CreativeMornings - ⛰️Vast spaces to hold all of me

July 20, 2023
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“I found vast spaces to hold all of me — the hidden, the hurt, the false, and the true — a place where my fractured selves became fused.”


When Vanessa Kelly’s mother discovered Vanessa was deaf as a child, she taught her daughter to conceal her difference — through the use of hearing aids and lipreading. Being perceived as different was considered dangerous. Follow along Vanessa Kelly's poetic journey, in which she traces how she went from hiding her disability to taking pride in it. Kelly now recognizes that the way she wields silence is her superpower as a corporate lawyer and negotiator. But more generously for us, she invites us to consider all the wounded parts of ourselves that we feel are not allowed or not enough, disability or not.

Watch Vanessa Kelly’s awe-inspiring talk for CreativeMornings/NYC, accompanied by Brandon Kazen-Maddox’s expressive ASL interpretation, and remember to offer others compassion by first offering it to yourself.
 
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Tips for managing business growth the right way 

If your business is booming, congratulations! It’s exciting, exhilarating, a sure sign of success — and often a difficult beast to manage. 

While fast-paced growth isn’t always easy to handle, all you need is the right planning and execution to stay ahead as your pipeline overflows. Here are six strategies from Harvest on how to not only manage your growth but also ensure it’s sustainable. 

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The cellist and the physicist: Yo-Yo Ma in conversation with Fabiola Gianotti, Director of CERN.

It can be especially hard for freelancers and small business owners to step away from work. Explore 7 strategies to unplug and take time off with less stress.* 

“Who am I without my ambition?” (If you like this essay, check out Downtime, Alisha Ramos’ carefully curated newsletter full of thoughtful recommendations and reads).*

Don’t forget to submit your stories, your poems and your artwork for our Pride theme issue at the end of the month! 

Archaeologists are finding ancient sites hidden beneath the waves off the coast of Florida. 

How Vincent Van Gogh used color to express mood and emotion.**

How to be curious about a person’s wellbeing without asking “How are you?”

What happened when this creative drew plants for 10 days in a row.**

Rachel Cargle on the power of listening to the body’s request for more rest.

World’s largest “wood city” in the heart of Sweden.

The best decision-making may be emotional.**

12 beautiful DIY Ikea hacks. 

* This content is curated by us, brought to you by our sponsors.
** Thanks to
Ruxandra DuruDeepti Kannapan, and Johnny Miller for the link inspiration.

 
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CreativeMornings (hey, that’s us!) is looking for a Content Manager whose professional love language is the written word. We are looking for someone to support us in-person in Brooklyn, but are open to U.S.- based remote work for the right candidate. You must be authorized to work in the U.S. to be eligible.  

Blueprint Interactive in Washington, DC is hiring a Senior Video Editor who is a bright, motivated, creative mind capable of crafting video footage, news clips, still images, and motion graphics into compelling short-form video content. 

American Modern Opera Company in New York is looking for a remote Marketing Associate to execute communication/marketing strategies for productions, special events, and other activities. 

PictureStudio.ai in New York is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to work on some of the most exciting problems in generative image making. 

Alchemy + Aim is on the hunt for a Shopify Developer to work on custom Shopify sites and custom pages added to pre-made Shopify themes. 

I made this newsletter with help from my teammates! I was feeling under the weather this week and they picked up the pieces. And this GIF comes by Kely from Bogota, for whom I have so much gratitude, along with all the wonderful people who wrote in to me last week. 

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Annie Yi, CreativeMornings HQ

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