The Art of Creating Yourself
“The most creative act is the act of creating yourself.”
My life has been devoted primarily to two things: understanding myself deeply and creating beauty.
Through decades of corporate and entrepreneurial successes and failures, creative projects, cross-country moves, heartbreak, loss and radical reinvention, I've learned that true success isn't what impresses others or what the ego wants - true success is standing fully in your power as the most truthful soul-aligned version of yourself. After nearly 20 years of conventional success in the matrix, nothing has been as rewarding as walking my own path, living my creative dharma and helping those on a similar journey of transformation.
But it wasn’t always easy.
My journey was built through deep personal reckoning and spiritual inquiry: deep self-reflection, the right mentors, healing wounding and ultimately mastering the art of consciously creating.
But what does that mean?
It means expanding your capacity to encompass the entirety of your conscious Self in a container of pure loving awareness. It means seeing all of you as all of the Creator, in the most humble yet empowering sense. “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.”
Understanding and connecting to our innate divine ability to bend and mold our reality is ultimately the blessing of being alive. Understanding how our mind, body and soul are interconnected are part of this but it’s not until moving out of intellectualizing the work and into embodying the work that you step into the state of mind that allows true transformation - that inner knowing. It is in knowing that you are Source and Source is you, that we contain all of the power of the Creator within us: creativity, life, beauty, love, awareness, expansiveness, energy and more. But to feel this requires connecting to the Self through heart and soul. The more deeply to that process you commit to going, the more you can contain, and the more you can consciously create yourself and your reality.
I once believed I had to fit into a narrow box with labels and offer a compelling elevator pitch that simplified me down into a singular thing. Blame it on the capitalist machine that made all of us marketers believe we needed to flatten ourselves down into a slogan to be memorable or effective. But through the process of completely collapsing my ego, identities, and old beliefs, I liberated myself to redesign my life in a bigger, vision-aligned and more authentic manner.
Today, I am a brand and business strategist, entrepreneur, designer, singer, sound facilitator, and life coach. I have never fit into a box and that’s the point. It’s when you stop trying to that everything works out in your best favor.
I’ve scaled companies, built my own businesses, decorated homes, produced dozens of sound ceremonies and hundreds of events. But ultimately, nothing compares to the feeling of holding space for someone through one of their most tender and transformational moments and seeing them come out of the other side a new person.
