Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

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My guest this week is May Al-Karooni, the founder of Globechain an ESG, Environmental, Social, and Governance Reuse Marketplace connecting corporates with charities, small businesses and individuals. They enable companies to reuse materials and assets to help them reduce their waste, carbon and improve their ESG data evidence of sustainability. 
 
After seeing the Bank she was working for dispose of furniture, she decided to get into waste. She founded Globechain to contribute to the re-use revolution, circular economy and ESG marketplace. They help divert a huge amount of waste. Her vision for the future is to encourage other leaders to adopt & drive forward the circular economy and embracing ‘waste not want not’.

Thank you so much May for creating an online marketplace that helps us to be part of the circular economy and be able to hand on items that we no longer have use for, or buy pre-used when we need something that we don’t already have.

Thanks also for showing us how to be more sustainable in the stuff we get rid of or bring into our lives, as individuals or businesses, and help us in our efforts towards climate solutions.

You can join May’s re-use revolution https://globechain.com/ and follow her on Linkedin @may-al-karooni

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Follow her @brave_newgirl on Instagram and get her books Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless, FEAR LESS and her Internationally Bestselling book DARE TO SHARE on Amazon or Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. UK & US versions available.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media, helping you  unlock your creativity, find your superpower and put your story in the spotlight to help others. BNGM enables you to showcase your vision and supercharge your impact in the world.   https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Music by Melody Loop

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Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

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Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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My guest this week is Cat Jones founder of B corp certified business Byway, who are on a mission to make slow travel mainstream. They offer 100% flight free holidays by train, boat and bus - and the journey is the holiday just as much as the destination. Their holidays are multi stop, often multi modal, often including sleeper trains (or boats!) and are journeys optimised for enjoyment, instead of speed or cost.
 
Cat shows us how to travel in a more sustainable way, so we can still see the world and connect with other people and other cultures, without leaving such a huge carbon footprint.

With alternative ways to travel it helps us see and save the planet at the same time.

You can find out more about Cat’s work on https://www.byway.travel/

And follow her on Linkedin at Cat Jones.

 

Join Lou on Linkedin
Follow her @brave_newgirl on Instagram and get her books Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless, FEAR LESS and her Internationally Bestselling book DARE TO SHARE on Amazon or Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. UK & US versions available.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media putting your story in the spotlight, showcasing your vision and supercharging your impact by guesting you on global podcasts  https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Music by Melody Loop

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Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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My guest this week is Helen Kirkum, multi-award winning designer & pioneer in sustainable footwear whose Studio was born on the fundamentals of rescuing old sneakers to create pieces that raise awareness of post-consumer waste. Wherever possible they incorporate recycling and up-cycling into their products, breathing new life into discarded sneakers.

STUDIO 

Helen Kirkum Studio Limited was founded by Helen Kirkum in 2019. 

At Helen Kirkum Studio we celebrate the processes of wearing and making in our products. Utilising recycled and dead stock materials, we create bespoke sneakers artistically crafted for an individual experience. We collaborate with brands worldwide to bring our playful perspective and sustainable message to their products. We also love to spread our signature design through making ethos in talks and workshops, promoting the value of spontaneous and tactile creativity.

HELEN

Helen Kirkum is a London-based artist and designer. Kirkum’s artisanship has garnered international acclaim and it is her ability to tell stories through her designs that sets her work apart. Each pair of sneakers she makes is unique, weaving together the memories of the components that make it and allowing the owner to own something inherently personal and one-of-a-kind. She is widely considered a pioneer of the hacked and deconstructed aesthetic within the sneaker industry, and in the vanguard of the sustainable footwear movement. 

Kirkum graduated from London’s Royal College of Art in 2016. Through her practice, Kirkum challenges us to rethink the meaning of consumption and the way we interact with the products we own.

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Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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My guest this week is Jamie Hwang, city planner for Los Angeles City Council and creator of Urban Farmers’ Almanac which is a free, community-sourced digital resource guide for gardening, sustainable living, and supporting urban farms & independent makers in LA who also believe in circular, local economies, building communities, and food justice.

Her passion for urban planning made her realize how precious our environment is. And while in LA, they need to build more housing quickly to address homelessness as the most urgent humanitarian crisis, she believes they can also simultaneously address climate change as well.

For her, true courage is trying ideas out even when you know you may fail. It's hard to begin a journey not knowing if you'll succeed, and it's even hard to start if you know you're likely to fail. But when you take a leap, you learn new things, and those lessons add up to successes in the long run. The trick is to realize you never really "finish" learning.
 
Jamie shows us that wherever we live we have the opportunity to take sustainable living into our hands and create places where we feel more in tune with the planet.

 As a result of my conversation with Jamie, I am now transitioning my allotment to a food forest using permaculture techniques.

You can find out more about Jamie’s work at shegrowscities.com

 And follow her on Instagram @shegrowscities 

Join Lou on Linkedin
Follow her @brave_newgirl on Instagram and get her books Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless, FEAR LESS and her Internationally Bestselling book DARE TO SHARE on Amazon or Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. UK & US versions available.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media, helping you  unlock your creativity, find your superpower and put your story in the spotlight to help others. BNGM enables you to showcase your vision and supercharge your impact in the world.   https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Music by Melody Loop

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Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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My guest this week is Helena Hill, co-founder of TrueStart, a Multi-award-winning challenger feel-good, healthy coffee masterbrand as well as being a B-corp, Carbon Negative, ethical family business that puts people first and incorporates the importance of championing neuro-diversity.

Helena talks about how TrueStart has always been about unlocking your potential by making you feel great. She and her co-founder Simon, started in sport and are now making the world happier and healthier one cup at a time, disrupting a category that is very boring, stale and dominated by the largest food businesses in the world! 

Their delicious, super clean coffee is just a vehicle for that feeling! And at the same time they are B-CORP & CARBON NEGATIVE certified which demonstrates how the business contributes to climate solutions and sustainability.

Thanks Helena for sharing how you focus your entrepreneurial energies into a forceful power for good- for both people and the planet. Thanks also for showing us that when we decide to make those steps towards sustainability and an ethical approach to business and life that even small ways we can have big wins

You can find out more about Helena’s work on TrueStartCoffee.com

and follow her on Linkedin at @helenahills

Join Lou on Linkedin
Follow her @brave_newgirl on Instagram and get her books Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless, FEAR LESS and her Internationally Bestselling book DARE TO SHARE on Amazon or Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. UK & US versions available.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media, helping you  unlock your creativity, find your superpower and put your story in the spotlight to help others. BNGM enables you to showcase your vision and supercharge your impact in the world.   https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Music by Melody Loop

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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My guest this week is Kirstin Furber. As the People Director for Channel 4 (and previously CPO Kantar and BBC Worldwide) she is on a mission to make the world a better place to work. A place where we can all do our best work, be human and reach our full potential for ourselves and others, helping great leaders build cultures that drive personal growth as well as creating success for the organisation.

Kirstin's  role is as a facilitator partnering  with leaders/managers and employees, so they can continue to evolve a culture where people can do their best work and C4 continues to deliver on its remit.

Kirstin talks about how you create a culture in which people can thrive, be creative, be themselves and also sometimes be able to admit that they are stressed and need support.

We cover topics of sustainability, diversity, inclusion, neuro-diversity and mental wellness.

Whether we work in an organisation, run our own business or are a solopreneur with a freelance team we are all in a position to people first, and with that, we help create a healthy eco-system for people and planet.

Thanks so much Kirstin for sharing how workplace culture can help people thrive and how in a changing flexible world, what that can look like for the health and well-being of people balancing career and life.

 Thanks also for showing us how to make work feel meaningful in a way that allows us to be our best selves without sacrificing our souls.

You can find out more about Kirstin’s work on www.kirstinfurber.com and follow her on Linkedin @kirstinfurber 

Join Lou on Linkedin
Follow her @brave_newgirl on Instagram and get her books Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless, FEAR LESS and her Internationally Bestselling book DARE TO SHARE on Amazon or Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. UK & US versions available.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media, helping you  unlock your creativity, find your superpower and put your story in the spotlight to help others. BNGM enables you to showcase your vision and supercharge your impact in the world.   https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Music by Melody Loop

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Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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My guest this week is Sashe Christopher, founder of vegan, organic childrenswear brand Pop My Way that parents can trust. Its sustainable supply chain is fully GOTS-certified, from energy and water use, to hazardous chemicals /use of non-chemical dyes, to the social responsibility and wages the factory workers get paid is monitored and audited regularly.

After working in corporate fashion for over 20 years and having a baby, she soon realised that her time with her family and her health were the most important things. 

She used to work long hours and weekends and was always exhausted. Having a baby made her reprioritise and rethink what really matters.

Coming from South Africa, sustainability has always been a way of life for her. Fashion brands at the moment are making claims as a tick box exercise without understanding what it really means to be a sustainable business. 

Sashe, however has ensured that Pop My Way has done things correctly since its inception and they have a certification from The Global Organic Textile Standard to prove that their claims are genuine. 

Their whole supply chain is monitored and audited regularly so things like farmers rights, water/energy use, prohibition of chemical dyes and pesticides and social aspects are all checked and reported on.

At Pop My Way, Sashe wants to change mindsets around fashion and make people realise that we don’t need as much clothing as we think we do. 

Making these changes from the start of a baby’s life will hopefully allow them to carry these lessons with them into the future. 

We need to change the culture of fast fashion and throw away clothing and move into a world of fewer quality items that can be mixed and matched and handed down instead of discarded.

Sashe has certainly done that with her babywear- beautiful, soft, hard-wearing, interchangeable and gender-free, they can be handed-down or handed back for Pop My Way’s pre-loved department. 

And all with the knowledge that you are buying completely sustainably, right down to the last popper.

Thank you so much Sashe for sharing with us what a fully transparent vegan, organic, sustainable supply chain looks like so that we can be more discerning and knowledgable in the purchases we make.

And thanks

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Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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My guest this week is Professor Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time which shows us how just getting together can be a potent act of resistance. Almost every day it seems that our world becomes more fractured, more digital, and more chaotic. But Sheila has the answer: we simply need to hang out more. 

The book is called Hanging Out and in it, she explores what it means to kill time socially, in the presence of others, and why doing that matters. It’s styled a manifesto – a defense of what once felt very normal and has now started to feel like a dying practice, especially since the onset of the covid-19 pandemic.
 
She is reminding people that social relationships take work and that, if they feel like work, that’s okay and potentially good, even. She is arguing for a reclamation of our collective social investments and also for increased awareness about what it is that we produce when  we appear to be “non-productive,” in the traditional or superficial sense of that idea.

Her vision for the future would be one in which social priorities are recognized as priorities. It would be one in which all facets of life – from work to urban planning, to the structuring of public space, to social behaviors and manners – are organized around the expectation of social activity and the need for humans to hang out and relax in each other’s presence. That’s a vision that also hinges on the taking of time; we have to take the time to allow ourselves to be less productive in a strict, material sense and more productive in a social, communally networked sense.

When we are more socially connected we are more likely to feel a commitment to our community, and a sense of responsibility to our wider world. Being locked away in our silos, only encourages a self-centred approach to life. We need a whole and heart-centred connection to others and to the eco-system that sustains us.

Thanks Sheila sharing the simple art of hanging out and the powerfully positive impact it can have in our lives.

Thank you also for showing us that not one size fits all when it comes to the concept of hanging out, but that we can all find ways to connect that suit our individual personalities.

You can find out more about Sheila’s work on www.sheilaliming.com/

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Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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My guest this week is Petra Velzeboer a renowned mental health expert, TedX speaker & CEO of mental health consultancy PVL. Born & raised in the Children of God cult, she escaped but found herself in a downward spiral until she found a way to turn her life around. Now she empowers others round the world to sustain a resilient & positive state of mental health.

• Breaking the cycles of trauma
• Bravery everyday- one small brave act
• Dare to Dream & experiment with ways to make it become reality.

Petra shows us that if we do something brave every day, if we dare to dream, and if we are prepared to experiment and try on new ways, then we can carve out a life that we truly want. 

Join Lou on Linkedin
Follow her @brave_newgirl on Instagram and get her books Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless, FEAR LESS and her Internationally Bestselling book DARE TO SHARE on Amazon or Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. UK & US versions available.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media putting your story in the spotlight, showcasing your vision and supercharging your impact by guesting you on global podcasts  https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Music by Melody Loop

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Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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My guest this week is Victoria Bennett, author of the intimate memoir ‘All My Wild Mothers’ a story of re-wilding our wastelands & the transformation that happens when we do. After losing her sister in a boating accident & later finding out her son had a lifelong medical condition, Vik turned to the rubble & weeds outside her door to create a new kind of future.

Thank you so much Vik for sharing your story so that we may also look to the simpler side of life where we can be closer to nature and allow it to support and heal us through our more challenging times.

Thanks also for showing us how to seek out nature in our daily lives so that when we hit the tough times we already have the means to help us survive and even thrive.

You can find out more about Vik’s work on www.victoriabennett.me buy her book All My Wild Mothers from all good book stores, and follow her on Instagram on @beewyld

Book launch: If you pre order the book from the hosting bookshop, you get a digital invite sent to you, or you can buy a ticket just for the event.

https://www.samreadbooks.co.uk/product/AllMyWildMothersLaunch/11993

Join Lou on Linkedin
Follow her @brave_newgirl on Instagram and get her books Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless, FEAR LESS and her Internationally Bestselling book DARE TO SHARE on Amazon or Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. UK & US versions available.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media putting your story in the spotlight, showcasing your vision and supercharging your impact by guesting you on global podcasts  https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Music by Melody Loop

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt