Leslie Martinez helps Executive Assistants land their target role—one where they feel seen, valued, and appreciated. She guides them toward roles that align with their ideal responsibilities, the right leaders, a supportive work environment, and the compensation they deserve.
💎 She’s Deep-Sea Diving in a Wheelchair and dropping GEMS!
This morning I came across a TED talk by an artist named Sue Austin who explores ocean beds and drifts through schools of fish in her amazing scuba-wheelchair invention.
Her story very inspiring and shows us how we can change our reality and challenge our limiting beliefs.
This is what I learned from her talk:
💎 Her first reaction to being in a wheelchair was JOY and FREEDOM (high vibration).
“…is the most amazing experience, beyond most other things I've experienced in life. I literally have the freedom to move in 360 degrees of space and an ecstatic experience of joy and freedom.”
💎 Other people’s reaction towards her were based on their assumptions not her reality but their (low vibration) feelings towards her were affecting her.
“…But even though I had this newfound joy and freedom, people's reaction completely changed towards me. It was as if they couldn't see me anymore, as if an invisibility cloak had descended. They seemed to see me in terms of their assumptions of what it must be like to be in a wheelchair.”
💎 So she decided to create her own reality.
“As a result, I knew I needed to make my own stories about this experience, new narratives to reclaim my identity.
I started making work that aimed to communicate something of the joy and freedom I felt when using a wheelchair -- a power chair -- to negotiate the world. I was working to transform these”
💎 Through scuba diving (PLAY) she discovered the similarities and used it to aligned herself to the feeling that she wanted to experience.
“when I began to dive, in 2005, I realized scuba gear extends your range of activity in just the same way as a wheelchair does, but the associations attached to scuba gear are ones of excitement and adventure, completely different to people's responses to the wheelchair.”
💎And that new reality now matches how others see her.
"The wheelchair became an object to paint and play with. When I literally started leaving traces of my joy and freedom, it was exciting to see the interested and surprised responses from people. It seemed to open up new perspectives, and therein lay the paradigm shift. It showed that an arts practice can remake one's identity and transform preconceptions by revisioning the familiar.
And the other thing is, that because nobody's seen or heard of an underwater wheelchair before, and creating this spectacle is about creating new ways of seeing, being and knowing, now you have this concept in your mind. You're all part of the artwork too. "
That is what the upcoming New Moon in Leo is all about! Aligning ourselves with the things that brings us joy and excitement, whatever that may be. Watch out for the Leo New Moon email tomorrow when we enter Leo season and join the New Moon in Leo waitlist here.
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