Gabrielle Garofalo is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in advertising, branding, high-profile media, events, and personal development. Gabrielle has produced events such as Oprah LIVE!, the New Yorker Festival, and the Billboard Music Awards. She launched the branded content division as the Global Director of Branded Content for the Wall Street Journal and managed offices in New York, London, and Beijing. She also co-owned and operated a local food festival in Portland, ME, while writing a food blog for Jerseybites.com.In 2018, she shifted her focus and added a coaching certification to her expertise, integrating multiple modalities inspired in part by Abraham Hicks, James Clear, Gabby Bernstein, and others, Gabrielle's coaching approach is comprehensive and effective. Passionate about helping individuals, founders, leaders, and Fortune 500s imbue joy into their daily lives to overcome challenges, Gabrielle has developed The Sustaining Joy Initiative aimed at helping learn how to overcome daily stress, anxiety and overwhelm by prioritizing joy as a daily practice. Gabrielle continues to run her strategic marketing consultancy, serves on the Advisory Board for Marketing at We Global Studios, and finds time to speak at events and collaborate with individuals and organizations committed to mental wellness in the workplace and beyond.
Create More, Consume Less
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March 24, 2026 Yesterday marked the one year memoriam of my father crossing over. 91 beautiful years and yet not long enough. Time is fleeting, fake, finite and often used as a weapon in our society to keep us small, stressed and in competition (with time and others!). So I wanted to get us thinking about time in a whole new way which could offer you some perspective and freedom from the constraints of our 24-hour construct of a day. How do I want to feel today? Simple and DEEP. So, consider this... If we only get 24 hours each day, many of which are taken up by sleep, using the bathroom, and other necessary time-required activities that we often overlook, so if we are left with 8-12 hours of wake time, how are we choosing to spend it? How much of those waking hours are you happy? Are you fully present? Are you choosing things with deep intention? I can tell you that I often find myself mindlessly scrolling Instagram, perusing LinkedIn, popping into the NYT app to see what horrors are unfolding in our world as it seems hard to keep up with the atrocities at this point. And, all of these things do NOTHING to help me feel joy. NOT. A. THING! Not sure about you, but when I started to notice this habit and how it was making me feel, I took on a new mantra "creation over consumption." To me, this means buying less, making more. Scrolling less, creating more. Less screen time, more life time. I want to be IN my life not OF my life. So I've started to write my memoir (the prequel to JOYHeals), dusting off the acoustic guitar and pulled out some paints. Joy truly is creativity! For so many years we move through time, going through life's phases - many of us finding a partner - getting married - having children - building careers - raising families - and we look back and say, "where did the time go?" It seems a blur. YET...there is still time to make big shifts. So ask yourself, if this was the last day we had on earth, how would we choose to spend it? My guess? Most would choose to... experience more joy spend time with those we cherish go into nature, eat something delicious and laugh with those we love while remembering all the good time in our precious lives... SO DO THAT TODAY. Spend your time like its finite. Tell your people you love them. Time is running out. Time is infinite. Time is your friend. Time is a thief. Time is a construct. Time is yours to do with what you choose. Choose wisely and chase more joy! With love and hoping time is on our side ;-) xo, Gabrielle |
Gabrielle Garofalo
Gabrielle Garofalo is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in advertising, branding, high-profile media, events, and personal development. Gabrielle has produced events such as Oprah LIVE!, the New Yorker Festival, and the Billboard Music Awards. She launched the branded content division as the Global Director of Branded Content for the Wall Street Journal and managed offices in New York, London, and Beijing. She also co-owned and operated a local food festival in Portland, ME, while writing a food blog for Jerseybites.com.In 2018, she shifted her focus and added a coaching certification to her expertise, integrating multiple modalities inspired in part by Abraham Hicks, James Clear, Gabby Bernstein, and others, Gabrielle's coaching approach is comprehensive and effective. Passionate about helping individuals, founders, leaders, and Fortune 500s imbue joy into their daily lives to overcome challenges, Gabrielle has developed The Sustaining Joy Initiative aimed at helping learn how to overcome daily stress, anxiety and overwhelm by prioritizing joy as a daily practice. Gabrielle continues to run her strategic marketing consultancy, serves on the Advisory Board for Marketing at We Global Studios, and finds time to speak at events and collaborate with individuals and organizations committed to mental wellness in the workplace and beyond.
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