Katty Douraghy is an entrepreneur, author, and facilitator. Her memoir, The Butterfly Years: A Journey Through Grief Toward Hope, details her personal journey through grief. Katty hopes to inspire others to work through their grief and find hope on the other side. She is also the President of Artisan Creative, a staffing and recruiting agency focused on digital, creative, and marketing talent and based in Los Angeles.

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Grew up in Iran until she was 13 years old; she moved to the states and started High School; she pretended to be ItalianHigh School was a struggle to fit in mostly in survival mode; not telling people the truth about where you come from takes a tollWent to college in Santa Cruz which is a beach city and the people are hippies and very accepting; she studied English lit even though her English wasn't great yetAfter college studied fashion and worked at Macy's and worked her way up the ranks for 10 years; always trying to help people learn to grow Wrote her memoir about her story through grief because she was using journal writing to help her process her grief through to hope and to honor the loved ones she lostSome of the surprising emotions she felt in her journey was anger at her mother for smoking because she died of lung cancer, she has since let go of that judgementAnother surprising emotion was guilt at feeling zest, joy, and a love from life while in grief; Like "it's not ok for me to be a happy yet, maybe never; now the pain is still their but she uses rituals to honor and remember the happy joyful time with her loved ones she lost

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