The Daily Kind

The BIG 2-5!!

2011-12-08T12:03:00.000-08:00

Today marks a very special day in the world of Kind Campaign! It is Lauren's 25th birthday today! I just wanted to use the blog to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my partner in KIND, Lauren!!!

So happy that this little one (Lauren's on the right with her sister, Brooke, and brother, Liam) was brought into my life!

I am so thankful for her friendship, dedication, and encouragement. Lauren, enjoy this day as we celebrate the 25 glorious years since your birth! And here's to the next 25 (and many more) amazing years to come!

I love you baby girl! Here's to YOU!
love love love,
molly

Breaking News: Kind Campaign on CNN

2011-11-28T15:24:00.000-08:00

Kind Campaign featured on CNN and CNN Students News:

KIND Act: Contact your local newspaper, news, magazine, blog, etc and spread the word about Kind Campaign!

Girl Scouts Girltopia

2011-11-28T14:53:00.000-08:00

The beautiful and talented Jess Weiner hosted an amazing panel at the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles' Girltopia! We were honored to be included on the panel made up of some INSPIRING women! We were joined by actress Kim Coles and i am that girl's Emily Greener to talk about the media's influence on young people, how it effects who they are and how they portray themselves, and how to create positive media that engages audiences.

Let me say one thing: Girl Scouts are smart. Jess led an interactive discussion with both groups and we talked about the fact that shows that are high-conflict and high-drama desensitize us and make it seem like these relationships and situations that we see portrayed on the small screen are completely normal, when really they are not. At all. It was incredible to hear what ideas the Girl Scouts had for implementing positive programming that is entertaining and successful. Such a great day, spent with amazing women.

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving last week! We are so thankful for every single one of you. Thank you for encouraging, supporting, and spreading the KIND message.

love love love,
molly

What's Trending #StopBullying Townhall

2011-11-17T17:08:00.000-08:00

Kind Campaign was honored to be a part of a very important conversation on What's Trending with Shira Lazar. We joined several organizations who are making a difference in an effort to #stopbullying on the What's Trending Townhall to discuss this important issue.

With the wonderful Jac Vanek, representing
MTV's A Thin Line Campaign

In good company:
Trevor Project, Shira Lazar, and A Thin Line Campaign

Thanks so much for hosting and shedding light on
such a serious issue

We were honored to be included among the ranks of such wonderful organizations including The Trevor Project, StopBullying.gov, GLSEN, MTV's A Thin Line Campaign, Love is Louder, DoSomething.org, and The Seth Foundation.

Bullying is not something to be taken lightly. We hear stories every single day about how deeply this affects people of all ages all over the country. Kids are taking their lives because of the way they are being treated at school. It has to stop. Take action, speak up, and be kind.

Anti-Bullying Month October Tour

2011-11-17T16:01:00.000-08:00

The month of October is National Anti-Bullying Month, so Kind Campaign hit the road to try and reach as many schools and organizations as possible! We kept ourselves pretty busy and had an amazing time meeting some pretty incredible people in Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, Toronto, and Richmond!

Finding Kind Screening and Discussion for Girl Scouts and their mothers

sponsored by Monster High
Santa Monica, CA

Our second home...

Lakeside Middle School Screening and Assembly
Seattle, WA

Gig Harbor Film Festival Screening and Q&A

Gig Harbor, WA

Northwest School Screening and Assembly

Seattle, WA

Our friend from Pepperdine, Angie, came out to support!

Finding Kind Screening and Discussion for Girl Scouts and their mothers

Extra!! Extra!!

2011-11-16T11:46:00.000-08:00

Over the summer, we took part in some big interviews that we were really excited about, but the excitement really grew when they all went to print during the same week! The week following Kind Week was filled with lots of exciting press that helped raise awareness and spread the word about what Kind Campaign is all about!

Read the full New York Times article here.

Read the full Huffington Post article here.

Read the full Time for Kids article here.

That's not all! This week was already full of excitement left and right, but it was also during this week that the Monster High webisode featuring Kind Campaign was released!

It was a whirlwind week and came at the perfect time as we were packing our bags to hit the road on our October Anti-Bullying month tour! Can't wait to tell you all about the amazing adventure while on tour!

love love love,

molly

better late than never: Kind Week Re-Cap

2011-11-08T13:13:00.000-08:00

This is the first of many re-caps... from Kind Week until now we've been running from here to there and everywhere which has left us little time for blogging! So, in an effort to play catch up, this is the first of many blogs letting you know what's been going on in the KIND world since Kind Week!

Kind Week was the last week of September and it was a huge success! Kind Week began with a HUGE day in Kind Campaign's world: the theatrical release of Finding Kind presented by IndieFlix! Lauren and I, along with a group of friends, went to see Finding Kind at an AMC Theatre at Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica! We've seen the film shown in theatres before, but there was something very surreal about this moment. Walking down Third Street, a street I have casually walked down hundreds of times, to look up and see FINDING KIND in the marquee and the poster on display made my heart beat a bit faster. It was such a proud moment for me and Lauren, and one that we will treasure forever.

Over the course of that week, we held screenings and assemblies at several organizations and schools locally. It was a great way to lead into October, National Anti-Bullying Month!

Inspired31.org Mother/Daughter Tea & Screening

Pacifica High School Screening and Assembly

Check out the incredible video that Lauren made from our time at Pacifica HS:

Harbor Day School 5th and 6th Grade Assembly

Harbor Day School Middle School Assembly

Finding Kind Screening with Girl Scouts and their moms

oops!

2011-11-03T17:09:00.000-07:00

We vowed to do better... what happened!? We've been SUPER duper busy this past month since we were touring for Anti Bullying Month, but we cannot wait to tell you about it!! We just wanted to drop a line, say hi, and let you know we haven't forgotten about you! We still LOVE you and cannot wait to share about all of the recent happenings in the KC world... so stay tuned!

love love love,

molly

Kind Campaign and Monster High

2011-09-28T09:17:00.000-07:00

Happy Wednesday!

We keep talking about all of these exciting initiatives that we have been busy working on all summer… so we are excited be able to dive in deeper and share more with you about our partnership with Monster High! For those of you who don’t know, Monster High is a fairly new tween brand from Mattel that is based on “perfectly imperfect” teen children of famous monsters.

We gave you a sneak peek at the beginning of the summer that we have partnered with Monster High and left you in suspense as to what we are going to be doing with them. We are so happy that the time has come to fill you in on all of the details about what we’re working on with Monster High! One of the most exciting aspects of the partnership is a special animated webisode that we will be featured in – yes, we are becoming monsterfied! Much like we do in schools and communities nationwide, we are holding an assembly within the school walls of Monster High. Those monsters deal with the same issues that girls across the country deal with – insecurities, gossip, rumors, manipulation, power struggles, and secrets. Because of that, we couldn’t wait to hold an assembly with the girls at Monster High to create change within the Monster High world as we have within Girl World across the country! Stay tuned for the release of the webisode… but in the meantime, here’s a sneak peek!

As we are prepping for our tour during Anti-Bullying month, we are excited about three Mother/Daughter Finding Kind Screenings that Monster High is hosting in Los Angeles, Seattle and Atlanta. Monster High is making these available to mothers and daughters in these communities free of charge (hurray!) and we are inviting guests to join in a dialogue about the film with us afterward. We are really hoping to dive into a deeper conversation with mothers and daughters about how they can talk to one another about these issues.

As two struggling but eager filmmakers and non-profit founders, we were so thankful for the partnership opportunity with Monster High. Their marketing team originally heard about us when we were being interviewed on “On Air with Ryan Seacrest” last year. They loved our message and reached out, knowing that our solutions driven approach would be something that would resonate with their fans. Since then we’ve been working with the incredible team over there to make sure our partnership remains organic for both parties. From the very beginning, we were both on the same page about the importance of protecting the authenticity and private and intimate work we do with schools nationwide. That’s why we are so excited to be bringing our work and our message to the halls of Monster High! Initially, we were not as familiar with how to navigate such a large brand full of opportunities for us, but we’ve felt very supported in working together to integrate KIND’s messaging within their world to make the biggest impact. This has been such a huge learning experience for us as young filmmakers, businesswomen and entrepreneurs!

We’re so excited that this partnership has inspired conversations about how to further strengthen and amplify Kind Campaign-like themes within future Monster High content, activities and initiatives. The Monster High characters are learning how to embrace and accept themselves and others and hopefully our animated Kind Campaign assembly will inspire the characters and their fans to continue this conversation.

Because they believed in the message behind Kind Campaign and Finding Kind they have made it possible for Finding Kind to have a theatrical release (going on right now in NY and LA)! Even though we feel like we’ve conquered a lot of ground already, it’s still just the two of us and would take thousands of assemblies to near the number of girls that we are going to be able to reach this month alone with the help of Monster High. Monster High already has millions of dedicated followers and we are so excited to be able to tap into these engaged fans to further spread our own KIND message!

KINDly,

Molly and Lauren

Aaaaand it all begins again!

2011-09-23T10:59:00.000-07:00

We have officially began our 3rd Kind Campaign school year! Wow. To look back on the last 2 1/2 years and think about all the girls we have spoken to and all the places we have been is wonderfully overwhelming. To date, we have personally gone into over 300 schools and organizations across the country. What a crazy thing to think about... Something else really crazy is the fact that you can check out all of our Kind Campaign stops on Kind Country featured on our NEW WEBSITE!!!!!!!!! Yes, we have a new Kind Campaign website and you are most likely checking it out if you are reading this blog post! Go navigate and have fun after reading this! About the whole summer was dedicated to the production of this new site and I have to say... it may be my favorite website of all time... yes, I am biased but it's just so perfect!!! We cannot thank Nick Mason and ErroThree LLC enough for all of their hard work and genius ideas.

Getting back to our 3rd school year...yesterday we got home from our first couple of speaking and screening engagements of the year! We first headed over to Cushing Academy right outside of Boston and then flew down to Nashville to visit Vanderbilt. The feeling I get when standing on that stage and having this conversation with girls... its something that I cannot even begin to describe. What we witnessed at Cushing Academy were some of the most beautiful moments I have experienced to date. We usually don't open up the floor for apologies but there were some girls who were really eager to read their apologies for the whole female student body. These apologies were so moving, I dont think there was a single dry eye in the room. We watched more friendships mended and many unresolved conflicts between the girls were resolved.

Cushing Academy

Cushing Kind Wall

The school utilized one of our new Kind Campaign initiatives of the school year, the Kind Wall, where girls can display their Kind Pledges and Kind Cards. The girls really got into it which was so cool to watch. Speaking of new initiatives, we CAN'T WAIT to launch Kind Campaign School Clubs!!!!! The beautiful and talented, Camilla, is finishing up a couple designs so it will be available very soon for girls to start in schools across the country!!!!!!!

Vanderbilt

We love Hannah!

Well, that's enough for now. The last few days were incredible and we are so excited to begin speaking and screening!!! Its going to be quite a busy year!!

While I'm here, I want to remind you to go see Finding Kind in New York and Los Angeles AMC theaters throughout this week!!!!!! Alllsooo, if you happen to be at your local Starbucks, check out a new exclusive Finding Kind trailer on the Starbucks wireless network homepage!!!!

Love Wins.

Lauren

YOU can save a life.

2011-09-21T22:09:00.000-07:00

Jamey Rodemeyer is a 14 year old boy who's life was cut short because of anti-gay bullying. Jamey fell victim to hateful words and actions put forth by his classmates because of his sexuality. Honestly, every time I hear this story I feel sick to the point of tears. I am currently sitting in a hotel room in Nashville and I heard about this tragedy tonight as we spoke at Vanderbilt University. I came home, read about the story and was ultimately lead to an It Gets Better Youtube video Jamey made and posted 5 months ago. I couldn't help but cry as I watched him confidently let the world know that he was proud of who he was-- knowing that back to school this Fall must have become so hard for him, he decided his life wasn't worth living. I wanted so badly to jump into the computer and hug him.

As amazing as people can be, its so incredible to me how human beings bully groups of other human beings. When did certain people decide that they have the authority to make decisions and assumptions about people that they see as "different." We are ALL different. Human beings-- a species that used to be convinced the world is flat, that women were witches and should be burned at the stake, and refused to drink from the same water fountain as a person with a darker skin pigmentation. We hear those things and think it sounds insane but during those times, people were just as convicted and convinced in their beliefs as people who think being gay means you are going to hell. History repeats itself, just as it is now. Why don't we learn from our mistakes? We are constantly changing, evolving and discovering and one day we will look back at this time and mourn over these unnecessary deaths and wonder how we could be so ignorant and archaic.

My heart goes out to his family and friends. Let this be yet another devastating example of how hate can kill.

In middle school, I too was in a place of feeling like there was no way out. In my head, the only solution to my bullying was to take my own life. As someone who has been in this place, I can only hope and pray that girls and boys who are struggling with bullying seek help rather than take this devastating measure. I know when bullying takes place in school, it seems like your whole world is crashing. When you go through this, it is really hard to see outside the school halls and to focus on the bigger picture and know that there is so much more to life...that there are so many chapters of your life ahead of you. When you are in school, it seems like the most important thing is to fit in and be accepted. I get it...those social pressures can be paralyzing. I had one friend in middle school and was tormented daily and I thought that was going to be the state of my life forever. Guess what? It wasn't. If someone would have told me in middle school that I would have the amazing friends I do now and would experience the things that I have, I wouldn't have believed a word of it. Please trust me when I say you have so much more to experience, people to meet and love to give to the world. You are NOT ALONG and you WILL get through this. Your current experience is NOT your entire life story and I thank God every day that I am here today able to share my story with girls and boys to let them know-- IT DOES GET BETTER.

As this school year begins, BE KIND to your peers. If you don't have anything nice to say, just DON'T say it. Reach out and stick up for those being ostracized or picked on. We can all think of certain boys and girls who get bullied or sit alone at lunch. Be there for those people. Again, I know this is easier said than done but I promise you, coming from someone who was in school just a couple years ago, I wish I could go back and stick up for certain people. You don't have to make a grand gesture to create change within your school and to take a stand. Go sit with someone who is alone at lunch or ask someone how their day is going. You may think that will make you uncool, but later in life you will look back and be proud of that moment. Sometimes it just takes a simple KIND act to save a life.

LOVE WINS.

Lauren Parsekian

good things.

2011-09-21T09:10:00.000-07:00

Here's a happy thought for your day...

Image via Crush Cul de Sac

We are in Nashville, Tennessee right now prepping to speak at Vanderbilt tonight (details from our trip to come) and we wanted to give you some happy thoughts to get you through your Wednesday!

We are just overjoyed with the things going on within Kind Campaign and cannot wait for Kind Week next week filled with Finding Kind in theatres and assemblies and screenings galore (see here if you don't know what we're talking about).

With that said, good thing are comin' and we hope your day is filled with them!

KINDly,

Molly & Lauren

Kind Week

2011-09-16T15:59:00.000-07:00

Hello KINDlings!!!

Image via Pinterest

We are so excited to officially announce KIND WEEK!!!! You've heard us talk about how excited we are for this Fall, for so many reasons! To launch all of the amazing initiatives, we are deeming the last week of September KIND WEEK.

There are a lot of exciting activities taking place during Kind Week. One of the most exciting is the NY and LA theatrical release!! Opening night is Friday, September 23rd and it will be in theatres through the 29th of September. If you live in NY or LA please spread the word about Finding Kind presented by IndieFlix in theatres and get a group of friends to go see the film (maybe more than once)!

Click on the image above to enlarge.

During the rest of Kind Week there will be screenings hosted nationwide, as well as several assemblies taking place in the Los Angeles area. This is just the beginning of a very exciting school year, so if you want your school or community to host a screening or assembly check out the Finding Kind website to book today!

Click on the image above to enlarge.

There are a few things you can do to help us out:
- Spread the word. Pass on www.findingkind.com to anyone and everyone (teachers, faculty, friends, family, neighbors, co-workers) to book a screening and/or find a screening in your area!
- Mark your calendars. Save the date to go see Finding Kind in theatres (and bring your friends)!
- Be Kind.

Hope everyone had a wonderful week and enjoy the weekend!
KINDly,
Kind Campaign

pamper yourself.

2011-09-08T14:14:00.000-07:00

As the school year begins and we are quickly immersed in all things Fall, football, and fun take a moment for yourself AND give back at the same time!!

The wonderful Stephanie Miller of Wisdom of the Kitchen has teamed up with Jennifer Hardaway of Klean Spa and created an exciting way to raise money for Kind Campaign! There is a back to school special going on right now and we get 10% of the proceeds from the exclusive Wisdom of the Kitchen scented products.

Easy peasy, right?! Load up on goodies for yourself, your friends, your spouse, your teacher, your kid's teacher... the opportunities are endless! Hey, the holidays are right around the corner!! (too soon?)

Enjoy this wonderful opportunity to pamper yourself for a good cause! Thanks so much to Wisdom of the Kitchen and KleanSpa for making Kind Campaign the beneficiary, we really appreciate it!

Click here to get buyin'!

Have a KIND day!

xoxo,

Kind Campaign

thoughtful tuesday

2011-09-06T13:49:00.000-07:00

Image via Simply B.

I saw this today and it just really made me smile. It's such an inspiring, happy message. Whatever your Tuesday holds, whether good or bad, be yourself as you live your own unique life.

Take this inspiration and have a HAPPY Tuesday!

love love love,

molly

happy thoughts.

2011-09-02T11:56:00.000-07:00

Wanted to leave y'all with some happy thoughts as you head into the weekend....

Image via Pinterest

No matter what your weekend stresses may be, no matter what your Labor Day plans are, no matter what deadline or homework you did or didn't get done... YOU have the power to SHINE this weekend. You just have to make that choice.

Have a wonderful, fun, kind, and SHINY weekend : )

love love love,

molly

kind connections

2011-08-30T11:08:00.000-07:00

Throughout our Kind Campaign journey, we've had the amazing opportunity of meeting some pretty incredible and inspiring individuals!! The kind, passionate, and welcoming friends that we have made throughout our travels is at the top of the list for one of my favorite parts of Kind Campaign. Whenever Lauren or I are asked what our favorite location has been, I stumble trying to come up with an answer. This is because it really is the people that we encounter that make up our journey.

There is one special individual who you have heard us talk about before due to her outreach and acts of Kindness. She creates and sells the cutest bracelets (check them out here) and donates the proceeds to Kind Campaign, she has mini-fundraisers via Facebook, Twitter, and her blog promoting us and raising us money at the same time, and she has connected this network of KIND across the country through reaching out to other girls (shout-out to our University of Iowa supporters) that have encountered Kind Campaign. Her name is Amanda Tyson and she has taken on our motto of Be Kind and tries to promote it in every way!

Amanda happened to be in Los Angeles this past weekend, so we met up with her for lunch to catch up on life! She even tried avocado for the first time with us!! She's going to want to stop going out to eat with us... we have a history of inspiring her to try new things! When we were in Maine on our last tour, she was a wonderful hostess and took us to eat lobster... only she had never tried it before - until we came! Let's just say she liked the avocado a lot more than the lobster!

While she was here, she also made it out to an incredible performance by the one-and-only Nicole Vaughn! (You recognize Nicole from our last tour -- she's the dreamboat that toured with us, serenaded us, and performed after screenings and assemblies). Seeing these two reunite makes me so happy!

We are so happy that we got to see Amanda on her trip to Los Angeles! Amanda, you are beautiful, you are wonderful, and you are KIND! Thank you for being such a huge supporter of Kind Campaign!! Have a safe trip back to Maine!

Is there anyone that you've connected with because of Kind Campaign? We love to hear when KINDness brings people together! Let us know in the comment section below!

Heading off to meetings now... have a GREAT Tuesday!

love love love,

molly

Family Circle Feature!

2011-08-29T13:29:00.000-07:00

HAPPY MONDAY!!

We've got some exciting news to start off your week!! Kind Campaign is featured in the current issue of Family Circle!!

We were honored to be interviewed by the lovely Celia Shatzman several months ago and have been anxiously awaiting the issue that would feature Kind Campaign! It comes at a perfect time since we are spending our days gearing up for another tour this Fall!

Check out the full article online here, pick up a copy of the mag, spread the word, and let us know what you think below in the comments section!

love love love,
molly

Patricia's Truth

2011-08-26T09:56:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! It's been a minute since I have posted on our blog. This summer has been so busy, especially the last couple months, preparing for our 3rd tour and writing the curriculum for Kind Clubs!! We are so excited to launch the official Kind Club curriculum this Fall! :)

I will write a more in depth post later, but for now, I wanted to showcase a poem that was submitted to Kind Campaign.

Patricia sent a collection of poems to us and I think they really capture a lot of the feelings girls have as they walk down the halls at school...especially at the beginning of the year when everyone is just getting back to school. Here is one of her amazing poems:

Facing

Facing it all is too tough
Walking away is easier
But fading to black, the easiest.

You don't want me around
Because I reflect what's inside
You, all you don't like.

You taunt and belittle me
To raise yourself higher
To make your star gold.

I won't go to school today
You've made it too tough
You have won it all.

Remember: Every single person at your school has a story. You have no idea what someone is going through and the struggles they deal with on and off campus. This school year, I challenge you to say "Hi" to people you may not normally associate yourself with. Sit with someone alone at lunch. Have a conversation with a girl that seems down. I know how hard school can be and the social pressures you face can seem paralyzing. I promise that one day you will look back and wish you could have done some things different. I know I wish I would have stuck up for certain people, or reached out to girls that were alone at school. It's so much cooler to be able to look back at your middle or high school experience and know that you made a difference. At the very least, avoid being a part of the drama. You will have such a better school experience if you respect the girls around you by being KIND. I know that may sound cheesy to you, but it's true. I know from experience because I was in your shoes not that long ago.

Just some food for thought.

Have a wonderful Friday.

Love Wins.
Lauren

t-swift

2011-08-25T13:51:00.000-07:00

Image via Pinterest

There's a song of Miss Taylor's that really stands out to me from her Fearless album. I remember hearing "The Best Day" when Lauren and I were in the very beginning days of creating Kind Campaign. I heard it one day and thought... wow, this issue really does affect everyone. Here is this rising starlet, singing about coming home in tears when she was thirteen because of the things that her friends had said to her at school:

I'm thirteen now
And don't know how my friends
Could be so mean

I come home crying and you hold me tight and grab the keys

And we drive and drive

Until we've found a town
Far enough away

And we talk and window-shop
Until I've forgotten all their names

I don't know who I'm gonna talk to
Now at school
I know I'm laughing on the car ride home with you
Don't know how long it's gonna take to feel okay
But I know I had the best day
With you today

The song documents her childhood and how her she cherishes the relationship that she has with her mom. But, it was the above lines in the song really got my attention. It was just another reminder that every female has dealt with girl-against-girl "crime" at some point within their lives, and another reminder that WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.

T-Swift is on the brain because Lauren and I got to see the lovely lady LIVE in concert!!! Thanks to Lauren's friend, Remy, we scored free tickets to the Taylor Swift concert here in Los Angeles! We had a super fun girl's night singing and dancing to the tunes of T-Swift!

She put on an incredible show and we had so much fun spending time with our girlfriends!

As school is about to start for so many of you, remember to keep this in mind: YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Cherish your friendships, have fun with your friends, and remember that it's okay at any age to have a girl's night out to be silly, to love each other, to sing and to dance around... that's what friends are for.

What's your favorite Taylor Swift song? What's your favorite memory with friends? What are you most excited for the next school/work year? We want to hear from you in the comment section below!

Have an AMAZING day! Give a friend a call that you haven't talked to in a while!

love love love,

molly

skype date

2011-08-22T16:37:00.000-07:00

If you follow us on Facebook and Twitter, you've probably already seen the wonderful photos documenting our Skype work session, but since we were too busy working last week to put them on the blog, I thought I would post them now!

For those of you who don't know what Skype is all about, it's a wonderful computer app that makes it super easy to conference, chat, or call people from your computer! Utilized a ton by people traveling overseas, but the screen sharing feature is a huge hit with Lauren and me!

We've been busy working on the Kind Club Curriculum, but wanting to steer clear of traffic in Los Angeles we've been having more and more Skype dates recently : )

I am sure this week will be filled with many more Skype dates, but that means that there are some SUPER exciting things brewing in the Kind Campaign world!

Hope your Monday is off to a wonderful and productive start!

love love love,

molly

happy thoughts.

2011-08-15T13:33:00.000-07:00

Image via artsyville

the sisterhood of the traveling office

2011-08-12T14:54:00.000-07:00

This week (like so many in the life of Kind Campaign) has been filled with a different "office" every day. Lauren and I are constantly traveling, which means that our office is typically in an airport, hotel, car, home, school, you get the point. But when we are at home, our office becomes our home or any agreed upon, meet-in-the-middle location (Lauren lives in Santa Monica and I live in Westlake, even though not far from each other the Los Angeles traffic is enough to kill a person). This week, we've been switching off back and forth... my apartment, lauren's apartment, starbucks in malibu, and skype (we can be anywhere as long as theirs an internet connection).

Here's a little sneak peek of our time at "the office":

Even though it's great that we're able to be mobile, sometimes we wish we just had a space to call our own...

It's been a wonderful and very productive week! And yes, you heard right (if you didn't hear - you didn't watch the above video), we're gearing up for another tour during anti-bullying month!! More details to come, but let's just say Seattle, Atlanta, Richmond, Minneapolis and Denver... get excited! We'll spill the beans soon, but if you live in one of those areas (or anywhere else in the world) and just can't wait, check out www.findingkind.com for more details on booking a screening or assembly in your area so that Kind Campaign can come to YOUR town!

As you wrap up your day at wherever your "office" may be, we hope you have a safe and KIND weekend!
love love love,
molly

Actionist Jess Weiner in Glamour!

2011-08-09T19:27:00.000-07:00

Being immersed within "Girl World" on a day-to-day basis, we encounter every pre-requisite girl issue under the sun. More often than not, body image becomes a topic of conversation as we travel and speak with thousands of females all over the country. The struggle to accept ourselves and our bodies plays into our insecurities and is often at the heart of girl-against-girl "crime."

Actionist Jess Weiner, featured in Finding Kind, opens up a new dialogue about her journey with self-image, a journey that ultimately was the catalyst to new discoveries about what it means to be healthy. In the recent issue of Glamour Magazine, Jess reveals a shocking discovery while visiting the doctor. After having not visited the doctor in years, Jess was informed that she was pre-diabetic with abnormal stats. This caused her to stop and think:

"It didn’t matter in that moment...how many books I had written or speeches I had given about loving your body and accepting yourself as you are. The cold, hard truth was that accepting myself as I was was putting my life in danger."

The article highlights the courageous steps she takes emotionally, physically, and mentally in order to turn her health around.

Jess was so brave to not only go on this journey, but also to share it with the world to encourage other females to tune into their bodies and ask the question: Am I healthy? Being comfortable within your own skin effects your relationship with yourself and those around you. That is why we think it's important for every person, no matter what shape or size, to pay attention to what your body is telling you.

Be sure to pick up a copy of Glamour on newsstands now and join the conversation on Glamour.com. Also, tune in tomorrow to see Jess on The Today Show (at 9:15 am) and CNN Showbiz!

xoxo,

Kind Campaign

workkkkk day.

2011-08-02T23:32:00.000-07:00

Holy Moly!

Today has been a long day of WORK!

Lauren and I have been working on a variety of things since this morning, but are still up and at 'em as the new day is about to begin.

We had an exciting interview earlier today with Time for Kids Magazine that will come out sometime around October-ish (we'll keep you posted)! The rest of the day has been spent working on content for our new website! We cannot wait to unleash this beauty of a site! We've been working with ErroThree, the amazing company who designed the original site. I don't know if you can tell, but we are SO excited about it - and we think you will be too!

Of course in the midst of all this work we've been able to sneak in some quality girl talk... which is always SO much fun!

Okay, well as the minutes tick closer and closer to midnight, I better get back to work...

Hope your day was wonderful as well!

love love love,

molly

be the change.

2011-08-01T19:00:00.000-07:00

We've made a few changes around here! Updated the look of the blog and added a few things, so we hope you enjoy!

Hope you are having a wonderful Monday and have an amazing week!

love love love,

mols

happy thoughts.

2011-07-26T16:18:00.000-07:00

Image via Pam Garrison

Festival Love

2011-07-25T17:25:00.000-07:00

As you saw in our last whirlwind post, we've been having so much fun with Finding Kind on the festival circuit! Since then, we've attended a few more festivals with Finding Kind! We love spreading the word about the film and the campaign and film festivals are a great way to do that!

July 14th: Ventura Film Festival

Then we made our way to the Veg for the Las Vegas Film Festival! There was an incredible response to the film and while we were there we also made some time for a little fun, too!

We had such a great time spreading the KIND : ) How have you been spreading KINDness recently?

have an amazing week! xo
love love love,
molly

A Year in Review... in Photographs

2011-07-13T14:48:00.000-07:00

Hello KIND Companions!

WOW. It has been almost an ENTIRE year that we haven't posted on this blog... shame on us! It's been an incredible year, but one that has kept us VERY, VERY busy! Because of that, we haven't been diligent about our blogging and instead utilized Facebook and Twitter to keep everyone updated. But, that is not fair for those of you who aren't in the world of Facebook and Twitter, so we are going to do our very best to start fresh and keep the blogs comin' from now on! Before we do that though, we wanted to fill you in on what has been happening this past year because things have definitely been HAPPENIN'!!

Rather than tell you, we thought we would SHOW you... so here is Kind Campaign's Year in Pictures:

Summer 2010:

Happy Summertime!

Molly spoke at Delta Gamma Convention in Denver, Colorado and received the Courage Award in recognition of the courage to overcome bystander behavior and create an environment where social responsibility is nurtured.

Fundraiser in Malibu, California

Finding Kind Family

Molly and Chris's Engagement Party

Molly's Engagement Party =
Road Trip Reunion

Molly and her then fiance, Chris
Molly's Engagement Party

Assembly in Boston at PCC Camp

Featured speakers at SMARTY Event in Los Angeles

Facilitating three sessions at the Operation Smile Conference in Denver, Colorado

Fall 2010:

Assembly at Lancer HS in
Santa Barbara, California

Sound Mixing in the studio

Kind Campaign featured
non-profit at Fashion's Night
Out at BCBG on
Rodeo Drive

Final preparations to HIT THE ROAD for the second cross-country tour!!

Lauren spoke at the Kappa Kappa Gamma Convention
in Denver, Colorado

Finding Kind Premiere

On September 20th, we embarked on another cross-country road trip to screen the film and do assemblies in schools, communities, and organizations nationwide. Here's a few snapshots of our journey...

Jack Rose, an amazing
human, traveled with us on
the journey driving &
protecting us

Nicole Vaughn, the
incredibly talented musician,
traveled with us on
the journey playing after
assemblies & screenings

After being On Air with Ryan
Seacrest on KIIS FM, we took
a one day break from the tour
to fly back to L.A. for a meeting
with Ryan Seacrest Productions

We had such an amazing journey and were so blessed by the incredibly KIND people that we encountered along the way. After the road trip, we continued flying to different cities for assemblies and screenings...

Right after the road trip, Molly flew to Indianapolis to speak at the Alumnae Panhellenic Luncheon

Finding Kind screening at University of Mississippi

Lots of time spent in the air!

Wisdom of the Kitchen's
first event!

Assemblies, assemblies,
assemblies!

Francis Parker School

Orange County SOLD OUT
Screening

Marymount High School

Marlborough High School

NCL Desert Cities Chapter

Chaminade Prep

Two wonderful assemblies at San Celemente High School

Several Assemblies in Colorado Springs, Colorado at the Classical Academy

Final Assembly of 2010 with Marlborough Middle School

Honored to speak at the Board of Directors and Board of Regents Meeting

at Pepperdine University, our alma mater

(that's us with President Benton!)

Celebrating Lauren's 24th birthday to wrap up the first semester and the year!

Oaks Christian MS

Winter 2011:

San Jacinto Acadmey

Reception for Social Justice
Award for Documentary
Film at the Santa Barbara
Film Festival

Garden Street Academy
Santa Barbara, CA

Lincoln Middle School
Santa Monica, CA

ABC KEYT Morning News
Santa Barbara, CA

Breakfast with Santa Barbara
MS students following the
first screening at SBIFF

El Puente School

Santa Barbara International
Film Festival

Meeting the AMAZING
women of IndieFlix,
our distribution company

Walking the red carpet at
Santa Barbara International
Film Festival

Santa Barbara International
Film Festival

Assemblies in 1 degree temperature in Kohler, Wisconsin!

Back to California for a screening for the National Charity League Laguna Chapter

Screening in Greeley, Colorado at University of Northern Colorado

Vista Verde School

Arborlawn First United
Methodist Church
Dallas, Texas

NCL La Jolla Chapter

Spring 2011:

Molly tied to the knot on April 2, 2011 and married the love of her life, Christopher Thompson! Lauren, of course, was a bridesmaid in the wedding!! Now Molly is Mrs. Thompson!!

Photos courtesy of Lauren Larsen Photography

Sprockets Film Festival, sponsored by the Toronto International Film Festival

Finding Kind won the Student Choice Award!!

On Location: Memphis International Film Festival

Palm Beach Women's International Film Festival

Finding Kind won Best Documentary!

Finding Kind in the Newport Beach Film Festival

Oaks Christian Middle School Screening

Seattle is IndieFlix headquarters, so we went up there to spend a few days to hold screenings and assemblies!

New Day Morning Show

St. Joseph's School

IndieFlix Headquarters

Screening Event at Town Hall in Seattle, Washington

We hopped on a plane from Seattle to Portland to hold a screening and assembly at Valley Catholic in Beaverton, Oregon

Pepperdine Alumni dinner in Portland

Finding Kind screened at the Seattle International Film Festival so we spent a week in Seattle! SIFF connected us with local schools, so we held several screenings in the Seattle area and had an amazing time meeting all of the incredible students!

Lynnwood HS

Jackson HS

Meadowdale HS

So happy to have Lauren's boyfriend, Aaron, and Molly's mom, Tetia, in Seattle with us!

Red Carpet before the first SIFF Screening

Q&A following the screening

Fellow Pepperdine alum
and friends came
to support

Local Delta Gamma's came
to support

Nathan Hale HS

Front Page of Seattle
Times Northwest

Seattle Times Feature
SIFF's Best Bet

FOX Q13 Nightly News

King 5 Morning News

Meeting with Mia Doces,
Committee for Children

We hopped on a plane from Seattle to head to Telluride, Colorado for MountainFilm. You've seen posts about this incredible film festival before from Lauren, but this was Molly's first time to go. Once again, it was WONDERFUL!

So proud of HAPPY!

We went straight from Telluride back to California to do the last two assemblies of the school year. These were extremely special assemblies because they were at Lauren's middle school, it was in this schools hallways where she experienced girl-against-girl "crime". It was so wonderful to be at Niguel Hills Middle School!

Summer 2011:

Meeting with the INCREDIBLE

Jessica Weiner

Once again, Happy Summertime!

Well there you have it... A year in the life of Kind Campaign! Whew, that was a whirlwind!

Now that it's summertime our days are filled with planning for the EXCITING things we have brewing for the Fall (Kind Week, Anti-Bullying month, etc!), attending festivals (we're heading to Ventura and Vegas this week!), and working on a new website (get excited!).

We'll keep you posted, but in the meantime, check out www.findingkind.com to schedule a screening or see if one is happening in your area! As always, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter!

We hope you are having a WONDERFUL summer! Enjoy every moment and BE KIND.

xoxo,

Molly and Lauren

Kind Campaign for OWN and MTV

2010-07-18T11:41:00.000-07:00

2010-07-18T11:31:00.000-07:00

We are meeting with the OWN network tomorrow and awaiting the verdict from our meeting with MTV last week. we could really use your help on this--

We would love for you to write to the OWN network and MTV about why they should support Kind Campaign. Our meetings with them are to see if they can help with post production funding and distribution on the doc. Most importantly, we are looking to get support/funding for our upcoming Fall school tour. They have also both expressed interest in shooting a show about our second tour. But they need to know why this is important FROM YOU!

We already have tons of schools booked for the tour and we want nothing more than to bring our finished film and our assembly program to girls all over the country. In the last 8 months we have spoken in over 60 schools and organizations all over the country and we have seen the immense effects of our efforts. Unfortunately, without funding its going to be very difficult to do this 3 month school tour.

Let OWN and MTV know why they should support our documentary and school program!!! You can even just copy and paste what you say for both links! HERE ARE THE LINKS TO WRITE IN TOO!

OWN LINK:https://www.oprah.com/plugform_own1.jsp?plugId=3077535

MTV LINK (with instructions listed below):http://community.mtv.com/Content/Discussions/DiscussionResults.aspx?tcid=22922

***Instructions: you have to sign up on the site to leave your comment. It takes one minute--super easy. Once you have signed up, click the above link and you can create a new discussion thread OR you can comment on the thread we just posted:http://community.mtv.com/Discussion-Thread/Kind-Campaign-for-MTV-documentary-movement-school-program-TV-show/0D3FCFFFF01EC7CAC000901051EC9?ref_title=Suggestion+Box&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.mtv.com%2FContent%2FDiscussions%2FDiscussionResults.aspx%3Ftcid%3D22922&ref_category=22922

CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING LINKS BEFORE YOU WRITE TO THEM!

News Package of one of our assemblies:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTrGkMA-rRg
Documentary Trailer:http://kindcampaign.com/doc_vid_1.php
Kind Magazine created by a group of students after a Kind Campaign assembly:http://www.kindcampaign.com/kindmagazine/issue5.html
Every donation helps:http://kindcampaign.com/get_involved.php

Please please send a message letting OWN and MTV know why this is important and why it affects you!! Thanks so much!

LOVE WINS.

Lauren & Molly

YAY FOR PEPSI REFRESHHHHHHHHH

2010-06-30T23:30:00.001-07:00

After 4 months of trying, we FINALLY got accepted into the Pepsi Refresh Grant cycle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Molly and I were traveling home from speakin in Boston today so Vegard (finding kind editor) submitted for us while we were in the air heading back to LA. You have to submit at 9pm (westcoast time) on the 1st of every month. Getting into the voting cycle is basically a lottery. Insane amounts of people all over the country press SUBMIT at the exact same time and just hope and pray that their application will make it into one of the first 1,000. Believe me, I have almost chucked my computer over the balcony the last 4 times I tried--watching the server crash and the cycle close within ONE minute because of how many people submit. But this time it's KIND CAMPAIGNS turn!!!! I cannot even begin to describe the excitement running through me right now. Right when we landed, Molly and I had an email from Vegard letting us know that the application made it through and we were in a state of shock.

HOWEVER, although being in the cycle is awesome, we still have to await the approval on our application from Pepsi and THEN on August 1st, the one month voting cycle begins. That is where YOU come in!!! The grant is only received if you receive the most votes. We are going to need your help with this but we have faith that we can make this happen!!!!

This money would finish the post-production on the documentary and fund so many projects such as our upcoming 3 months Fall KC school assembly tour, Kind Clubs, website development, merch...the list goes on and on but you will see our budget breakdown on our profile :)

We will keep you updated and remind you when the voting begins!!!!

LOVE WINSSSS.

Lauren

Westcoastinnnn

2010-06-18T02:33:00.000-07:00

This week I re-wrote and re-recorded all of my voice over for the documentary. I am so awkward when I do voiceovers haha. Vegard and I were laughing yesterday because he was saying he could make a pretty interesting reel out of all my out-takes while recording...its true...some of the things that come out of my mouth. wow. its pretty interesting. Ill have to have him put that reel together so you can hear.

Its so strange to listen to yourself talk like that. This time I was excited to record though because the new VO really tells the story. I feel really proud of it and how this doc is coming together. I see an end to this post production madness and its getting me excited! I've had some new ideas this week that I brought into the edit and they are translating really nicely...love when that happens. To the left is where I sit everyday-- with Vegard (our editor), staring at those screens. It's actually really fun. I LOVE post production.

Molly and I have been meeting with a group of people, getting together a pitch that is happening on the 28th of this month. Its with a HUGE network and if the pitch goes, it could take KC to a crazy new level. Part of this deal is for them to distribute the documentary which would be INSANNNNEEEEE. I feel really confident about what we are presenting so keep your fingers crossed! That is all I want to say for now because I dont want to jinx anything. We will let you know who the network is and more details after the pitch meeting :)

KC has been rooting the LAKERS on and I can proudly say that TONIGHT they kicked some Celtic bootayyyy!!!!!!! Watching them win was quite a phenomenal experience. I was at a bar on melrose with a bunch of friends and let me just say that the city (los angeles) went crazy in those last 10 seconds. People were stopping and getting out of their cars and dancing around. So fun :)

These are some pics from game 5

Molly left today to go to Denver to speak at her sororities national convention about Kind Campaign. She will update you about her experience when she returns! Keep her in your thoughts! I know she will be amazing!

LOVE WINS.

lauren

Design For Humanity

2010-06-18T02:05:00.000-07:00

Last week we attended Billabong's Design for Humanity event supporting Invisible Children. I have mentioned the organization and some of my friends who are on staff in previous posts. The people who run Invisible Children are amazing-- so creative and passionate about what they do. Just to refresh you in case you dont remember, Invisible Children started with a documentary shot by three guys who traveled to Uganda and exposed the world to the longest running war in Africa.

Taken from their website (CLICK HERE to check the site out):

The war in northern

Uganda

has been called the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today. For the past 23 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GoU) have been waging a war that has left nearly two million innocent civilians caught in the middle. The GoU's attempt to protect its citizens from this rebel militia has largely failed, resulting in an entire generation of youth that has never known peace.

The event was so cool. It was held at the New York stage at the Paramount lot in LA and tons of people showed up. There was live art, a fashion show, a concert by Fischerspooner, a performance by LXD and more. Seriously one of the coolest events I have seen and we were so happy to be a part of it to support these amazing people and the revolutionary work they are doing!

love wins.

Lauren

Updates

2010-06-09T11:10:00.000-07:00

The KC world is moving...fast...and we are just trying to get everything together and catch up so that the vision for this project comes together how we hope it will.

the doc is still tuckin along-- we've been communicating with an animator, color correctors, sound people, music people...lots of people. but they are people who believe in the project and will use their wonderful talents to complete this film.

Molly and I had a wonderful meeting/coaching session with the lovely Amy Swift and Whitney Roberts of SMARTY. They provided us with so much helpful information and advice for how to keep KC moving. They also advised us to put together a Board of Directors. We are proud to announce a portion of our board: Whitney Roberts, Marty Stevens-Heebner, Debra Parsekian, Tetia Stroud, Debbie Angle and Samantha Marq. There are a couple of other people we are talking to and we will let you know when they are confirmed :) Once we have the board in tact, will we start to meet to determine who can bring what to the table to help further this whole operation.

We met with Nick Mason of ErroThree yesterday to talk about updating our website. He showed us his idea for a new layout and I must say....its INCREDIBLE. The new website will have cool new interactive features, and will be really easy to navigate. Its fresh and it pops. We think you will be really stoked on the new ideas.

I really want you to check out Amanda Tysons new Kind Campaign bracelet!! She has a wonderful business going and she decided to create a custom KC bracelet, donating 100% of the proceeds to us! I am wearing mine right now! They are super cute

and a lot of people have been ordering. They are only 10 dollars and all the money will help finish the film and bring us into schools. Here is a pic of the bracelet to the right and here is the link to order yours today: Bracelets by Amanda Leigh.

We are so excited to announce our next fundraiser on June 25th 7-9pm!!! It will be held at Rock & Revolution in Malibu, CA. Check out their BLOG too! The wonderful Cece Abel, owner of Rock & Revolution, is helping spread KIND by putting up another KC installation and throwing us an awareness night and fundraiser. Click HER E to check out the fundraiser invite page. We would love to see you there!

Well, off to a lunch meeting and back into the edit!! Speaking of meetings, Molly and I had a VERYYYYYYYYY exciting meeting yesterday but we are going to keep it hush hush until things are more set in stone. Just know that there may be something HUGE around the corner and we are very excited about the prospect. We will keep you updated.

Have a wonderful rest of your week and check back for a new addition to our blog where we will be updating you via video messages :) Coming soon!

LOVE WINS.

Lauren

Telluride 3.0

2010-06-09T10:23:00.000-07:00

Mountainfilm i love thee. everyday is a new adventure. everyday is a new idea. everyday is meeting new people. everyday is new.

Last week I was in Telluride Colorado at the MountainFilm Festival. This is my third year traveling to that festival with Tom Shadyac and the crew...the crew being just the most amazing group of people--movers, thinkers, artists...good good people with huge hearts. I love my Telluride family.

The whole week was full of good films, good people, good conversation, good food, laughter,

inspiration...everything you need. Toms documentary, I Am, premiered at the festival and it was so amazing to be a part of that moment. Him, Dagan Handy, Jackie Zampella and Nikki Pritchett have been working so hard on the film and they had all their family and friends behind them with love and support. The doc is simply amazing. You walk away truly wanting to be a better person. You walk away feeling changed and aware of the way you interact with other people. I cannot wait for you all to see it. Check out the I AM website. The film won the student choice award and the audience choice award and they deserved it. SO exciting. Some other docs that really moved me that week were: Wasteland, Bag It, Music By Prudence, Somewhere Near Tapachula and Sons of Perdition. Check them out!

I feel so lucky to have been a part of that festival for the last 3 years. Each year, I come back feeling refreshed and ready for something new. The first year I came back with the inspiration to finally take my idea of doing something about Girl World and put it into something tangible-- into a doc, into a movement. Although I always knew I would do something about this issue, I can honestly say that without the opportunity to travel to that festival three years ago and without the life changing experience it provided, Kind Campaign and this doc probably wouldn't exist. It literally altered my life. It called me to action. Thats why I am so excited to hopefully bring Finding Kind to MountainFilm next year... because that is where this whole thing was born. It was born among the mountains and the trees and a group of incredible people who have changed my life and inspired me in so many ways. I will forever be grateful for that place and those relationships :)

LOVE WINS.

Lauren

love.

2010-05-20T00:11:00.000-07:00

As Lauren said, it is a new week. And wow time flies. I really will get off this whole notion of time is flying and I cannot believe it, but clearly you can tell that it really just blows my mind... and since Lauren and I are both so ridiculously busy I am constantly trying to remind myself to take in all the little moments...

This week has been great. Now it is in the middle of the night Wednesday night (I seem to write a lot of blogs in the middle of the night when I cannot sleep). But, even though it's just the middle of the week a lot has happened. First of all thought, I cannot wait to see the next cut of the doc tomorrow - WHOA!!! The doc is coming closer and closer to being done as time is just flying by!! So excited to share the final cut with everyone and further the dialogue about this issue!!!!

But anyways, just today was a very busy day. Lauren and I met to shoot some pick up scenes for the doc (which we have now shot about 5 times... but the problem is that Lauren and I get so excited about talking about everything and goofing off with one another that by the end of shooting we have wayyyyyyyy too much footage that little Vegard is probably ready to kill us!) So we tried to shoot this 15 second clip yet again (but I may have messed with it once again), so we shall see how it went! But, beyond that - today was a busy day!

I started out the morning, well mid morning, with a WOLF Chat with an incredibly inspiring

organization WOLF! While we were on the road trip we met the incredible Julie Gilbert

(who just had a precious little boy!!) in New York who created this amazing group of women (and men too!). I am not going to lie though, I was doing alright until this morning when I started to get really nervous processing the reality of the situation - me talking for twenty minutes straight amongst incredibly talented women. But, thankfully Christine Otte helped out so incredibly much (whether she knew talking to me about where I am currently living in Westlake Village would ease my nerves or not - it did and she was amazing!). Anyways, the WOLF Chat went great and I was so incredibly honored to be the speaker for this week's chat and thankful to count my name among the women involved in WOLF.

After the WOLF Chat, Lauren and I met for those pick up shots that I was talking about before, but then we went to meet the wonderful Cece Abel of Malibu's Rock and Revolution. This store (check them out on facebook!!!) is where the next Kind Campaign installation is going up and we couldn't be more excited about it! Not only because we feel

like Malibu is a part of us since that is where Kind Campaign originated, but also because of this store and the people -- we cannot wait to spend more time with them, but also to spread the KINDness to Malibu! We will fill you in on further details about the installation and an upcoming event in June!

After the meeting was a very sad farewell that I unfortunately missed out on

(but it's probably for the best because I am no good at goodbyes because I just cry my eyes out). But our wonderfully incredible Patti Grandidge (former Kind Campaign secretary and treasurer) is heading home to the beautiful Manila, Philippines. We are so, so happy for her, but of course so incredibly sad to see her go! We love you so incredibly much Patti and are going to miss you more than words can express - you mean the world to us.

Anyways, now that I am crying, it's time to go to bed. Another day comes very soon, which means more time to hold onto and treasure. Treasure yourself, your life, and the amazing people around you who love you and who without, you would be lost.

LOVE LOVE LOVE,

molly

a new week

2010-05-17T11:07:00.000-07:00

a new batch of things to be done...

film is truckin along... working with animators and graphic designers, music and clip licensing, figuring out who to work with for color correction and sound mixing and DVD creation/duplication....sooo much to be done. Its a non-stop job but I really enjoy every second of it. Good thing is there are good people and friends who do all these things and are helping out. Vegards knows people for sound and color so hes got some great contacts that are making the process easier. Cant wait to have this finished! We should have a new cut done this week... With all we have added and adjusted from the previous assembly cut, it will be heaps better.

Molly and I were invited to be members of an amazing organization/community of women called SMARTY. Its a community for entrepreneurial women to meet other like-minded people, gain connection, support, advice...they have events and coaching sessions. Its really amazing. This is from the website:

SMARTY: [noun, American, 2009] pron. “smahr-tee”

Independent, of mind and spirit.
A freelancer, entrepreneur, free agent, consultant, sole-practitioner.
Identifies with #1. Can see a future in #2.

Check out the website! SMARTY.

LOVE WINS.

Lauren

Assembly Cut

2010-05-11T09:05:00.000-07:00

The editing is still going really well :) At the end of last week, Vegard and I watched a rough assembly cut of the film from beginning to end. It was so crazy to sit there and watch what we have tirelessly worked on in some sort of structured piece...of course, there is still a lot of work to do. The fact that there was no music or animation or stock footage yet-- we were literally watching a bunch of talking heads-- I was never bored or tired of the film. Thats a very good sign. Dude. I CANNOT WAIIIIIIITTTTT to add music. The next day, I went to Vegards and he showed me one of the end scenes with some music laid down and I was completely overwhelmed by how different it felt (in a good way). It really blew me away.

Last week, Mollys finace Chris and I took down our Fred Segal installation. It went by so fast!!! It feels like Molly and I put that up 2 weeks ago! We are just so grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the Fred Segal Santa Monica store. Darrylynn from Zerominusplus has been so generous with the space in her store. The whole process was such a great experience.

Well, I have to get ready-- running around all day-- meeting with Matt Finelli (very talented friend who is making an aweeeesomeee graphic for the doc) then shooting to Vegards then off to Malibu for the night!! One of my closest friends Patti Grandidge (who also works for KC) is moving back to Asia-- her family, friends and boyfriend live there...she came to Cali for Pepperdine which is where I met her-- A big group of my friends are going to Dukes for tacos and to soak up as much Patti as we can before she leaves us. Im so sad about her leaving :(

One more thing before I go--We are looking for some art to use as cut-aways during the doc. (it doesnt have to be professional ) if you or if you have a daughter who wants to draw a picture of what "Girl World" means to her, please email lauren@kindcampaign.com and I will give you an address to send it too. The picture can be any interpretation of Girl World, or an experience that you or she has been through... We are going to include some of these in the documentary and if yours isnt chosen for the film, we will put it up on our website :)

LOVE WINS.

Lauren

meh,

2010-05-03T10:39:00.000-07:00

I tried to submit our Pepsi Refresh Application for the third time and didnt make the 1,000 submission cut-off. Although what Pepsi is doing is incredible (donating millions of dollars to organizations and people with ideas) the whole process has been really frustrating. I finally realized that once you click submit at 9:00 on the 1st of each month, you are basically putting yourself into a lottery pool. I just know that if we made the 1,000 we would do well, and maybe even win the grant. God knows we need it right now...things are tight. I know everything will come together though.

On a happier note, I met with an amazing girl last week who has an unreal connection to the BBC and she is now back in London with our pitch DVD, putting it into the hands of the right people. To think, our doc could be shown on the BBC. That is an insane thought- but I believe in that thought- and SHE really believes in it too :) Ill keep you updated with that prospects progress.

Happy for another sunny day :)

LOVE WINS.

Lauren

things are happening.

2010-04-28T02:15:00.000-07:00

Man, life is wild. Sometimes I look around me and everything seems so surreal. Did Lauren and I really travel around the country? Are we really planning on doing it again? Am I really graduated from college? Am I an adult or something? I have to stop myself from asking these questions because it starts me spinning into future mode (which isn’t necessarily bad), but I need to just constantly remind myself to live in the moment. Time is flying by and I can’t stop this train (shout out to John Mayer), but just live… right now… in the moment.

That’s what I did this weekend. Lauren mentioned in her last blog that I had a little surprise up my sleeve for Saturday afternoon and I sure did, so I figured I would let y’all in on it! I asked Lauren to be a bridesmaid in my wedding!!! It was a glorious Saturday afternoon – the weather was perfect – and we went to an amazing hidden gem in Malibu called Malibu Family Winery. We had an amazing day where I tried to do just that – live in the moment. The incredible moment of love, friendship, beauty, nature, happiness…all things that make me smile. Oh, and thankfully Laur said YES to being a bridesmaid : ) – so I was very excited!!

I think another reason why I am just blown away by life is because: the end of this week marks a year of Lauren and I being graduates of Pepperdine University. I just cannot believe it. I think I am in denial that I am a graduate in the first place, so the fact that it’s been an entire year and I cannot say that I am fresh out of college nauseates me while also brings tears to my eyes. I was on Pepperdine’s campus last week showing a friend from home around (she was trying to decide on colleges… but now she has decided on Pepperdine – yay!). I digress – I was on Pepperdine’s campus and they had already started setting up for graduation and I am probably embarrassing myself by saying this, but it brought me to tears. Just a year ago, we graduated and within the past year, we traveled across the country and filmed a documentary. It blows my mind that now, a year later, we are in post on the doc and are once again starting the cycle over by planning another road trip to launch the school programs and premiere the film… WILD!

Oh man… good things are happening all around. Another one of those GREAT things is an incredible company called Bella Royale has agreed to sponsor Kind Campaign by giving their customers 10% off their amazing skin care products, while also donating 20% of each purchase to Kind Campaign! *Just use the coupon code bekind at check out!!* Visit http://www.bellaroyale.com for more information about the amazing company and incredible skin care line!! This is HUGE for us since we are paying out to so many things right now (post production on the documentary and everything that comes along with traveling across the country) so we THANK the incredible women at Bella Royale SO much!

Like I said… things are happening. I am heading out of town so I hope y’all have an amazing next couple of weeks!!! And momma and meme… since I will be gone and won’t be able to call you... HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
*For those of you wondering… Mother’s Day is May 9^th. Do something KIND for your Mom – she is an incredible woman!

love love love,
molly

Fundraisers, Concerts, Kind and the Weeks Endddd

2010-04-23T11:32:00.000-07:00

SOOOOO excited for the weekend!!! Its been a really long but VERY productive week. I am going to Vegards in a little to edit and I cant wait. We are at that stage where every minute of the edit becomes more and more exciting because the film is developing so quickly now. yay! :)

Yesterday I had lunch with Jack (one of our producers on the film and my dear/bun friend) and his good friend Susie Spain. She runs the non-profit Angels at Risk. We are talking about coming together to have a fundraiser/awareness night concert at The Roxy in West Hollywood. We were talking about people to play the concert and Jack was throwing some really amazing names around...Edward Sharpe being one of them :) Nothing is set and stone...not even the actual show...there is A LOT that we need to work on to make this happen. But its in the works and just the conversation is exciting!!! We are thinking of doing it in the beginning of September to kick off the school program road trip.

I havent seen Molly since lasttttt...what was it...Wednesday!!! 9 days ago! Sadness!!! wait... that is a lie. haha I saw her Tuesday at our meeting with Carolyn Himes. Speaking of Carolyn Himes... We have our next fundraiser on SUNDAY JUNE 6th from 4-6pm at Haute Cakes Cafe in Newport Beach!! Its going to be awesome and we want all of you there. You can come hear us speak and watch a bit of the documentary. We are also looking for sponsors who are interested in helping fund the school program and documentary post production. You can come to the fundraiser to be a part of this. Or, you can visit our website and donate!! Here is the link: DONATE We would love to meet all of you on June 6th! Here is a link to the Haute Cakes website so you can see the location of the event: Haute Cakes

So back to the weekend-- I am going to see my roommate/bestie sing in a KIIS FM concert/competition tonight!! The winner gets to sing at Wango Tango! I know she is going to win, caaaaause she rules. Her name is Samantha Marq and you have to check her out!!

Tomorrow I am meeting at Molly at 2:00 and I actually dont know what it is for because she is being secretive about it. So I will let you know at the end of the weekend what its all about.

Sunday I am going to see my good aussie friends, Stefan and Jonno, and their new documentary film Somewhere Near Tapachula, premiering at the Newport Beach Film Festival. I have seen a cut but am soooooo stoked to see the final product. It will be super inspiring to watch. Check out the trailer. Its such an important film that everyone should see.

Aiiighttt. Have a wonderful weekend! Do a random act of KINDness :)

Love Wins.

Laurennnnnnnn

Documentary

2010-04-20T10:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Vegard and I worked for about 8 hours on the doc. I love those long days in the edit. Man. I am so excited about this film. We have a first cut pretty much finished...its a 3 hours movie at the moment. But little by little we are chipping away at each section, adding things, taking things away, and integrating new ideas. Its so hard to go through all the footage and watch so many amazing stories and have to choose which ones to put in. Some of my favorite moments and interviews from the road trip cant be in the film- for various reasons...doesnt fit, we already have a similar interview, sound issue etc...-- and it KILLS me! I just want a 150 hour film with everything we have ever shot. no. that would be terrible... but you know what I mean.

I cant wait to add all the music to the film. I was watching the first act yesterday all the way through and I didnt even realize there wasnt music playing until after... thats a good thing. I was watching and felt really emotional and thought "dang. this is really good". but usually when you edit, its the music that really drive those emotions home. I realized while watching that the music is going to be an extra bonus...something that makes it even better...not something that makes the film. The film could do without music and that realization affirms to me that we have a pretty sweet little doc goin.

welp, everything is great with the doc. still need some significant funding but I am hoping with some prospects we have going, that will be taken care of. fingers crossed :)

love wins.

lauren

update update update

2010-04-20T09:30:00.000-07:00

hellloooo!!!

Well, at least this time it hasn't been a whole month before a blog... so we are getting better... right?!? Not really, but just know that we are trying to keep y'all updated!!

We had an amazing event at Fred Segal! Thank you so much to

everyone who came out to support us - it was such an amazing and inspiring feeling to be in a room surrounded by such amazing people! We had such incredible and uplifting conversations that night and we cannot wait to see what happens with the new

friends that we made! A special thank you to Darrylynn with the Good Works Space, at Zero Minus Plus, within Fred Segal. Also, thank you so much to Westlake Cus tom Framing for doing such an

amazing job with our frames for the installation!! Also, another shout out to Pro Lab Digital for helping us with more printing and creating the banner for the installation!!! We could not be where we are right now without the constant help of others! Thank you thank you thank you!!

I am going to wrap this up because I am about to leave to go to Lauren's to get some work done on this school program road trip tour! We are so excited about it and fingers crossed, hoping, and praying that sponsors/funding comes through so that we are able to do this road trip and reach as many schools/people as possible in the shortest amount of time! After that Lauren and I are heading down to Newport for a meeting with an amazing woman that we met at the Fred Segal event! We are meeting with her to talk about a possible fundraiser down in Newport in the next month or so... so we are very excited!

We will keep you posted with more updates soon! If you haven't had a chance -- check out our channel on youtube!!!

Have an amazing day!

love love love,

molly

2010-04-07T15:30:00.000-07:00

Come to our event at Fred Segal Santa Monica this Friday!!! Its going to awesome! Red Carpet, drinks, musical performances, Kind Campaign talk/info/documentary clips/installation, merchandise, Umami Burger, Fred Segal.... heck yes!

Join the event facebook group by clicking here!!!

KC UPDATE

2010-04-05T16:08:00.000-07:00

Its always crazy to realize how quickly time flies. When I go to write these blogs, I realize how much time has gone by and I feel so bad!!! However, in light of the last couple months, its hard to feel bad about anything relating to Kind Campaign. I cannot begin to express how thankful I am for this project, the change it is making and all of the people involved.

Anyway, here is a rundown of some important things that have been going on and I PROMISE we will be better about posting from now on!

Editing has been so fun! Me and Vegard are working really well together and just this last week have restructured how we are approaching the story a bit. The new idea works so much better and will make for a better film. I wasn't sure what the editing process would be like with so much footage, or how hard it would be to create a story out of so many smaller stories...but...it's happening and its working and the only issue we are running into is having too much good footage to choose from...not a bad problem to have :)

A few weeks ago, Molly and I went down to Palm Desert to watch the Young Woman Ambassador groups present their Kind Campaign projects. To be honest, I dont know that Molly or I knew exactly what was going to take place that night. What we ended up witnessing was about 50 girls who have taken Kind Campaign and created their own projects/versions of KC to

integrate the movement into their own schools and communities. The girls put so much time and work into their projects. There were multiple times where I couldn't help but tear up because of the overwhelmingly honored feeling I had while sitting in that room. They created their own mini-documentaries, had KIND week at their schools, had their whole student body dress in pink, created their own version of Kind Magazine...there were so many amazing projects. I think Molly and I left with some new ideas because their projects were so innovative! It was

just so crazy to see how a seed was planted and how its branches are extending into schools and communities in this way. The fact that we weren't even aware that there were Kind weeks taking place in schools to celebrate Kind Campaigns message...yea, I really dont know how to describe how happy that makes me.

This Friday, Fred Segal Santa Monica is hosting a Kind Campaign fundraiser/awareness night!!!!! We installed an installation into the store last week to raise awareness and funds, so the event is also serving as an official launch for the installation. (if you live

around santa monica,

CA, go check out the installation- it will be there until May 6th) We are going to have a lot of cool things going on at the event- a silent auction, live music from Samantha Marq

and Nicole Vaughn, drinks, documentary footage, the installation, merchandise, and of course, Molly and I will be speaking about our upcoming plans for the film and school program. Which brings me to the next important bit of information!!!....

Once we put word out that we are going to launch our school program this Fall we received insane amounts of emails from teachers and schools all over the country wanting us to come speak and screen the film. We realized trying to go to all of these places is going to be hard unless we go back on the road. Sooooo that is what we are doing! This September-December we are going on a Kind Campaign road trip 2.0 to hit hundreds of schools and screen the film around the country. It will be an amazing 4 month journey and we are ready for it!! One of the major goals of this project has been to provide these school assemblies and to offer them FREE OF CHARGE. We have began planning the logistics of our schedule but now have some serious money to raise to over the next few months to make this all happen. It will happen though... I have realized when Molly and I put our minds to something, it happens. end of story :) Anyway, I cannot WAIT to get back on the road and hopefully go visit some one of the schools we met with on our first KC road trip. A new adventure awaits!!!

I think one of the most important things to mention right now is the suicide of Phoebe Prince. Her death is a grave reminder of the fatal consequences of girl-against-girl "crime", but even further, its a reminder to ALL OF US that THE WAY WE TREAT OTHERS does have CONSEQUENCES. I feel for her family and everyone in her life. I wish she knew she wasn't alone and that she would be okay. There isnt much I can say because its honestly so upsetting to think about... All I can hope for is that her death will be a wake up call for a lot of people. Check out this link to read more about this story: http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/01/phoebe_prince_15_commits_suici.php

LOVE WINS.

Lauren

It's Already March!?!

2010-03-02T14:02:00.000-08:00

Well hello!

It's been quite some time since you've heard from me : (! Things have been a bit crazy/hectic since returning from the road trip (as Lauren amazingly recapped!!)! If you missed it -- since returning I have spent two months living in New York, got engaged over Thanksgiving in

Paris, and have since moved back to California!! Thankfully, I am getting settled in and things are coming back to a somewhat normalcy! I definitely missed sunny CA, and phone calls with Lauren just weren't enough! We had a great time in Dallas catching up (see pic from NCL TickTocker Day!!!) and I have loved being back close by! But, I will say that nothing beats the days when we were within walking distance of each other...oh the glorious days of college!!!

Anyways, just wanted to say hello, let you know that I am still alive and well, and I am thinking about all of you!!! I am SO incredibly excited about the amazing things Kind Campaign is doing right now! If you haven't checked out the trailer yet -- you've got to ASAP! Lauren and Vegard have been working non-stop to make it absolutely perfect... and let me just say that even after watching it a million times I am still brought to tears and blown away!! Also, we just finished finalizing the School Program Assembly Information Packet, so we are going to start working with districts to launch the school program in the fall!

I just loaded a bunch of pictures on my computer from the past couple of months and stumbled upon a pretty cool picture from our assembly at Marywood Palm Valley -- which Lauren already talked about, but let me just reiterate -- it was AMAZING!!! Check out some of the pics from that

day!!

Alright, I am done rambling on about my excitement and love for KC and you all! Hope everyone is having an amazing day and a great start to the week!

love love love,

molly

Kind Scholarship/Grant Winner!!!

2010-03-02T13:53:00.000-08:00

It's official!! We announced the winner of the very FIRST Kind Magazine Scholarship/Grant winner yesterday and it is.... drum roll....BRIGITTE BAVOUSETT!!!

Brigitte Bavousett has been awarded the scholarship/grant for her amazing story in our third issue of Kind Magazine. Her story is interesting, honest and most importantly HOPEFUL. She shows us that being yourself and standing up for what you believe in is the most important thing. She was bold, brave and unrelenting during a very tough experience.

Read her amazing story here:

http://www.kindcampaign.com/kindmagazine/issue3.htm

Thank you to all of the girls and women who wrote to Kind Magazine. Your stories are all amazing and add so much to each issue. By sharing your experiences, you are helping so many girls! Thank you thank you thank you! We really, really appreciate each and every one of you!!!!

Be sure to send your stories to kindmag@kindcampaign.com to be in the running for our next scholarship/grant cycle!

Hope everyone is having a KIND day!!

KINDly, Kind Campaign

Kind Scholorship

2010-02-19T01:59:00.000-08:00

It's the end of the first KC year (we had our one year old birthday on FEB 11th) and we are getting ready to pick our KIND MAGAZINE scholarship winner!!! This means that one of the girls who wrote in to Kind Magazine will receive a check from KC to thank her for being brave and sharing her story! :) If you dont know about the KC scholarship, check out the rules within any of the Kind Magazines (its at the end of the magazine and its called Kind Scholarships):

http://kindcampaign.com/kind_magazine.php

On February 28th we will be announcing the grant/scholarship winner!

The next round of scholarships will be given out in August. The more stories we get for Kind Magazine, the more money we will give out.

SEND YOUR STORY TO kindmag@kindcampaign.com

KINDly,

Lauren and Molly

just thinking.

2010-02-19T01:40:00.000-08:00

I always end up writing these really late...hmm.

Things have been crazy. In a good way. The film is coming along...slowly but surely. We are set up to start touring through various school districts this Fall which is so exciting-- that was the goal of this entire project so it's amazing to see that its actually happening. Molly sent me a Press Package that she has been working on and its been really amazing. We are going to include that within the school proposal we are sending out.

There are really so many exciting things going on and things that have happened over the last month. We held three separate assemblies at a school in Palm Desert about two weeks ago. Its was AMAZING. There were so many girls reconcile friendships, crying, hugging, and smiling after we finished. There were a group of girls who came up to us and told us that their group of friends had been in an ongoing fight for two years and that after the assembly was the first time they had talked. They were so excited to get past the grudge they had been holding. There were girls who stood up in front of their peers and read the Kind Apologies and Kind Cards out loud. It was so cool to witness. The local news came too and covered the whole assembly. They put together some really good news packages. Check them out here:

http://www.kpsplocal2.com/Content/Top-Stories/story/Kind-Campaign-Aims-to-Stop-Girl-Bullying/w4sNRsdx0kyrgIMzdnRBwA.cspx

http://www.KESQ.com/global/story.asp?s=11942691

So happy about everything coming together :)

LOVE WINS.

Lauren