Being on a book deadline is so concrete, and I can’t really wiggle my way around this. Throughout my whole life, it’s really worked for me, until it doesn’t. Through these people’s truths, I stepped even deeper into my truth and started writing more, sharing more, and getting more courageous.ĭoby: I have started to have an allotted time where I will sit down and write because I tend to be very last minute on things. I think of it as the definition of being connected to something so much bigger than yourself, and that’s what this was creating. Over time, through listening to all of these people step into their truth and share it with other people, it grew and people saw themselves in other people. I was doing anything and everything and taking on the weirdest creative projects I could so I could fuel my passion project. At the same time, I was selling my clothes off eBay to make my ends meet and a complete typical starving artist.

It was beautiful, it was amazing, I wasn’t making any money off of this, and it was completely led from the heart. I was sharing their stories with a big sign that had “I am her” and “I am he” on it. I decided to create my Instagram account, which in the beginning was the storytelling of local people in Dallas. That was one of the highest points of my life and the lowest points of my life at the same time. I do photography and art and painting, so I left my corporate job with the benefits and all of those things to be an entrepreneur. Eventually, I got goal-coached out of the company and we made it sound fun and exciting, like I was going to be this creative entrepreneur, but I actually had no idea what I was going to do.Īt the time, I also had my other artistic mediums besides just writing. It was throughout all of my work, just the way I wrote things, which was not very black and white for people to read. I was managing a multimillion dollar store in Dallas, and I learned a lot but also was consistently told on our business recaps that my words were way too fluffy, not meant for business, too extravagant, that no one understood them. I was hired as a seasonal employee and ended up escalating in the store very quickly, taking on a community management role within seven months.

Danielle doby i am her tribe