• Some days, a girl just needs to put on a sparkly ̶c̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶ headband + handle the hard stuff in front of her. I’m moving out of my dreamy home + saying bye to my roomie of 02 years this weekend.🤍 Been crying all morning, it’s fine. We’re fine. ⁣⠀ Sometimes, I’ll also wear fake strings of pearls around my house just to make me feel better. Maybe for you it cute shoes. 👠 Or a drive to your favorite spot.🌊 Or a favorite flavor of ice cream.🍦 Or a $6 Starbucks.☕️ ⁣⠀ Whatever your crown, your happy weapon of choice to get through the day — grab that thing, and then handle it. We are built for it. Always rooting for you. Xx -EH
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    Some days, a girl just needs to put on a sparkly ̶c̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶ headband + handle the hard stuff in front of her. I’m moving out of my dreamy home + saying bye to my roomie of 02 years this weekend.🤍 Been crying all morning, it’s fine. We’re fine. ⁣⠀ Sometimes, I’ll also wear fake strings of pearls around my house just to make me feel better. Maybe for you it cute shoes. 👠 Or a drive to your favorite spot.🌊 Or a favorite flavor of ice cream.🍦 Or a $6 Starbucks.☕️ ⁣⠀ Whatever your crown, your happy weapon of choice to get through the day — grab that thing, and then handle it. We are built for it. Always rooting for you. Xx -EH
  • The key is to realize you’re in ‘the glory days’ while you’re still in them.✨ Film drop from the night that will stay with us wherever life takes us! 🎞🤍🍾
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    The key is to realize you’re in ‘the glory days’ while you’re still in them.✨ Film drop from the night that will stay with us wherever life takes us! 🎞🤍🍾
  • Hey, Elisabeth here! 👋🏼💋🤍 ⁣⠀ I’m Founder + Chief Creative Officer at Trades of Hope, a fashion brand creating equality around the world by creating jobs for women in need. 💪🏼 I’m really passionate about gender equality + it’s the privilege of a life time to work in poverty alleviation to empower women. 🤍 ⁣⠀ I earned my Masters degree in social change communication (during quarantine lol 🎓), and as soon as that goal was achieved, I wanted to start something new... ⁣⠀ So, I started the Gumption Edition! It’s a lifestyle magazine to help women elevate + create the lives of their dreams. 📰💄 I get tagged weekly in stories of women winding down with drinks after a long day of work to read it + it warms my heart! You can subscribe for free in my bio link! 🤍 ⁣⠀ I live in Washington D.C. + looove being a city girl where everything goes down. 🏛🌸 But I met many of you while I was living in London, working with the State Department, and I dream of living there again one day! 🇬🇧 ⁣⠀ 👯‍♀️ YOUR TURN! What’s a passion or dream of yours?! Let me know below! 👇🏼 I’m all about firey passion + big dreams around here, so no wrong answers! 💋
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    Hey, Elisabeth here! 👋🏼💋🤍 ⁣⠀ I’m Founder + Chief Creative Officer at Trades of Hope, a fashion brand creating equality around the world by creating jobs for women in need. 💪🏼 I’m really passionate about gender equality + it’s the privilege of a life time to work in poverty alleviation to empower women. 🤍 ⁣⠀ I earned my Masters degree in social change communication (during quarantine lol 🎓), and as soon as that goal was achieved, I wanted to start something new... ⁣⠀ So, I started the Gumption Edition! It’s a lifestyle magazine to help women elevate + create the lives of their dreams. 📰💄 I get tagged weekly in stories of women winding down with drinks after a long day of work to read it + it warms my heart! You can subscribe for free in my bio link! 🤍 ⁣⠀ I live in Washington D.C. + looove being a city girl where everything goes down. 🏛🌸 But I met many of you while I was living in London, working with the State Department, and I dream of living there again one day! 🇬🇧 ⁣⠀ 👯‍♀️ YOUR TURN! What’s a passion or dream of yours?! Let me know below! 👇🏼 I’m all about firey passion + big dreams around here, so no wrong answers! 💋
  • The reviews are in... 📰💄 I’ve been so moved by your DM’s about #theGumptionEdition. It such a thrill to create these weekly issues for you all, to be a part of your winding down, your dreaming, your creation of your dream life. It’s WEDNESDAY which means another issue is going out today! Subscribe for free through the link in my bio to receive today’s issue — it has aaaall the tips + mind shifts to stop procrastinating! Every issue takes a holistic approach to helping you elevate your life — growth, style, food, music, and career. Are you on the list? 💋
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    The reviews are in... 📰💄 I’ve been so moved by your DM’s about #theGumptionEdition. It such a thrill to create these weekly issues for you all, to be a part of your winding down, your dreaming, your creation of your dream life. It’s WEDNESDAY which means another issue is going out today! Subscribe for free through the link in my bio to receive today’s issue — it has aaaall the tips + mind shifts to stop procrastinating! Every issue takes a holistic approach to helping you elevate your life — growth, style, food, music, and career. Are you on the list? 💋
  • It is your JOB as a visionary, a creative, an entrepreneur, a LEADER to always push the envelope. To do things no one has seen before or thought of yet. 🤍 ⁣⠀ Sounds exciting and fun and sexy! But being a visionary inherently means you’re bringing a new thing to a structure that is built on “but all of these other things have worked…” (This is true in situations from business, to parenting, to politics, to fashion, to art, etc.) ⁣⠀ I used to be so insecure when people didn’t “get” my ideas. I thought my ideas where bad if people didn’t “get” them immediately. But they weren’t bad; they were new. And for some, new is scary. At the very least, new is hard for some to visualize. ⁣⠀ That’s our job as visionaries: to bring about things that no one has seen or thought of before. We have a gift to seeing how things COULD work out before others see it. If we worry what people think, new things – needed, necessary things – will never come to life.🤍 ⁣⠀ If you don’t get any pushback initially, that’s an indicator that you’re not really doing anything new.🥀 ⁣⠀ It’s one thing to re-post graphics on Instagram about how women can be leaders and bosses and have an equal number of seats at the table. It’s quite a different thing entirely to become a woman who actually trusts herself as a strong leader.💋 ⁣⠀ Excerpt from #theGumptionEdition issue 06 | ft photo session with @kaylammendez 🥀
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    It is your JOB as a visionary, a creative, an entrepreneur, a LEADER to always push the envelope. To do things no one has seen before or thought of yet. 🤍 ⁣⠀ Sounds exciting and fun and sexy! But being a visionary inherently means you’re bringing a new thing to a structure that is built on “but all of these other things have worked…” (This is true in situations from business, to parenting, to politics, to fashion, to art, etc.) ⁣⠀ I used to be so insecure when people didn’t “get” my ideas. I thought my ideas where bad if people didn’t “get” them immediately. But they weren’t bad; they were new. And for some, new is scary. At the very least, new is hard for some to visualize. ⁣⠀ That’s our job as visionaries: to bring about things that no one has seen or thought of before. We have a gift to seeing how things COULD work out before others see it. If we worry what people think, new things – needed, necessary things – will never come to life.🤍 ⁣⠀ If you don’t get any pushback initially, that’s an indicator that you’re not really doing anything new.🥀 ⁣⠀ It’s one thing to re-post graphics on Instagram about how women can be leaders and bosses and have an equal number of seats at the table. It’s quite a different thing entirely to become a woman who actually trusts herself as a strong leader.💋 ⁣⠀ Excerpt from #theGumptionEdition issue 06 | ft photo session with @kaylammendez 🥀
  • Barely posted on IG this weekend. Too busy making memories with the best friends. 🤍 Started with a 4-hour outdoor brunch at our favorite neighborhood restaurant.🥂 Ended with a fun night tour of D.C. monuments with friends.🏛 ⁣⠀ I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Invest in your girlfriends. And please, please start when you’re young and unmarried. They will be your North Star in the whirlwind of changes in your 20’s. ⁣⠀ Also — you know that city you’ve been thinking of? That place or country or haven you’ve been dreaming of moving to? GO. Even if it kind of doesn’t make sense or feels random. The scary adventure, the city, the people you meet there will open up your life in 100 ways! ⁣⠀ Xx — your neighborhood girl forever changed by the city and her girlfriends
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    Barely posted on IG this weekend. Too busy making memories with the best friends. 🤍 Started with a 4-hour outdoor brunch at our favorite neighborhood restaurant.🥂 Ended with a fun night tour of D.C. monuments with friends.🏛 ⁣⠀ I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Invest in your girlfriends. And please, please start when you’re young and unmarried. They will be your North Star in the whirlwind of changes in your 20’s. ⁣⠀ Also — you know that city you’ve been thinking of? That place or country or haven you’ve been dreaming of moving to? GO. Even if it kind of doesn’t make sense or feels random. The scary adventure, the city, the people you meet there will open up your life in 100 ways! ⁣⠀ Xx — your neighborhood girl forever changed by the city and her girlfriends
  • I’d much rather *edit* VOGUE than be on the cover — though I’m living my dream editing our @tradesofhope lookbooks — but tiktok made me do these. 😎 ⁣⠀ But when it comes to YOUR ~BiG~ dreams... do you really believe they’re possible? Like...truly? This is why I ask... If you don’t believe WHOLEHEARTEDLY they’re possible, they won’t happen. ⁣⠀ Write down your big goals as if they will DEFINITELY happen: 01. I will... 02. I will... 03. I will... ⁣⠀ If you don’t believe what you’re writing down is true, WE👏🏼CAN👏🏼FIX👏🏼THAT.👏🏼 ⁣⠀ That list you just made? Tape it to your bathroom mirror. That way, you’ll start your day with the GREATER vision in mind. And you’ll be motivated / reminded that the mundane tasks for the day are part of creating your dream life. ⁣⠀ Success is 80% mindset. 20% action. If you don’t BELIEVE your work will pay off, you’re not going to show up to your tasks with the necessary moxie + gumption to make them happen. ⁣⠀ Your BELIEFS become your THOUGHTS. Your THOUGHTS become your ACTIONS. Your ACTIONS become your HABITS. Your HABITS become your SUCCESS. ⁣⠀ Like + follow for more career / lifestyle tips to create the life of your dreams. I got you, boss. 💋
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    I’d much rather *edit* VOGUE than be on the cover — though I’m living my dream editing our @tradesofhope lookbooks — but tiktok made me do these. 😎 ⁣⠀ But when it comes to YOUR ~BiG~ dreams... do you really believe they’re possible? Like...truly? This is why I ask... If you don’t believe WHOLEHEARTEDLY they’re possible, they won’t happen. ⁣⠀ Write down your big goals as if they will DEFINITELY happen: 01. I will... 02. I will... 03. I will... ⁣⠀ If you don’t believe what you’re writing down is true, WE👏🏼CAN👏🏼FIX👏🏼THAT.👏🏼 ⁣⠀ That list you just made? Tape it to your bathroom mirror. That way, you’ll start your day with the GREATER vision in mind. And you’ll be motivated / reminded that the mundane tasks for the day are part of creating your dream life. ⁣⠀ Success is 80% mindset. 20% action. If you don’t BELIEVE your work will pay off, you’re not going to show up to your tasks with the necessary moxie + gumption to make them happen. ⁣⠀ Your BELIEFS become your THOUGHTS. Your THOUGHTS become your ACTIONS. Your ACTIONS become your HABITS. Your HABITS become your SUCCESS. ⁣⠀ Like + follow for more career / lifestyle tips to create the life of your dreams. I got you, boss. 💋
  • She’s a birthday girl, just enjoying her Starbuck’s. 🥳🧁🥂💋 Swipe to the end to see her “whipped-cream-drunk.” 😂😂 Just a low quality iPhone photo of a rainy day, everyday moment I’ll probably never forget because of these videos. 🤍📽 #storyofember
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    She’s a birthday girl, just enjoying her Starbuck’s. 🥳🧁🥂💋 Swipe to the end to see her “whipped-cream-drunk.” 😂😂 Just a low quality iPhone photo of a rainy day, everyday moment I’ll probably never forget because of these videos. 🤍📽 #storyofember
  • Swipe to see the first moment Ember and I met 😩🤍📽 Today is her 5th birthday and I’m sooo emotional! We’ve spent all of my 20’s together + every morning we cuddle and I whisper, “You’re my best friend and love of my life.” 😂😂😂 We’ve been through moving cities, apartments, roommates, and every single mundane everyday moment together. So, raise your glasses for the quirkiest, sweetest, clingiest redhead pup — who’s afraid of anything on wheels: people on bikes, scooters, wheel chairs (they move too fast, she doesn’t trust it) — there’s no one else with whom I would have rather spent the first 1/2 of my twenties! 🤍🤍🤍🤍 #StoryofEmber
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    Swipe to see the first moment Ember and I met 😩🤍📽 Today is her 5th birthday and I’m sooo emotional! We’ve spent all of my 20’s together + every morning we cuddle and I whisper, “You’re my best friend and love of my life.” 😂😂😂 We’ve been through moving cities, apartments, roommates, and every single mundane everyday moment together. So, raise your glasses for the quirkiest, sweetest, clingiest redhead pup — who’s afraid of anything on wheels: people on bikes, scooters, wheel chairs (they move too fast, she doesn’t trust it) — there’s no one else with whom I would have rather spent the first 1/2 of my twenties! 🤍🤍🤍🤍 #StoryofEmber