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.
History, Healing & Letting Go
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It's June!!! Yesterday I was sitting outside on my back porch taking a break from preparing for a dinner party I hosted last evening and I clicked "new music mix" on Apple Music and the first song that came on was something new by Sheryl Crow and I was immediately drawn in. Soon I was sobbing. I never heard the song before yet I knew it was meant for me to hear, in that very moment because I knew it was meant to be shared with all of you. I highly recommend you listen to it and read along to the lyrics...it's everything I want to say to every human I meet, "I know! I know how you feel, no matter what you feel, and you are never alone!". I guess these are words I craved to hear for so long - I KNOW and YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. I grew up pretty scared (although labeled "the happy kid"). Perhaps happiness became my escape hatch from so many things I couldn't control and definitely didn't understand. It wasn't until much later into my teen years that I started to get the support I needed to make sense of my life, and it was then I became fascinated by the human psyche. This got me thinking about our history, our healing, and what we make it all mean. I recently found out that I have been living with two, now very common, and overlooked diagnoses in women. I have a heavy dose of ADHD (for anyone who has ever spoken to me for longer than 10 minutes may gather), and also Bipolar II. This was all misdiagnosed and therefore mistreated about three years ago. These new diagnoses came in while I was at the hospital just a few days before my dad died. So what does this change? Everything and nothing. I could lament about how many things that have happened in my life are due to these truths. I could get furious at the pill pushers I trusted to help me through a very challenging time in 2023. I could blame many therapists for not seeing my "textbook" symptoms as more than my trauma. I could blame genetics, my parents or even the patriarchy for making me think I was broken. What good would that do? I have already done the work to heal and move through so many adversities to learn how to embrace all of me, channel my busy mind and express my wild creativity. I have learned and now practice how to use my almost never-ending energy for good and I am working everyday to become even more self aware. I actually think there is magic in this revelation. It better informs my work as a coach. It has completely inspired the work behind the JOYHeals practice and journal. It also allows me the opportunity to see if there may be interventions that could make life "easier," or if I am good on my own. It allows me another opportunity to know for sure we are not our stories. We are not what happens to us. We are not our diagnosis/diagnoses. This information allows me to share it with you in case you or someone you know, struggles with their mental health and is feeling some sort of way about it. There is no shame. We need not hide. I hope this information is helpful so I can be of deeper service by revealing this truth. I want to normalize these things. Normalize what it means to be human. Everyone faces all kinds of challenges and when we learn more about ourselves and learn to embrace our messiness, we can double down on the work we are here to do, the passion we have to express and being more deeply connected in our lives. My work in this lifetime is to be the best mom I can be to my kids, heal ancestral traumas, teach others how to channel joy as a powerful conduit for living life in today's chaotic world, and share my gifts of service in every way possible whether smiling at a stranger, helping a client with a marketing project or business development. I am here to help you feel more connected. Connected to yourself. Connected to your partner. Connected to your family and chosen communities. I want you to feel truly present in your life - intentionally curating beautiful experiences and chasing joy. My ancestry is riddled with all kinds of heartbreak, challenges, mental health issues, financial devastation, self-made successes and everything in between. And I know yours is too. The question is what do you make it mean? I hope you know you can learn to let it go. You can learn to become less triggered, more present and ensure that no matter your ancestral lineage, diagnosis or lived experience, you can choose anew anytime you are ready. We are so much more alike than we are different. So I wanted to pop into your mailbox this Sunday, the 1st of June to say, I KNOW, and you are NEVER ALONE. May you spend the day chasing joy and knowing you deserve the very best in this lifetime and beyond, 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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