Your Take Flight Team:

Take Flight was born out of the aspiration to build something to help start-ups and small businesses thrive in social media. Integrity and incredible desire to problem solve make this business soar!

While we don’t claim to have all the answers to all the questions, we do know A LOT about social media. Personally and professionally, we love every aspect of the field. It’s an ever-changing arena that keeps us on our toes. While the algorithms alone can make me completely batty, we thrive on teaching our amazing clients about social media, pivoting when we need to, creating content, and watching them grow.

Tonya D. Wertman, OWNER

branding expert | marketing professional | social media manager | writer

With over a decade of experience in online content creation and social media management, Tonya has capitalized on her diverse marketing, publishing, and business background to develop a savvy social presence and understanding of brand building. She started with a personal blog, Letters for Lucas, and later penned a column sharing her own secondary infertility journey for an online parenting magazine.

In freelance writing for SheKnows and other online publications, Tonya got to know her way around social media. Part of freelancing meant promoting her own work for the companies she worked for. Tonya developed an active presence on various platforms and discovered a knack for analyzing her own social media reach. That early knack helped translate Tonya’s social media knowledge into building strategies that help clients soar toward their own social media goals.

Six years ago, Tonya started managing the social media for the yoga studio she went to, then her hair salon, and then a small subscription box company that actually paid her instead of dyeing her hair for free or correcting her camel pose. That first freelance project gave Take Flight its wings.

Over the course of the last four years, Tonya has had the pleasure of working with many different types of small businesses and those small businesses, and the hustlers running them, remind her to keep learning, to keep challenging the perception of this dynamic field, and to always remember social media should be prioritized as a key channel for growing. 

Specialties: Blogging, Branding, Content Curation, Event Planning, Marketing, Social Media, Writing, and Editing.

Favorite social media platform: It changes all the time, but right now, I’m loving Instagram. Seeing beautiful and well-thought out feeds make my heart skip a beat. I also still enjoy Facebook because it is an easy way to stay in touch with family and friends near and far, although I could do without all the political banter. And who can resist how loved it makes us all feel on our birthdays?

ANGELA AMMAN  

STAFF WRITER

Angela Amman is an editor and short story and essay writer who collects her family’s stories at Playing with Words and whose personal essays and short stories have appeared in her collection, Nothing Goes Away, and various anthologies. A former English teacher, Angela thrives when she's curating content and finding the perfect angle for a brand to find its niche and tell its unique story. As a part of Listen To Your Mother Metro Detroit, Angela is thrilled to bring others' stories to the stage and to celebrate the magic of words, storytelling and the courage to share that magic with an audience.

Specialties: Blogging, Content Curation, Editing, SEO, Social Media Management, and Writing.

Favorite social media platform: It depends on my mood! Instagram inspires me, and I appreciate the elements involved in creating authentic connections through visual storytelling. Facebook doesn't have the some sense of immediate connection but offers the opportunity for thought-provoking conversation.

MONICA BEYER

SOCIAL MEDIA CONSULTANT / STAFF WRITER

Monica Beyer is the author of two books on baby sign language and has been writing professionally for the better part of a decade. Her journalistic work has appeared a wide variety of websites, and she's been providing online content for several different brands for a few years. She has experience with social media and editing, and she's a versatile writer who can easily adapt to different voices and styles, and she looks forward to new ways she can help a brand reach new audiences. She lives in Missouri with her husband, kids and a couple canine pals.

Specialties: Blogging, Content Curation, Reporting, Social Media

Favorite Social Media Platform: Facebook. It's my go-to place to get my daily news (yes, really!) thanks to the wide variety of news agencies and public figures I follow, as well as a super easy way to keep in touch with all of my family, friends and professional connections.

NATALIE HOAGE

SOCIAL MEDIA CONSULTANT

Natalie is a mom, avid reader, writer, and lover of all things social media. With a strong business background, Natalie has managed social media accounts since 2012, and has been blogging and creating content online for more than eight years. She thrives working behind-the-scenes and is a pro at curating relevant content and creating balanced content calendars to help brands build their online presence and followings. In addition to her personal blog, Natalie has provided freelance and ghost writing services to several online sites and clients. In her free time, you'll find her chasing three kids in three different directions, tweeting, Facebooking, and pinning more recipes than she can ever possibly try.

Specialties: Blogging, Content Curation, SEO, Social Media/Community Management, and Writing.

Favorite social media platform: Facebook is my go-to! It's easy and fun to connect with family and friends on a daily basis. You can find anything and everything on Facebook from recipes to funny memes and great, shareable content (which is important to those of us working in social media!)