Community, good vibes, and a new plant based female pain-relief supplement.
Hi everyone,
It’s amazing seeing the Ambiance Curator community growing, diversifying, and engaging. Since June, I’ve been trying to create a life design that is hospitable to think and feel, so that a passion project can metamorphose into its vision. It feels great seeing the work pay off.
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Aylin Leyla
Life by Design Series
Profile: Lauren Lee is Co-Founder and CEO at Semaine Health, a plant based pain relief supplement for females. Lauren and her co-founders are on a mission to normalize the conversation about periods and period pains. Prior to starting Semaine, she was an aspiring ballerina and had a career in graphic design.
During our Life by Design conversation, Lauren and I chat about her morning routine, eating habits, going from ballerina to CEO, Semaine, and more.
Some web surfing I did for deeper context:
According to Forbes, over 60% of TikTok users are Zoomers (Gen Z- people born after 1996).
The digital marketing space is spending more money on TikTok, and influencers are riding the wave. An influencer like Charli D’Amelio (60+ million followers) can charge as high as $30k-40k to promote a song, according to sources in Rolling Stone.
If social media tools like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram etc. are used with intention and in moderation, we’d be able to reap its benefits. There are several great aspects of social media, just to name a few:
Bring us closer to those who are far away
Provide a platform to educate and express ourselves
Make it possible for almost anyone to start their own business
But, since these tools began to dominate our energy expenditure with likes and endless scrolls it has:
Taken us far away from the people that are actually close
Led us to less common sense and happiness
Created a world where people aim for higher incomes but have lower morals
All dependent on of course, your information consumption habits. Which circles back to last week's thought of "we shape our tools and our tools shape us."
This isn’t about stopping the creation of new tools and platforms like TikTok. I do think that, collectively as humans, we need to exercise stronger spirituality to merely remain human in an age with ubiquitous technology. We need to learn how to build a stronger relationship with ourselves. We need to practice a higher mindset of commonality, rather than a mindset that looks to identify how someone is different than us. The crust of this thread is that, we need to build a healthier and more sustainable relationship with technology. For example by:
Re-evaluating the structural aspect of our life design that exposes us to consume information
Mindfully consume content—and not let FOMO create bad habits. Knowing when to press pause, reset, and play again.
Turning off push notifications
Putting down our phone more!!!
Planning healthy things to fill the void: Play, listen, and dance to great music. Read a book. Tell a story. Write. Go for a walk. Just like when you diet to get in shape, you don’t just stop eating junk food, you satisfy your appetite with healthy food. Same goes for technology/social media “diets”.
For the sake of not opening a can of worms, all I have to say about ‘deep facial recognition and invasive technology masked as social fun,’ is that it boils down to trust. Trusting yourself to make the best decision for YOU each day.
P.S. If you haven't watched The Social Dilemma on Netflix yet, I highly recommend it.