We recently connected with Gabrielle Dunn and have shared our conversation below.
Gabrielle, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
Being a creator is about more than creating, it’s about the ability to be vulnerable and allowing your self to get lost in it. I wish I could say I had some profound, light bulb, ah-ha moment, but that’s not what happened at all.
I took to my journal and began to write each night. Some days, my thoughts flooded the pages and others…just a sentence or two barely made it. After a few years, I read through each entry, reliving the highs and cringing from the lows.
One thing I began to realize is that no matter how bad of a day I had, how broken I was, how unsure I was – it never stopped me from picking myself back up and doing it all over again. Being resilient is about the willingness to work through the storm because you know that you’ll get to the sunshine.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
My brand in 2024 is all about rebuilding and vulnerability. I finally feel like everything is coming together and i’m allowing myself space to really embrace and take it all in. The thing I love to do the most is create so naturally, I want to share it with everyone! I am most excited about showing all of my artwork and rolling out new jewelry.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Three qualities that were most impactful on my journey were resilience, happiness and open – mindedness. My advice to anyone early in their journey is to learn how to always come back to yourself and recenter. When something isn’t feeling right, or you feel like you’ve veered too far off the path, always know that you can come back to yourself and try again. If you don’t find happiness in what you’re doing anymore, it’s okay to stop and figure out what is going to get you back to your happy place. Most importantly, keep an open mind and know that there’s always more to know.
If you knew you only had a decade of life left, how would you spend that decade?
The biggest challenge that I’m facing at the moment is BURNOUT. I’m currently working on how to balance out all that life brings and still leaving space for creativity.
Contact Info:
- Website: saintakirjewelry.com
- Instagram: ellledunn
