“DUDE, DO YOU WANT MY FUCKING JOB? Cause you can have it.” – IN-Q in response to this poem.
IN-Q told us to find a transformational moment in our lives, and go off and write for 25 minutes on that.
This is what came out.
Then this performance, after 25 minutes of on-the-spot writing and no rehearsal.
Then the first audience reaction: “I don’t know what your career is, but if you’re not doing something like this, day in and day out, you’re missing it.”
This, on top of Dane Maxwell’s comment last week after seeing my performance at David Brower’s Sensorial Experience Day last Sunday, looking me directly in the eyes: “Get out of business, and DO THIS […] Michael Hrostoski, Molly Butler and I were trembling in our bodies over there.”
While I enjoy “compliments” on my poetry (or even more so, when I hear that it has an impact on people)… these statements go beyond that for me.
I’ve followed IN-Q for 3 years since he helped re-awaken my poetic expression when Yanik Silver brought him in for a Maverick workshop. He’s my poetic role model. Those words, as his first reaction, really meant a lot. Not just to my ego, but to my spirit. My spirit that wants to serve the world with my words and express my essence.
Dane Maxwell has been one of my biggest inspirations, not only in opening my heart and softening my soul this past year, but even more so in his own journey of retiring from business at a young age and relentlessly pursuing his true calling of sharing his musical gifts with the world. These words from him mean a lot, in how they enCOURAGE me to step more fully into my own expression.
While I don’t planning on leaving business, or doing this for a full-time career, I DO plan on expressing my essence and healing myself and others through continuing my practice of poetry – and with this feedback as fuel, more than ever before, despite how busy I am in business right now (which, beyond “business” is also my devotion to dharma).
I trust – and already starting to see – how it all ties together in living my greatest life, and doing my greatest work in the world.
Thank you Kevin Kurgansky… not only for filming this… or getting me up to LA for the workshop… thank you for seeing and supporting me in my life’s artistic expression in the myriad or ways you show up for me. I’m infinitely grateful to have a friend like you.
Oh, and Joshua for being there with the pads to box in that moment to bring out my power.
And most recently for Jess Johnson and Isabella Konold for the epic VIP day helping me step into more of my embodied expression and speaking my story and my truth.
(BTW – It was during this poetry workshop that my Forbes article came out and starting gaining traction… Saturday was certainly a balancing act of attention, and a day of dousing in dharma and gratitude for all that is my life, message, and service).
My favorite line from this impromptu poem:
“If there’s anything I’ve learned it’s
That I only feel worthless
When I worry
About what my worth is”
I love you all <3
