Today we’d like to introduce you to Abbegayle Stallons.
Hi Abbegayle, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I am a Georgia native, born in Marietta, and if I look closely enough, I can trace my career back to curiosity. I was homeschooled until my junior year of high school and when I think back to my early days, I credit my mom a lot for her remarkable way of treating creativity not as a hobby, but as a responsibility. Between extracurriculars, household duties, and a steady stream of encouragement to think differently, I learned how to imagine, organize, and tell stories before I ever knew those were marketable skills.
I wrote constantly. Fictional stories at first,one about a girl named Delilah Lilac who was loosely based on the idea I had of myself and my little sister. Then onto journals filled with observations and ideas. I even started a book club with friends, sending monthly emails to their moms from my mom’s AOL account (again thank you mom) complete with themed details pulled from the books and thoughtful reflection questions. In hindsight, it was the earliest version of brand storytelling, community building, and strategy.
That instinct sharpened in middle school when my grandfather, who owned an antique shop in Rockmart, Georgia, needed help setting up a Facebook page and an eBay store. I taught myself how to manage his social media, designed his first business cards, and spent far too much time experimenting on VistaPrint in 2013. Around the same time, I began borrowing my mom’s digital camera to photograph antiques, our pets, the trees, and the land where I grew up, often recruiting my younger sister as my very patient and still gorgeous model. Somewhere between that and watching Samantha Jones take on the world of PR, watching SITC far too young with my grandmother, I started to realize I wanted a career built around communication, connection, and storytelling.
In high school, while living in Nashville, Tennessee, I received my first camera for Christmas and began blogging and photographing more intentionally. When I started college in Chattanooga in 2019, I declared a marketing major with a minor in multimedia journalism, landed my first official photoshoot, and wrote for a local publication for the first time. And then, like it did for so many of us, COVID changed everything. I moved home to Rincon, Georgia, transferred to Georgia Southern University, and recommitted to my roots. I immersed myself in the university’s marketing program, got hired by peers and friends of friends for graduation photos, worked with the botanical gardens and local businesses, and eventually declared public relations as my major.
That decision opened the door to my first internship at a nonprofit in Savannah, where I learned digital marketing, nonprofit communications, and event management. More importantly, it clarified something I had felt all along. My heart was in helping businesses and people who cared deeply about what they were building and who they were building it for. Since then, I have worked with agencies, startups, and Fortune 500 companies across the East Coast, spanning industries from lifestyle and wellness to fintech. No matter the scale, the work that stayed with me was always the same. Telling the full story, with the idea that so many businesses start just how mine did: with a little girl scribbling big ideas in a notebook while her dad tinkered around the garage.
In 2024, while juggling several freelance projects, I had a realization that felt both terrifying and inevitable. I wanted to build something of my own. That became Stallons Media Group, founded on the belief that PR and marketing belong together, and that when done thoughtfully, they can help businesses grow in ways that are strategic, human, and deeply rooted in connection.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Has it been a smooth road? No. And I’m not sure any story worth telling ever is.
I have been deeply blessed, both personally and professionally, and I am quick to give God credit for the growth, opportunities, and protection that have carried me here. Still, blessing does not mean ease. Much of my career has unfolded in the world of startups and nonprofits, spaces where change is constant and certainty is rare. One minute you are building something with clarity and momentum, and the next, budgets can disappear and your priorities change overnight.
When I look back to nearly three years ago, when I graduated, it’s striking how little of my life looks the same. Personally, financially, and professionally, I’ve faced unexpected changes that forced me to pause and take inventory of what I wanted, who I was and the overall “why” of life.
At every fork in the road, quitting can feel like the simplest option. As someone who moved often in high school, I’ve had to confront a familiar instinct that whispers, it’s okay to just start over somewhere else. But adulthood, and building something meaningful, has taught me the difference between starting fresh and settling. Learning when to stay, when to push through discomfort, and when perseverance is the lesson has been one of the hardest and most formative parts of my journey.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Stallons Media Group?
Stallons Media Group came out of a question I kept asking myself while watching the world of PR and marketing change in real time. How are people actually finding brands now, and why are we still pretending the old answers are enough?
Earned media doesn’t live where it used to. Paid strategies shift constantly. SEO has quietly turned into AEO, and audiences aren’t moving in straight lines anymore. They’re searching, scrolling, asking questions, trusting recommendations, and forming opinions in places no single playbook can fully predict. My work lives in that in-between space.
When I work with a business, I don’t arrive with a formula. I start by listening. Where are you now. What are you trying to build. What have you tried that worked, and what didn’t. From there, we look for the thing that’s already there but hasn’t been named yet. The unique pull, the reason someone should care.
I work with companies of all sizes and industries at every stage. The only real requirement is readiness. You don’t need everything figured out. You just need to be willing to begin. I’ve learned that clarity often comes after you start moving, not before. My role is to help shape that movement!
What sets Stallons Media Group apart isn’t a service list. It’s how personally I take the work. I bring my own time, attention, and lived experience into every project. I think about my clients when I’m not working on their accounts. I notice patterns, ideas, opportunities. I don’t just work with clients I care about. I care about the clients I work with.
If we knew you growing up, how would we have described you?
loved organization. I loved fixing problems. I felt a quiet responsibility to make things right, even when I couldn’t quite explain why. That sense of order and care showed up early and stayed with me.
But deeper than that, I loved reading and writing, crocheting, and spending hours outside with my younger sister on our family property in North Georgia. I was raised by animal lovers, and naturally became one myself. Our home was always full. Dogs, cats, guinea pigs, fish, frogs, birds, hamsters, pot-bellied pigs, the whole nine yards. My pride and joy was my basset hound, Blue, who I got when I was around six years old. He was a wanderer and couldn’t roam freely like the other dogs, so we walked. Constantly. Probably hundreds of miles around the property over the years.
Those walks became my thinking time. My place to talk to myself (and Blue and God), to rant, to imagine, to work through ideas. Some of my best thoughts came with Blue by my side, wandering without anywhere specific to be.
I spent afternoons “training” barn kittens to climb trees with my sister, riding four-wheelers with my dad, watching my Papa chop wood, building forts with friends, and soaking up an extraordinary amount of family time. I grew up doing things simply for the joy of doing them, surrounded by people and animals I loved.
In many ways, that’s still who I am.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://stallonsmediagroupllc.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stallonsmediagroup/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Stallons-Media-Group/61582821391702/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stallons-media-group-llc
