By Katie, Jedidiah Staff

We’d like to introduce you to Erin, the newest member of the Jedidiah team and Florida sales rep extraordinaire. We sat down (in front of our respective computers via San Diego and Florida) to do a little Q & A in order to get to know Erin better. Beware, you might be tempted to feel overwhelmed with the amount of utter coolness exuding from this girl, but just remember this: she puts on her yoga pants one leg at a time, just like the rest of us.

Jedidiah: What are you most excited about with your new role at Jedidiah?

Erin: I’m most excited about helping to spread Jedidiah around the southeast and really promote awareness about what Jedidiah stands for. I really believe in what the company is doing, and I remind myself daily about our humanitarian partners and try to allow this to be my push for doing the best job I can. Getting involved in different relevant events is also a fun part of being part of Jedidiah…from smaller local music shows to participating on a trip with one of our humanitarian partners. Last October I went to Bangladesh with the Hope Partner, Surfing the Nations, and it was a life-changing experience.

J: What other projects are you working on/doing for fun? Or how do you spend your free time?

E: As other projects go…I also handle the US bookings for the volunteer travel & surf charter company, Holidays with Purpose. This company runs 10-day surf charters in Nias, Indonesia, and guests get to help on several community empowerment projects during their trip, which can include building construction, child education programs, and assisting with a coconut oil factory. Sometimes you’ll find me helping out at events with my husband’s project: Rosa Loves, and I also volunteer with a sister-city organization that sends humanitarian delegations to Cuba, one of which I was able to attend in January. Otherwise, I’m hanging out with friends, baking (usually involving dark chocolate), enjoying the beach, or planning my next trip.

J: Describe a typical day for you.

E: A typical day for me starts at yoga class, moves to a nice bowl of Açai, then quickly gets a bit more hectic as I make calls to shops, hopefully visit a few to show the lines (normally singing really loudly in my car on the way). If I’m back home on the island before the sun goes down, I normally take a run on the beach, and then have dinner with my husband, and most nights of the week hang out with my amazing St. Augustine community in some form or another.

J: If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and what would you do?

E: I’ve been blessed to have been able to travel quite a bit, and even live abroad for a while in Italy, yet my list of “places I want to go” is still growing…but I guess the first place that comes to mind that I would go if I could go anywhere is Northern Africa, mainly Egypt and Morocco. I just know these have been in my top 5 for years now…and I’d see the pyramids in Giza (of course), explore spice markets, drink mint tea, meet people, be overwhelmed by colorful textiles, stay hot, ride a camel, and make sure I smelled like papyrus and jasmine oils the whole time.