case, recruited the staff, wrote the mission, and folded the new vertical into a 100+ post/month editorial calendar that was already moving fast.
8x
SEO growth via
archive campaign
Apartment Therapy · 2019
Taryn Cleans It All
A social video series about cleaning and home organization that I created and starred in. Produced across YouTube and Instagram. It became one of Apartment Therapy's most recognizable content franchises.
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2M+
Views across
YouTube & Instagram
Apartment Therapy · 2016
Lifestyle Department
Founded the lifestyle desk. Wrote the editorial missions for Living, Organize & Clean, and Money. Led cross-functional teams across audience growth, product, creative, and editorial through the launch.
6x
Pageview growth
in year one

Writing & Press

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What are you working on?

I'm most interested in roles where editorial isn't an afterthought — companies that want to invest in content as a real function, not just commission a blog. Especially fun if the page is still mostly blank.

Available

Open to full-time content and copy leadership roles. Based in Atlanta. Remote or hybrid preferred — I've managed remote editorial teams for years and it's how I work best.

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