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baltimore • nyc • california
expressive arts coach | educator | curator
featured in voyage baltimore & canvas rebel

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*not f*!@ing AI, made on Canva and the background eraser tool flags as AI!

I love talking about what I love and the work that I do, but sometimes I feel like I talk too damn much 🥲

I get real, raw, and vulnerable when I’m chatting with folks, but here are a few things I’m glad I blurted out.

Thank you to @voyagebaltimore , @canvasrebel , and @era_mayeven for talking with me, listening, and pouring into the work I do!

Full interviews are linked in my bio! by @_coachcando

Last Friday, we celebrated 2 years of @youdeservetheearth!

I really can’t believe it’s been two years of working with so many amazing small businesses, artists, and communities.

I’m still learning so much. I still have so much inner work to do. There are so many things I want to grow into and so many ways I want this work to become even better.
But I also wanted to let myself celebrate how far we’ve come.

It’s been an adventure.

And I’m just so, so grateful. So full.

I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life. This work is something I’m passionate about. Something I love, enjoy, and deeply cherish. And I could not do any of it without my community.

Thank you for these two years. Thank you for growing with me. Thank you for pouring into something that has poured so much back into me. Thank you to everybody who has ever come to an event, liked or reshared a post, encouraged me from the sidelines, offered me kind words, connected me to someone, collaborated with me, spotlighted my work, or simply kept watching and rooting for me.

Cheers to many, many more trips around the sun! by @_coachcando

well id hate to be the bear of bad news by @_coachcando

I love New York and I love being surrounded by beautiful likeminded women!

Sip n’ Slay 2026 was amazing, thank you @everystylishgirl for putting this together. The looks, the energy, the stories! So happy I was in the room for this one!

Until next time. 😚

#SipAndSlay2026 #SipAndSlay #nyc by @_coachcando

I feel like most lunches are work lunches now. by @_coachcando

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I grew up watching rom-coms and sitcoms with these beautiful women running errands in these perfect outfits, (and they all worked for magazines for some reason??) AND on top of that.. they magically lived in gorgeous lofts with huge windows and a fever dream of a closet… all on an assistant’s salary!!?! These were adult women that had the sisterhood, the social life, the career, the shoe collection.. and I was completely obsessed. I was devoted to this specific cause! I decided early.. I wanted to be THAT woman.

Sooo, naturally, I romanticized all of my twenties… I was bold, delusional, naive, messy, dramatic, funny, (sexy🙂‍↔️)… and I slowly realized that real adult life isn’t like a sitcom… at all! (wish someone told me that.)
There’s no daily coffee shop meetings with friends and no quirky neighbors barging through my door in my rent controlled brownstone.
But there were moments that felt just like it.
The little serendipities, starting a business out of passion and anger, falling in love, heartbreaks that taught me about myself, shaving my head and rediscovering my face, crying with friends, dirty martinis, getting stranded in Mexico, kissing in the rain, starting over, again and again..
All the things that make up MY unique story.

So here’s to more life, more love, more accomplishments, more opportunities… and more little sitcom/ romcom moments along the way. 🥂 to 30! by @_coachcando

I’m so excited to officially introduce myself as the founder and owner of You Deserve the Earth, @youdeservetheearth. This project has been a labor of love, a dream I’ve nurtured for so long, and it’s finally coming to life with our very first community workshop, The Thanksgiving Letter at @redemmas and partnered with @houseofruthmd to write letters of gratitude to ourselves and to send love letters to families in need this holiday season.

Since I was small, I’ve had a love for writing letters and giving gifts. (I was the little girl bringing a gift for Santa when we’d go to the mall for Christmas photos!) Now, through You Deserve the Earth, I get to share that part of me with all of you. We’re a sustainable gift shop and a creative mobile workshop, built on connection, creativity and community.

Our first community workshop, The Thanksgiving Letter, is completely free, with only 20 spots available. So excited connect with everyone who joins us in creating something meaningful together, this is just the beginning of many workshops and events to come! Register here:

https://redemmas.org/events/the-thanksgiving-letter-letters-of-gratitude-workshop/ before we’re all booked up!

Registration is also on our website: youdeservetheearth.com

If you’d like to follow along and support this journey, you can find us at @youdeservetheearth. Thank you so much for being part of this with me, I’m so grateful for each of you.

With all my love,
Candace by @_coachcando

holding hands and eating hot dogs at the bar 🌭 by @_coachcando

That’s why her hair is so big.. it’s full of secrets by @_coachcando