• Just an old soul living in a 24 year old girl’s body ✨📽🎞 10 points for commenting the title or motion picture of this song 🎶
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    Just an old soul living in a 24 year old girl’s body ✨📽🎞 10 points for commenting the title or motion picture of this song 🎶
  • My greatest gift in life has been having a front row seat to watching Gretchen Huijskens live her life. A lot of new moms ask me what, from a daughter’s point of view, my mom did right + my answer is always the same: She continued working to bring about justice even after she had children. As a little girl, I saw a strong, independent woman leave home every so often to fight on behalf of those less fortunate + that taught me that doing so was IMPORTANT and worth SACRIFICE. In 24 years, she has never once said so with her words but only ever with her actions. Happy Mother’s Day, mom! 🖤 . And Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers we partner with around the world through @tradesofhope! I am so in awe of their strength + resilience as they leave their backgrounds of poverty + provide for their children like never before. They are the matriarchs of hope for their generations to come!
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    My greatest gift in life has been having a front row seat to watching Gretchen Huijskens live her life. A lot of new moms ask me what, from a daughter’s point of view, my mom did right + my answer is always the same: She continued working to bring about justice even after she had children. As a little girl, I saw a strong, independent woman leave home every so often to fight on behalf of those less fortunate + that taught me that doing so was IMPORTANT and worth SACRIFICE. In 24 years, she has never once said so with her words but only ever with her actions. Happy Mother’s Day, mom! 🖤 . And Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers we partner with around the world through @tradesofhope! I am so in awe of their strength + resilience as they leave their backgrounds of poverty + provide for their children like never before. They are the matriarchs of hope for their generations to come!
  • I’ve loved spending the week in Florida with my @tradesofhope team in our offices. They are the best + pour so much of themselves out to serve our Artisans. I’m so thankful everyday that we get to create jobs for women around the world who are overcoming their backgrounds of poverty to have safe and dignified jobs. So they can keep their children instead of giving them to orphanages. So they can find a new life after being trafficked. So they can become the heroes of their own stories. They are so strong, so resilient. . Our team pulled of an amazing photoshoot for our Fall 2019 Line today + it has me so excited for the future. It was our best shoot in @tradesofhope history! I am so, so proud of what we created today. Now it’s off to get tacos at the beach with my brother before heading home tomorrow! 💕🌊🌮
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    I’ve loved spending the week in Florida with my @tradesofhope team in our offices. They are the best + pour so much of themselves out to serve our Artisans. I’m so thankful everyday that we get to create jobs for women around the world who are overcoming their backgrounds of poverty to have safe and dignified jobs. So they can keep their children instead of giving them to orphanages. So they can find a new life after being trafficked. So they can become the heroes of their own stories. They are so strong, so resilient. . Our team pulled of an amazing photoshoot for our Fall 2019 Line today + it has me so excited for the future. It was our best shoot in @tradesofhope history! I am so, so proud of what we created today. Now it’s off to get tacos at the beach with my brother before heading home tomorrow! 💕🌊🌮
  • I think about deleting my Instagram about once a week 🥀 . I hate adding to noise or feeling a lack of purpose. I am bored to tears by doing things the way “everyone else” does things. And I am completely uninterested in photos + posts that are anything but 100% me. ✨ . But sweet strangers (now friends) sent sweet letters to my DMs. And I was reminded of this truth: when you offer your best self to the world, it never returns empty. Whether you have 1k or 1m followers. Whether your life is unique or you’re just being faithful with what you have. Whether you charismatically call people forward or gently comfort the wallflower. . This app is what we make it — used for others or used for ourselves, to grow a business or to waste time, to send out light or spread negativity. So here’s the new HEALTHY IG plan: - throw out the “feed rules” (I threw mine out because rules are dumb and rules that lessen you are even dumber) - edit your photos YOUR way (I just made new presents that weren’t trendy, but very vintagey Elisabeth) - create your art + connect with people you like, resist posting just to post - do NOT waste time scrolling. Post, reply to messages, like a few posts, and get awaaaay from your phone . If you want to use this app to reflect the true YOU more but are unsure if you can go against the trends, I give you permission. Here is your permission slip: 💌
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    I think about deleting my Instagram about once a week 🥀 . I hate adding to noise or feeling a lack of purpose. I am bored to tears by doing things the way “everyone else” does things. And I am completely uninterested in photos + posts that are anything but 100% me. ✨ . But sweet strangers (now friends) sent sweet letters to my DMs. And I was reminded of this truth: when you offer your best self to the world, it never returns empty. Whether you have 1k or 1m followers. Whether your life is unique or you’re just being faithful with what you have. Whether you charismatically call people forward or gently comfort the wallflower. . This app is what we make it — used for others or used for ourselves, to grow a business or to waste time, to send out light or spread negativity. So here’s the new HEALTHY IG plan: - throw out the “feed rules” (I threw mine out because rules are dumb and rules that lessen you are even dumber) - edit your photos YOUR way (I just made new presents that weren’t trendy, but very vintagey Elisabeth) - create your art + connect with people you like, resist posting just to post - do NOT waste time scrolling. Post, reply to messages, like a few posts, and get awaaaay from your phone . If you want to use this app to reflect the true YOU more but are unsure if you can go against the trends, I give you permission. Here is your permission slip: 💌
  • I’ve been in Florida working in our @tradesofhope offices (collaborating and creating and enjoying the energy of this amazing team!), and it has been sooo nice going INTO work! 🖥💕 Usually I work from my apartment in DC, and it is nooot glamorous. Who works from home and can relate? 🙋‍♀️ Work and chores get all mixed together + it’s not the most inspiring environment. I also realize I focus a lot more on taking care of myself. I eat meals intentionally (not like the sugary meal above, that one’s just prettier 🌸) and healthy and prioritize rest when I leave home for the day and leave work at the office. 🙌🏼 . Any other entrepreneurs on here who work from home? Do you like it? What do you do to make working from home enjoyable and productive? I need to be re-inspired for when I’m back in DC! ✨
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    I’ve been in Florida working in our @tradesofhope offices (collaborating and creating and enjoying the energy of this amazing team!), and it has been sooo nice going INTO work! 🖥💕 Usually I work from my apartment in DC, and it is nooot glamorous. Who works from home and can relate? 🙋‍♀️ Work and chores get all mixed together + it’s not the most inspiring environment. I also realize I focus a lot more on taking care of myself. I eat meals intentionally (not like the sugary meal above, that one’s just prettier 🌸) and healthy and prioritize rest when I leave home for the day and leave work at the office. 🙌🏼 . Any other entrepreneurs on here who work from home? Do you like it? What do you do to make working from home enjoyable and productive? I need to be re-inspired for when I’m back in DC! ✨
  • Me smiling at how much I am *not* going back to school when my master’s program is done. Only one internship with the State Department + one thesis to go. Turned in my last paper last night + I’m going to enjoy what it feels like to only have a job like wise, normal people do for a while lol ✌🏼
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    Me smiling at how much I am *not* going back to school when my master’s program is done. Only one internship with the State Department + one thesis to go. Turned in my last paper last night + I’m going to enjoy what it feels like to only have a job like wise, normal people do for a while lol ✌🏼
  • There's an old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays, Please, please, please give me the grace to win the lottery. He cries out for months. Finally God exasperatedly looks down at the begging man and says wearily, My son, please, please, please, JUST BUY A TICKET. 🎟 Happiness is the result of personal effort. Whether the effort is buying lottery tickets to be in the game, choosing to be disciplined because feeling behind is the worst, or choosing to take things one step at a time instead of needing to know everything. Here’s what we’re NOT going to do this week: - feel like a victim, because at any point of the story, we can make a change - feel restricted by circumstances, because everything is temporary - feel the need to be in control, because you never truly were + free-falling is so much more fun while enjoying the butterflies in your belly than worrying about how you will land ☀️ There is always a choice of action, an opportunity to decide how you will respond. To stay in the dark or to rise like the sun. To wait for a miracle or for a savior, or to just freakin’ buy a ticket. 💪🏼💕✨ ——— Alternative caption: I hiked to the Monastery in Petra (which is as far back as you can go in the Wonder of the World city) in a SKIRT. 🙌🏼 Elisabeth dressed like a girl - 1 Ancient steps carved into a canyon - 0
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    There's an old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays, Please, please, please give me the grace to win the lottery. He cries out for months. Finally God exasperatedly looks down at the begging man and says wearily, My son, please, please, please, JUST BUY A TICKET. 🎟 Happiness is the result of personal effort. Whether the effort is buying lottery tickets to be in the game, choosing to be disciplined because feeling behind is the worst, or choosing to take things one step at a time instead of needing to know everything. Here’s what we’re NOT going to do this week: - feel like a victim, because at any point of the story, we can make a change - feel restricted by circumstances, because everything is temporary - feel the need to be in control, because you never truly were + free-falling is so much more fun while enjoying the butterflies in your belly than worrying about how you will land ☀️ There is always a choice of action, an opportunity to decide how you will respond. To stay in the dark or to rise like the sun. To wait for a miracle or for a savior, or to just freakin’ buy a ticket. 💪🏼💕✨ ——— Alternative caption: I hiked to the Monastery in Petra (which is as far back as you can go in the Wonder of the World city) in a SKIRT. 🙌🏼 Elisabeth dressed like a girl - 1 Ancient steps carved into a canyon - 0
  • When you’re *ready* for the weekend.😴🐶 (Still waiting on a red breed dog emoji, but since it took 3 years to get *one* redhead girl emoji, I’m not holding my breath. This is an open letter @apple.)
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    When you’re *ready* for the weekend.😴🐶 (Still waiting on a red breed dog emoji, but since it took 3 years to get *one* redhead girl emoji, I’m not holding my breath. This is an open letter @apple.)
  • Sitting in a coffee shop on Pennsylvania Avenue but wishing I was sipping on these coconut + cinnamon lattes with @heyhannahboyd again in Puerto Rico ☕️✈️ . Your girl’s trying to finish the last few pages of her last paper to END the semester (it’s about strategizing entertainment media to embed female equality messages in developing communities 🤓). Sorry for my procrastination stories earlier. But I’m so, so thankful for my IG friends, whom I’ve never met but still kicked my butt to crush the rest of this grad school semester the only way I know how 💪🏼💕 Feeling very supported and like I’m finishing this paper with an army of girlfriends behind me 😘😘😘
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    Sitting in a coffee shop on Pennsylvania Avenue but wishing I was sipping on these coconut + cinnamon lattes with @heyhannahboyd again in Puerto Rico ☕️✈️ . Your girl’s trying to finish the last few pages of her last paper to END the semester (it’s about strategizing entertainment media to embed female equality messages in developing communities 🤓). Sorry for my procrastination stories earlier. But I’m so, so thankful for my IG friends, whom I’ve never met but still kicked my butt to crush the rest of this grad school semester the only way I know how 💪🏼💕 Feeling very supported and like I’m finishing this paper with an army of girlfriends behind me 😘😘😘