CARRIE MARSHALL
Writer. Advocate. Author. Leader.
People often describe me as a jack-of-all-trades. What truly defines my work is the ability to connect ideas, people, platforms, and processes in ways that create clarity, momentum, and sustainable growth.
For more than two decades, my work has lived at the intersection of storytelling, community, leadership, and advocacy.
I’m Carrie Marshall, a Canadian writer, author, patient advocate, digital publisher, and community leader. I spent 25 years living and working in Asia, where I built publications, businesses, organizations, events, and communities—and learned that some of the most meaningful work begins simply by noticing what needs to change.
Today, much of my work is centered on chronic illness, disability, patient advocacy, and making space for voices and experiences that are too often overlooked.
This site is home to that work.
Advocacy Rooted in Lived Experience
I have lived with chronic illness and disability for many years, while continuing to write, build, lead, and advocate.
That experience fundamentally changed the way I understand healthcare, accessibility, employment, and inclusion. It has also helped me see the enormous amount of invisible work required to participate in systems that were not designed for people like me.
My advocacy is grounded in 17 years of lived experience. It is also informed by decades of professional work in communications, leadership, publishing, community building, and international business.
I believe stories can change how people understand illness.
I also believe stories should lead somewhere.
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Leadership & Community
Leadership has taken me into some unexpected rooms.
I served for six years as Chairwoman of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, working at the intersection of international business, community, government, and Canada–Taiwan relations.
I have founded and helped build organizations, led major events and initiatives, and worked across sectors. My career has been spent connecting people who might never otherwise have met.
My approach to leadership has always been practical. Listen carefully, notice what is missing, bring the right people together, and do the work.
Writing & Digital Publishing
I started publishing online in 2006 and launched My Several Worlds in 2007.
What began in the early days of independent digital publishing grew into a body of work spanning travel, culture, Taiwan, chronic illness, disability, advocacy, and personal essays.
Over the years, my writing has appeared across international publications and platforms. Meanwhile, my own sites have given me something even more valuable. They provide a place to tell my stories on my own terms.
Writing remains at the center of almost everything I do.
And sometimes it simply says: this happened, and it matters.
Books, Art & Creative Work
Creativity has always been part of how I process the world.
I write, make art and collect stories. I’m a photographer and multi talented artist and author who turns complicated experiences into things other people can hold, read, see, or recognize themselves in.
My published work includes A Coloring Adventure for Spoonies and A Writing, Art & Gratitude Journal, created specifically with the chronic illness community in mind.
My Art Studio is home to another side of that creative life: original artwork and projects created across different periods, places, and circumstances.
A Body of Work Built Across Worlds
My career has never followed one neat path.
I’ve been a writer, publisher, entrepreneur, chamber leader, recruiter, event organizer, community builder, author, artist, advocate, and patient.
I’ve worked across countries, industries, cultures, and communities.
Those experiences may look unrelated on paper.
They aren’t.
They are all rooted in the same curiosity about people, systems, stories, and what happens when someone decides that something can be done differently.
Looking for My Professional Work?
My consulting, business strategy, content systems, WordPress support, writing, publishing, and digital services now have their own home.
The CM Effect helps businesses and organizations turn scattered ideas, content, and systems into something that works.
Let’s Bring Structure to the Chaos. Ready to streamline your business?
Websites. Content. Systems. Workflows.
Whether you need a new website, a site overhaul, stronger SEO, better content, smoother workflows, or help understanding the tools behind your business, I can help make things simpler, clearer, and easier to manage.
Not sure where to start? Let’s talk about your goals, challenges, and project needs.
There is always another story.
After more than two decades of publishing online, I still believe in the power of telling the truth about where we’ve been, what we’ve learned, and what needs to change.
This is where I keep mine.
Verify my experience, check my LinkedIn profile or check out my testimonials.
Within a few months, she had turned both into money-making entities, and in the process helped me to define individual characteristics for each blog (which had, pre-Carrie, offered mostly duplicate content). I recommend Carrie highly to anyone looking to bring their web presence to the next level.”
Carrie is able to efficiently, effectively and creatively utilize her own gifts to make collaborations fun and successful. She is professional and her ability to do so many things is infinite.
Her ability to honor and produce high quality materials quickly is also an amazing quality she possesses. In addition, She has suggested ideas that have been pinnacle and sent over color pallette and options which made every step of the way attainable and fun. I appreciate her hard work on the multiple past projects snd looking forward to the future ones we have lined up.
She is a great person to have on your team and is very easy to work with.
Sincerely,
Owner of Persistence The Magic Bus
January 2026