GAL APPROVED! Empower Your Size (with Ashley Graham), Your Business (With Girl Starter) and Your (Boxed) Water!

By Eso Shani, The DivaGals | June 9, 2017 | Gal Approved

DRINK. Contributor Eso Shani likes her water boxed! Remember carton milk? How about Boxed Water? Boxed Water provides clean water in a sustainable and recyclable container (74 percent of the container is made with trees), and now the company has partnered with ΓÇ£1% for the PlanetΓÇ¥ and the ΓÇ£National Forrest FoundationΓÇ¥ to donate at least one percent of their annual revenue to replant trees. A shipment of Boxed Water helps reduce your carbon footprint as the boxes ship flat, and therefore, fuller.

How durable is Boxed Water’s packaging? Well, I walked five New York City blocks in the pouring rain without an umbrella, took the subway and walked some more in the rain with boxed water at the top of my bag. None of my pens or pencils pierced the casing and the rain did not cause the container to wilt. So yes, it is just as light and durable as plastic bottles! We commend this company in inspiring Americans and proving to the rest of the World that companies in the United States care about the environment and will step up to do their part. Join the party by posing #ReTree and see others who are drinking Boxed Water and helping the company commit to planting one tree for every #ReTree.

READ. We can’t wait to sink our teeth into supermodel Ashley Graham‘s new book, A New Model – What Confidence, Beauty & Power Really Looks Like. This cover girl, who was the first size 14 woman to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, shares her trial and tribulations of surviving and thriving in her own skin. We’ll read it proudly in our bikinis on the beach!┬á#NoFatShaming.

EMPOWER. TLCΓÇÖs Girl Starter is inviting all girls in the Garden City, N.Y. area to a free, fun and interactive workshop series this Sunday and Monday,┬áJune 11 to 12 at Hofstra University ΓÇô the fourth stop on Girl StarterΓÇÖs live tour. Girl Starter is a revolutionary transmedia entertainment company that activates, amplifies, mentors, and funds the next generation of female business leaders and innovators. Anchored by the reality television series that premiered on TLC on April 28, Girl Starter reaches young women everywhere. The event will showcase┬águest speakers throughout the day, including Girl Starter contestants Darrel Kennedy,Neha Raman and Tiffany Carvalho, and will offer hopefuls a chance to audition for season two. ┬áThe even is open to the public and free of charge.

photo credit: TLC