Our Smiles and Stories Connect Us All.
Smiles are a UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE! Carlyn challenges you to step away from the screen, show up and be seen! Choose to wear and share YOUR SMILE with the world and and create connection in a world filled with so much disconnection.
Wearing a Smile Shirt says “I’m Friendly, I’m Approachable!”. We get to create an invitation to engage with Strangers. Smiling shifts your energy and the energy of the person who receives it. Your “Smile Vibe Attracts Your Tribe”. Carlyn lives life knowing when you show up for you, who and what you need shows up for you too.
There are 3 Parts to the Smile Superpower:
1) Spread Joy and Create Human Connection.
2) Everyone has a story behind their smile – but it’s those stories that connect us all.
3) Your Smile is your SUPERPOWER. When you choose to smile for yourself, despite all the reasons life can rob you of your smile, you are INVINCIBLE. Choose to smile for YOU.
Your Smile Matters.
Carlyn’s Strangers To Friends Movement inspires you to embrace the possibility that everyone has a story behind their smile and our smiles connect us all.
Let go of judgement and assumptions and be open to the idea the person you least expect might be the next person you are meant to meet.
Nothing Can Steal Your Smile, Even If You Don’t Have Teeth!
Carlyn bravely shares her story of losing her teeth in 2013 in a bike accident, that involved no one but herself. She ignored her intuition and as a result, learned a very painful lesson. But, she had a choice: be a victim or embrace her toothless smile. It’s a reminder that life will constantly supply us circumstances that “rob us of our smile”. But, we have the choice on how we allow it to define us.
A job loss.
A relationship ending.
A health shift.
Something you didn’t choose … happened… and now you get the choice of how you will respond to it. You didn’t ask for it, but now you must face it. And friend, this is how we grow and evolve. And it begins by having grace with yourself. Taking one breath, one day at a time. Yes, something caused you to be sad or upset, but it’s also an opportunity to let go of how something needed to be and to be open to what can happen next. Just think, I wouldn’t be sharing these shirts with the same passion and purpose had I not gone through something incredibly painful, expensive, something that could have been avoided had I listened to my gut. BUT- living in blame and shame solves nothing. Living in regret gets us no where. All we can do is dust ourselves off and decide to show up with hope, faith… and a smile on our face.
That said, winning isn’t about fake smiles, winning is loving yourself, despite your loss. It’s the moment you declare you will take back your smile. When you choose love in your heart, YOU WIN.
Read the FULL TEETH STORY HERE – 5 Lessons Learned From Loosing My Front Teeth.
Carlyn has as POWERFUL STORY –
Listen to Carlyn and one of her Favorite Strangers To Friends, Lisa White, Author of Hold On Baby and the Soulful IVF Podcast, share the story of their friendship, the power of wearing a Smiles Shirt and how Carlyn embraces life to the fullest, trusting the journey and turning Fear into Freedom.