My “Home Team”
My name is Melissa Vincent. I live in a marvelous community in North Carolina with my husband Roger, our son Ryan, and our dogs Penelope and Rose. We have a passion for live sporting events, especially auto racing, and enjoy traveling, playing games, and walking the historical trails around our quaint town together. We also love serving at our church in various capacities, including serving meals to the homeless through The Room at the Inn ministry as well as helping the citizens of 210 Collective. I'm also a writer and the founder of Simply Spoken Life. SSL’s primary outreach is to individuals navigating oral, head, and neck cancer so they can see what healing and getting better looks like. Mostly though, I love being Roger’s wife and Ryan’s mom. Roger is the Coordinating Television Director for NASCAR Productions. He's the calm in our storms and the bright beacon that keeps this family's course straight. Ryan is in middle school. He is especially gifted in math and science and plays baseball, basketball, and the saxophone in band. He’s got a sweet character, tolerates a very gregarious mother, and is a friend to everyone.
Academic Background
I have a BA in Communication from Purdue and recently earned a Certificate in Social Impact Storytelling from Georgetown University. It was holding space with the cohort of twenty other Georgetown students over Zoom that allowed me to believe my testimony had any value. Moreover, it was input from our remarkable professor, John Trybus, that sparked Simply Spoken Life into fruition. (This entire site is dedicated to you Professor Trybus because your input mattered the most. You were so kind to receive the content of my cancer journey with the tenderness I needed. Yet, you also found a way to speak into the spaces of my story that need richer wording and explanation. You will be forever upheld in my most joyous prayers. Thank you so much!) Meanwhile, my writing education continues. As of June 2022, I completed course work through UCLA Extension called The Psychology of Compelling Storytelling.
Recently our neighborhood publication did a story on our family! Read more here! Thank you Stroll Mag!
