Movements are not born alone
They are built with brave hearts who say yes before the path is paved.
At Tell Love Stories, we honor the first souls who gathered with us—who trusted the idea of creating spaces for love, connection, and truth. They were our first circle. Our first spark. They are forever part of its heartbeat.
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.
Maria brings a grounded, luminous spirit to Tell Love Stories gatherings.
With a heart tuned to both celebration and soul work, she helps us see that love stories live not only in grand moments—but in quiet, breathtaking truths.
Her presence reminds us that trust begins with simply showing up, open-hearted.
With a heart tuned to both celebration and soul work, she helps us see that love stories live not only in grand moments—but in quiet, breathtaking truths.
Her presence reminds us that trust begins with simply showing up, open-hearted.
Fiona arrived with fierce tenderness and deep intuition.
She made space for stories that were messy, beautiful, unfinished—and in doing so, she made room for the real.
Her courage to sit in the complexity of love became a living example of the kind of circle we dreamt of creating.
She made space for stories that were messy, beautiful, unfinished—and in doing so, she made room for the real.
Her courage to sit in the complexity of love became a living example of the kind of circle we dreamt of creating.
Patrice illuminated the power of both silence and story.
She reminded us that love is not just in the telling—but in the listening, the witnessing, the reverent holding of another’s truth.
Her presence was a quiet cornerstone for what Tell Love Stories would become.
She reminded us that love is not just in the telling—but in the listening, the witnessing, the reverent holding of another’s truth.
Her presence was a quiet cornerstone for what Tell Love Stories would become.
Irene carried a spirit of timeless belonging into the earliest gatherings.
Wise, steady, and luminous, she helped stitch together a space where every story—every voice—felt sacred.
Her gift was showing us that memory itself is an act of love.
Wise, steady, and luminous, she helped stitch together a space where every story—every voice—felt sacred.
Her gift was showing us that memory itself is an act of love.
