Nutrabolt

Director of Social Media

•Key stakeholder for America’s #1 fastest growing energy drink, C4 Energy on social media

•Drove C4 Energy social media strategy development and execution, community strategy development and execution, led social reporting, engaged in social listening, and designed social content.

•Drove explosive social growth for C4 Energy including 490K+ total followers gained (+655%) and generated 340M+ social impressions.

•In 2022, I kickstarted C4 Energy TikTok and eclipsed 1.6M likes (+1,947% YTD), gained 226K followers (+510% YTD), and generated 37M views (+5,492% YTD) for the year.

•Played integral role in the identifying and activating of influencers (nano, micro, macro) and creators on social media to supplement branded campaigns and drive overall brand reach. 

•Brought many explosive partnerships and brand partners to life on social media such as WWE, STARBURST, SKITTLES, Kevin Hart, Roman Reigns, Lonzo Ball, and more.

Senior Social Media Manager, Beverage

Senior Social Media Manager

Legion Athletics

•Social media lead for top all-natural sports supplement brand Legion Athletics and Legion Athletics CEO and best-selling author, Mike Matthews. 

•Designed, created, and produced all social media content across Legion Athletics & Mike Matthews social media channels. 

•Curated, optimized, and scheduled 200+ unique social posts per week across 11 social media channels between Legion Athletics & Mike Matthews.

•Drove community love and increased engagement by 56% on Instagram, 51% on Twitter, and website sessions via social by 74%.

National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)

•Social media lead and head photographer for the NSCA, the global leader in strength & conditioning. 

•Drove exponential community growth and increased Instagram following by 78% and Instagram engagement by 217%. 

•Provided ample support for NSCA educational materials (articles, blog, podcast) on social media channels and increased website sessions via social by 1,024% within 3 months. 

•Served as lead photographer and captured content of NSCA events, Division-1 athletes, and tactical athletes. Content was used for marketing collateral, NSCA publications, social content, website content, and more.

Social Media Coordinator & Photographer

Crunch Fitness

•Trained and guided clients to help achieve their health & fitness goals with personalized training programming. 

•Provided expertise to 15+ clients on healthy and sustainable weight loss, proper nutrition, muscle building, and more.

Personal Trainer

SocialSEO Inc

•Went through the SEO training program and became proficient in keyword research, keyword mapping, and more. 

•Assisted team members with silver, gold & platinum sized accounts such as Men’s Health, Gaiam, and several local businesses.

SEO Analyst

CampusProtein.com

•Led channel and content strategy for Campus Protein Twitter account.

•Served as lead community manager and engaged with brand fans to cultivate community, drive engagement, and more. 

•Photographed content for Campus Protein that was distributed and showcased across social channels, website, email, and more.

Marketing Intern

[self-employed]

Provided a wide array of marketing services for several small to large brands within the health & fitness industry. These services included: Social media management, social media marketing, web design, brand positioning, community management, content creation, photography, SEO, and more. 

Clients worked with: RSP Nutrition, Powr3d Supplements, Kore 7 Fitness, Stinkbug Naturals, local gyms, local personal trainers, and more.

Freelance Social Media Marketer & Marketing Consultant

SDC Nutrition

•Social media lead for G6 Sports Nutrition and responsible for social media strategy creation & execution. 

•Designed, created, and produced all social media content across G6 Sports Nutrition social handles 

•Drove exponential Instagram growth upon arrival (726 to 12K followers) within 3 months.

G6 Sports Nutrition Social Media Manager

Assisted with and educated customers on proper health, fitness, and supplementation along with providing a great customer experience.

Sales Associate

Youth Basketball Training

Coached and trained a variety of youth basketball players to instill confidence and further develop their skills on the court.

Youth Basketball Trainer

“So, you scroll through social media all day and make posts?” Nope, not exactly. 

I’m Sam, a Social Media Director, content creator, and brand-builder. I have a knack for creating and delivering superior social media experiences, building highly evangelistic brand communities, and creating a social presence that is a catalyst for brand growth. 

I have been blessed with some incredible opportunities over the past 5+ years and have worked with several leaders in the fitness industry to help bring to life on social media. 

These brands include: 
✔️ C4 Energy 
✔️ Cellucor
✔️ XTEND
✔️ Legion Athletics
✔️ NSCA (National Strength & Conditioning Association)
✔️ & more!

I love what I do. I’m passionate about sports (especially basketball), fitness, strength & conditioning, hiking, and photography. 

I love meeting new people, so feel free to reach out and introduce yourself! 

Email 👉 samwellsmarketing@gmail.com
Instagram 👉 samwellsyo

Sam Wells

Finding Mastery

Partnerships Manager

Subscribing to Wellness

Breaking down insights from the health & wellness industry into digestible summaries across social channels and our main website domain.

And sharing notable founder stories who are carving out a competitive edge within heath innovation and better for you CPG.

Content Strategist

Self Employed

1) Leveraging creator, influencer, brand, and strategic partnerships freelance consulting for clients in the health & wellness, health technology, and better for you CPG categories.

Front-to-end services, including: sourcing, negotiating contracts, seeding product, long-term relationship building, helping to co-create content and inform content direction. 

2) Offering front-to-end content strategy services within women's health, mental health, nutrition, and fitness/athletics: including developing an overarching and competitive strategy, planning/forecasting on a monthly/weekly cadence, constructing outlines, finding well positioned freelance copywriters or personally, self-generating the copy. Strong suit is long- and short-form editorial and social (blog, affiliate swipe copy, Instagram/TikTok asset co-creation, podcast talking points/audio). 

For additional context: my strengths are content strategy and forecasting, creative direction, and long- and short-form copywriting. I work extremely well alongside designers, illustrators, and motion graphic artists. Though, I do take frequent spins in Canva Pro, Figma, and Photoshop when needed 😊

DM me for details, including existing clients (some past & present have included Spren/Elite HRV, Coa, IQBAR, Elo Health/Lantern Growth, bitewell, Subscribing to Wellness, Rescripted, Jen Huberty PhD, Prenuvo, Orchid Holistic Search, Skylight (Spiritual Health for GenZ), Scicomwiz (Dr. Steven Gundry, Thrive25, Gloci), Finding Mastery, Jesse Greer MD/Preamble, Uplift, various individual accounts for ghostwriting, etc.)

Freelance Partnerships + Content Strategy Consulting

Rescripted

Content and creator partnerships swiss army knife. Working on anything with words involved and activating brand partnerships by collaborating with organically aligned creators.

Rescripted is the largest global women's health media platform, reaching 9MM women monthly. Rescripted's thesis is that Sex Ed in America is broken, which is showing up today in the variety of chronic women's health conditions we now see across the board — from infertility to PCOS to thyroid dysfunction to period issues to autoimmunity — it seems just about no woman is immune to dealing with at least 1 ailment in the modern world.

We learn more about how to abstain from using our bodies in Sex Ed than we do about how they actually work. And when you don't know your body and how to work with it, you can never channel it, improve it, or utilize it in the ways you'd like. 

Rescripted is flipping the script around women's health by teaching women body literacy and how to leverage their own body as their greatest teacher. We're the "Google for Women's Health," providing women with the tools, resources, content, and community they need from their first period to their last.

ŌURA

When it comes to our health, seeing is believing—get on Oura to build awareness in how your behaviors and actions impact your sleep and recovery.

I help Oura communicate to our users how the body works and how the science behind our product is built to mirror their biosignals accurately, and consistently. I educate on our product features and strategically create new experiences for our users that strive to meet them where they are in their health journeys. I prioritizing building direct ties with our community, empathizing with their needs, and reflecting their voices back to them through content built to support their lifestyle with Oura and understanding of the whole self.

Part project manager, part content developer—I’m comfortable flexing between content deliverables, types, audiences, and channels and working with quick turnarounds. I’ve been able to learn a diversity of different content, creative, and PM skillsets on the job being thrown into various projects with unmapped territory. I take a heavily data-driven, scholarly-research, and segmented approach to making all content timely, personalized, and actionable.

Neurocrine Biosciences

•Created a solution-driven roadmap of digital transformation and virtual engagement strategies for future adoption within medical affairs and cross-functional departments 

•Created storyline materials outlining the discovery of TAK-041 (an orphan G-coupled protein receptor agonist), its mechanism of action, and potential for therapeutic use in anhedonia as a negative symptom of treatment-resistant depression / schizophrenia

•Evaluated the efficacy of current treatment options for anhedonia (the inability to experience pleasure) and evolving alternatives

Medical Communications

•Constructed an evidence-based research library to serve as a consumer interface to educate on the nutritional integrity of the product and validate its effectiveness; focus on gathering higher quality and updated studies, enhancing receptivity of the storyline, improving site navigation/appeal and applying relevant user analytics to deepen brand connectivity

•Merged academic content into additional brand/social media marketing pieces to educate consumers on the physiological mechanisms that differentiate the product and guided its original entry into market; focus on giving users a digestible understanding of their biological-self and how it can be maximized through nutrition

Content Marketing

USC Brain and Creativity Institute 

•Assistance in the A-Z Lab, whose current research focuses on understanding properties of the mirror neuron system and shared representations as it relates to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder, stroke and neurorehabilitation, contextual effects on empathy, embodied cognition, social communication, visual creativity and the gut-brain connection 

•Specific contribution to the emBody project which analyzes differences in how children with autistic spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder experience sensitized emotion 

•Transcribed, coded and organized videotaped subject interviews to document consistencies, facial and tonal affects, non-behavioral cues, variations in responses, etc.; used this collection of information to run meta-analysis with an end goal of determining if supported statistical patterns could be applied to enhance the early-intervention process in ASD to teach empathetic skills through the nature of embodied cognition

Research Assistant

USC Panhellenic Council

•Established strong partnerships with campus resources, student/staff leaders and organizations (including non-profits) in the Greater Los Angeles Area that aligned with physical, mental and emotional health awareness initiatives 

•Launched campaigns that promoted and maintained wellness among all Greek affiliated members, including sexual violence and alcohol misuse prevention, stress-relief facilitation, mindfulness training, etc.; executed this through use of focus groups and teaching member representatives within each chapter on how to generate improved outcomes based on the structure/makeup of their organization in relation to the whole community

•Planned and executed interactive and health-focused events made available to the Panhellenic Community; coordinated and implemented Intersorority Intramural Program

Director of Wellness and Athletics

Genexa

•Produced a series of comprehensive research reports (including visuals, statistical summaries and creative solutions) for 15 new product launches based on category and consumer trends, sales data, and scholarly research findings; my presentations offered competitive pricing strategies, original product innovations based on trending skews and opportunistic foresight, and unique branding and marketing approaches that were directly applied in product roadmapping process

•Constructed individual project goals and deadlines in Asana to ensure that the timeline for each launch was actualized and met with supporting details to advance all stages of development

•Analyzed modern pharmaceutical inactive ingredient safety and efficacy to provide education to consumers on the importance of cleaner, organic replacements within this segment; created company product differentiators to show clean-cut comparison against leading brands whose products did not uphold the same non-synthetic integrity 

•Created an original Genexa "ex-list" library, consisting of synthetic inactive ingredients contained in competitor products and the academic research to back their potential harm to the human body

•Generated blog posts for the company website centered around receptive health findings/data supported by academic research to provide evidence-based insight into the field of wellness

•Developed original social media content, scripts and visual display (Instagram/Instagram Story) for further customer education, branding and lifestyle recommendations 

•Initiated outreach to highly-regarded pediatricians across the nation for product approval and recommendation

Market Research & Analyst Intern

Partnerships at Finding Mastery | Content Strategy | Simplifying Health + Science Information | Women's Health Advocate | Ex-Oura Ring

All progress relies on the unreasonable wo(man).

Being 13 years into remission from a rare autoimmune disease called Dermatomyositis with no known cause or cure has inspired me to contribute to advancements in health innovation so present day patients aren’t constrained by the same limitations I faced growing up in a disintegrated system with limited access to alternative treatment options and digestible information. 

I am incredibly passionate about democratizing health information, making it seamless to understand, and actionable to weave into any lifestyle. 

I deeply value the scientific method. I invite you to challenge me on my position. I am in a continuous, ever-evolving pursuit of excellence. I love connecting with other inspired learners and leaders, driven to make a change in their field of dedication. 

My background walking onto a division-1 sport without any prior experience now bleeds into my professional endeavors. I take a bias toward action to identify critical growth channels, fine-tune messaging that connects with a community, and meets them in the moment. I’m passionate about building win-win relationships, leading with value, and aligning mission statements. 

I find passion working in fast-paced, ambiguous, and challenging environments with agile and highly collaborative team members. 

My unsolicited advice: Be unexpected. Set a new standard—with your actions, before your words. Be an advocate. Step up. Ask difficult questions. Make room for others at your table, especially those who don’t look or act like you. The race starts at mile 20, don’t give in.

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