Dear Reader,

The best narratives thrive on transitions—those moments where endings bloom into beginnings and ambiguity sparks reinvention.

After nearly ten years of crafting stories for organizations and individuals worldwide as the founder of Flanz Writes and Flanz Media, I’m announcing my next “Flanz-ition”: to become the first-ever Senior Storyteller at Dickson Realty, a community-rooted, market-leading brokerage in Northern Nevada and California.

When I launched Flanz Writes in 2016, I made a simple promise on every business card: “Authentic Content That Inspires.” Together with trusted clients and colleagues, we turned that promise into storytelling campaigns that sparked ideas for nonprofits, amplified entrepreneurs’ voices, and connected communities with clarity and a dash of whimsy.

Now, it’s time to write Flanz Writes and Flanz Media’s final chapters. But this closing isn’t a finale—it’s a prologue.

After years of partnering with Dickson Realty, I’m honored to join their team full-time as their first-ever Senior Storyteller. This role isn’t a departure—it’s a deepening. In this brand-new, created-just-for-me position, I get to do more of what I love most: help people and communities write their next chapters with care.

Why Dickson?

Their values—integrity, community, mastery—mirror the ones inked into my own story, and this role lets me merge my entrepreneurial spirit with their legacy of leadership. Dickson Realty knows that real estate isn’t about transactions—it’s about connections, and they back that belief up with action by mentoring newcomers, funding impactful initiatives, and helping people find a home in every way that matters. Joining Dickson Realty, a company steeped in five decades of family legacy, feels like coming home to me. Watching my parents build two businesses together and running Flanz Media with my husband, Mike, taught me that familial ventures thrive in the messy alchemy of shared purpose and vision.

Mike is at the beginning of his own next chapter—Mike Higdon’s Storytelling Studio—and will continue supporting many of you with photography, writing, and publication design and strategy.

My heart aches with gratitude at the turn of this new page in my life for those instrumental characters in its previous verses.

• To Flanz clients: Thank you for inviting me into your worlds and words, trusting me with your messiest drafts and boldest visions, and letting me scribble in the margins of your journeys.
• To the brilliant team who built Flanz Media with me: You turned details into art, client feedback into fuel, and wild notions into stories that made people pause, feel, and think. Thank you for showing me that storytelling isn’t a service—it’s a shared act of courage—and that vulnerability is a superpower.
• To my mentors and peers: You taught me ink runs thicker than blood. Thank you for your wisdom, advice, and always perfectly timed notes of confidence.
• To the Dickson family: Thank you for trusting me with your narrative. I’ll honor it as my parents taught me—with honesty, heart, and the occasional spreadsheet.
• To my family and framily: Thank you for the love and support to find my next “NEXT!”
• To Mike: My first draft reader, partner-in-plot-twists, and fellow dreamer—none of this works without you.

With a reverence for endings, a hunger for beginnings, a fresh felt-tipped pen, and a heart fuller than a narrow-margined manuscript,

annie

P.S. Stay in touch! Reach me at af@annieflanz.com or follow Dickson’s story at dicksonrealty.com.