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Evita Turquoise Robinson

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2 x Emmy Storyteller : Helping brands + destinations build cultural relevance with narrative strategy + storytelling.💜💞
Founder: @nomadnesstribe

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Emmy Award Winning Storyteller!
This ride is wild. This past weekend was a rollercoaster of emotions laced with years of intentionality. While these photos and video snippets from the actual ceremony take you through a moment in time... let's start at the top.

During COVID I made the decision to take a hard pivot from everything CEO Boss bitch, to getting back to my roots as a full time creative. People don't realize I went to college and hold a degree in Television and Video Production, with a minor in Fine Art. I hold certificates in Digital Filmmaking from NYFA. I'm an artist, a writer, a storyteller... I fell into being a CEO.

I love @nomadnesstribe . It's changed my life and the lives of tens of thousands of others. Operationally, it's also a vacuum, and I reached a point where I felt like I was losing myself to what I created. A very weird position to be in.

In very Aries fashion, I woke up one day reaching a personal pinnacle of 'I refuse', created a plan to bridge and expand our storytelling pillar, and prepped a series of candid conversations I knew I had to have with my team, to prep them for my transition away from the operational aspects, to get back home... to my creative, to my heart, my passion. I missed, me.

This...is me. Taking the risk. Listening to my intuition, and going head first. This is a story of intention and focus.

This, is also, not just my Emmy. This is Bereng's as well. @itsbereng . I will pour into your talent every chance I get. You deserve!! Bereng is my Scorsese. My Cooglar. When Bereng is on the other side of that camera, I can walk fully into me because I know and trust his talent. I CANNOT WAIT to hand you your statue in person.

To anyone who has ever trusted me into your Tribe, to amplify your stories, please know I never take it for granted. I look forward to showcasing so many more communities of color around the world... and picking up a few more Emmy's on the journey. Thank you to everyone involved with the Palm Springs episode -- in particular to @visitgreaterps
and @visitcalifornia for paying me to be me 😉😊
Thank you for letting me play. Everyone should be proud.

#reallifeevie by @evierobbie

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Whether you live in Los Angeles, or LAX has become a transportation hub over the years, you know it’s impossible to see the city in totality.
However…we tried!

Nestled under the watchful eye of Baldwin Hills, I met my friend, Co-Host of Entertainment Tonight (@entertainmenttonight) and Founder of Sepi Travel (@SepiTrave), Kevin Frazier (@kevinfrazier) in Leimert Park. This was the first stop so I could get caught up on all things, and people, that speak to the heartbeat of one of LA’s Black neighborhoods.

“I am because we are” is the African meaning of ubuntu. It also happens to be a pillar of the culture curated in Echo Park’s Bloom and Plume Cafe (@bloomandplumecoffee) and flower design studio, founded by Maurice Harris (@bloomandplume). This may very well be the first coffee house I’ve been to where I wanted to buy their merchandise as much as their chai!

On the other side of the city, in Boyle Heights, I was able to soak in the laughs and talent that graced the stage of the Paramount LA Theater (@theparamountla) during the live show of my girl Raiza’s (@raizalicea) improv comedy series and podcast, Spanish Aqui Presents
(@spanishaquipresents). She co-hosts the show with fellow actors and comedians Oscar Montoya (@ozzymo), Tony Rodriguez (@thetonyrodrig), and Carlos Santos (@ofcourseitscarlos). The talent was insane, including the voice on singer @jenawad !

Apparently, so was the persuasion because the one time I did step foot in Hollywood, I ended up on stage as a monologist at the famous Upright Citizen’s Brigade (@ucbtla). Among Raiza’s many talents, she’s also the first Latina to become UCB’s Artistic Director. I was nervous as ever, theater was packed to the brim, but the way the cast was so masterful and welcoming was indescribable. To Phil Augusta Jackson (@philaugustaj), Carl Tart (@dammitcarl), Betsey Sodaro (@betsysodaro), Marcy Jarreau (#ad
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📹: @itsbereng
@visitcalifornia
@discoverla
#visitcalifornia
#discoverla taken in Los Angeles, California by @evierobbie

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'To the greatness that was, the greatness that is, and the greatness that will be.'
Dreams are coming true, team is prepared, and work is getting done.
😝🍾
You know the Universe got plans when your mentor and sisterfriend is the illest in the game. This weekend we celebrate @hooraemedia #hooraetakeskc !! 💜 you @issarae thank you!

#reallifeevie by @evierobbie

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5 years ago

Our Vipassana Silent Meditation Course recap conversation on The Black Experience with @kenjisummers + @indiashawn

Peace y'all! by @evierobbie

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You’re invited!🥳 Come party with us!

Whether you’ve been rocking with Tribe for 15 years, 15 minutes or you just know how to have a good time, pull up!💃

NOMADNESS 15 Year Anniversary Celebration
@madamexnyc | New York City
Saturday, September 12
8 PM–12 AM

Comment ANNIVERSARY and we’ll send the ticket link straight to your DMs! taken in New York City by @evierobbie

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Part 1 is the lead in...

The 'what' of my 10 Day Vipassana Silent Meditation Course. The skeleton of what I just went through.

I followed some rules, and broke others. This is my truth.

Part 2 soon come. by @evierobbie

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10 Days. No speaking. No reading. No writing. Only meditation. I'm finally partaking in Vipassana.
See you on the other end of the 10 days! ✌🏾📿 by @evierobbie

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2 months ago

My @jayz weekend actually started on Thursday night of last week.....after I was popping off on @threads 🤦🏽‍♀️

Got caught, then got invited to a really dope vinyl listening party and conversation with @cuetherecord and @realsway kicking off the anniversaries of Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint.

Honestly, I never thought I'd be talking this much about Jay-z in my life. Yet, here we are.

#justgetintheroom by @evierobbie

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Am I bugging with this @jayz take, or is this valid?
Also, was he the first to have done this? Let me know.

Also, got home safely at 5am from @yankeestadium chile.... by @evierobbie

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Let's talk about @marabrockakil ...please.

I do my best not to idolize people's lives, relationships, success because you don't know what their life is like behind closed doors. Funny enough -- last night -- I think Mara touched on that point in her own way.

Where I may not idolize, I do revere, study, and store these mental mentors as my personal North Stars, for phases of my life and creative journey.

No bullshit, Mara occupies slot #1 on my short list of North Stars. She has for years.

From our 1st run in on the streets of Soho where it took everything not to freak out and approach her calmly, with fandom and love. Noting that one day I wanted to work with her.

To run ins a year later at Tiff, in Toronto.

To last night in Brooklyn.

I study her work, creativity, resounding beauty, wisdom, and candor because she represents the quintessential storyteller I strive to be in this phase of my life.

From screen, now to novel, 'telling the truth through fiction' is Mara's through line. I feel that.
So, any chance I can exchange some words, a hug, or support --- I'll do my damnest to get in the room.

My dear friend @glenda_nicole thank you for making sure I got IN the room. I love you deep Sis.

@djbeverlybond thank you and Black Girls Rock for hosting the event and the conversation.

Everyone, go out and get Mara's debut novel -- The Revelations of Dionne Daphne.

And special shout out to the lovely @nikiaphoenix on being the beautiful cover art.

#justgetintheroom by @evierobbie

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It's not every day you are invited into the home of one of the most respected, revered, probably feared, and if I shall say now -- coolest -- activists of my grandparent's generation.

Sharp as a 📌, @gloriasteinem still possesses every ounce of fire that 92 years of living, and decades of fighting for women's and civil rights in the Unites States will require of you.

A fellow woman of the people, Aries (so much more makes sense now), journalist, voice, and avid world traveler.

My dear friend @niknakvargas is an expert at curating groups, particularly of women, that hybrid creative and social spaces. This evening's conversation was shaped around the power of storytelling and travel, and she invited the women pictured, personally, for the event. Some of my favorite people were also in attendance. Thank you Nikki @femmecirclenyc @gloriasfoundation . 💜

What the evening morphed into were portals into vulnerability, insecurity, empowerment, the state of the world, and women's choices around fertility, marriage, and career. Different ages, ethnicities, beliefs, lived experiences -- and the power of one collaborative conversation.

As a world traveling, storytelling, community building, fighter for my people of various intersections, I honor Gloria's life. As a child free woman in her 40s, who finds deep responsibility and fulfillment doing my part to better the world, I SAW her. Gloria spoke openly about not having biological children, and also not feeling like she was deprived of anything in life by that choice. I needed to hear that, and I'll never forget that moment.

This evening was a gift. Moments to be treasured by who was there, and I'm grateful. Thank you Gloria Steinem Foundation.

Also, I guarantee Gloria's old school passport photo was flyer than yours. Guarantee.

📸: @giamckenna by @evierobbie

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That one time I was cornered in a bathroom, at a rest stop in India... and it turned into a lesson on women's empowerment. 😛

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