Finding my voice
gathering things that help me define a voice, honouring my soul, heart and mind.
Finding my voice
"It's become a courageous act to love who you are."
Duke Stump
Duke Stump
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When I stop to examine the major crossroads of my own life, it seems that the impelling force behind the direction of travel has almost always been intuitive, even accidental, without any serious consideration given as to whether it was the right decision or not. But accompanying those vague, arbitrary decisions was an intense commitment and... See more
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Time to reconsider how we look at work. Holley's deep dive into this area highly resonates to that of my own path and questions I pose around what it means to feel fulfilled and authentic in the work that we do. She has come to know work as: "A lifelong devotion, to deliberation and transcendence of myself, my family and community, and society at large. What that contribution looks like shifts over time, and the action or inaction within that contribution can be grand gestures or small simple deeds - that's the beauty of it." She describes her current work resembling a manifesto: To honor self-acceptance as the antidote to the allure of external validation. To cherish and express my uninhibited creative expression and honour my weirdness, whether it makes me money or not. To share the unfolding of my story, the triumphs, the falls, the lifts, the climbs in artful, honest ways that challenge people to not turn away from themselves.
So..’tell me about yourself’ is a question we’ve all gotten, and most of us dread answering.
Doesn’t have to be that way.
Holley Murchison a social entrepreneur, created this free online experience (among other material) to help people learn how to introduce themselves more effectively - and in my opinion more authentically and in a way that feels empowering vs people pleasingy.
My passions and areas of expertise across that work have been creative ideation and thought partnership, multimedia storytelling, and learning & talent development strategy.
Holley M. Kholi-Murchison on LinkedIn: Happy 2023, y'all! I'm looking to join a team in a remote or hybrid…
Your job is not to lock the doors and chisel at yourself like a marble statue in the darkness until you feel quantifiably worthy of the world outside. Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other.
rayne fisher-quann • no good alone - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess no good alone
Getting found is about being findable.