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Tania Jane Moraes-Vaz

Headshot of Tania Jane Moraes-Vaz, a Momé editor, with long dark hair in a black blazer against a pale grey backdrop.

Tania Jane Moraes-Vaz is the visionary founder and lead creative behind ElixSeer Media Co., a full-service creative brandhouse. She is also an author, speaker, wife, and mama to two boys. As a third culture kid born in Bombay, India, and raised in Dubai, UAE, and Toronto, Canada, Tania is shaped by a love for fashion, literature, and film, and brings a global lens and cinematic approach to storytelling, creative direction, event production, and experiential marketing. Lovingly called the “Word Magician” and “Voice Alchemist,” she is known for designing editorial-style visuals and creating brand worlds that feel visceral, luxurious, and unforgettable. Her work spans multi-six- and seven-figure brands, bestselling authors, and thought leaders, always rooted in one mission: No voice left unexpressed. No creative left behind. Beyond her work, Tania is most at home building Lego masterpieces with her family, cozying up with a chai and a good book, or curating her next creative venture.

Articles

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Lo Bosworth stands against a soft grey studio backdrop in a white ribbed collared top and light-wash jeans, arms folded, smiling as she looks off camera.
Features · Identity

Lo Bosworth Was Always Going to Tell You

Seventeen and famous for being watched. A decade into the health company she couldn’t find. Seven months into a motherhood she has decided to keep unfiltered and raw.

Monique Rodriguez and her daughter Mia stand back to back against a soft mauve backdrop, Monique in a white pleated cape dress and Mia in a black Dior dress and leather beret.
Features · Identity

She Raised Her With Love. They Grew Together.

Monique Rodriguez built one of the most recognizable beauty brands in the world while carrying weight she never let her daughters see. Her daughter Mia inherited everything but the blueprint.

Lorena Bernal in a cream suit holds a copy of her book It Starts With You in front of a pink flower wall at her London book launch.
Features · Identity

Lorena Bernal: On Presence, Motherhood & Being Fully Seen

Miss Spain, actress, author, coach, mother of three. For years she kept every version of herself in a separate room — until the performance grew heavier to carry than the truth.

Simone I. Smith sits outdoors in a wide straw hat with four of her grandchildren gathered around her, one daughter kneeling alongside holding a baby.
Features · Identity

Simone Is Still Simone

The jewelry designer whose scar became a blueprint, the wife who has stood in the foxhole, the matriarch her grandchildren call MoMa — on faith, survival, and refusing to be made smaller.

Julie Cole stands in wide-leg denim and a striped faux-fur coat slipped off one shoulder, against a soft white backdrop.
Features · Business & Career

The Front Row Seat: Julie Cole on Six Kids and Building Mabel's Labels

She built one of Canada's most recognizable companies in the margins of motherhood — six children, six C-sections, a label nobody else thought to make.

Three teenage girls stand arm in arm on a tree-lined street in autumn, smiling at the camera.
Parenting

Who Is Your Daughter Really Talking To?

A new Girl Scouts study found that most girls aged five to thirteen now treat AI as a friend — and most of their mothers have no idea how deep it runs.

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