Tiffanie Lloyd

Welcome!

Hi, I’m Tiffanie, a creative entrepreneur and an advocate for women’s health and healing through writing, photography and Personal and Professional Development.
I am a Certified Trauma Care Professional, Parenting and Childbirth Educator, Birth Doula, Breastfeeding Counsellor and Holistic Nutritionist. I am currently living in Nepal where I own and operate a cafe and community center, as well as a women’s training center focused on providing life skills and specialized job training while offering a holistic approach to the reintegration of women exiting exploitative situations.

About

I grew up moving around all over the US, which I think contributed to my love for adventure. My youth is colored with trauma and I spent a lot of years trying to figure out who I am and where I belong. I am a daughter of God, and I married my until-death-do-us-part husband in 2006. We’re raising eight, and I birthed our last baby at home in Fort Worth.

As a family of ten, there is always an adventure to be had. They begin in the house where fingerprints accent every doorway and privacy is scarce. They continue outside where critters (or street dogs) abound and imagination prevails. We homeschool. We dance. A lot. We enjoy boardgames (like Catan, Machi Koro, and Puerto Rico), some of us are book worms and we love to travel. We live a little loud, but there is peace in the chaos. Our doors are always open and I love a full house.

I appreciate coffee and red wine. I love to dance and sing. I am an activator and I am creative. I started my career in healthcare, sought a business degree, and have been an entrepreneur ever since. I opened my first photography studio in 2009. Equipped with my story of survival, a passion to bring hope to hearts that are in despair and skills to educate, teach and help women to be able to care and provide for themselves and their families; I’ve traveled from coast to coast and several locations abroad. We spent eighteen months living in India, where I led art therapy sessions and taught life skills and sewing to women in the slums. Currently, we live in Nepal, where my husband is a Global Data and BI Manager for a company dedicated to impact sourcing.

Through the cafe and community center we work alongside local organizations to provide education, host community events and to implement development projects and impact initiatives here in Nepal. We pay competitive wages and hire and train young Nepali’s with the hope of being a stepping stone to their future goals. We also provide internship opportunities to foreigners looking to expand their global business experience and to locals needing supplemental training or who are students of Restaurant Hospitality programs, including graduates from Become.

At Become, we provide life-skills, pre-job and specialized job training for women. Upon graduating from one of our four career courses we provide job placement and support for 24 month. The training center prioritizes scholarship opportunities for victims of sex trafficking as an effort to address one of the most significant needs in the work to reintegrate women and promote independent living.