Perfectionism and the need to show up with all the answers created deep fear in me. Why? Ironically, the same thing I want to help men heal - our relationship with patriarchal masculinity. I agreed that it was a great way to put down my ideas and let people find me.įor the last few weeks, I have started three different outlines, recorded myself saying what I wanted on the website, created a mock website to see what it would look like, and talked to my friends, family, and therapist about it. Two months ago, both my coach Maritza Schafer and my "femtor" Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers), suggested I create a website to describe my body of work on healing masculinities. I tried to create a website for my healing masculinities work, and I failed. ![]() ![]() #hiredisney #elephantintheroom #leadershipcourage #onwardsandupwards They can be big and scary, but the effort is well worthwhile. So I'd encourage you to think about your elephants. Whether I can achieve this or have to make compromises remains to be seen, but at least I now have a clear baseline. So now I'm clear about what I want from my next career step. It's been illuminating for me after years of having accepted assignments, projects and even leadership tasks as a Good Corporate Citizen without really having an opportunity to ask whether the Thing was really aligned with my own desires or needs. It's an important part of the change curve to analyze what you do and do not like to do, what you are good and not good at, and what to do about the gaps. This has meant tackling my personal elephants. So what's your elephant in the room? My department has recently been laid off from Disney as part of the great reset, so I have been thinking about what I want my next career step to look like. For me 'elephant' has now become synonymous with 'courage'. I still have my elephant on my desk, and I've thought about it a lot in the last couple of weeks. ![]() We were undertaking a difficult task and we were to use our elephants when we wanted to talk about a topic without fear. Full dates below.One of my fabulous mentors once gave each member of her leadership team a model elephant. ![]() The Cure are currently on tour in Europe. Perhaps he can be brought in to mediate this unseemly beef. "You'd have to be particularly stupid to believe someone like Paul Weller," said Smith, perhaps alluding to The Jam's avowedly political songs, before adding, with a grin, "You'd have to be particularly stupid to believe someone like me."Ĭoincidentally, both The Jam and The Cure were discovered by the same A&R man, Chris Parry, who signed The Jam to Polydor in 1977 and The Cure to his own label, Fiction Records, the following year. Or perhaps Weller, the man who inspired the widely mocked "wellend" haircut, is still annoyed by an interview The Cure gave as long ago as 1985, in which Smith claimed that punk wasn't a political movement, and that people were simply tired of listening to bands like Yes and Genesis and wanted something they could dance to. “The Jam were recording their album during the day," Smith told Rolling Stone, "and we used to sneak in at night and use their equipment – we knew the bloke who was looking after it – to record our album.
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