La Jaxx: the Colombian Street Artist who Advocates for Women Through Art
Women’s Empowerment Through Public Art It’s one thing to scroll the newsfeed of our various social media platforms day in and day out, where we’re constantly bombarded with all varieties of information, from election issues to the merits of overnight oats. But it’s an entirely different experience to walk down our city streets and literally see signs that speak directly to us, ...
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8 Different Ways to Access Hidden Money in Your Life
If someone told you there was a stash of cash laying around in your house somewhere, would you not do everything in your power to find it? Well, we’re here to tell you there is. It may not be a wad of hundreds neatly bundled in crisp new bills with a pink bow tied around it, but believe us when ...
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Francesca Kennedy Helps the Guatemalan Water Crisis Through her Sandals
Meet Francesca Kennedy, the founder of Ix Style, a socially conscious fashion company that donates 15% of their profits to provide clean drinking water to children in Guatemala where her family is originally from. As their website explains, “Ix” is the Mayan word for water, one of the most essential, magical, and transformative substances in the world. Many have called Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan ...
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9 Ways to Right the Wrongs of Your Life
There’s no getting around the reality that life–which we know is full of unpredictability and endless minutiae–can often feel overwhelming, stressful and downright hard. Sometimes it seems like all we do is move from problem to problem, burning up our mental bandwidth to troubleshoot all the different aspects of our individual worlds, a constant putting out of fires that leaves very ...
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Becoming Self Made is Better Than a Diet
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been guilty of putting your diet off until Monday…until the holidays are over, until after your vacation, until you stop breastfeeding, until after your birthday party, until that pint of artisanal cookie dough ice cream is long gone from your fridge, and on and on the list can go. The problem with this paradigm, ...
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How to Use Your Discrimination Experience to Ignite a Brand
No matter how advanced we consider ourselves as a society, or how much the chatter of tolerance and equality seems to fill the pages of our news feeds, let’s be honest: discrimination is still a thing. It’s a thing for women—and it’s especially a thing for multicultural women. The double whammy of being both a woman and a cultural minority ...
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7 Ways to Create Your Side Hustle
When it comes to becoming SELF MADE, we talk a lot about flexing your entrepreneurial muscle. But that said, we also like to keep it real—which means we’re clear on the fact that everyone isn’t always at a point in their lives where they can drop everything and launch a business. So while we wholeheartedly advocate a message of getting ...
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5 Famous Immigrants who Made it to the Top
It’s no mystery or surprise that the cultural landscape of this country grows more diverse by the day. Multiculturalism and immigrant success stories are the new normal, which means that in many ways that immigrants and their children now drive the MO of the nation’s value systems and ideals—which is a great thing! “Immigrants are the true believers and the ...
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