Megan, I can't tell you how much your mission speaks to me! Coming to Substack, writing authentic pieces about my experience is frightening. But this is the path. I feel very much aligned with what you teach. Thank you for being here!
Maria, I’m so excited for you that you are leaning into sharing vulnerably. I totally get that it’s frightening! And it’s in doing these scary things that we discover how brave we are! I’m also happy you found me and love knowing that my mission speaks to you. Welcome to the Live Your Yes community! ✨🙏🌺
Thank you, Janet! It’s so true, isn’t it? We’re raised in a culture that tells us to get our shit together but … coming undone is the path to freedom! ✨
Ahhh… I actually have written a lot of great copy for myself from the heart. So I don’t see it as all heartless! And, it’s time to break some rules so my voice can express more freely! 🙏
I so get this! As a fellow copy writer and marketer, the uncalculated risk of Being Authentic in our unfiltered self is completely foreign.
We have spent so many years, long before ‘hashtags’ —evaluating what would resonate, how it would be received, why a particular word could turn the corner… it has taken me to be more than over half a century in age to put ‘myself’ into anything forward speaking. We, the ghosts behind the tv screen, the wizard behind the curtain, the puppeteer tugging the marionette strings— we have a harder time than all those share-spewing whatever in-the-moment thing, activity or idea tumbles out of their thumbmindmeld. It’s a form of conditioning so entrenched we know not how or when it became, just that it is.
I write a piece for substack every day in different voices. I do it to rediscover my own, which is seeping through with more confidence, bit by bit. It took me a long time to realize this was the only way I could own my own wordpower instead of the power voiceover built into my head. Even now as an Art SME rather than a Madison Avenue SME, reinvented, I still felt it creeping in!
I wish you well in your Recovery. For that’s what it is. We need an AA for this… not sure what it would be called: MA? Marketers’ Anonymous 😂 this way when we need help we can call our Ma! 😉
And you’re cracking me up with MA and “ma” and yet there’s also so much truth and bigger context for all of this beyond marketing. Reuniting with our ‘mother tongue’ - that’s what this is - the voice, the personal power, of who we really are beyond conditioning, from the patriarchy to the copywriting rules to those pervasive codependent patterns. Dang, apparently I have a lot more to say about this! As I’m sure you do, too. Thank you for engaging and evoking more! 🙏
I love “unfurling” as it reminds me of the moment Christo’s ‘The Gates’ resonated through Central Park by unfurling. It was a purifying moment. I have something on that in my stack somewhere…
Seems like the appropriate response to this exchange is:
It’s been OUR Pleasure— All our voices and our mutual sense of humor, together.
Awww! I love this: OUR pleasure. Thank you for confirming and affirming that we are creating community here! I love the mutuality of the conversation. And now I’m so curious about the moment at the park….it sounds delicious. 🙏
Wow wow wow. Thank you so much for digging through your own stack to find this post and sharing the link with me. I just read that and was so blown away. The vision of the gates and the experience of it that you shared is reverberating through me. And now I’m reflecting on this connection with the word unfurling, and our conversation about voice and your experience with the gates… I’m gonna let all of that continue to unfurl through me in this delicious post the gates experience!
You so get it! And I love hearing about your practice of writing in a different voice each day. We do contain multitudes! (Ok that was funny to pseudo quote Walt Whitman here in a post about finding my authentic voice! Ha!) Oh this is such a worthy journey we are on to continue to explore and discover the raw, the real. And we are not static! So I don’t actually believe it’s about “finding” but rather “unfurling, unwinding, expressing, discovering, allowing…” (word geekery!)
I'm glad to hear it resonates with you, too. My total pleasure in sharing and so glad you're sticking around for this voice-unleashing journey I'm on! <3 (And so curious to hear more about how it's relatable to you IF you wanna share! Permission to let loose!)
I started my Substack a little over a year ago and find myself going through waves in terms of how real I get. I find I'll do one vulnerable post, pull back, and then get vulnerable again. I don't mind the waves though. I.e. I love writing a personal essay one week, and then the next week doing a gift guide just for the beauty of it. I love how we can add value to people's lives with all different kinds of words. I started my career in PR/Marketing and I loved the connection you drew between histories in those worlds and vulnerability as a writer today <3
And yes, it is so beautiful and powerful the many different ways we can add value to people‘s lives with different kinds of words. And I’m also so passionate about the value that we bring to ourselves by speaking the words that we need to speak. I’m currently reading a book about intergenerational trauma and just read a line last night about that which is not said gets transmitted through the generations. Referring to Trauma. And that just really struck me. So my commitment to myself is to really say the things that I need to say, and want to say and desire to say and trust that there’s gold in there for others. Yet my biggest commitment first and foremost is to discover and share the gold for myself. And we have been so conditioned to believe that that is selfish. And not effective marketing. Yet I also believe in my bones this is the path to my freedom and I’m freaking taking that path! Thank you again so much for your engagement with these themes. I’m finding it to be incredibly juicy and generative! 🙏🌊
Oh I so get it! I heard a woman refer to what you describe as vulnerability backlash. There’s the getting naked on the page and then the familiar feeling of “ooh that was big exposure. I need to pull back a little bit to make sure I’m safe.” at least that’s how I’ve experienced it. I don’t want to put words to your experience! Especially given this is all about voice! And I also know what you mean about the ebb and flow. 🌊 I started my Substack in September thinking it would be at first just personal essays and then it morphed into personal essays and teaching posts and then here we are today and I’ll see where it goes from here. Yet I so strongly believe in the inherent wisdom teachings that come through in our personal stories, so there’s that too!
Megan, I can't tell you how much your mission speaks to me! Coming to Substack, writing authentic pieces about my experience is frightening. But this is the path. I feel very much aligned with what you teach. Thank you for being here!
Maria, I’m so excited for you that you are leaning into sharing vulnerably. I totally get that it’s frightening! And it’s in doing these scary things that we discover how brave we are! I’m also happy you found me and love knowing that my mission speaks to you. Welcome to the Live Your Yes community! ✨🙏🌺
Love this Megan 💕
"But it’s in the messy, in the real rawness, where the magic happens. And that’s where I’m headed."
Thank you, Janet! It’s so true, isn’t it? We’re raised in a culture that tells us to get our shit together but … coming undone is the path to freedom! ✨
Brilliant to break free ⛓️💥 of inauthentic writing that copy and marketing are. They’re just formulas and frameworks and not from the heart ♥️
Ahhh… I actually have written a lot of great copy for myself from the heart. So I don’t see it as all heartless! And, it’s time to break some rules so my voice can express more freely! 🙏
Sounds courageous and so authentic!
I’m all in for both! And thank you. 🙏
I so get this! As a fellow copy writer and marketer, the uncalculated risk of Being Authentic in our unfiltered self is completely foreign.
We have spent so many years, long before ‘hashtags’ —evaluating what would resonate, how it would be received, why a particular word could turn the corner… it has taken me to be more than over half a century in age to put ‘myself’ into anything forward speaking. We, the ghosts behind the tv screen, the wizard behind the curtain, the puppeteer tugging the marionette strings— we have a harder time than all those share-spewing whatever in-the-moment thing, activity or idea tumbles out of their thumbmindmeld. It’s a form of conditioning so entrenched we know not how or when it became, just that it is.
I write a piece for substack every day in different voices. I do it to rediscover my own, which is seeping through with more confidence, bit by bit. It took me a long time to realize this was the only way I could own my own wordpower instead of the power voiceover built into my head. Even now as an Art SME rather than a Madison Avenue SME, reinvented, I still felt it creeping in!
I wish you well in your Recovery. For that’s what it is. We need an AA for this… not sure what it would be called: MA? Marketers’ Anonymous 😂 this way when we need help we can call our Ma! 😉
And you’re cracking me up with MA and “ma” and yet there’s also so much truth and bigger context for all of this beyond marketing. Reuniting with our ‘mother tongue’ - that’s what this is - the voice, the personal power, of who we really are beyond conditioning, from the patriarchy to the copywriting rules to those pervasive codependent patterns. Dang, apparently I have a lot more to say about this! As I’m sure you do, too. Thank you for engaging and evoking more! 🙏
I love “unfurling” as it reminds me of the moment Christo’s ‘The Gates’ resonated through Central Park by unfurling. It was a purifying moment. I have something on that in my stack somewhere…
Seems like the appropriate response to this exchange is:
It’s been OUR Pleasure— All our voices and our mutual sense of humor, together.
Let’s Be 😊
💞
Awww! I love this: OUR pleasure. Thank you for confirming and affirming that we are creating community here! I love the mutuality of the conversation. And now I’m so curious about the moment at the park….it sounds delicious. 🙏
Let’s see if I can paste it here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lamonicacurator/p/through-my-window?r=367qzq&utm_medium=ios
Wow wow wow. Thank you so much for digging through your own stack to find this post and sharing the link with me. I just read that and was so blown away. The vision of the gates and the experience of it that you shared is reverberating through me. And now I’m reflecting on this connection with the word unfurling, and our conversation about voice and your experience with the gates… I’m gonna let all of that continue to unfurl through me in this delicious post the gates experience!
You so get it! And I love hearing about your practice of writing in a different voice each day. We do contain multitudes! (Ok that was funny to pseudo quote Walt Whitman here in a post about finding my authentic voice! Ha!) Oh this is such a worthy journey we are on to continue to explore and discover the raw, the real. And we are not static! So I don’t actually believe it’s about “finding” but rather “unfurling, unwinding, expressing, discovering, allowing…” (word geekery!)
This is so relatable. Thank you for sharing and excited to keep reading <3
I'm glad to hear it resonates with you, too. My total pleasure in sharing and so glad you're sticking around for this voice-unleashing journey I'm on! <3 (And so curious to hear more about how it's relatable to you IF you wanna share! Permission to let loose!)
I started my Substack a little over a year ago and find myself going through waves in terms of how real I get. I find I'll do one vulnerable post, pull back, and then get vulnerable again. I don't mind the waves though. I.e. I love writing a personal essay one week, and then the next week doing a gift guide just for the beauty of it. I love how we can add value to people's lives with all different kinds of words. I started my career in PR/Marketing and I loved the connection you drew between histories in those worlds and vulnerability as a writer today <3
And yes, it is so beautiful and powerful the many different ways we can add value to people‘s lives with different kinds of words. And I’m also so passionate about the value that we bring to ourselves by speaking the words that we need to speak. I’m currently reading a book about intergenerational trauma and just read a line last night about that which is not said gets transmitted through the generations. Referring to Trauma. And that just really struck me. So my commitment to myself is to really say the things that I need to say, and want to say and desire to say and trust that there’s gold in there for others. Yet my biggest commitment first and foremost is to discover and share the gold for myself. And we have been so conditioned to believe that that is selfish. And not effective marketing. Yet I also believe in my bones this is the path to my freedom and I’m freaking taking that path! Thank you again so much for your engagement with these themes. I’m finding it to be incredibly juicy and generative! 🙏🌊
Oh I so get it! I heard a woman refer to what you describe as vulnerability backlash. There’s the getting naked on the page and then the familiar feeling of “ooh that was big exposure. I need to pull back a little bit to make sure I’m safe.” at least that’s how I’ve experienced it. I don’t want to put words to your experience! Especially given this is all about voice! And I also know what you mean about the ebb and flow. 🌊 I started my Substack in September thinking it would be at first just personal essays and then it morphed into personal essays and teaching posts and then here we are today and I’ll see where it goes from here. Yet I so strongly believe in the inherent wisdom teachings that come through in our personal stories, so there’s that too!
You go, lady! Time to strip yourself bare, what’s left is vulnerability, courage and authenticity!
Yes! Exactly. Thank you for seeing that, and me. 🙏
What a brave and beautiful post. Can’t wait to “hear” your voice.
Thank you, Marta! Happy and honored that you’re along for the ride of me getting more honest on the page. 🙏