TRUE BEAUTY DISCOVERY
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Mission Statement
The mission of True Beauty Discovery is to empower girls, young women, and those identifying with girlhood by celebrating their individuality as a source of power, capability, and beauty. True Beauty Discovery is dedicated to empowering adolescent girls, with a focus on those from underserved and minority communities, including racially underserved populations and LGBTQ+ communities. We believe every girl deserves the opportunity to embrace her beauty and uniqueness, cultivate her identity, and thrive in a world that celebrates her individuality. Through our programs, mentorship initiatives, and community engagement efforts, we strive to create a supportive and inclusive environment where girls can explore their passions, build resilience, and develop the confidence to overcome obstacles. We recognize the challenges that girls from underserved backgrounds may face, including limited access to resources, systemic barriers, and societal pressures. Therefore, we are committed to providing tailored support and opportunities that address their specific needs and empower them to succeed. We are creating tangible change through our Legendary Speaking Series, Legendary Workshops, mentorship support, and website content. Our proprietary 7 Legends framework helps identify and pinpoint each girl's uniqueness and strengths. The 7 Legends—The Activist, The Dreamer, The Enthusiast, The Luminary, The Sleuth, The Trailblazer, and The Warrior—represent diverse personality-driven archetypes, each contributing to our participants' identities. Guided by a quiz on our website, girls discover which Legend they embody and begin to understand what moves and drives them, helping to rewrite internalized narratives that may hold them back. Our culture needs transformation in the areas of beauty and how girls and women are perceived. Numerous societal, economic, and cultural factors decrease the probability that girls will succeed in today’s sometimes toxic environment. Girls’ sense of self, self-esteem, and hope erode over time, and when girls become young women, many of them are depressed, defeated, and dehumanized. The media, the film and television industry, and advertisers have long controlled the narrative about women and girls and the parameters around looks and behavior. The most recent CDC study states that "3 in 5 girls felt persistently sad and hopeless, a marker for depressive symptoms, in 2021, up nearly 60% from 2011." A combination of complex factors places young girls at high risk for suicide, depression, substance use disorder, poor academic performance, and other severe consequences. A ROX Organization study found that girls' confidence declines from 5th to 9th grade. It levels off in high school and does not increase until a woman is in her mid-forties. Messaging about women, their beauty, capacity, and worth is often centered around idealistic body images. By the time a girl reaches her 17th birthday, she will have seen more than 250,000 ads aimed at how she looks. These messages become internalized at a young age. We remain involved in advocacy and community outreach efforts to raise awareness about these issues facing adolescent girls. We are also committed to supporting their mental health and offering programming and resources aimed at promoting positive mental health and well-being. True Beauty Discovery offers our services in site-based locations, including Ohio, New Jersey, and Michigan, with plans to expand our reach to serve more communities. Our vision for True Beauty Discovery is one where every girl feels empowered to embrace her individuality, pursue her passions, and positively impact the world.
About This Cause
TBD was founded in 2020 by Holly Fulger, an actor well known in Hollywood for over thirty years. Holly experienced first-hand how girls and women are often valued almost solely by their appearance, and held to impossible standards of beauty that lead to well-documented and rampant cases of depression among impressionable young women. According to a study published by the CDC, 57% of teen girls in 2021 reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless over the past year, the highest rate seen in the last decade. When Holly witnessed her daughter, Sasha, experiencing the same struggles and insecurities about her appearance that she had, Holly made it her mission to make a difference. This mission is TBD, which strives to create more positive feelings of self-worth among its participants, and a greater chance of embracing inner beauty while forging a path to success based upon each girl's unique and individual traits and characteristics. TBD has developed several initiatives to accomplish its goal of empowering girls and young women, including our Legendary Speakers Seminars, Legendary Workshops for Girls, and website content. Each initiative is based upon our proprietary framework of seven Legends - The Activist, The Dreamer, The Enthusiast, The Luminary, The Sleuth, The Trailblazer, The Warrior - which allows us to help each girl identify and pinpoint her uniqueness and strengths. Guided by a quiz on our website, girls discover what Legend they embody and begin to understand what moves and drives them, helping to rewrite internalized narratives that may be holding them back. True Beauty Discovery gives girls the foundation and power to understand that their value in the world is based on who they are as individuals, as opposed to what they look like. Our Legendary Speaking Series is offered online and is closely intertwined with our overall web content and messaging. The Legendary Speaking Series is a short interview series hosted by our founder, Holly Fulger. Each interview features real life role models whose lives embody Legendary characteristics and accomplishments. The interviews allow for a broader reach because they are not only hosted on our website, but also featured on our social media feeds and YouTube channel. True Beauty Discovery’s Legendary Workshops for Girls are aligned with National Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Competencies and designed to provide girls with several types of guided opportunities to define and explore their inner beauty. They are a one-day event hosting from 35 to 100 girls, femme identifying individuals, and nonbinary youth ages 13 – 18 who attend free of charge. The workshops use a standards-based curriculum, combined with a creative framework of personality traits, to empower girls and give them ways to navigate the perilous world of societal beauty standards and behavioral expectations that often damage self-esteem and productivity. Inspired by True Beauty Discovery's 7 Legends- The Activist, The Dreamer, The Enthusiast, The Luminary, The Sleuth, The Trailblazer, The Warrior- they are an in-person experience for girls to find out what Legend they embody and explore the skills and attributes of their Legend. The Legends are meant to inspire girls’ imagination when it comes to the different facets of beauty, including style, personality, character, interests, and goals. Guided by an adult Legend Mentor in breakout groups, the Mentors and their younger counterparts will learn how these Legendary qualities they share can have an impact on their lives and the world around them, fostering self-esteem and promoting success.