Love deserves more than one day. So we scrapped Valentine’s Day and made it bigger.

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Not bigger in balloons and prix-fixe menus. Bigger in intention. Bigger in depth. Bigger in how we actually show up.

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Around here, love is a practice. It’s the quiet text you send because someone crossed your heart. It’s the boundary you hold when your peace needs protecting. It’s the forgiveness you choose, the effort you sustain, the courage it takes to soften again. It’s not a performance once a year. It’s a rhythm you return to daily.

At ENC, we talk a lot about clarity, momentum, strategy. But underneath all of it? It’s love. Love for the work. Love for the founders who trust us. Love for the women sitting around our table. Love for the risk-takers building something brave.

So this year, instead of roses on demand, we’re sharing how each of the ladies at ENC is practicing love in her own way.

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Ellyse

Sometimes we all need the reminder that we’re hot. And to clarify, not in the filtered, posed, “look a certain way” kind of hot. I mean the kind that comes from being fully yourself. From knowing who you are. From carrying your story, your quirks, your softness, your fire, your weird little magic, AND letting it be seen. Hot is self-trust. Hot is presence. Hot is the quiet confidence that says, “I belong here.” You, exactly as you are, are worth paying attention to, and worth showing up for. With love and unapologetic confidence.

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Lanya

Love Day to me means showing up for people and sharing the love in non-traditional ways. Like unexpectedly buying a friend coffee, showing up to someones house with a loaf of fresh sourdough, or just being a listening ear to someone who needs to take a load off! This love season I want to celebrate love in the lil ways that perhaps isn't the flashiest but give people the warm feeling of being cared for! <3

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Elizabeth

To me, Love Day is about authentic intentionality. It's carving a little bit of time out of my day to bring a flower to someone at my favorite coffee shop. It's painting a card to mail to my grandparents so they can have something to smile about when they open the mailbox.

Life gets busy and time passes by all too quickly, so we wanted to slow things down and bring Love Day to it's core : real, raw, intentional L O V E! For ourselves, for our people, for the world. Hopefully it inspires a lovely little ripple of kindness today , tomorrow .. all year long. To me, that is the true spirit of Love Day.

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Marly

Love Day is my favorite holiday ever because sharing love is just THE BEST! I do like to consider myself a Cupid! This year I'm showing up for all of my people (though most are from afar) in little ways and sending each of them personal valentines. And my way of celebrating is a day full of PINK. Starts with a homemade strawberry cold foam coffee, then a workout in a matching pink set, a brunch with my gals and an extra dusting of blush on the cheeks, and likely ending with some rose while the weather is perfection.

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Channing

Love Day for me is all about intention in the little things. It’s not about overcomplicating the holiday, but about slowing down and making sure the people in my life truly feel seen. Sending a thoughtful text, calling a family member to check in, grabbing someone’s coffee, or carving out time to show up for a friend. Love isn’t always grand gestures, rather consistency, presence, and showing up for the everyday. Love Day is simply a reminder to express what I already feel all year long! That the people around me matter deeply, and I never want to miss a chance to tell them.

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Jessica

Love Day, for me, is the moment I stop outsourcing devotion and bring it back home. It’s where I remember that I am not just the one who holds, builds, gives, creates, leads, I am also the one who deserves to be tended. It’s choosing myself first. It’s filling my own cup until it spills. Taking myself to chai. Moving my body like it’s sacred. Setting the boundary. Buying the snacks. Saying no. Saying yes. Letting it be about me for a minute. When I love myself well, deeply, boldly, and a little selfishly it allows me to show up fully for my people, my work, my life.

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Love, to us, is not a holiday.

It’s a verb.

It’s baked into the way we collaborate, the way we lead, the way we create. It’s in the way we answer emails thoughtfully. In the way we craft a brand story like it matters, because it does in the way we hold space for both ambition and softness.

If you’re craving something deeper than a chocolate box and a calendar reminder, this is your nudge. Take a look at how you’re practicing love. Where are you showing up intentionally? Where could you soften? Where could you be braver?

We’ll be over here, choosing love in real time.