Here I drop the word 20 - The Human System/Archetypes/alchemy, which has been somewhat of a primary mechanism of getting me to the place of understanding where I currently stand.
I think my intent here was to educate the audience on why I am talking about these themes - which is the vision for a future which requires collaboration.
I make a nod to Charles Eisenstein’s 01-‘ahwa/Story of Separation and link it back to the concept of narrative, and invite the audience to join me in re-writing the narrative lest we continue the current story (which I suspect many of us are tired of).
Here I also make suggestions towards Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s work, Hospicing Modernity, from where I believe the inner work I am speaking about is calling us to bridge towards.
Transcript:
And another key kind of collective example that I think is really important in the current context is this idea of entrepreneur versus the idea of a creator.
And I’ve been taking issue with the word entrepreneur a little bit. The reality of the word entrepreneur, it’s somebody who bears risk and does a very challenging thing and works for an economic benefit. And when we’re talking in terms of a bank or a government, we like to talk in those kinds of ways because those are the measures that we have. But these measures remove the reality of human creativity in this equation.
And the role of creator, also sometimes being called a digital entrepreneur, I think is something—there’s a lot of factors here. It’s not the center of my presentation. But technology, AI, the access to information makes the one-person company venture much more viable, makes this identity of a creator much more viable.
And that lens on identity has a lot to do with how these individuals show up in the marketplace. I know I originally didn’t want to be an entrepreneur because entrepreneurs were people who took risks, stayed up all night, drank too much coffee, and did cocaine in the workplace washrooms. I’m not that person. So therefore, I’m not an entrepreneur. But maybe I’m an artist. Maybe I’m a creator.
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Expanding from my initial ideas shared on the role of narrative and how it comes to form our relationship with the environment, I speak about the particular values we attribute to certain labels.
In this context - it’s the different biases and images we have in our heads when we think about the label “entrepreneur” vs the label “creator.”
Not to say we can’t be both, but to point out that the stories we tell about either can create energetic barriers to stepping to our truth.
While a label never fully encompasses the depth of the Self, it can be helpful in forming our narrative and in turn, building our personal brand.