I’m back for Season 3!
“I’m realizing that this is my damn business, and I can take it in any direction I want.” - Shinah
The theme for this season is ANTI-PERFECTIONISM
Season 1 was launched at the peak of my “pandemic success” - million dollar years, thousands of students, so much exposure through ads and social media
Season 2 was the year of “coming back” after burnout and a long break… and struggling HARD emotionally to regain my confidence and reset my goals and expectations
Season 3 is going to be both deeper and broader - I’ll still talk about calligraphy and creative business, but I want to explore the WHY behind it all. Which is that we all want to feel more at peace with ourselves and less afraid… and I think confronting our perfectionism through inner work and creativity is a beautiful way to do that.
In this episode, I catch you up on:
How I’m doing emotionally & financially right now (with real numbers, of course)
How my current sturdiness is a direct result of the emotional turbulence of 2023; and
My powerful MANIFESTO for Season 3 - the real message I want to get out into the world
THANK YOU for being here!
I’ve got some exciting episodes planned for the future, and I’m so thankful that I get to be in your earbuds each week =)
THE MANIFESTO (aka “What I believe in fiercely”):
There are so many of us out there…
Incredibly capable, ridiculously smart, deeply caring, brimming-with-love women…
Spending most of our precious life force trying our damndest to be “good”
The kind of badass women…
Who ace all our classes, and outwit anyone who dares to debate with us.
Who think ahead and run the big deals behind the scenes.
Who can see the logical flaws and ego-driven decisions of the men in charge.
Who are sharp and funny and anxious and can get shit done.
Who only cry when no one is looking.
Who have locked away the vulnerable little girl parts of us who used to squeal with laughter and desire hugely and stomp our feet in anger.
All of that magnificent energy…
Poured into jobs where our competency is taken for granted.
Channeled towards buying houses in a good school districts and being temperate partners and solid mothers.
Directed towards everything we need to “improve” - our screen time, our belly rolls, our sleep hygiene, the attention our children need, the affection our partners deserve.
We’re screaming inside.
THERE HAS TO BE MORE TO LIFE THAN THIS!
All our power and creativity and brilliant ideas, like trapped steam powering an engine on a train heading towards an empty promise. Sometimes, the scream of rage and frustration escapes our bodies and the people around us stare in shock. “That’s so unlike her…” And we have to feel sorry for that, too.
Imagine if we felt even 10% more liberated to feel our desires, to focus on the people we want around us on our deathbeds, to be wild and unhinged and adventurous, to support the causes that sing to us…
Imagine how much that would change the world. We brilliant women, starting an inner revolution of self-trust and boundaries, showing our daughters and sons how to be strong and tender.
I am just one brilliant woman.
And, if I had stayed locked on the path I thought I had to take - corporate lawyer on the “diversity” and “women’s leadership” committees, mother of two, compulsive exerciser and intermittent faster, owner of a big house in a nice neighborhood… I would have had a pleasant life, maybe.
But my heart would have always beat out the question “what else… what else?” I would have realized too late that there’s only this one life we get to craft.
I took a jump and left law and started a calligraphy business… and as a result, I nudged thousands of women a little further towards their curiosity. I showed the 100K+ people who follow me that a different life path is possible. That taking it is hard, that it forces you to face all your darkest parts, but if you’re willing to experience that… the world opens up in ways you could never imagine.
Except now you CAN imagine it.
You can start to glimpse a world outside of your cozy walled garden. It’s wilder and riskier and so much more ALIVE.
Let’s take back our LIFE FORCE. We have so much of it and it’s the most precious thing in the world.
Let’s stop giving it away to power an engine to nowhere. Imagine what we could power instead.
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