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= Megan Scraper =

Early Childhood
Born in Vancouver Canada on June 23, 1989, Mindy the Lion, born Megan Scraper, lived through an active childhood filled with various activities such as taekwondo, ballet, and soccer. Her endless tenacity led Scraper to become a quality athlete, whose main asset was speed. She was very active in her community as she took part in every soccer and field hockey game she could. Her hard work paid of as Scraper earned an athletic scholarship at Kent State University, where she continued her studies. Two years later she transferred to the University of Western Ontario, where she finished her BA in Media, Information and Technoculture, while also serving as captain for the Mustangs field hockey team. Scraper landed her first job at Edelman, a international publics relation firm immediately after graduation.

Digital Career & Online Presence
After quitting her 9-5 job at Edelman, in 2012, Megan Scarper introduced herself to the realm of social media as social media engagement manager for a cruise line. This job allowed her to work from wherever she pleased, which gave her the freedom to travel and pursue her passion for photography. Upon the culmination of her contract with the cruise line in 2015, Scraper started her own company which she called Social Lume, a social media marketing and audience growth strategies firm. She spent a large part of her career being sponsored to travel to luxury destinations and hotels in return for advertising through her own growing Instagram page “Mindy the Lion” is the name Scarper gave her online presence. Her instagram page @Mindy was used to photograph and document her travels. Her page reached a following of more than 153 thousand followers. Apart from instagram, she was also active on Twitter with the handle @mindythelion.

Professional Life
Besides her career on social media, Scarper had a professional career as a book writer. Through her experiences, she was able to successfully publish one book and two courses. Her book Not cut out for the 9-5 explains how she was able to unify her passion with her job, it also includes tips, anecdotes and personal life experiences. Because of the current growth in the use of social media, this book is mainly appealing to the 21st century youth. Scarper’s main goal with the book, as said in her web page is, “If you know what you don’t want in life, but you don’t know what you do want; or if you have ever wondered how to set up a lifestyle on your own terms, Not Cut Out for the 9-5 is a short, digestible, and honest recount of what it takes to figure it out.”.

Following her book, she created an online course called, Manifesting Your Ideal LifeStyle, in which she took a more personalized outlook on the creation of the perfect lifestyle. Her online course is divided into six modules; the art of visualization, the sample materials, its all in your head, priming your brain, when it gets tough, who is “the you”, the ladder of success and this is your journey.

High on Life
Scrapers rise to fame through social media was further advanced by her participation in the popular High On Life youtube channel and instagram accounts. High On Life was created in 2011 and composed of a group of seven friends who traveled and documented their adventures online. Scraper was introduced to this group by her longtime boyfriend Alex Lyakh who was a member and founder of the group. Their social media presence reached up to 1.2 million followers on instagram and over half a million subscribers on youtube.This is without including personal accounts and vlog channels. Scrapers platform was greatly beneficiated by this, not only was she able to reach millions of people, but take advantage from the many opportunities being part of the team allowed her to have.

Death
On July 3, 2018, at the age of 29, Megan Scraper drowned while trying to document her experience in Canada's, Shannon Falls. She was accompanied by her boyfriend Alex Lyakh, 30, and friend Ryker Gamble, 30. The three of them were working on their popular youtube channel “High On Life”, in which they filmed and photographed their daring travel adventures. The incident that caused the death of the three personalities initiated with Scraper slipping and falling from the falls into a pool 98ft below. As she did, Gamble and Lyakh who were with her, tried saving her from the water currents taking her down. Their failed attempt led to them falling down the falls as well.Before the incident, the Royal Canadian Mountain Police received an alert from bystanders of a group of people swimming in on of the Shannon Falls pools. The alert came shortly before reports of the incident reached authorities. Police investigation and recovery of the bodies took place that same day taking up to six hours.