Meet
Lindsay Ferrier is a wife, stepmother, mother, writer and Emmy award-winning journalist living in Nashville, Tennessee. Currently, she’s traveling the country as election correspondent for CafeMom’s “Moms Matter 2012” initiative, as well as hosting the video series, “I’ll Take That Dare,” on CafeMom and on YouTube as part of its new original programming venture.
Writing
Lindsay is the author of Suburban Turmoil, which gets regular mentions in newspapers (Chicago Tribune, The Tennessean, Austin American-Statesman) magazines (Redbook, All You, Cookie) and on websites (WashingtonPost.com, Salon.com, Newsweek.com, BBC.com, AdAge.com, GoodHousekeeping.com).
Lindsay is a Top 100 Mom Blogger of 2011, according to Babble.com. She has been named by SAY Media as one of the 100 most influential voices on the web, listed as one of Parenting Magazine’s Must-Read Mom Bloggers and was named a Top 50 Mom Blogger in Access Communications’ social media study. Awards for Suburban Turmoil include Divine Caroline’s Editor’s Pick for Best Mom Blog, Parents Connect’s voters’ choice for Best Local Blog in Nashville, and the Best of Blogs award for Best Parenting Blog.
Lindsay began the style blog, She’s Still Got It, in December 2009 and sold it to CafeMom, the number one mom’s site on the Internet, in May of the following year. She continues to write a post five days a week under the She’s Still Got It column header for CafeMom’s The Stir blog. Lindsay’s writing for She’s Still Got It is regularly syndicated on Yahoo! Shine and the Huffington Post and has been quoted on CNN.com and in London newspaper The Guardian.
Lindsay also writes a column called Behind the Vote for CafeMom, about her experiences as the site’s election correspondent.
Lindsay wrote a weekly newspaper column about her life for the Nashville Scene between 2006 and 2011. She was voted one of Nashville’s top three local columnists by Nashville Scene readers in the 2010 Best of Nashville awards.
Lindsay also has written columns for the Huffington Post, the Nashville City Paper, the Louisville Eccentric Observer, and Geez Magazine, and she was the blended family blogger for Parents Magazine for more than two years. She has contributed work to many parenting websites, including Dot-Moms.com (one of Time Magazine’s 50 Coolest Sites), AlphaMom.com and WorkItMom.com. Her blog posts have been reprinted on numerous websites, including WNBC.com, iVillage.com, and Reuters.com. Lindsay and her writing also have been featured in the books, Attack of the Fifty-Foot Hormones (HarperCollins), The Digital Moms Handbook (Harper Paperbacks), and Kirtsy Takes a Bow (Bright Sky Press).
Television/On-Camera Work
As CafeMom’s election correspondent, Lindsay is spending the year on the campaign trail, interviewing the presidential candidates, covering the primaries and conventions, hosting forums between moms and candidates, and talking to moms about the issues that matter most to them. A recent CafeMom event with Newt Gingrich moderated by Lindsay made national and international headlines after Gingrich broke down in tears while talking about his late mother.
Lindsay also hosts “I’ll Take That Dare,” a video series with a new episode up each Friday on CafeMom and on YouTube as part of YouTube’s new original channels venture. The first season of the show racked up more than 200,000 views on YouTube within the first few weeks of its debut. A second season is now in production.
In 2011, Lindsay was selected in a nationwide search as one of iVillage’s iVoices, and has appeared in video segments for the franchise. Before that, she co-hosted BlogHer’s weekly parenting webcast, “Backtalk.”
Prior to having kids and becoming a blogger, Lindsay was a freelance television writer and producer. She was a writer and producer for the award-winning CMT series, “Inside Fame,” writing the television biographies of celebrities including John Mellencamp, Wynonna Judd, and Brooks & Dunn. She was a writer and producer for CMT’s “100 Greatest Country Music Songs” and “100 Greatest Country Music Videos,” and she has produced shows and segments for cable networks A&E, Hallmark Channel, and GAC. Lindsay also wrote and produced an Emmy-nominated 30 minute program on HIV/AIDS for NBC affiliate WSMV in Nashville and earned another Emmy nomination for her reporting on “Tennessee’s Wild Side,” a program on Nashville’s PBS affiliate station, WNPT.
Lindsay began her career as the morning anchor for Columbia, South Carolina ABC affiliate WOLO-TV. After working at WOLO for three years (and earning an Associated Press award for her reports on education), she moved to Nashville for a job at NBC affiliate WSMV-TV. While working as a reporter and fill-in anchor there, she earned an Emmy Award and two Emmy nominations for her stories.
Appearances and Speaking Engagements
In May of 2012, Lindsay was a panelist for a United Way “Opportunity Town Hall Meeting” before a crowd of 2000 attendees and streamed live on the Internet. Her co-panelists were Colin Powell’s wife, Alma, and Patricia de Stacy Harrison, CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Lindsay spoke at BlogHer ’11 as part of a panel discussion called “Your Blog Can Make You A Local Hero.” Her blog post, “The State of the Mom Blog” inspired a panel at BlogHer ’08, which she moderated, and which was covered by the New York Times.
She also was chosen as a keynote speaker for BlogHer ’08′s Community Keynote Address, where she read her Suburban Turmoil post about The Wiggles.
She speaks often in Nashville to various organizations and women’s groups.
Lindsay co-hosts the CheeseburgHer Party for bloggers. Now the closing party for BlogHer’s annual conference, it is sponsored by McDonalds and has been featured in the London Times.
Personal
Lindsay is wife to WSMV-TV reporter Dennis Ferrier, mom to a 5-year-old boy and 8-year-old girl, full-time stepmom to 18 and 21-year-old girls. Her family is currently “between pets” and she’s trying to keep it that way for as long as possible.
Lindsay attends Cross Point Community Church in Nashville. She’s on the board of the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence and she volunteers weekly at her daughter’s elementary school. In her (admittedly non-existent) spare time, she enjoys reading, cooking, snow skiing, white water rafting, traveling, and doing the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle.
Contact
Contact Lindsay at suburban.turmoil@yahoo.com.
Press
Election Coverage:
Gingrich, Unlike Cain, Survives Because He Apologized for Cheating, The Daily Beast
Words of Wisdom for Politicans, From Their Moms, Huffington Post
What if Politics Had an Academy Awards? ABC World News
Perry Gets Emotional Talking About Wife, NBC Nightly News
Newt Gingrich cries while recalling late mother, MSNBC
Perry on Huntsman and his daughters, CNN.com
Stephen Colbert Gets Cold Reaction from South Carolina Mothers at CafeMom Town Hall, Huffington Post
Rick Santorum Substitutes Faith for Policy in South Carolina, The Nation
Michelle rallies female voters behind her husband, Washington Examiner
Lindsay Ferrier Moderates Newt Gingrich Panel, BlogHer.com
Gingrich Tours Georgia with Message of Cheap Gas, Storyful.com
Suburban Turmoil:
The Best of the Parenting Blogosphere, Huffington Post
TOP MOMS: Babble.com Ranks 100 Most Influential Mom Bloggers, ABC.com
Babble.com’s Top 100 Mom Blogs Announced, Huffington Post
“The Top 100 Mom Blogs of 2011,” Babble.com
“Now, Mommy Bloggers Have Their Own Talent Agency,” AdAge.com
“9 Ultimate Family Road Trips,” Redbook Magazine
“The Power of Female Blogging,” BBC.com
“Parenting the Web,” London Times
“Tennessee Kids Lack Skills for Kindergarten,” The Tennessean
“Confessions of a Mommyblogger,” Cookie Magazine
“Trusted Mom or Sellout?” Newsweek.com
“Three Blogs for When I’m Feeling Snarky,” GoodHousekeeping.com
“Don’t Hate Mommy Bloggers for Their Swag,” AdAge.com
SAY Media 100, SAY Media.com
“iVillage Announces Their 10 Newest iVoices,” ShePosts.com
“Mom Sells Out”, Salon.com
“Interview with Lindsay Ferrier,” WorkItMom.com
“Suburban Turmoil’s Lindsay Harnesses the Power of the Internet to Help Nashville Flood Victims,” BlogHer.com
“Tennesseans Reaching Out About Nashville Flood,” Knoxville News Sentinel
“Survive Your Middle Schooler’s Changing Behavior,” Scholastic.com
“Blog It, Toledo” Toledo Free Press
“Is There Value in Mom-Only (or Dad-Only) Playgroups?” Washington Post
“Confessions of a Backyard Blogger,“ UMASS Magazine
“Defining a Movement: Mom 2.0 Conference” PaperCity Magazine
“Top Ten Mommy Blogs,” InventorSpot.com
“Women Tuning Out Morning Newscasts,” Chicago Tribune
“Blogger Hits Nerve with Stay at Home Moms,” The Tennessean
“Best Mom and Dad Blogs Don’t Take Parenting Too Seriously,” The Birmingham News
“Bloggers Turn Baby Talk into Cyber Chat,” New Jersey Star-Ledger
She’s Still Got It:
“New York Fashion Week champions curves in a catwalk revolution,” The Guardian
Von Furstenberg’s non-runway project: Haute hospital gowns, CNN.com
“Mom Blogger Lindsay Ferrier” (television appearance) WSMV-TV
“She’s Still Got It: Lindsay Ferrier’s Style Blog Sold to CafeMom,” BlogHer.com
“Plus-Sized Stunner Crystal Renn a Sell-Out After Slimming Down?” Popcrunch.com
“Ashley Judd Takes On Puffy Face Haters,” Newser
“Mothering in Style,” Tennessean.com
“Justin Bieber’s ‘Ridiculous’ Perfume Commercial,” TheWeek.com
“Stylish Clothes for Moms on a Tight Budget” BabyCheapskate.com
“Angelina, Nicole “looking old overnight,” OCRegister.com
I’ll Take That Dare:
“Lindsay Ferrier Tries Out Temporary Lip Tattoos for Video Series,” WSMV-TV
“Mom Takes Fashion Dares for New Series,” WSMV-TV