Idk but Michelle Obama telling Barack “You told me all those years ago that you couldn't promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. And, of course you outdid yourself and managed to give me both." is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard someone say to another 🥹
@Issybeatz_ music industry in 1980: write your own music, pay for studio time, record on tape with no mistakes, carry your own gear, print and glue flyers at night, call venues one by one, mail demos for months, drive 8 hours for 12 people, and pray MTV notices you.
I said I’d never get a 9–5. I meant it too btw!!
But six months ago, I walked into Ogilvy, broke, proud, and coming out of a season I didn’t have the language for yet. The freelance life looked good on the outside, but behind the scenes I was on UC, holding it together with faith and performance.
Something had to give. And it did.
This isn’t a “I sold out” story. It’s a “I surrendered and found peace” one.
In the last six months, I’ve paid my bills consistently. Led creative on shoots. Found structure again. Found people again. Found MYSELF again. And somewhere in the middle of all that, God stripped the noise out of me.
Comparison. Ego. Pressure to be seen. Gone quiet.
I also just finished a 21-day Daniel fast (yay). And it reminded me of something simple. I can do hard things. I just needed to come back to myself properly.
Now I’m here.
9–5.
Still writing.
Still building Mimi the Music Blogger.
Still called.
All at the same time.
Nothing I went through was wasted. Not the broke era. Not the pride. Not the breakdown. It all makes sense now.
New Substack post is up. This one has layers.
🔗 - https://t.co/uETq5dffO7
Things done out of love for the wrong person can never be something you shame the doer for.
She loved through words and actions, some of you are dead inside and can never understand what that is,
Yall should sit this one out.
The UK has the biggest loser mentality.
Crab in the bucket, average people desperately defending their shortcomings by attacking anyone with any kind of ambition.
Zero risk taking and endless penny pinching