About The Collection.
More than a decade ago, my yoga practice brought me to experience an acute awareness of the voices inside my head. On my mat, when everything quieted down, I could hear them, loud yet seldom clear, singing to me.
Over the years, I started to exercise my actual voice to let them out. I quickly discovered that letting the voices out of my head brought more depth and intimacy to my relationship with other humans. Meaningful conversations (that’s that deep sh*t of the universe) encouraged emotionally rich connection to like-minded individuals that greatly enhanced my life. I also realized: we all live with the voices.
We are more alike than different.
THE STORY
Early in 2017, at the climax of my corporate career, disenchanted by my inability to activate the change I wanted to see around me and feeling a responsibility to authentically and unapologetically express myself, I needed another channel for the voices inside my head. Talking was no longer enough. In an attempt to prose with my vérité, I wrote the IBM Seduction Series and published the stories on LinkedIn.
The response was surprisingly and overwhelmingly positive. Apparently, I was a writer. Evidently, my voice touched others, provoked new thoughts. I felt a contentment for respectfully speaking my truth, a gratification from living in alignment and integrity and aspiration to inspiring others.
I put my run at my corporate-ladder-climbing on hold in late 2017. Now dancing with a new reality, I needed to take time to investigate and create the career experience I wanted for myself. Yet, I still needed a creative vehicle for the voices: TheVoicesCollection.com was born.
For the first three months of my discovery year, with friends and family as my audience and the intent to keep them up-to-date while exercising my creative muscles, I mostly wrote about my experiences and travels. I unexpectedly found something so much more important than my need for a creative outlet: others wanted to join me to in sharing their stories, in exploring their voices. Wow.
Today, The Collection serves as a digital platform for others to express their voices. These individuals make up The Voices. We value radical candor; express emotive human stories to create connection rather than division and competition; seek to explore the power of our individuality in community; provoke thought to encourage dialogue about central topics to the experience of being humans; all in hopes to enhance our life, break some rules and spark the change we crave.
