So let's say your'e doing a cleanse or an intermittent fast... and you’re invited to go out with friends to your favorite restaurant. You go, although the only thing you can have is filtered water with lemon and maybe a large bowl of kale. It’s not the same right? You realize that having a full belly at your favorite restaurant is what makes it your “favorite”. Boo. That’s how shopping felt for me for a long time when I made a commitment to ethical shopping. It was like a hardcore diet and everywhere I went there was a buffet of forbidden...

    One week ago, I got to do the BIG REVEAL and shared with volunteers and newcomers about our upcoming Capsule Collections.    These collections will come quarterly in coordinating pieces so that you can effortlessly accessorize.But here is the best part…..    This isn’t just another subscription box that crams us with stuff…..   These subscription boxes tackle the orphan crisis in Haiti head-on by providing jobs for people who want to keep their children out of orphanages.   Some facts that will blow your mind: - 80% of the world's orphans have one or two living parent's ...

Read about Athleta here.    There is a scene in Mr. Deeds (a 2002 Adam Sandler comedy) where Mr. Deeds has to try to convince a room full of angry shareholders to sell back their shares so that His uncle’s company and legacy doesn’t get broken up and scattered to the wind. One of the naysaying shareholders stands up and says—“So are you trying to convince us to hate money?”   Everyone in the room laughs at Mr. Deeds but in the end—he manages to remind these investors that there is more to life than making money. Sweet. Happy. The...

Julienne Frantz started a micro-finance ministry to empower women to keep their families together.  I wrote this entry 4 years ago but have updated it to share with you about the impact we are making in Haiti! Thank you! As I rock my Stella girl to sleep I am mystified by the love that I possess for this pudgy ball of flesh that snuggles into my chest. I think about this instinctive knowledge buried inside every mother—that this little baby belongs to me and her life is precious. I am connected to her forever. A child’s life is precious.  In...

A little over 4 years ago, I gathered a few of my friends at Black Walnut Cafe and shared with them about this crazy idea to start a hybrid business/ministry that employed street boys by making jewelry. WHAT!?  Here is how the convo went down: "So here is the plan....we are going to rely on orphaned boys who don't speak English and don't know how to make jewelry to make beautiful jewelry in Haiti and we are going to sell it in the U.S. All the profits will go back to support more boys who age out of orphanages.... and...