Hello! My name is Ava Lyons. I am a teen who joined the emerge360 program in late June and it has already been an experience that will remain with me for life. I had been shopping at The Closet for 3 years and I already adored Lori Ann! What I did not know is [...]
Hello, my name is Greta Heiss! This is a moment in time: My Art Hop Experience. I am one of the proud people that is a part of the emerge360 program. I am Greta. I am in 9th grade and go to NLCA (New Life Christian Academy). I am very athletic and love to [...]
Do you remember being 9 years old? I met Mary for the first time when she was in 5th grade at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in 2014. Mary participated in A Beautiful Me’s workshop series once a week for two hours. Over the course of four weeks, she gained social and emotional skills which [...]
Hello beautiful people!! Here at The Closet by A Beautiful Me, we have a very exciting new idea from our emerge360 teen, Addy Christoff, that is being put into action. In today's blog post I will be talking about this amazing teen inspired idea, and diving deeper into emerge360’s 201 Business Certification Program and [...]
Hello beautiful people! In this blog post I will be talking about A Beautiful Me’s very important seven core values. I believe that all of these core values play very important roles in my everyday life, so I will be discussing how I apply these core values in my life and what they mean [...]
Hello beautiful people! Being a part of emerge360 at The Closet by A Beautiful Me has given me so many amazing opportunities and has helped me become much more confident in myself. I have been able to get to know other teen girls in my community, one of them being Harmony Fay Smith. I [...]
Decisions, decisions… what do I wear today, what do I want for breakfast, what do I HAVE to do today, what do I WANT to do today? We are faced with hundreds of decisions every single day: some decisions are easy, some take a little time, others can be overwhelming. As adults, we have [...]
A couple years ago a friend gave me a journal and a pen for my birthday with a challenge to write three things every day for a year for which I was thankful, without repeating anything. She said she had done that and was completely amazed at how her outlook on her life changed. [...]
I had a conversation today with a couple of my young friends and their mom. I asked them what grit was. Two 14 year olds and a 10 year old said they had no idea. The youngest picked up her phone and asked it “What’s a grit?” The phone showed her a box of [...]
I recently had an interesting conversation with a couple of my female friends who are successful professionals that work in male dominated fields within the military/government service. They are civilians, exceedingly intelligent and thoughtful, and have worked very hard to get to the level that they have. I asked each of them what they [...]
