Corporate Detox: Finding Your Voice After Years of Creating (for Others).
Have you ever felt like you spent (WAY too many) years of your life coloring inside other people’s lines (and only creating inside the walls of a corporate cube)?
I did.
FOR SURE.
Especially after 20+ years climbing the corporate, creative ladder and creating on demand ONLY for other businesses and their visions.
And no one else could tell me this about my own burnout: it wasn’t happening just because I was “tired” (of the work, the commute, or even all the endless meetings that could’ve/should’ve been emails).
It was (mostly) because I was starving to make something that was MINE. ACTUALLY, really, mine... Something crafted and created from my own heart and mind.
So, after two decades spent designing (mostly) just for clients, agencies, non-profits (and the occasional soul-sucking corporate overlord), I FINALLY realized just how much I’d lost track of my own voice and creative spirit.
I realized, I could make something new or anything for myself and from my-Self, but I by then, I barely recognized my own signature.
So, my idea for this Corporate Detox is NOT about rage-quitting your job and running wild (although, heyyyyy, when the shoe *stops* fitting…)
This IS about reclaiming your right to make MORE things that matter to YOU. And slowly, surely, bringing your creative spirit back to LIFE.
Here are some things I (really) wish someone had told me ten years ago:
- You can’t find your own voice if you never get quiet enough to listen to your heart or gut or anything besides other people and your busy monkey-mind.
- Saying “no” to what drains you is an act of creative liberation (and it’s not selfish).
- The skills you have mastered “for them” can become creative superpowers “for you and your own ideas.”
Are you ready to start stepping out of that corporate box, unlearning the rules and remembering what LIGHTS you up (before the deadlines, clients, and branding briefs started taking over)?
Let’s detox together.
