Loren Thomas and Caragh Bennet are the co-founders and CEOs of Tribe + Glory, a global women’s elevation movement and brand that allows female entrepreneurs from under the poverty line to achieve their business dreams. With products ranging from ethical jewelry to home goods, Loren and Caragh are currently based in the rural village of Kamuli, Uganda, where they live and work alongside the T+G program members and their pet goat Zena. In addition to being co-founders who are entering their second year of operations, Loren and Caragh are also best friends who love the rogue lifestyle that comes with running an international start-up in Uganda. Wondering what these impressive young founders do after work hours? Find out below. 
5.30 P.M. The hour between 5:30 P.M.- 6:30 P.M. is our favorite of the night. We live in the rural village of Kamuli, Uganda so we buy all of our food from the local open-air market. We usually swing by the market after work and pick up some veggies and eggs from the friends we’ve made there. Then, we head home to spend the rest of the hour on our porch drinking a gin + tonic (or the closest thing to tonic we could find in the village that day–sometimes it’s Fanta, Mountain Dew, or apple juice) out of Tribe + Glory Ankole Horn Cocktail Tumblers to decompress from our day in the office and dream up big plans for the brand. This is always the time when we create our biggest visions and have so much fun brainstorming outside the chaos of normal working hours. We love watching the sunset from our porch while we sit with #zenathegoat and chat about all the places in the world we’d love to replicate Tribe + Glory.
6.30 P.M. Around 6:30 P.M. we usually start making dinner together in the kitchen. We throw one of our favorite playlists on and chat about whatever is going on with Tribe + Glory. We always laugh with people in the village about how we have ended up living on a five meal rotation, which is what happens when you combine being limited to what we can find in the market that day with our own terrible cooking abilities. We recently freaked out when someone told us it’s not good to eat too many eggs a day, because quite honestly we probably eat four if not six every day without fail! We love salads, stir-fry, and a couple of curries, but mainly live on a diet of eggs and vegetables. Whenever we travel to the US or the UK, we usually get nostalgic for the fresh produce of the village and completely outraged when we end up spending over a dollar on an avocado when we usually can buy multiple for the same price in the market.
7:30 P.M. At some point in the night, we usually have calls with our teams in the US. From board meetings, talking to our stockists and PR meetings, we always have about an hour set aside to chat with our teams in America. Because of the nine-hour time difference and the noisy bustle of our workshop/office space, these calls typically happen between 7:30-8:30 P.M. or 9:30-10:30 P.M. We are so thankful for our incredibly hard-working teams in both the UK and US who make all of this work possible. The time difference means that someone is working on Tribe + Glory on one side of the world or the other at any time of the day! 
8:30 P.M. Unfortunately, by 8:30 P.M., the power will usually have gone out and we’ll have lit our candles (we have a favorite Anthropologie volcano candle that some amazing friends gave us) and put our battery-operated fairy lights on in the living room. We’re pretty used to the power being sketchy out here and have tried to master the system by making sure that our laptops, phones and internet modem are always as charged as possible. It doesn’t always work out that way, but when it does and the internet is good enough, we love the Fitness Marshall on Youtube and dance to a few of his routines in our living room. We have a few favorites, which we honestly have memorized and ready to whip out at any time.
9 P.M. While we’d love to tell you that we take a shower each night, the truth is that a cold shower with the power out is about as appealing as it sounds and we just don’t always have the motivation to get ourselves in there. Usually it comes down to two factors: 1) If we’ve done Fitness Marshall. If yes, we’ve been SWEATING so a shower is a must and it won’t feel so horrible that it will be ice cold. 2) If one of us has lovingly said to the other “Sorry pal, it’s time.” We try to keep each other in check and always keep it real when the trick of using Ugandan dust as dry shampoo has run its full course. Once upon a time, when we lived in Texas and England, we had shelves and shelves of different shampoo and conditioners to choose from. Now we have to give a massive shout out to Herbal Essences for being sold duty-free in the capital city of Uganda, because we always seem to realize once we’ve gone through airport security that we should have stocked up beforehand. 
9:30 P.M. Once we’re ready for bed, we usually end up having some time in our rooms to return calls to friends and family at home. Our people in different corners of the world are amazing at fitting us into weird times of their day, and we seriously are SO thankful for FaceTime audio (usually the WiFi doesn’t support video calls) for making it super easy to still feel connected. We’re also both big readers and have Kindles that we take everywhere so that if our phone batteries die, we can still read before we sleep. From time to time we’ll find a show in the market that we watch on Loren’s laptop–we went through a huge Sherlock phase once and are currently loving Timeless.
10 P.M. The time we eventually go to bed really varies depending on when our meetings have ended or what time the power went out that night. Life in the village is absolutely unpredictable and we truly don’t have a standard bedtime, though it feels like we could fall asleep by 8 most nights.
Sleeping in our house in the village has come with eventful wake up calls, including a mouse in Caragh’s room, Loren killing a cockroach the size of her hand inside her mosquito net and a time when our water tank exploded and we ended up mopping three inches of water off of the hallway floor at 2 A.M. It is an adventure every day and we wouldn’t trade it for the world!