Ysabel Chavez standing beside a lake in the Nordics

Founder · Creator · Strategic Advisor

Creating space for people to live and create from what is true to them.

Through Global Dream Team, strategic advisory, and stories from the world.

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Founded by Ysabel ChavezFounder · Creator · Strategic Advisor · Community Architect · Speaker

The through-line

One body of work.
Many ways in.

A life's work about possibility—and what people create when they give it their full attention.

Ysabel builds through community, strategic advisory, and stories from the world. Each is a different way of helping people see more clearly, move with intention, and create work that feels like their own.

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A multidimensional body of work

A life shaped by
curiosity in motion.

A body of work shaped by travel, culture, entrepreneurship, and the belief that a well-timed conversation can change what comes next.

40+countries explored

Shaping a global perspective on identity, belonging, and meaningful work.

100+films & human stories

Published across travel, culture, entrepreneurship, and personal growth.

$130K+brand partnerships

Creator and brand collaborations built, negotiated, and delivered.

5M+organic views

Across original creator storytelling and Global Dream Team films.

15founders, creators & brand teams advised

Across positioning, partnerships, content, offers, community, and strategic direction.

10in-person gatherings hosted

Thoughtful rooms designed and hosted across Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Selected work

Ideas designed to become
real environments for change.

Global Dream Team members gathered in conversation

Los Angeles · Community in practice

01 / Founding venture

Global Dream Team

A global community for ambitious people designing lives and work that matter.

GDT brings founders, creators, artists, and builders into considered rooms for reflection, new perspective, focused action, and relationships with depth.

Global Dream Cafés
Build Nights
Salons
Intimate dinners
Reflection sessions
Travel experiences

02 / In development

Reconnect

A daily practice for clearing the noise and returning to what is true.

An early exploration of a quieter, daily way to return to what matters.

Early concept · Thoughtfully in development

03 / Strategic advisory

A thinking partner for pivotal decisions.

For select founders and creator-led brands navigating pivotal decisions, positioning, offers, partnerships, and growth.

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04 / Media ecosystem

Stories that make the world feel larger.

Films, writing, and conversations from people and places that make the world feel larger. Before GDT became a collective, Ysabel built her creator practice by turning a point of view into an audience, partnerships, and a body of work.

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Impact in practice

What changed when people
entered the work.

A few moments when clearer direction, the right support, and thoughtful people helped something meaningful move forward.

From hiding to leading

A cultural storyteller found her voice, grew her audience 8×, reached 1M+ views in 48 hours, and secured paid partnerships.

Cohort outcome

$20K from zero

Through 1:1 strategy work, a founder turned an early idea into a clear offer, focused plan, and more than $20K in revenue within a few months.

Client outcome

New offers, real momentum

A multi-passionate creative launched a monetizable program, secured a paid brand deal, and built a clearer direction for her work.

Cohort outcome

18 builders

After an evening of reflection and focused work, ideas were sharpened, projects shared, and feedback exchanged. People stayed—offering perspective and leaving with clearer next steps.

Build Night · Venice

“I finally stopped being precious about perfection—and that's when everything changed.”
India Witkin · Cultural storyteller

“I left clearer, more confident, and genuinely excited about what I'm building.”
Noelle Song · Creative strategist

“Content doesn't feel like a mountain anymore—it feels doable.”
Christine Gaudet · Data engineer & CPG co-founder

Why this work

Success without alignment is an expensive way to get lost.

After UCLA and early work across Warner Bros., CAA, and 20th Century Fox, Ysabel reached a crossroads familiar to many ambitious people: the path looked right from the outside, but no longer felt fully her own.

She followed that tension through years of travel and conversations with people who had chosen unconventional paths, built around conviction, and defined success for themselves.

Those encounters became the foundation for Global Dream Team and a wider body of work for people pursuing excellence without losing what makes the pursuit worth it.

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Speaking & founder judgment

Ideas meant to move
beyond the page.

Ysabel speaks on identity, meaningful ambition, storytelling, community, and choosing a path that feels genuinely your own. She is also invited into rooms where emerging ideas are being shaped—bringing a creator's eye, a strategist's rigor, and a founder's understanding of what it takes to turn conviction into something real.