Happy Birthday to our fearless founder Mari Llewellyn!🎂
We’re so thankful for all that you do and the community you’ve built with Bloom. You’ve exemplified what it means to be a strong female founder and have truly helped us all Bloom into our best selves! 💚
**Happy Birthday!**
You are truly inspiring! I show my daughters all the amazing boss babes on LinkedIn, including you, to remind them that with hard work and determination, they can achieve anything. 💜
Warmest wishes!
Founder at AmaZest | $100M Amazon Supplement Brands Portfolio | Helping Scale D2C Supplements and Wellness Brands up to 100% in Just 120 Days on the world's largest Marketplace Amazon.
Power Couple Alert 🚨: Coco Gauff & Carol's Daughter
The announcement of Carol's Daughter partnering with tennis prodigy Coco Gauff marks a pivotal moment in beauty and sports marketing. As the first beauty brand to join Coco's portfolio, Carol's Daughter is setting a precedent in uplifting Black beauty and empowering a new generation!
🫱🏾🫲🏾 A Synergistic Partnership
Aligning with Coco Gauff, known for her authenticity and spirit, Carol's Daughter reinforces its commitment to self-expression. Coco's approach to embracing her natural texture on and off the court mirrors the brand's ethos, making this partnership a powerful narrative of shared values.
💡 Inspiring a Generation
Coco Gauff's influence extends beyond tennis, embodying a generation's confidence in individual beauty. "I'm excited to help continue their mission of empowering millions of women and little girls," Coco shared, highlighting the partnership's broader impact on promoting self-love.
👧🏾 The Power of Representation
Lisa Price, founder of Carol's Daughter, captures the essence of this collaboration: "The power of seeing someone like Coco in the world of tennis... breathes life into the adage: 'If you can see it, you can be it.'" This partnership is a testament to the influence of visibility and representation in inspiring confidence and empowerment among Black girls and women.
🏆 More Than a Sponsorship
This partnership between Coco Gauff and Carol's Daughter goes beyond traditional brand endorsements, serving as a celebration of strength, beauty, and authenticity. It underscores the importance of aligning with partners who reflect a brand’s values and mission, setting a new benchmark for meaningful brand relationships.
#BlackGirlsRock#BrandPartnership#Authenticity#RepresentationMatters#BeautyMarketing#SportsMarketing#Storytelling
Assistant Vice President Brand Engagement, Multicultural Beauty Division, L'Oréal
What started months ago as a “What If?” is now a REALITY and I couldn’t be more excited to welcome Tennis Champion, Coco Gauff to our Carol’s Daughter Family!
It was so important for us to work with someone who stands for the same things as our brand ---resilience, determination, beauty, strength and community empowerment, and I think we found our PERFECT MATCH! 🎾🤎
And to have played a key role in the entire process, from pitching to production to launch, makes this even more meaningful.
In the past year, I’ve had the honor of working on so many impactful partnerships including “The Little Mermaid” and “The Color Purple” and to now add this one, where true representation for Black Women and Girls is again at the core, I couldn’t be more proud. These are the things that give me purpose beyond products.
So thankful to our wonderful founder Lisa Price, our leaders Detty Nkonko and Noah YUNG-HING, my amazing team Jaylen Swint, Luisa Monique Arias and Elyse Staten, the entire Carol’s Daughter team, our agency partners Patricia Rappaport and Dominique McDonald and our new partners Alessandro Barel Di Sant Albano, Leah Goldman and TEAM8 Sports & Entertainment for your hard work and dedication to making this happen. The Best is yet to come!🤎👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿👏🏼🎾
I don't normally do the social side of LinkedIn because I'm not very social, haha, but I want to break from tradition to celebrate a few of my colleagues.
It is a common sadness that occurs on celebratory like International Women's Day - why do we even need this? It's not a thought or comment that is born in ignorance (although it is for some) but more out of frustration that we don't live in the future now. Can we not just skip ahead a few chapters and have the inevitable change now?
Things are trending in the right direction for the rights, health, and treatment of women. For those who want to achieve those things and who put in the effort - for those who have to live lifetimes of not having equality now - it feels like the change needed is just a choice that's not being made now.
And it is just that. It's just a choice. Choices made by governments and businesses and communities and leadership. The choice to protect the status quo. When change is resisted then the radical is needed. It's incredible that celebrating women is radical but the radical is needed. We cannot rest until equity and equality are achieved.
With that in mind, I'd like to celebrate some of my comrades-in-arms.
This post is dedicated to Aileen Wallace, Stephanie Bazeley, and Ellie Gibbs ACIM 👾. Without you, my job would be harder and my skills would be weaker.
Junkfish is made better by the three of as you are exemplary leaders. Your willingness to disagree, champion, challenge, and support makes our goals of transparency and accountability more realised. The empathy, kindness, and humanity in which you run your teams and engage with your peers shows that leaders get to be strong and disciplined and kind and nurturing. It isn't a trade off or a sacrifice. To be a boss or to be a friend? It takes skill to choose both and you all have that skill.
Thank you for keeping your teams productive and happy.
Thank you for being examples of leadership and strong values.
Thank you for the debates and laughs and the comradery.
I appreciate you all.
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Have you been feeling a growing discomfort at some of the changes taking place in our society over the past decade including:
- Increasingly extreme positions being taken on things like gender ideology and race issues?
- Attempts to suppress free speech and the 'cancellation' of views that don't adhere to a particular narrative?
- Moves away from pragmatic policy on Climate Change toward more extreme action and the adoption of policies which border on religion rather than science?
Perhaps you've also been concerned as you've watched the role of the traditional family coming under threat as the State seeks to insert itself, more and more, into the care and indoctrination of our children?
Maybe you've wondered how such ideas, have gained traction so comprehensively and so fast?
You're not alone. Survey after survey tells us that these concerns cross the political divide and that these changes are out of step with the views of most kiwis on both the traditional right and the traditional left - meaning you're in the majority.
So where is this stuff coming from and how have the views of extremists become so influential?
Some of it comes from international mandates that NZ has signed up to, some is the result of decades of political activism, some comes from 'true believer' politicians, and a lot of it comes from the impressionable and opinionated children who now control our media newsrooms.
Certainly there has been opposition to this agenda. Conservative groups have sprung up to address specific concerns (some with which I have been involved) - and the election of the new Government has provided hope that some of the excesses will be rolled back in line with what most of us want.
But there is one organisation which towers over all of these in respect of the role that it has played as the gatekeeper of, and advocate for, kiwi values:
Family First.
Led by the irrepressible Bob McCoskrie, no other organisation has had the impact of Family First and, frankly, no other organisation has understood the potential danger posed to our society by the ideas being promoted.
Bob is a friend of mine, but he doesn't know that I'm writing this. Nor does he know how much I admire the extraordinary work that he and his team have done and how much of a debt of gratitude this nation owes to him for representing our views in an environment that is determined to suppress them.
Watch the video below or check out www.familyfirst.org.nz. You won't agree with all of their positions - but you'll get a sense of just how effective this organisation is and how important it is that its work continues.
Voting for change, last October, was a great step in the right direction - but it wasn't enough. Politicians can be influenced by lobby groups and media pressure - so it's important that Family First remains as a strong counterweight to the agenda of those who are trying to corrupt our children and destroy our society.
I urge you to support them and their work....
During last week's call as part of the personal and professional development training associated with being a member of Black Sisters in STEM , 3 things that stood out to me from the session were:
1. Just because I do something so well doesn't negate my bad habits.
2. Do not do things that are not okay and make them okay in your life.
3. Spirit of error is dangerous.
Based on these teachings from our founder Nyamekye (Yah-MEH-chay) Wilson, I have decided to apply these things in my life by
1. Taking out time to re evaluate myself in all aspects of my life and identify my strengths and weaknesses to know which areas need improvement.
2. Take full accountability for the decisions that I make by being intentional and focused.
3. Stop putting off things till the last minute and do things early before deadlines are set
It was a very insightful session and if you want to join a community of like minded women in STEM, Sister Nation is the place to be, join us today: https://lnkd.in/dXruEUbn
Happy happy birthday, Mari!! Keep up the amazing work 🎉