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Ellington Timepiece – Teri Elizabeth Wellington

In 2017, 24-year-old Teri Elizabeth Ellington founded her very own watch collection, Ellington Timepiece, as a platform to raise awareness for mental health and support those who suffer from it. Using her last paycheck from a job she lost two months prior to Christmas, Teri launched her first watch design, The Grey Sheba, named after her own therapy dog, Sheba. Sheba became Teri’s therapy dog while she was deeply struggling through mental illness herself. Through Ellington Timepiece, Teri has found strength and purpose while also creating a brand that is passionate about raising awareness for mental health.

“If I can do it, other young people can too,” Teri preaches. Teri struggled with depression, anxiety, and agoraphobia in her past, which created her passion for spreading awareness to other people about these mental illnesses.

Ellington Timepiece is more than just a watch line. The watches serve a greater purpose than a mere accessory on someone’s wrist; The designs are meant to be a voice for those who do not have one. Each watch has a story and meaning behind it.

Through her successes, Teri even created a recent social media movement, #yourstoryetp. People who wear Ellington Timepiece designs share their own stories of mental health creating both a community of watch-lovers and a community for people to share their own journeys as well.

Teri is a truly inspiring entrepreneur for her ability to create both a successful business and a way to spread awareness for mental illness—something that many people struggle with on the daily.

To explore the designs from Teri, check out this link to her company’s website.

YourMind

YourMind helps to create a positive work environment where the agents genuinely want to work. The goal is to help companies understand that their employees are assets, rather than liabilities, helping managers invest in their people so they can become the best version of themselves, in and outside of work.

Margot Radicati di Brozolo realized early in her adult life that many people, including herself, experience the Sunday scares when it comes to going back to work on Monday. Personally, she experienced this dread of going to work the next day in the form of anxiety. She describes her experience as getting a knot in her stomach and her breath would quicken. After speaking to others about her experience, she realized she was not alone. She imagined creating a company like YourMind but the idea of leaving her very well paying, corporate job was unthinkable.

After two years of dreaming about this idea, Margot attended an entrepreneurial event to figure out how to actually start a business. She decided to give YourMind a shot, but continued working in her corporate job for another four months until she quit to give her all to YourMind.

YourMind provides Manager Mental Health training and Mental Health Ambassador training to help people in that particular company understand their significance in their workplace. They are empowered to create a positive environment and lead by example. YourMind comes from the position, understanding that their example and leadership can make a real difference in their companies, but more importantly in their employees lives in and outside of work.

The workshops that YourMind provides goes over a range of topics such as managing stress, increasing psychological resilience, journalling for  stress management, improving work-life balance, creating a healthy workplace, mindset of success and so much more. The goal of the work shop is to empower the attendees to look after their own well being that are easily implemented into their day-to-day lives.

 

http://YourMind.co