I feel there is a a universal story – and its always the same. It’s about a person — someone like you and me — waking up one day and saying -I want something more. I believe I can do something meaningful/important/different. But I must move – go somewhere I’ve never been before to realize this potential, to fill this hunger.

And so we go to a new place. And we work hard. And we eat bitterness and endure sleeplessness, hunger and discouragement, perform with no net, hanging on tightly to our vision of something more. Every single day trying to decide what to keep from our old life and what to abandon. Making painful choices. Making a way out of no way at all. Then success.

Then the question of how much of my story do I want to tell and to whom. Because it is a precious story of building a life out of one’s own imagination. And the wisdom that comes from struggle. We don’t want anyone learning the wrong lessons, or making the wrong assumptions. Our story is our own personal treasure and it is the one thing we don’t owe the world. We choose when and how make a gift of our story and our wisdom.

Thank you so much for the gift of your story.
Angela

Mari

You are inspiring; thank you for sharing this story and what’s next for you. See you at BIF8?

(and thanks for the link to my maps!)

Amanda

Looking at our entire print + marketing collateral program in totality here is impressive. Starting out when we came to you to rebrand our company website and collateral we had no idea how multifaceted and multipurpose your expertise and work would be. Your expertise is as full spectrum as a top powerhouse firm and it’s amazing how much you teach us and guide us every step of the way. Working with you we’ve gained much more than just this work we’ve gained a much better understanding of how to brand and market our true core value proposition going forward. It’s been a pleasure working with you and I look forward to our continuing relationship together.

PS- You forgot to showcase our iphone icon which we love!