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Tracey Ivanyshyn has spent her life building things that matter—companies, cultures, communities—and most of all, belonging.
For over 25 years, she led a group of purpose-driven businesses in Canada, known as much for their award-winning performance as for the people-first culture she cultivated within them. And when it came time to let that chapter go, she did so with grace—passing the torch to a larger, values-aligned partner and stepping into something new.
Now, through her consulting work at Pure Blue Paths, Tracey supports leaders through life’s hardest terrain: change, conflict, and crisis. She helps organizations build trust where it’s been lost, culture where it’s been strained, and emotional safety where it’s most needed. As a corporate grief educator, she is also quietly pioneering a new model for how we show up for one another in times of loss—at work, and beyond.
But Tell Love Stories is something different. Something sacred.
It came to her not as a strategy, but as a soul-assignment. A quiet but clear invitation to help the world remember what really matters: that love is everywhere—waiting to be noticed, spoken, honored.
She’s here to create spaces where people feel safe enough to speak their truth. To witness and be witnessed. To explore all the ways love has shaped them—whether it bloomed, bruised, broke, or saved.
And through it all, Tracey walks with a simple personal commitment:
To be a disciple of love, joy, and truth. One moment at a time. With grace, and sometimes, a bit of glorious stumbling.
Trivinia Barber didn’t set out to start a movement. She set out to love herself—fully, honestly, maybe for the first time.
After years of helping leaders build businesses and find world-class support, she found herself in a quieter kind of work: looking inward. One mirror moment, in a basement in Virginia, changed everything. It was there she saw clearly what no title, partner, or to-do list could offer—that love, when offered inward first, is the only true path to peace.
That moment sparked a deep remembering. And a deep responsibility.
Now, as co-founder of Tell Love Stories, Trivinia creates spaces where others can do the same: reconnect with the truth of who they are beneath the labels. CEO, mother, partner, leader… yes. But also: visionary. Bridge builder. Creator.
She’s not here to perform. She’s here to hold space—for presence, for healing, for wholeness. She brings heart, honesty, and the kind of deep listening that makes people feel seen before they even speak. And while she no longer runs her former recruiting company or stands behind a big title, she’s building something even greater: a legacy of love that starts within.
Trivinia is a mother to four daughters, a scuba diver, a global traveler, and a fierce believer in this truth:
Love—when expressed fully in both word and action—is enough to change hearts, alter paths, and create wholeness where there was once only brokenness.
For over 30 years, Maria Dakas built a life around opening doors—literally. As the co-founder of GESI Hospitality, the electronic lock company she launched with her husband in New York, her work was always rooted in one thing: listening. Listening to what people needed, what made them feel safe, and what helped them feel at home.
For over 30 years, Maria Dakas built a life around opening doors—literally. As the co-founder of GESI Hospitality, the electronic lock company she launched with her husband in New York, her work was always rooted in one thing: listening. Listening to what people needed, what made them feel safe, and what helped them feel at home.
But as it turns out, Maria wasn’t just in the business of locking and unlocking buildings. She was preparing for something deeper: the call to help people unlock their hearts.
Now, through Tell Love Stories, Maria brings the same commitment to care, curiosity, and connection into a new kind of space—one where stories become bridges, and vulnerability becomes a shared language. She’s here to make sure no one’s story stays buried, and no one feels alone in the telling of it.
A mother to three grown children and a traveler to more than 30 countries, Maria has spent her life gathering stories—on porches, in kitchens, across borders, and around tables. Her journey has shown her that we’re far more alike than we are different—and that love, in all its messy, miraculous forms, is what binds us.
Maria believes that when we gather with intention and listen with care, we don’t just tell stories—we create portals. And through those portals, we invite others to step in, speak up, and be seen.
She’s not here to lead with polish. She’s here to lead with heart.