me divorce to core and much more as always i will be giving you some design tips talking about the power of color and how i can make you feel empowered when i say the word power when i talk a lot a lot about empowerment and the reason i'm saying that is because i have a really special guest with me today who is this is her second time on the show so let's dina and she's an amazing photographer and she has done what i think is quite an amazing thing there is going to be an exhibit of her work but i'm going to let her tell you about it and we're going to explain why it's so important especially actually you know what all of you ladies and men listening it's very important to be understanding women and empowerment and talk of the times of movement and me to movement and that's what this show is about and we're going to tie that into decor as well believe it or not because you're decor can be empower me empowering as admiration for one another i'm really glad that you're here just because i love you but secondly because of this great exhibit that you pull together based on everything that's been going on currently time's up and me to all of these movements are really important and as we all know when the news you know celebrities have been coming forward and in all kinds of different platforms and politics obviously but for you to do and so yes all different ages john or i was like it's a it's a really great group of women and it's all representing the time's up movement as well as me too i mean some of us and i'm part of your i was honored enough for you to ask me to be part of this exhibit so i will talk about later after you explain how it made me feel personally ok but i want you to explain to the audience and tell everybody i don't want to i want you to explain your concept i love what you did you know with the words and all of that so selous do you not tell us about this amazing exhibit that's coming out and the date so you guys keep this in mind the date is coming up in what you tell ok you go so there is a lot of amazing movements happening right now and meta actually started almost twenty years ago back in two thousand and six and so now time's up now has started at the beginning of this year and it was women in the entertainment industry that really started this movement but the goal is to create equality and safety in the workplace and so you hear about it in the news a lot and i was just really inspired to want to contribute in my own way and  and so i decided to put together this project and photograph women you know i put out a model call and asked for volunteers to participate in this project and so the details of the project i haven't really disclosed because it's going to be the are opening you know everyone's going to see what it's all about but it's definitely my style of photography empowering women with what i do and combining time's up theme in it and each piece and each one of the women that you to shows you chose for a special reason i like that you very especially i think the youngest one is four years  to be the oldest or not it doesn't make a difference but what i like that you did was you represented all shapes sizes color you represented everybody in this exhibit and the exciting part of th women and the girls they really put a lot of trust in me because they're not seeing their final portion which is on saturday april fourteenth before i was going to sleaze announce the date and the location and then we'll continue to talk about the theme and everything sure it's not the trend gallery among claire the curator for that space is the late very talented artist and the other important thing about this is that i had met a woman theresa austin from save essex county and i had met her through business and networking and so on and she works for this organization that provides support for women who have been sexually assaulted and they also say it stands for sexual assault and violence education and so they provide support but they provide education to schools and communities and so they're also going to be up they are opening and they'll be saying a few words and sharing more about what they do and so it's really you know these movements are very important and but it's really meant to be an evening of unity and empowerment and giving back into the community so it's voice like like a politician or in the in the limelight or an actress we wouldn't have this platform and you know i want to talk a little bit and jump in if you when you when you feel like it but you wan i had a discussion after the photo shoot it was very emotional i might choke up again sorry oh boy for me it was a very emotional experience to embrace the fact that i have experienced  both sexual abuse as well as work inequality starting at the age of three and now here i am sixty year old woman feeling strong and proud of where i am and who i am and there were a lot of and they really tap into you know different emotions and different experiences and so you know it was a very emotional experience for myself in my lovely makeup artist s have been impacted or affected in some way whether it was sexual assault whether it was discrimination inequality you know all those different factors so i just think it's a really beautiful thing for us to be able to share in this experience together and to support one another and i'm so excited for all of you ladies to meet each other as follow up to our opening that's another thing that none of us then each other because you obviously photographed each of us privately stubbornly which would make sense except for you i think you have one group shot you said yes ok so it was it was it's very interesting to know that you know you're going to go to an art exhibit there's a lot of things i totally have trust and faith in you so it is kind of interesting to not see what your photographs going to look like after the first time connett off because i'm a real control freak but i also trust you and i i know how beautiful your work is and that's that's very exciting but wh kind of interesting is that all of us all of these women twenty two of us are going to experience it all of the same moment it's this bizarre kind of unity with these women we never met each other and yet i'm sure there will be this instant sisterhood i guess is that a corny were tears i don't think so i think it's all about empowering women like you like your like you're doing so beautifully with with art what's more powerful than art you know art doesn't have language it doesn't have to speak a certain language it is it just is and i think being able to see your your work is just going to speak volumes well thank you you know there's so many different ways to contribute to it and to share and express and i just you know this is just my small contribution in know being able to do what i love to do and you know to to give back to the community and among clara community has been so supportive and you know they've all they've all been great and so it's going to be a really great evening and i'm just looking forward to it i am too i'm very excited about it and i'm excited to meet the other women and just experience that whole rush of unity it is going to be very unifying if there is such is if there is such a thing to feel with strangers and i guess there is you know after major events i think in the world people sometimes will experience that like after nine eleven i remember walking around my neighborhood and feeling this sense of besides being scared but the sense of unity and just people just like hey you ok and i feel like that's what we're going to get from this exhibit i don't know if that makes sense to you but that's sort of how i equate it to the importance of it and i think it's very important  l for the future and an ongoing way that women and girls that aren't even born yet in boys understand how to respect women and that we are equal and that we have a lot to contribute and just because of our gender we should not be less than we're not less than where we're all we all contribute men and women and also to to celebrate the men out there like my husband and your husband who are fabulous proponents of equal rights and kind fair men how lucky we are to have men like that in our lives so we have to celebrate the men as well i don't want to forget celebrating them because they're just as important don't you of course but it is important for all of us to contribute in some way on a local level too and and if it wasn't for these movements a lot of things you  important movements and i just wanted to ask you you know you can't divulge but i am sure if you want if you can talk about you must have had a few moments with all of us separately where there something must have really hit you in a bigger way than you had it until paid it because it was a bigger way bigger than me i didn't realize i was like oh cool honest self you know i'll be i'm so honored to be part of this but i like i said earlier i was so moved and so floored and emotional i'm sure you experienced that where you went oh my gosh wow this is bigger than i thought it was for an emotional standpoint right it's it's it's been emotional  you know i get to experience that you know with a lot of my portrait sessions you know and and that's why i love that i'm able to empower women through my  photography so i knew that it was going to be an emotional experience but i think for a lot of the women who did share in very personal stories with us and a lot of the portrait sessions were a little more emotional there were some tears and some of them and you know being able to share that with someone and being able to support one another and hear what they have to say and you know and take that and put it all into something that we were able to create together you know it was it's beyond words like i can't i think i'm going to be the most emotional that night probably i don't even know i don't know what day because we all feel that way but the platform on which without having to actually tell details or tell a story you know i'm very open as you know i will talk about anything when i do speaking engagements people ask me about anything i will talk about it but but when you did it was interesting is that people could still represent the empowerment of women be proud of being in the  really sharing details if they don't want to there are no details really what it is is it's a tangible expression of emotion righted it's a photograph that you can touch and see but it is it's over spilling with intangibles it's not how i see it and i think that's why it was so emotional for all of us and i want to thank you for i want to thank you for allowing me to feel things i had suppressed and forgotten to face them again and face those demons face my strengths and most of all i think what you did for me and i'm speaking for me is that me you made me feel really proud of who i am now and public platforms too because i want people who are watching to come to the show if they can and will repeat the date again please come please experience it support your fellow women and you wonderful men out there who are so supportive you come as well i don't want to focus so much on all you know men are so you know there is there's so much focus on these these men who have done atrocious things atrocious in varying degrees i want to focus on the upside of this happen on april fourteenth yeah another really good thing having said that we should probably stop for a quick break i'm going to quickly talk about color and how it empowers people and we know that black is the color for time's up and i chose to be a little bit different because that's me and i wanted to talk about the color yellow and in our live in our next little commercial that's coming out you're going to see some slides but i wanted to talk about how yellow is the brightest color to the human eye everybody can see it it's like when you know when you throw a yellow pencil at the bottom of a book bag you see it right away but what's also cool about yellow is it gets attention and the reason that's the reason why i chose yellow because it gets our attention if you think about yellow in when you're driving on the road and you see yellow signs and i wanted to get attention and so yellow does that and so there's a way by getting attention in a positive way in your space you can feel uplifted and when you feel uplifted you are empowered so why i'm talking about yellow is if you use yellow in your space and we have colors that are empowering like red but i chose not to do that i wanted something that there's a reason why the sun you know why we are trucked to the sun it's yellow so i wanted to tell people that you can make a space weather to your bedroom or any room in your house your living room your kitchen you can make it cheery and and a feeling of hope by making it yellow and after i get to talking we're going to show some slides a before and after rooms which i showed you earlier that are yellow yellow is is also very exotic it's hopeful because the sun rises does it not so there's always a new day and that's kind of why i wanted to connect it connected to time's up is that there's a new day dawning because that makes sense as instead of using black right thank you and i will bill  wearing black at the opening but i wanted to go almost the opposite and i wanted people to know how powerful yellow is so having said that we're going to pause for a second and you'll see some before and after photos and we'll be back shortly thank you everybody i'm back hopefully those tips on creating a yellow space are healthful in and empowering again happy space happy face when you feel good in your home you feel powerful enough to take on the world you feel powerful enough to go out there and and take on a new job a new relationship a new anything maybe you want to start exercising again especially after a transition like divorce lot of times you know what's interesting about time's up there people might be contemplating a woman might be contra plain divorce perhaps she's going through sexual abuse or assault in her marriage and she doesn't know how to get out of it and so this is a really good time to think about how much power we really do have when we stick together as women and how much help there is out out there like save i want to do a shout out to save and again emphasize time's up in me too which you said was created in two thousand and six right you were  it was and obviously as times up is brand new and i love it i love that we have all of these things in place so ladies out there if you know anybody who needs help there's lots of help out there if you look and there's a lot mostly inspirational things like people dana who is a talented artist and photographer who's inspiring in making us feel empowered it every juncture so i again i'm just so happy about this event this show and wrote you know i wrote all of that is so exciting to be able to get and there are no languages to worry about you just see it you see it and feeling and that's enough and that's really what we need to do for our fellow women out there and young girls and all the ladies that haven't even been born yet i want them to come into this world knowing about events like this and knowing that they do have power and that they can they can rule the world if they want to  yeah yeah yeah it's a great thing so let's tell everybody one more time where are the show with look into the camera and tell everybody where it is tell them the time of the date again i want to reiterate this teacher and ok so they are opening exhibit is going to be on saturday april fourteenth it's from seven to nine pm and there's a so just a donation of ten dollars all of it all of it all of which is going to go six county that's wonderful you know it's greatly all of you volunteered you know this was your idea we volunteered our subjects this is wonderful thing i'm very excited about it and also princeton t v is pretty awesome by the way i'm going to do a shout out to this station i love the station and just just a few minutes ago george who is big honcho here you know asked all about this event and i'm hoping we can promote it through princeton t v as hash tag it all everybody that's watching spread the word this is a really important message and again i want to thank personally i've never done this that have the show two years i want to thank princeton t v for giving me the privilege of being on the station and allowing me to do things like this this is amazing that i have this platform as well in a different way so thank you princeton t v thank you celestin our for everything that you do and what you've done so far and the honor of being in your  i think she i think i heels are amazing and shoes are amazing and the reason why it started because women are smaller than men they want to be taller so it's interesting how we want to be on an equal platform as we should be and so all of more reason to dedicate the shoot you  to the back because it's spring is uplifting it's eternal without the sun we can't have growth and the sun like i said rises again so i chose this shoe for you to say thank you and it's dedicated to you it's yellow and it's painted with beautiful flowers and it's a new a new dawn and things are blooming for young women out there and women like me who are not so young that's beautiful to think you know you're welcome having said that i am going to end the show going to tell everybody again please stay tuned for show not we will put out on facebook when the show is airing we don't have a date yet but will be airing before the  show in montclair so you get to see the show and know about this and hopefully you'll tell and it will be wonderful thank you and just remember that empowerment is a state of mind and it is something that we all have deep with and us and whether it be through photography or through your space in your home feeling empowered in your space in your room in your house it's all there or being empowered by wear your favorite pair of shoes i know some silly but it's really not just think of all the things that we can use around us to make us feel strong because we are strong as women and i just want to say that so jody told pitts signing out for divorce to core and much much more today thank you again cell stayner for being on the shelf thank you for having me my pleasure and we will see you hopefully we'll see you at our at so still a show thank you by everybody