How do you come back and sum up the last 3 years in a podcast? You don’t. You just come back and start talking again.
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This is my long overdue promised return to podcasting including a response to part 1 that you can listen to here. So, please bare with me as I jump back into this. I touch briefly upon a lot of topics related to this subject, most importantly:
Value - sepcifically, valuing ourselves and others
I also want to add on to the beginning of the recording - where I suggest that being authentic means truly knowing yourself. I am defining this as, "the willingness to know what beliefs and ideas are yours versus the ones you’ve been carrying around that upon further reflection are actually not yours, but someone else’s". That’s the part of the unravelling, peeling back the layers, that can be temporarily unsettling while ultimately offering a lasting outcome with immeasurable reward. What I’m saying is: Do the work. Figure out who you really are. It’s worth it.
Links relating to this podcast:
Slaves of the Internet, Unite! by Tim Kreider
3 reasons , I mean 4 reasons I’m podcasting again:
1) Somewhere, somehow I promised people that I would respond to part 1
2) If you are interested in taking my class starting next week, here’s a very up to date read on where I am in relation to our industry. I’m essentially skimming the surface of many topics that I intend to to explore in much more detail in the fish bowl.
3) I’m practicing - sharing my voice again publicly - for a big project that I’m planning to debut in the next couple of months
4) there is a fourth reason. I miss podcasting. and quite honestly I’m also tired of hearing {some not all} other people dominating the airwaves with disingenous *bs* that really needs to be addressed. I want to share and inspire in my way; and in a heightened state of vulnerability these past few years I’ve been holding back. Not any more.
I want to say congrats and excited to hear more of the details of what is going on for you. You are definitely an inspiration and role model! Wishing you all the best from the Tuscan hills of Italy :P ciao ciao
about the topic (I went to read the article) - I think the problem has existed forever in all industries... there will always be those who take advantage and try to get the best for themselves. They are doing it on purpose... not that they don't know any better. For everyone else, it is a case of education and pushing what is "expected" or "accepted" to a different level - specifically for creatives. That kind of thing does take time.
I do think ultimately we all have to work on ourselves, our own personal sense of worth... because that is what will drive our values and what we will accept, push back on, etc... it all starts with our own personal sense of self-worth, I think.
You are so right to hope for the future kind of business model, where it's good for everyone and is sustainable. Let's strive for that!