https://www.elevecollective.org/insight-exchange daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://www.elevecollective.org/insight-exchange/who-we-are-becoming monthly 0.5 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/f85630ea-4c4a-4b6e-b81b-bd79cec2bb42/eleve-collective-rising-together-sunlight.png The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins When a Woman Is Truly Seen - Showing Up There is something powerful that happens when women come together with no agenda other than to support one another. Not network. Not compete. Not put on a brave face. Just connect. Woman to woman. Heart to heart. That is the feeling I want Élevé Collective to hold for every woman who joins us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/606855a8-4a27-4b5b-aad8-317140b07aa4/elevecollective.png The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins When a Woman Is Truly Seen - What I See Through the Camera There is a pattern I have witnessed again and again in the studio. A woman walks in feeling unsure, nervous, a little self-critical, and maybe questioning if she belongs in front of the camera at all. Then we start working. She relaxes. She trusts. She lets herself be guided. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/611cf873-404c-43ca-85f7-0e24c7f14f7a/download-2025-11-21T19_53_40.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins When a Woman Is Truly Seen When she sees the first image on the screen, she pauses. Really pauses. There is always this moment: the inhale, the soft smile, the exhale of relief. She realizes, “That is me?” And the answer is always…YES, GIRL! What she is seeing is her own strength, her own beauty, and her own potential reflected back to her. And something shifts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/b66cd320-6492-4923-8fd3-2676f2c2e31a/Screenshot+2025-12-03+at+8.30.20%E2%80%AFPM.png The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins When a Woman Is Truly Seen - Becoming the Next Version of Ourselves We’re a constant work in progress - and that’s a good thing! Nothing in my path as a performer, artist, photographer, mother, business owner, or co-founder of Élevé Collective has happened with the snap of my fingers. Every step has taken work, vulnerability, bravery, and community. Maybe that is why this group matters to me. I want women to feel connected. I want them to feel supported. I want them to walk into our meetings knowing this is a room where they do not have to pretend. A room where they are appreciated. A room where they are seen. From my own journey and from watching countless women rise through the lens of my camera, I know that when women feel genuinely seen, they become unstoppable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/63bef080-d420-4402-aac4-88e0b0602fb9/IMG_4649.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins When a Woman Is Truly Seen - This Is Why Élevé Exists Élevé Collective was created for women who are ready to grow but do not want to grow alone. It is for women who are carrying a lot, doing a lot, and caring a lot. For women who want to be surrounded by others who understand that rising is not a solo act. For women who want a community that elevates them and who can elevate others in return. https://www.elevecollective.org/insight-exchange/building-with-intention monthly 0.5 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/af162240-f934-420f-b216-cca72c0dbbd4/20200428_150947.jpg The Insight Exchange - Building With Intention: What Horses, Motherhood, Design and AI Taught Me About Growth From Art School to Digital Strategy: Learning to Build With Intention I went to art school to become a designer, but even while studying fashion and interiors, I kept my eyes on the digital world. I could feel what was coming, that the future of creativity, business, and communication would live online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/a5929f12-cf0f-48d3-97bc-b6d0fa756a23/IMG_8856.jpeg The Insight Exchange - Building With Intention: What Horses, Motherhood, Design and AI Taught Me About Growth - Where Design Became Direction Before AI went mainstream, I was already learning everything I could. I spent years training, experimenting, researching, and certifying myself in emerging tools. I took the time to understand both the technology and its human cost: what it could give, what it could hollow out, what it could redefine. And I kept building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/4325ac74-1f4b-4552-9bbd-21262fa10455/Temply.jpg The Insight Exchange - Building With Intention: What Horses, Motherhood, Design and AI Taught Me About Growth - And somewhere in the middle of all of this, I became a mother. Motherhood: The Root of My Becoming Motherhood slowed me down and sharpened me at the same time. It made the work more meaningful. It deepened my why. My son is my favorite role, my soft place, and my driving force. The reminder that legacy is not content, or revenue, or visibility. It is the life we build in front of the people we love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/432bd016-2828-4123-a377-74c3f9f7065a/61919+3.jpg The Insight Exchange - Building With Intention: What Horses, Motherhood, Design and AI Taught Me About Growth How Equestrian Life Shaped My Standards Another anchor in my life has always been my animals, especially my horses and my German Shepherds. My equestrian journey is not separate from my work. It is part of what keeps me grounded and honest. Horses require clarity, consistency, and presence. They mirror who you are without a single word. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/8b2796ca-48cd-4230-857e-c30466185079/IMG_4641.jpg The Insight Exchange - Building With Intention: What Horses, Motherhood, Design and AI Taught Me About Growth - From Leading Innovation to Making Room for Real Conversation This group is not a network. It is a mirror. It is a circle. It is a place where growth is not a performance, but a lived experience. Where your voice, your insight, your work, your reflection, and your self-honesty are not optional. They are the point. If you are reading this and feel something stir in you If you have been walking your path quietly and deeply If you want to be part of a space where thought, emotion, ambition, and evolution sit together Then you already belong here. Élevé exists for women like us. Women who are ready to rise. Not by becoming someone else, but by becoming more of who we already are. https://www.elevecollective.org/insight-exchange/the-rise-that-begins-within monthly 0.5 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/71597cea-8cf4-474d-b77d-5690467ab563/e0a3b850-c4bb-4469-af62-0a98391b7d8c.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins Within: A New Path to Success for Women Entrepreneurs - Growing up as a dancer This was the rhythm my nervous system learned early — a rhythm that shaped my identity for decades. We trained for performances with an intensity that felt normal, even expected: 150% effort every day… adrenaline high before the show… stress and anxiety baked into the process… And then the crash. After every performance, I’d collapse into illness or depression. My nervous system didn’t see rest as safe — so it only rested when forced. And unconsciously, I kept recreating that exact cycle in every phase of my adult life. What I didn’t know at the time was this: My body had associated chaos with safety. And calm with danger. So even when life grew quiet, I didn’t. The Unseen Pattern That Followed Me Everywhere https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/a6a6b2b5-34be-4c49-9bc8-4d7ba9560928/F9B6D0B2-ADF4-4EF7-A1A7-552328F8DDCA_1_201_a.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins Within: A New Path to Success for Women Entrepreneurs - At the same time I volunteered at our megachurch Choreographing, training, directing, teaching… pouring myself out until I was depleted. When the church offered to hire me, I thought, Finally, I’ll get paid for what I’m already doing. But I ended up working more and making less income. So I made a brilliant decision — or so I thought. I opened a dance studio. There I was again: teaching, marketing, accounting, cleaning, dreaming, sweating, striving… all the responsibility, all the pressure, all the stress. And eventually — a wall. A collapse. A familiar crash of exhaustion and emptiness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/90161246-741d-4843-acbe-2b03a33b7e95/31125500-0d69-498d-81fd-08f271d76177.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins Within: A New Path to Success for Women Entrepreneurs - So I pivoted. Again….. I became a dental assistant thinking: “It’s predictable. Stable. Monday through Thursday. Perfect". Except it wasn’t. It was 7 AM to 7 PM. Fridays and Saturdays were spent in bed recovering. My body was shutting down. My mind was foggy. My spirit was drained. By then, I was deep in adrenal fatigue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/de6ed921-f9a9-4ef7-83cd-c900073b3fb1/IMG_4700.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins Within: A New Path to Success for Women Entrepreneurs - So I had another brilliant idea….. I became a Realtor I’ll control my income, I thought. I’ll control my schedule. But real estate is a roller coaster. Other people’s emotions, fears, expectations… I absorbed it all. I carried it all. And yet — I kept pushing. I kept striving. I kept trying to fix the outside world so I could feel okay on the inside. Every decision I made felt logical at the time. And each one led me into the same predictable cycle. Over-functioning. Over-giving. Over-extending. Then collapsing. I wasn’t broken — but the patterns I was living were. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/1764800780872-6A18WFR1SVFVA7YRHE9L/bbe5cb59-e666-4e85-ad72-4aee493737d9.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins Within: A New Path to Success for Women Entrepreneurs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/1764803970942-PD7HOVVJE4IUJOC0X2UX/IMG_2490.png The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins Within: A New Path to Success for Women Entrepreneurs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/1764800768745-FPECH6182OEKR1OSC1GL/IMG_0093.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins Within: A New Path to Success for Women Entrepreneurs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/853bff67-b74d-4087-9c06-0f7d87bdde9b/Schraeder_M-APR24-08.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins Within: A New Path to Success for Women Entrepreneurs - What Alignment Feels Like Now The work didn’t happen overnight — but it was profound. As I began regulating my nervous system, everything shifted. I discovered something I never knew I needed: Peaceful clarity. Not the adrenaline-fueled clarity I used to chase — but a soft, grounded, spacious knowing. I learned to become the observer of my patterns instead of drowning in them. I learned to pause before reacting. I learned to listen inwardly instead of performing outwardly. I learned to stop trying to “fix” myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/739633f1-55de-453a-9b8c-52b5505b2066/Schraeder_M-+copy.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins Within: A New Path to Success for Women Entrepreneurs - Élevé Collective: A Community for Women Who Want to Rise Differently Élevé means to rise or be lifted up — and that is the energy of this movement. Élevé Collective is a space for women who are done with: Hustle culture Proving themselves Burnout cycles Over-functioning Pressure and performance And ready for: Alignment Connection Calm confidence Sustainable success Community Purpose Joy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6910fb9f64ee25558d6c50f5/3489d744-7fdc-40a8-8cd9-9389aac64814/IMG_4644.jpg The Insight Exchange - The Rise That Begins Within: A New Path to Success for Women Entrepreneurs - Then Élevé Collective may be the space you’ve been wanting — and didn’t know existed. We’d love to invite you to explore more, join the interest list, and be part of our Inaugural Gathering on January 20th, 2026. 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