Escaping Mediocrity

Sorry this is posted late.  My family and I are on vacation and I am committed to being 100% present with them while they are awake. 🙂

The movie below is one that I made by myself (forgive the rough edges) for an entirely different project I was working on.  Yesterday I got to thinkin’ that  Maverick Moms might enjoy it too since it is about being perceived as one thing when you know you are much much more.

Enjoy!  Tomorrow I will try to post some photos from the amazingly remote and relaxing place I am spending the next two weeks.  Lucky for me it will give me the re-charge I need to fully step into being The Maverick Mom!

As most of you know, I’ve just returned from Ali Brown’s Online Success Blueprint.  My expectations for this event were high – I signed up last February and counted the days until it was time to go.  My friends Alicia Forest – www.creatingclientabundance.com and Elizabeth Marshall – www.marketingmarshall.com were going and I knew that spending time with them was going to mean big things for this new venture of mine. 

I just didn’t realize how big.

If you scorll though the posts here, it won’t take you very long to figure out that I’ve really been struggling with the laser-focus of this blog.  Because Andrea Lee  – www.andreajlee.com – taught me long ago not to let the little things stop me, I just kept designing and writing hoping that the clarity would come.

I arrived in LA with some vague notion that this blog could be a fun hip place for moms like me to hang out and talk about interesting things – not exactly compelling.  After listening to Ali and going around and around and around with Alicia and Liz, I realized it was meant tome something much much bigger – though I still wasn’t clear exactly what.

The God put Kendall Summerhawk – http://www.kendallsummerhawk.com/ – in a seat next to me.  It seems that between my two friends, they knew everyone in the room – lucky me!  Kendall was not only affirming of me and the size of what I wanted to do, she asked me two or three questions that led to the ultimate answer for The Maverick Mom.  And it is much much MUCH bigger than anything I was thinking of.

This will serve as a gathering place for moms who are tired of being judged as bad moms because we want a successful business and as bad business women because we want to be successful moms.  And, it will still be fun and hip, too.:)

Tomorrow I am going to post a movie that I thought I made for a completely different thing.  Clearly the Universe was way ahead of me because I made it just for this.

I keep repeating “Playing small serves none of us.  Playing small serves none of us.  Playing small serves none of us.” 

I just can’t wait to get this thing going and I invite you to join me in Playing Bigger Than You Imagined!!!

There are two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.
                                                                   ~Albert Einstein

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”   ~Coco Chanel

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
                                                                      ~Dodie Smith

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
                                                     ~Eleanor Roosevelt

When I was in college, my secret passion was working at the college radio station.  I never wanted my own show – I just wanted to intern with all the cool DJ’s, so that is what I did.

Every Friday afternoon I would run from some fraternity’s afternoon happy hour to the radio station on the third floor of the student commons.  Sometimes I made it on time and sometimes I did not.  Once, when I was having way too much fun and completely forgot, I heard an announcement come out over the radio “Would Sarah the Dancing Intern please report to the station.”  That became my radio nickname and it stuck.

What I loved about working there and hanging out with the hippest dj’s was learning about all this MUSIC that was out there that I had never heard of.  Hearing the latest from REM or Tears for Fears or 10,000 Maniacs (boy amd I dating myself) or The Cure or The Smiths was like pulling back the curtain on a world a I never knew existed.  I discovered the power that music has to open my eyes and open my world.

Fast forward several years and I lived in Memphis.  Once again I sought out the hippest source for music in a town re-knowned for giving birth to legendary talent.  And I found it in the strangest sort of set up I’d ever seen.  Community supported radio that was not Public Radio a la NPR.  This was grassroots radio of a unique kind and the name of the station was, and still is WEVL. (If you don’t know what a weevil is, look it up.)

Here, you might hear blues one hour, African music the next, gospel the next, Celtic the next – a mishmash assortment put together by the disc jockeys, the station management team and the community that supports it.  A truly unique music find.

So, rather than mess around with Satellite Radio, I just go to http://wevl.org/ and live stream whatever is on.  Let’s see…if I hurry I can catch the tail end of “Through The Cracks” – a Contemporary folk, alternative country, adult rock and everything in between show that’s been on the air for 10 years.  Won’t you join me?