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Happy Holidays! WELCOME TO SOME INSPIRATION FOR GIVING, LIVING & RECEIVING IN YOUR MAILBOX THIS MONTH. Growing up, my family would volunteer around the holidays. As I got older, wanting to give back around the holidays, and throughout the year, stuck with me. I even donated my dad’s clothes to a homeless charity after he passed away, and got to see people give new life and purpose to his old clothes.

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Holidays spent volunteering with my family are actually some of my fondest memories. One of John Paul DeJoria’s clearest memories is being poor himself when he was young and his single mom giving a dime to he and his brother and telling them to donate it to the man ringing the bell for The Salvation Army. “Someone always needs it more than you,” she told them. That stuck with John Paul and this year he gave $250,000 to the Salvation Army – and millions more to causes he vetted and saw it could make an effective difference. John Paul and his wife Eloise’s genuine spirit of giving, 365 days a year, is why I really wanted them for the December cover. I was impressed by how much they quietly do to give back to Austin and make it better. But, after meeting them, I’m in awe of the time they invest in

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FEATURES 24 In the Glow of The DeJorias Whose Peace, Love & Happiness is Felt Globally

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40 meet...Gina Chavez Get to know this amazing Austin musician

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JOHN PAUL DEJORIA. I’ve heard him called “The Paul Mitchell Guy”

He once even had one that could run on

because in 1980 he co-founded the haircare line Paul Mitchell – with

Patron tequila! Just like he seems more nat-

a hairdresser named Paul Mitchell and a $700 loan to get started.

ural in a Canadian tuxedo than a formal suit,

That was during a time he was living in his car, one of two times

he seems at ease on two wheels. This year

in his life the now billionaire was homeless. I’ve heard him called

was the 19th year of his annual Peace, Love

“The Patron Guy,” because in 1989 he co-founded The Patron Spirits

& Happiness charity motorcycle ride, a two-

company, which he sold to Bacardi in 2018 when the company was

day ride that John Paul underwrites with

valued at over $5 billion dollars. I’ve heard him called “A Nice Guy,”

his friend Gary Spellman. “We try to keep it

because his reputation precedes him. But, until I moved to Austin, I

down to 80 people or less and they all con-

didn’t know how much of his time and money the self-made billion-

tribute a couple thousand dollars and all the

aire gives away, and that doing so is probably his favorite job.

money goes to Austin Children’s Shelter,” he

Intrigued by how much John Paul DeJoria and his equally amaz-

says. 2022 will be their 20th anniversary.

ing wife Eloise do to give back, specifically in Austin, we caught up

2021 is the tenth anniversary of JPs’s Peace,

with the couple at their Austin home, where you’ll find family por-

Love & Happiness Foundation, which invests

traits above the fireplace rather than Picassos, to learn more. When

time, work and money into people, animals

the Austin Life team pulled into the driveway we were greeted by

and the environment and helps over causes

two happy pups, Duke and Suzy, John Paul, in denim on demin, and

globally and locally. It started the same year

Eloise, who apologized that she was a bit tired, but explained they

John Paul signed The Giving Pledge, a com-

had Duran Duran over for dinner the night before. “We talked about

mitment by the world’s wealthiest individuals

health, drinking a lot of water and sailing,” John Paul said.

and families to dedicate the majority of their

Our shoot started in the driveway with each effortlessly posing with a vehicle from the open garage. Eloise was perfectly accessorized

wealth to giving back. To date 224 people have signed the pledge.

with a yellow Ferrari and looked like a scene out of an Aerosmith

In reality, John Paul made the pledge

video. John Paul’s ride of choice is a motorcycle, and he has a few.

when he was just six-years-old, to his mom. CONTINUED >

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t h e m o re yo u k n ow + #CouplesGoals: One of Eloise’s favorite things about her husband? “He never focuses on anything negative,” she says, “In my 30 years with John Paul I’ve never heard him talk one word bad about anyone. And John Paul says, “Thirty years ago she swept me off my feet, and just continuously does things that are wonderful with a kind heart.”

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zations that need it

He recounted a story of his mom taking he and his

Rather than just write checks, John Paul and Eloise,

brother downtown LA around the holidays. As he and

with the guidance of the foundation’s Executive

his brother marveled at the store windows, he said his

Director Constance Dykhuizen, (who’s been there all ten

mother gave he and his brother a dime and told them

years), vet and visit each potential project. “We don’t just

to put it in a bucket next to a guy ringing a bell. They

donate money,” John Paul says, “For almost everything we

didn’t have much money and John Paul questioned why

do I want to somehow show up and be there, see it, con-

they gave what little they had away. He said his mother

tribute to it, talk to the people and see what they need.”

responded, “Boys, that is the Salvation Army, and they

A perfect example of this is Mobile Loaves and Fishes.

take care of people who don’t have a house to live in or

John Paul says, “We went to see what it was all about

food to eat. We don’t have a lot, but it’s always good to

when they first got going. We decided it was a really great

give something. We can only afford ten cents this year, but

thing that we would invest our time as well as invest our

there is always someone who needs it more than you do.”

money in and the first thing that was needed was a gar-

“That is something that has never left my mind,”

den. It grew from there. The MLF Community First Village

John Paul says. “Even in my, let’s call them bad boy

started with 230 houses and is now home to the Peace,

days, during my motorcycle adventures riding with

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friends from Satan’s Slaves or Hell’s Angels or whatever,

John Paul said that they are currently moving people in to

Thanksgiving or Christmas I would always volunteer

Phase II of another 310 tiny houses and “by the time we’re

my time, go help feed people, give back somehow even

done in a few years there will be 2000.”

though I didn’t have any money.”

During the pandemic John Paul worried about the

This year alone JP’s Peace, Love & Happiness

medical needs of people without means for care. He’s on

Foundation committed $250,000 as a matching grant

the Board of Advisors at the University of Texas and says,

challenge to help kick start Salvation Army Austin’s

“I went straight to our Head of Schools and Sciences and

Day of Giving. The Day of Giving raised more than

said, ‘What can we do to help these guys out? They’re

$750,000 that will fund more than 18,700 nights of

living under bridges and they’re going to spread the

shelter for individuals and families.

virus. What can we do to help?’ and they said, ‘JP, we can CONTINUED >

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These two are always peace, love and happiness

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inoculate them, but we need help. We need half a million bucks.’ So I gave them half a million bucks and said let’s go do it.” He continues, “We try to fill the gap, then think about what we can do about homelessness long-term.” That’s why he made a large donation to UT to start an Endowed Chair. “It’s when a few million is put in and all of the interest must go to professors or projects in the college that address homelessness and their medical issues and needs.” John Paul, who’s especially efficient because he doesn’t use email (or even have an email address or a computer!) spends much of his time these days giving back. He says, “I found the greatest high you will ever get is when you do something for somebody else and ask absolutely nothing in return - other than you are doing something great and trying to spread a message that they should do the same. It’s a hell of a high, and I know what high is all about because I’m a kid of the 60s.” He also says he feels like it’s an obligation, albeit one he’s happy to shoulder. “I’m so blessed with what I have that I feel part of my obligation, part of everyone’s obligation, is to do something while you are here to make your city, your state, your country,

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Eloise is well-accessorized

John Paul has JP Special Brew Bourbon in production with Bardstown Brewery in Kentucky. Eloise doesn’t drink alcohol as she owns a recovery center called The Arbor with her son Justin Harvey. While the office doesn’t have any computers, it does have a red phone. John Paul says, “That just goes to Washington.” And, he’s not being sarcastic. John Paul is Ambassador at Large to the islands of Antigua and Barbuda and Honorary Consul General for Mali. John Paul is working with a group in Austin on a new Covid vaccine and delivery system that is leading to other advancements in the medical field. John Paul’s daughter Alexis DeJoria is a eight-time National Hot Rod Association winner Eloise has a fantastic wardrobe, from which she outfitted herself. She said she was just so excited to be able to wear some of her clothes, neglected during the pandemic! Her hair was done by Freida Kohler-Abeit for ZigZag Salon and Makeup and Styling by Russ Brouse.

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the world a better place because you’re here.” He adds, “We really pay attention to Austin as our global counterpoint to get things going.”

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That’s thanks in no small part to his ever-supportive wife, who even after more than 30 years together still looks at John Paul like a lovestruck newlywed. A look of adoration and admiration John Paul reflects right back. “I dragged him here,” Eloise, a native Texan says of getting California-born and raised John Paul to move to Austin decades ago and make it the place they’d call home and raise their children. “We looked the world over and we had a two-year-old son,” John Paul says, “And we thought, ‘Where do we want to raise him?’ It could have been anywhere in the world. We picked Austin for the community, you can’t beat it. It has some of the best schools in the nation, it’s family oriented and there are good family values here.” After decades here, their love for Austin (and each other) has only grown. Eloise says, “We love hiking the trails and the parks. We love being outside. And then, of course, the music festival. We love music. And I Iove the spirit of Austin. I just feel like everybody’s heart is in the right place here.” John Paul adds, “My favorite thing is that a week does not go by where Austin doesn’t provide a variety of things to do. In Austin you have your choices and you can get involved if you want to. A lot of our friends come through who are musicians, we could go out and see them or we can have an easy weekend and just

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