Reimagine It All
A dinner party-meets-salon for the mind, where lingering conversations, unfinished thoughts, and expansive ideas are served up as ways to reimagine life’s biggest themes. Exploring everything from love, endings, and success to art, money, and all that lies in between.
Hosted by author, speaker, artist, and storyteller Giselle La Pompe-Moore, who sometimes goes at it alone, with thought-experiment-style musings and real-talk observations. In other episodes, she sits with friends, artists, creatives, provocateurs, and unexpected voices for free-flowing, exploratory conversations (no rigid interviews here).
Expect more playfulness and fewer conclusions, curiosity instead of preaching, questions without needing answers. This is a space to think differently, to wonder, and to be open to perspective shifts; as we untangle what we think we know and reimagine all that could be.
Reimagine It All
Reimagining Ease: Do we need to disqualify ourselves from the work hard Olympics?
In this week's episode, we're talking about ease. I come to these episodes with no notes or preparation, armed with one word and the willingness to see what comes.
I've been thinking about our cultural obsession with productivity culture, and how much we pedestal a path of struggling and suffering in business and for creatives. We praise at the altar of working hard and sacrificing as markers of success. Do we really believe we deserve what we have unless we've suffered or struggled in some way for it? What comes up for us when we think about someone having an easy ride?
Let's reimagine it together, as we explore these themes:
- Have you ever heard yourself say, "it's so easy for them, and so hard for me"?
- Are we allowing ourselves to have more ease when it comes to work?
- What makes us so comfortable about the "easy ride"?
- Why have we linked struggle to success?
This is just the beginning of the conversation. Tag me in your stories, thoughts, and shared chats about this with the folk in your life and on your screens. Send me messages with what came up for you on Instagram, where you'll find me @gisellelpm.
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