Our Founder
Bethany Byrd
Strategy Lead & Founder
Speaking & Workshops
Bethany Byrd is Own Your Hill’s leader and growth strategist. Every client works directly with Bethany to discover the path that will lead their business or organization to growth. Once a strategy is in place, she will work directly with her team to produce everything you need to achieve your marketing and growth goals.
Recognized as Mississippi Main Street’s Premier Creative Partner of the Year in 2016, Bethany is an avid supporter of the creative community and the vital role they play in creating positive perceptions of Mississippi’s most treasured places. In spring of 2017 she saw her dream of a creative renewal in her home town recognized as she opened the doors to Laurel’s first creative coworking community, The Shop Co.Work.
Bethany is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, an internationally published photographer and an insatiable adventurer. She is the mother of two and wife of fellow-creative, Austin Byrd.
An Understanding of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Own Your Hill is a network of Mississippi’s very best creatives working to produce the work you need to achieve real results. This model allows us to put your budget to good use by reducing overhead and administrative time. Our team is free to perfect their craft through a variety of work and opportunities, and we are free to focus on growing your business or organization.
“Bethany and her team are amazing! The results are remarkable.
In less than a year, she made our online marketing a more beautiful, useful tool that helps us get our message out… all while keeping our focus on our target demographic.
Not only will you get creativity and a good work ethic out of this group, but you’ll get hard results!”
Mallorie Rasberry
Laurel Main Street
“We are fully convinced that partnering with Bethany was the single most important step we took.
She is brilliant in so many facets of business, from the concepts that she has illustrated so clearly, to her grasp of the people element, to incredible ideas that just seem to appear with ease at the exact moment a direction is needed!”
Lauren Zumwalt
Rasberry Greene