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Educator • Interdisciplinary Artist • CIR • Host @please_barewithme
• Founder @theexitstrategynetwork | Reinventing life after 40 | ⬇️ explore here
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⚠️ CAUTION ⚠️ My Art May Cause You To Feel "I am breaking the mold. No more stereotypical personifications of feminine beauty. A beautiful woman is both soft and strong. Her tears flow effortlessly and as abundantly as her laughter. A beautiful woman can be a creative genius while she sits, empty like a blank canvas waiting for clarity and inspired action to strike again. A beautiful woman can be any shade of the rainbow and her frame can be sculpted, slim, or shapely. Me. I am a beautiful woman. And in my essence and through my authenticity, I am a gift to the world." From me to you... You. All the women of the world, know that you are dynamic and that's what makes you beautiful! Love all of the many facets that make up the beauty that is you. Within you. Someone looks to you for strength and confidence, so be sure to radiate your goodness. You never know who's watching... Swipe for the makings of: 'Free Spirit: A Guided Meditation Album' and tap link in bio to meet me in the studio! 🖌Body paint x @_cassandra_hansen_ 📸Photography x @phoenixcheef 💻Album cover art @its_msmarisha ✏️Written and narrated x @its_msmarisha Please, BARE With Me 🎙🧘🏾‍♀️🎨 #MyArtMayCauseYouToFeel #creatives #createeveryday #livewell #wellandgood #downtownphoenix #phoenixartist #music #art taken in Downtown Phoenix by @its_msmarisha
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6 years ago
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Ch 37: My Year of Kintsugi KINTSUGI /kin•tsoo•gee/ Kintsugi is a Japanese art form intended to repair broken pottery using lacquer mixed with powdered gold. The damage and rejoining reflects the history of the object. The gold is intended to highlight the journey of the object and not disguise the broken pieces. The golden rejoining. Art reflecting life. We all have moments in life that break us and often, instead of taking space to acknowledge the circumstances, their impact, and honor how we truly feel or who we're becoming now as a result of the experience, we rush to mend and cover up the damage. Fear of judgment, shame and other "stuff" creeps in and distorts our perception of the truth: there is beauty in the cracks and contrasting moments of life. Kintsugi was not only the inspiration for the jacket I designed for my boudoir photo shoot I coordinated for my 37th birthday, but this philosophy became the very approach for me to intentionally practice shaking the shame and making peace with the many broken pieces I had been disguising in my own life up to that point. I wrote often and chose boudoir photography to visually document this internal commitment I was making with and for myself. I still cannot find words to describe the discomfort of this process. I also have not found a way to articulate how grateful I am, how brave and liberated I feel - finally. What I do know for sure is that we blossom at our own pace and there will be different people, places, practices to help us evolve from and make peace with our broken pieces. But take it from me: NEVER hide pieces of your story...they're what made you the beautiful work of art that you are! NEVER diminish your own light. I am so thankful for my year of Kintsugi. Happy birthday to me. Art + Nature Therapy = A Helluva Year 'The 4 Personas' Photo Series Introducing: 📺 Nik "The Evolution Will Be Televised" 🧚🏾‍♀️ Mari "Please Flex" 🏀 Hunter "Triple Threat" 💃🏾 Khalia "Dance With Mama" Whew....lots of unpacking...tap the 🔗 in my bio to read the full story: My Year of Kintsugi: Acknowledging My Wounded Inner Child Please, BARE With Me ⏳️⚠️📝🌵📸 #MyArtMayCauseYouToFeel by @its_msmarisha
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5 years ago
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I used to think a coherent career was one that moved predictably from title to title. Mine didn't. What I couldn't see while I was busy working inside extractive systems was that professional continuity can live somewhere other than a resume. It can live in the questions you keep asking, the functions you keep performing, the problems you keep noticing, the ways people repeatedly come to you for help, and the creative methods you reach for even when nobody has assigned them to you. My career has become much more coherent now that I’ve stopped organizing it by title and started organizing it by throughline. Over the years my titles changed, but the functions and many of the questions that I was intrigued by or kept me up at night didn't. Neither did my instinct to notice patterns, ask what was missing, translate complicated things and create experiences that helped someone see another possibility. What I needed wasn't another title, I needed enough distance to recognize my practice. To be clear, this isn't really an announcement that I've suddenly become an artist, but it is me giving authorship and structure to methods I've practiced for years across classrooms, interviews, wellness experiences, boardrooms, community spaces, writing and publishing, media production and lived experience. Some of that work is now becoming art, some becomes media, some becomes learning resources, some may live inside a brand, institution or community through Creator-in-Residence partnerships, and some of what I learn will help shape The Exit Strategy Network into an ecosystem for other impact professionals in transition. Educator turned Interdisciplinary Artist. Whew, there. I said it. Newly formalizing. Long practiced. Same questions. New environments. Greater authorship. I'm very excited to see where my new path leads. 🦋 by @its_msmarisha
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2 months ago
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I recorded this video a few months ago while I was still trying to find language for what The Exit Strategy Network could be. Earlier this year, I was exploring a potential Creator-in-Residence relationship with an international dating and matchmaking platform expanding in the U.S. And the question I kept returning to wasn't really about dating technology, it was: What happens after the match? What good is creating greater access to connection if people haven't necessarily been given the tools, practices, environments or support to sustain healthy relationships once they find one? At the time, I thought I was developing a proposition for someone else's company. Months later, I realized I had been circling one of the central questions of my own work, and the question kept getting bigger. As an educator, I have spent much of my career noticing the things people are expected to know how to navigate including relationships, work, money, identity, health, change, community without necessarily having spaces to learn, practice or make sense of them. So my question has gradually shifted from: How do we help people build healthier relationships? to: What are we actually preparing people for? And now: What kinds of media, learning experiences, communities and technology could help people become more equipped to navigate human life, not simply more efficient at consuming information about it? I don't have all of the language yet and that's actually part of why I'm sharing this. My own personal and professional transition has become a place where I'm testing ideas, revisiting assumptions and watching the work reveal itself in real time. The Exit Strategy Network looks different to me today than it did when I recorded this. But the question underneath it was already there. And sometimes, I've learned, founding looks less like inventing the perfect idea and more like paying close enough attention to recognize the one that keeps following you. I unpacked an earlier version of this thinking in my Thoughts Leadership corner 🔗 in bio! The language continues to evolve...and so does the work. #founder by @its_msmarisha
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23 days ago
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Sometimes an interview gives you an answer and other times it gives you a new question to consider. When I met Katie at Union Station in Los Angeles, I asked: What is a story you are currently rewriting about your life right now? Her answer took us to the land. She spoke about Black farmers, agriculture, the history and economic contribution tied to that work, and her desire for more of us to understand and preserve those stories. I hear this conversation differently today than I did when I recorded it. At the time, I was following my curiosity and asking strangers real human questions. Now, as I more intentionally formalize my interdisciplinary artistic practice after transitioning from my role in education, I can see that these interviews have also been teaching me how I make meaning of my life not just what I create professionally. I notice what’s happening around me. I pause before forcing a resolution. I interpret what an encounter/experience may be surfacing. I express what is becoming clearer. I encounter another person’s perspective. Then I reconsider what’s possible or what I thought I knew. And sometimes what is shared changes what I know to look for (or do) next. Nature has been doing something similar in my life. Walking, gardening, observing cycles, and learning not to demand immediate resolution have helped me reconsider my relationship with pace, progress, and the roles I thought I was supposed to play. And perhaps that is the role for art and media. These aren't intended to simply tell us who we should be, but to preserve experiences, recover histories, complicate what we think we know, and help us see ourselves and one another more clearly. Katie unknowingly gave me more than an interview that day. She gave me another doorway into understanding my own process and next steps in my life's endeavors. I wrote more about what this conversation taught me about land, storytelling, media, pace, and the way returning to an old conversation (or part of your journey) can reveal something new. Read the full reflection on the Please, BARE With Me site 🔗 in bio by @its_msmarisha
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a month ago
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The hardest part of choosing a nontraditional path is resisting the urge to make uncertainty mean you're doing something wrong. We're used to hearing people's stories backward…once every strange decision has acquired context, capital, and every detour has been assigned meaning. Living a story forward is different.  You don't always know which experiment becomes important, which relationship becomes a bridge, which skill becomes a practice, which “wrong turn” becomes source material, or which season that looked like nothing was happening was actually rearranging everything. I'm giving the present version of myself the grace we usually reserve for hindsight. Keep walking. Keep noticing. Keep documenting. The meaning of your vision doesn't arrive before the movement, it arrives because you decided to move. I wrote the longer download I received during my morning walk that prompted this thought: “There Is No Syllabus for This Part: A Morning Download on Self-Authorship, Old Rubrics & Learning to Trust a Path Still Being Paved” 🔗 in bio by @its_msmarisha
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a month ago
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Where do you go when you need to hear yourself more clearly? That was one of the questions @elgabesanchez navigatee during this Please, BARE With Me field conversation. His answer included vocal rooms, movement, performance and creativity, practices that help him clear his mind, move what doesn't need to stay in his body and reconnect with himself. It made me think about my answer too. Mine includes nature, movement, solitude, but also people. I make sense of a lot of life through honest conversation with others (even if I don't know them)! There is something about sitting (or apparently standing on a sidewalk) with another human and asking a real question that gives both people permission to hear, feel, and see themselves differently. That's one of the takeaways I'm learning as I formalize my artistic practice. Conversation isn't simply something I do before ‘the art’ happens. Conversation IS the material for me. The street is the studio, the participant is a co-creator, and the answers can change both the guest and the interviewer too. This is what I meant in my recent (pinned📌) post: Recognizing the Art in How I Had Always Worked. The people, places, practices and environments around us can either make it easier to hear (and be) ourselves or train us to override ourselves. So I'll leave Gabriel's question with you: Where do you go or what practices do you engage in when you need to hear, feel, or see yourself more clearly? And what tends to surface when you finally get quiet enough to listen? 🦋 Please, BARE With Me More street interviews and other elements to expand the series is coming. Stay close @please_barewithme #vulnerability #streetinterview #art #socialimpact #practice by @its_msmarisha
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2 months ago
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A compatibility check, but for work 😅 I'm open to different professional pathways right now: Aligned salaried roles, freelance projects, artist residencies, Creator-in-Residence partnerships, and creative collaborations. BUT I'm much clearer about the conditions that produce my best work. I value: 🎯 human questions 🎯 messy patterns 🎯 cross-disciplinary ideas 🎯 people who are actually invited to participate 🎯 stories and strategies that lead somewhere 🎯 metrics that matter without pretending humans don't 🎯 clear agreements 🎯 and room for what we learn to change what we make together. If you're simply looking for content production, posting, or somebody to quietly execute a predetermined idea, I may not be your girl. If you're genuinely trying to understand something about your teams, community, clients/customers, and want to turn that insight into meaningful media, learning resources, live or virtual experiences or a loyal community, now we're talking. For slide 3 people, brands, organizations…my inbox is open. 😉 Need more info to gauge compatibility?! Check my pinned post: Recognizing the Art in How I Had Always Worked + the companion blog 🔗 in bio! by @its_msmarisha
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2 months ago
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Threads is just better. 1. When a Sag locks in 🏹 2. Kinda like The Exit Strategy Network 🎯 3. What are we talkin...a week? 90 days? 📆 4. Somethin new every minute of every day 🙄 5. Doesn't really make sense 🤷🏾‍♀️ 6. The more you know ♀️ #threads #randomthoughts #truth #youfeelme #personality by @its_msmarisha
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2 months ago
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A contract can validate your talent and still violate your capacity. In 2021, I was forced to learn to stop evaluating opportunities only by the mission, title or dollar amount. I was sitting in the middle of a hard lesson. I had to begin examining the relationship I would have to enter to deliver good work. That decision now shapes how I think about my creativity, partnerships, host readiness, ownership and regenerative ways of working. Creative collaborations should offer value for everyone without consuming the person expected to create/deliver. More than $20K left on the table. That was when I changed how I evaluated every partnership that followed. Prestige and promises no longer mattered. I cared whether the relationship made room for the human being expected to deliver the magic. I didn't know then, but this is where @theexitstrategynetwork story begins. #founder #creator #startup #contract #knowyourworth Have you ever turned down a deal that seemed aligned on paper? by @its_msmarisha
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2 months ago
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Cardi's take on brands and influencer deals ASU's new influencer degree And my POV on what the current conversation continues to overlook and why schools, brands, cities and cultural organizations all have a role in creating more accessible, responsible and connected creative pathways. No, I don't believe this is about followers anymore. I think we should be asking what creative intelligence can make possible when people are given the support, ownership and conditions to use it well. Hit the 🔔 and the links in my bio for the road ahead! #creator #founder #startup #education #brandstrategy by @its_msmarisha
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2 months ago
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Dear Diary, I'm learning not to fight the cocoon. Yesterday, I walked into rooms where sponsorship, partnership, community and possibility were being discussed. I felt more aligned, clear and courageous than I have in a long time. Nothing was suddenly fixed or finalized. My bank account did not magically replenish. My life didn't suddenly become perfect. My body is still changing. My work, identity and life are still unfolding. But joy doesn't require everything to be resolved. These days, what people are encountering from me is less a polished brand and more a virtual diary of a woman learning how she learns, creates, builds and how to exist without falling back into self-abandonment. I'm in metamorphosis. 🦋 Instead of retreating toward what's familiar or rushing toward an imaginary finish line, I'm learning to remain here, inside the joy, fear, discomfort, gratitude and uncertainty of the present. Some seasons ask us to act, but others ask us to stay still long enough to absorb what the season is trying to teach us. I'm in the latter season. I'm learning not to fight the cocoon. I'm practicing remaining pesent and to be a full human being without demanding that every part of my life make sense at once. I do not have to know what's next to honor what's happening now. My life is not finished. But I am fully here for it. Which part of metamorphosis are you currently navigating?! by @its_msmarisha
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2 months ago
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