The Story of Hello Peace

Hello, you.

I’m Lori Yuhas—optimist, social butterfly, travel explorer, altruist, and Founder of Hello Peace™—the world’s only social joy company that’s daring to bring more social ease to humanity by inspiring strangers, everywhere, into personal expression, conversations and interactions that change the ways we view one another, and ourselves.

As a child overflowing with curiosity, I loved snuggling up on the sofa and scouring my father’s National Geographic magazines, soaking in—through images—worlds unlike my own and wondering who the people were, what their lives were like, and what it would be like to experience life alongside and among them—whether in New York City, Deep South Louisiana, Paris, France, tribal Zimbabwe, bustling Hong Kong, Andean Peru or the Australian Outback.

When I later joined the workforce and moved around the US, to Europe, and back, crisscrossing oceans at 35,000 feet, my innate curiosity in people and other cultures bloomed into a love of meeting and learning about new people locally and around the globe. Wherever I am, whatever I’m doing, striking up conversations with the strangers around me has become a natural source of my joy. Discovering other people’s interests, experiences, stories and their different ways of thinking about things gives me a deeper understanding of the world, invites me to consider and shift my perceptions and biases, and provides me with a richer life experience.

So I invented Hello Peace™—a company—a place—for people around the globe to unite behind a vision of the world we all want to live in, with quality apparel, merchandise and social experiences that enables us all to colorfully express our shared vision, and enjoy the fun of discovering the magnificent strangers we share the planet with.

Hello Peace™ is designed to be a company about people and for people, with global meaning and reach—a company purposed to break through the exhausting social vitriol, stretch into all cultures, inspire people to reach in, reach out and reach higher, and together, raise the vibe of humanity.

Social joy is something we all deserve.

So please join in and write the future with me and the Hello Peace team.

Peace out,

Lori