Founder & CEO, LifeWeaver

Marisa J. W. Humphrey

Marisa Humphrey is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and television journalist with a three-decade record of building companies at the intersection of creativity, operations, and human connection. She is the founder and CEO of LifeWeaver.ai, a platform shaped by her lifelong work in media, design, and technology.

Marisa has founded and co-founded businesses across retail, manufacturing, and technology. She co-founded Real Deals, a home décor franchise with fifty locations across the United States and Canada. She founded and operated one of the largest independent furniture stores in Georgia for eighteen years, co-founded a wedding and event venue, and built Jackson and Harrison Imports into a global sourcing and logistics company.

She also co-founded a home décor manufacturing operation in China that has produced products sold in major U.S. retailers for more than a decade. She founded Marisa Jill’s Boutique, which later evolved into The Fashion Attic by Marisa Jill, an online brand that built a national following of hundreds of thousands of customers and followers.

Before entrepreneurship, Marisa worked as a television reporter and journalist. She held roles with CNN, Georgia Public Television’s Lawmakers, and The Moscow Guardian in Russia, developing a deep respect for story, truth, and the power of personal narrative.

Marisa earned her journalism degree from Brigham Young University, with international study in Mexico and Russia. She speaks fluent Spanish and brings both analytical rigor and emotional intelligence to everything she builds. She lives in North Atlanta with her husband Jeff. They have three children. Marisa continues to create technology and businesses centered on memory, meaning, and legacy.