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Embrace Your Uniqueness, Own Your Story and Celebrate Yourself with Riley Blanks, Multimedia Storyteller and Founder of Woke Beauty
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What truly defines us? Is it our job, gender, sexual orientation, skin color? Or is it our values, beliefs, actions, and traits? Riley Blanks has grappled with this question all her life as a biracial woman, who was on track from the age of 5 to be a professional tennis player, but now is a professional photographer.
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Riley’s story is one of embracing her uniqueness, her beauty and her pain. She founded her photography business and storytelling platform, Woke Beauty, to express her passion for storytelling and showing women of all ethnicities how beautiful and amazing they truly are.
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In this episode of Love Intently, we dive into the topic of identity and how Riley has learned to define herself and embrace all her sides. She shares how Woke Beauty was born out of her struggle with mental health, and what makes Woke Beauty stand out among other portrait photography businesses. She discusses her process of how she sets boundaries around what vulnerable stories she shares to a larger audience and what she keeps private, as well as what inspires her creativity.
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Lastly, she shares her romcom-style way of how she met her now fiancé (she thought he was gay at first!), and how their deeply loving relationship has remained strong over 11 years of growing and changing together.
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Connect and Work with Riley Blanks
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Website: https://wokebeauty.com/
Podcast: https://wokebeauty.com/podcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rileyblanks/
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Connect with Sophie and Love Intently
https://loveintently.com
Follow @love.intently on Instagram
Follow @sophkwok on Instagram
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Get out of your comfort zone and spice up your date night with The Adventure Challenge: http://www.theadventurechallenge.com?aff=174
Use "LOVEINTENTLY" for 10% off!
84 episodes
Manage episode 277868169 series 2420519
What truly defines us? Is it our job, gender, sexual orientation, skin color? Or is it our values, beliefs, actions, and traits? Riley Blanks has grappled with this question all her life as a biracial woman, who was on track from the age of 5 to be a professional tennis player, but now is a professional photographer.
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Riley’s story is one of embracing her uniqueness, her beauty and her pain. She founded her photography business and storytelling platform, Woke Beauty, to express her passion for storytelling and showing women of all ethnicities how beautiful and amazing they truly are.
-
In this episode of Love Intently, we dive into the topic of identity and how Riley has learned to define herself and embrace all her sides. She shares how Woke Beauty was born out of her struggle with mental health, and what makes Woke Beauty stand out among other portrait photography businesses. She discusses her process of how she sets boundaries around what vulnerable stories she shares to a larger audience and what she keeps private, as well as what inspires her creativity.
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Lastly, she shares her romcom-style way of how she met her now fiancé (she thought he was gay at first!), and how their deeply loving relationship has remained strong over 11 years of growing and changing together.
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Connect and Work with Riley Blanks
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Website: https://wokebeauty.com/
Podcast: https://wokebeauty.com/podcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rileyblanks/
-
Connect with Sophie and Love Intently
https://loveintently.com
Follow @love.intently on Instagram
Follow @sophkwok on Instagram
-
Get out of your comfort zone and spice up your date night with The Adventure Challenge: http://www.theadventurechallenge.com?aff=174
Use "LOVEINTENTLY" for 10% off!
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