Thank you Weber Shandwick and John Daniel McCourt for hosting Bernie Wagenblast for this fascinating discussion on her experience transitioning and some of the awesome work she's doing for trans visibility, including our In Transit campaign.
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Can't believe it is already Issue no. 3 out today! Woohoo! come and check it out - this month it is all about Your Vision.
I've not mentioned it before, but Christine Michaelis kindly offered me a whole cheeky little column in every single issue 🥳 where I share about all things profitability and business finances. The monthly column is called "Know Your Numbers" - and this month I share the top tips on how to survive Tax Season in the UK. Go and check it out 😁❤️
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It's generally easy to forget that the braindead megaphone (shoutout to George Saunders for coining the phase) of modern media does not necessarily create opinions as much as magnifying those that exist to the level of zeitgeist. When the field of voices is artificially limited in the fashion discussed by Michael Sheen, the conversation ceases to be a dialogue. It becomes loud, opposing monologues in which fewer and fewer people recognize themselves. Our culture increasingly tries to adopt a lifestyle representing so little of the reality that so many live.
As a practical example: It's excellent for Charles Dickens to expose the social ills of a broken system--Little Dorrit is a particularly poignant example. Still, it's equally essential that those directly impacted by these broken systems have the platform necessary to garner the attention their plight deserves.
Self-advocacy and agency are so often stripped from the most vulnerable populations. The digital age was supposed to democratize us; it has done considerably more to entrench preexisting prejudices and extend the hegemonic injustice that so many experience.
Diversity is not only what we thought! It is much more. Is it enough to raising our voice? I don’t think so, until a movie star is in this place to support whom needs.
See this short video:
This is why leaders that foster diversity, create environments that allow authenticity, and leverage empathy to make space for people to be themselves see the greatest results with their teams. Because leader that’s known for creating spaces of authenticity.
"Be your full authentic self to access your super power." Yes, please! I want to and it's great advice but the challenge is to learn about who you really are instead of who you've been trying to be. The work is truly in identifying the difference between growth and expansion of your natural qualities and changing to be a version of yourself that you believe society will embrace and love more. To begin to access your super powers you have to know them and master them. Imagine possessing magical powers in a fantasy story. In all of the stories there is a process of learning how access and how to wield it. That's how I think of our natural authentic powers as human beings. They require knowledge, focus, nurturing. The idea that being yourself is the easy road sounds very mythical to me. How have you learned about your authentic super powers? What methods have you adopted to master them?
A thought-provoking speech. There is indeed a huge difference in learning and practicing what to say—and getting in the thought-process of getting into feeling what you want to deliver to the audience, than doing all the same, but with conviction because you are THAT what you speak about.
I think people have started to be ready to listen. Thanks to platform such as this. We open so many eyes, enlighten so many minds and with it become hopeful—more than we ever were.
LOVE is coming our way.
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