I was met with this infectious energy as soon as I logged on to a Zoom call with Turiya Lafoucade. Running around her apartment, phone in hand, as she tried to finish making her tea to accompany her for the interview. “I am not any...
Category: Lifestyle
On My Terms: How Two Strangers Inspired Destiny Villarreal to Plunge into Nomadic Living
posted by: aaliyahinspired
May 22, 2025
Isn’t it peculiar how one encounter with someone can radically change the trajectory of your life? With a word, a smile, their essence, or even the way they live their lives, somehow, someway, a stranger or someone in your life can have the power to...
On My Terms: How a Passion for Photography Became Leah Bardin’s Ticket Out of Mississippi
posted by: aaliyahinspired
May 14, 2025
Moving beyond one’s zipcode can be daunting. You’re signing up to leave everything you’ve ever known and hoping that you will be rewarded for taking a leap into the unknown. For Mississippi native, real estate closer, and photographer, Leah Bardin, moving beyond her zipcode was...
On My Terms: How Kyra Green Learned to Bet on Herself Against the Odds
posted by: aaliyahinspired
May 7, 2025
Why is betting on oneself so hard for many of us? It could be because it takes self-belief even when your environment may test that trust. Or it could be because it takes a willingness to take risks with the knowledge that, despite your best...
On My Terms: How Ceighlee Fennel’s Derailed Dream Turned into a Year-Long Travel Around the U.S.
posted by: aaliyahinspired
April 30, 2025
COVID-19 derailed many hopes, dreams, and plans as it spread globally, taking many lives in the process. For Ceighlee Fennel, her dreams of moving and working abroad as a freelance travel journalist was swept up in the chaos of the COVID years, leaving her with...
You Have the Power to Live Life On Your Terms — Here’s Where to Start
posted by: aaliyahinspired
April 25, 2025
I was fortunate in the fact that I was born and raised in a generation with information and opportunities at your fingertips. Contrary to my parents, who grew up before Google was a verb and carrying your phone everywhere was an unborn practice, I was...
Here Are My Go To Sustainable Fashion Brands (As a Minimalist Who Shops Once a Year)
posted by: aaliyahinspired
June 27, 2024
Ever since I became a minimalist at 18 years old, I vowed to stick to a one-in-one-out rule to keep my shopping habits in check. The one-in-one-out rule required me to discard an item in my closet equivalent to whatever new thing I was trying...
Can Your Lifestyle Ever Be Completely Sustainable?
posted by: aaliyahinspired
June 13, 2024
Oftentimes, I feel like a fraud in the sustainability community. Sustainability has grown in mainstream culture over the past few years, often being accompanied with images of Hydroflasks, cream colored mesh bags, and metal straws. Personally, metal straws were my entry way to the world...
Life is a Dance: How Slow Living is Essential to Reclaiming What’s Yours
posted by: aaliyahinspired
April 24, 2024
How come we’ve allowed ourselves to rush through our lives? We’re all privy to the fact that we only have one, yet we still somehow managed to convince ourselves that it should rushed. Maybe we have culture to blame. Hustle culture primes one to constantly...
Vegan Skincare Products I Use After Quitting Makeup: The Ordinary Review
posted by: aaliyahinspired
April 10, 2024
Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post by The Ordinary. It’s been five years since I stopped wearing makeup. Naturally, once you stop focusing on covering up your imperfections or enhancing certain features, you have more time to focus on what’s been underneath the layers...