In this conversation, we speak with Ofelia Yvonne, founder of Brooklyn based jewellery brand Filosophy, about leaving a career in chemistry, building a business on her own terms, finding creative freedom in New York and learning to become visible as both a founder and an artist.

In this conversation, Freda reflects on growing up within the expectations of a traditional culture, finding freedom through travel, and how coffee became an unexpected catalyst in her recovery from bulimia. Together, we explore belonging, memory, taste, and the practice of slowing down in a world that rarely asks us to.

On building Leap Periods, growing up in Kuwait, challenging stigma, and creating new conversations around women’s health