It's Not About Pretty

Photos: Donna Gast, Amanda Looker, Ian Logan I had the absolute pleasure of speaking at TEDxYouth Santa Monica this weekend. My talk was on my experiences in  skateboarding, and what young girls (in general) can do to empower themselves in today’s world. I will be excited to share it with all of you when it comes out on the TEDx Youtube channel soon! HUGE thanks to my lovely friend & amazing make-up artist  Donna Gast , who graciously did my hair & make-up for this event. Donna works with me on many advertising shoots and flew back from another shoot just in time to help me out and make me feel beautiful – I really appreciated it! Another RAD shout out goes to the lovely Rachel Meiss of Rachel Meis Communications and fabulous  jewelry designer Jane Basch, who made me this beautiful necklace that says “GIRL” for my TEDx talk – the title of my talk was “Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word”.  So perfect – everyone kept commenting on it! A...

  I apologize for the lack of posts this past week but I have been on a mini hiatus from the blog as some other cool stuff has been happening that I can now share with you guys. I’m going to be speaking at TEDx Youth on November 16 in Santa Monica and I couldn’t be more excited! They expect about 500 people at this TEDx talk and I will be 1 of 5 speakers.   If you can’t be there you can always watch it via live stream & it will also be archived on the TEDx website a few days after the event.  Oh yeah, what will I be speaking about?  Girl Power of course! I hope you will join me, either in person, or via live stream to hear all the speakers and see what they have to say. I know it’s going to be a very interesting evening! For more on TED and TEDx click HERE .   You can also follow the TEDx Youth Page for more updates on the event HERE.