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I’m Zarinah El-Amin. I’m an anthropologist, social entrepreneur, mother of 3, philanthropist, giver, freedom business and cultural love coach, traveler and more. Can you tell I don’t believe in placing myself in a box (and you don’t have to either!)
I believe in the power of individuality coupled with the spirit of collective evolution. Translation: You have the ability to define AND redefine your life outside of any label, outside of any box. And what we do as individuals should contribute to the betterment of society. #PositiveEvolutionAnd it’s this mentality I bring to everything I do.
A Celebration of Individuality And A Tribute to Love
Why headwraps? We use the colorful, multi-cultural art of headwrapping – think turbans, scarves and more – to serve as a unifier and a way to enlighten and brighten the moods of our guests. Love people watching? Interested in the spiritual and cultural side of dress? Looking for a unique item to wear or adorn your home? Love fashion? If you answered YES to any of these, then you’ll love the Headwrap Expo.
Founded by anthropologist Zarinah El-Amin Naeem in 2013, The Headwrap Expo has grown into an eclectic space where people feel free to be themselves, while learning about others.
Building Community
THE ENLIVEN YOUR SOUL FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL ADVANCEMENT, a 501c3 organization and sister of Enliven Your Soul has as it’s mission to use art, culture and education to help women across the globe. Our current project is the Girls African Scholarship Fund in Sierra Leone. Since 2003, we’ve given over $15,000 to young girls. Our next goal is to build a school for entrepreneurship. Each entrepreneur who births a business through our trainings pledges to give back in some way.
Do you need additional clarity on which way to go? Start here.
LIVE EVENTS
How can you create a community movement around a subject you are passionate about? How can you rally the troops? How can you meet new supportive friends? You can have the best idea ever but if you don’t know who to bring people together to support it, it won’t get off the ground. We use our annual signature event, The Headwrap Expo, to not only fulfill our ultimate goal of building a global culture of love, but as a wonderful teaching tool for those who want to learn how to pull a community together in their own area.
TRAVEL
Have you ever wanted to travel? How did Zarinah, a regular city girl from Detroit, end up a world traveler? How does travel affect your position as a business owner and how can travel be your new normal? As travel is one of the best ways to not only learn more about the world, but learn about yourself, we infuse global excursions and retreats into our repertoire of offerings to accelerate our client’s growth.
ONLINE COURSES
How can you build a business you love without burnout? How can you become more confident on your entrepreneurial path and make quantum leaps? How can you ultimately get the support you need to make it happen! Learn these topics and more in Zarinah’s online courses and high-level trainings.
PRIVATE COACHING
When was the last time you put yourself in a position where you had expert attention and focus on you and your growth? Business runs in a spiral, not a straight line and if you are someone who wants to make an impact in big way, giving yourself the support you deserve is key. This is your opportunity to get unstuck and create strong momentum in your business by having Zarinah’s attention.
GOLD MINE WOMEN'S BUSINESS CIRCLE
Do you know you need long-term accountability to make this work? Have you started and stopped several times and want to be a part of a system designed to accelerate your business AND build the skills you need for sustainable success? Zarinah’s year-long GOLD MINE WOMEN’S BUSINESS CIRCLE could be the perfect tool for you.
Giving back
What is your cause?
I founded
to help women
...explore the world.
...leave a legacy for their family.
...ask and answer the big questions of life and
...make a global impact.
But how?
Let me tell you a bit of my story. I think it may help you see how this can work in your life. Back in 2001, I walked away from a solid career in computer science and moved half way around the world to Egypt. I didn't know anyone there, didn't speak the language and didn't have a job lined up. People thought I was absolutely CRAZY.
But that "crazy" decision totally transformed my life and turned me into a student of the world, a lover of culture, and a strong advocate for powerful traveling experiences.
Over the next few years, I worked in international development (Check out our Enliven Your Soul Foundation) and dibbled and dabbled in importing Egyptian and West African goods and selling them when I came home to the States.
Later, I met a great man. A "normal" man and after getting married, I decided I would be "normal." I settled down and back to school for my Masters degree in Anthropology. After graduation, I took a 9-5 position planning community and university events around diversity and inclusion. I loved it. I was good at it. I was making an impact. But I didn't like the lack of freedom. I was still on someone elses time, and really on someone elses dime. My money was capped and I started itching for more.
So when I got pregnant with my second son, I said "it's time." I resigned from my position where I was being groomed to climb the ladder and decided not to go back to work. I had no clue what I was going to do. But organically, I began to monetize my many hobbies. For example, people often asked how I published my books, so I started a publishing company and taught what I knew. Others were intrigued with my headwraps, so I began to teach library and university workshops and put on large scale headwrapping events that now reach thousands across the globe.
Catch the pattern? I took notice of things I was good at and what people were curious about and turned them into money-making machines!
And now, I've built a personal brand around my unique talents and hobbies that allows me to travel the world, make a global impact and have freedom of time.
And guess what.....
If you’ve seen any of my programs, you’ll see I often talk about gold. We have the Goldmine Circle, our year long mastermind for women entrepreneurs. We have the Jumpstart your Gold Mine Bootcamp, and the “Find Your Gold Mine” Training. Well, here’s the deal.
My name, Zarinah, means “of gold.” And It’s not lost on me that my mother would have selected that for me. I believe each of us has gold within and sometimes it just needs a little digging to pull it out. So my work is to help you dig, to give you the shovel and the stamina to continue as you polish what you find.
Ready to grow your business built on prosperity,
freedom of travel, and giving back?
