Summer Fridays: How to find “your thing” (or your many things) (w/ Constance Hockaday) (re-release)
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What is Better Human Summer Fridays and why is this episode a re-release?
Hey, everyone. Thanks for listening to How to Be a Better Human. This summer, we're doing something special. We're calling it Better Human Summer Fridays. And every Friday this summer, we are going to be dropping a special episode on the feed pulled straight from the How to Be a Better Human archive. These are conversations that I loved and that our team loved. And we think a lot of you may have never heard. And we think they deserve another moment in the sun. So we're giving them that literal moment in the sun here in the summertime. This show has grown a lot over the years. So this is our way of making sure that if you found us recently, you're not missing out on one of the conversations that I am still thinking about sometimes years later.
And if you are a day one Better Human listener, well, first of all, thank you. Thanks for listening for all these years. And I hope that you will enjoy this trip back into our archive, back into some of the best conversations that we've had in the past. So let's get into it. Here's Better Human Summer Fridays. You're listening to How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy. Because of the nature of this show, where it's an interview with mostly just one person, we tend to feature a lot of people who have very clear ideas about what they do and who they are. They've accomplished something big and they're here to share about it. And that's great. And I think there's a lot to learn from people who are so focused.
But I've been thinking about how that can also skew our understanding about what's normal. Because most of us don't have just one thing that we've always known was our thing. There's only so many people who can be like, I'm the world's most talented bass jumper. In fact, there's only one person who can say that, and they're probably currently throwing themselves off a cliff right now. The rest of us juggle a bunch of identities all at once, or we might be fuzzy on exactly what it is that we want to devote our free time or our careers to. We might not know what our identity exactly is. For a lot of us, it can feel like our thing is just getting through the day. And that's why I think that today's guest is really special.
Constance Hockaday helps people to come up with new visions of leadership and success to strive for. But she also helps broaden ideas about what your thing can be. And she's doing it for everyone, not just the single-minded, passionate-sense-birth type people. I also love that Connie is still figuring this out for herself. She describes herself in a lot of different ways, and how she sees herself professionally and personally is always evolving. Here's a clip from her TED Talk.
I work in organizational and leadership development, and I'm an artist. I believe artists are leaders in expressing things that humankind often doesn't know how to say yet. So that's why I invited a bunch of artists to do a leadership makeover. They wrote public addresses. They made leadership portraits. I call them the artists in presidents. Since 2020, over 70 artists in presidents have contributed to the Digital Archive. They're North American, indigenous, international and stateless. They're artists with disabilities, they're queer. They made beautiful attempts at embodying inclusive performances of leadership and power. Some sung, others looked to repair the past, one person used artificial intelligence to write her speech, and one person just straight up wrote a curse.
And so many more. But what really surprised me was that a lot of us struggled to say something new, to articulate what we want with authority.
We're going to talk with Connie a lot about that struggle to say something new and how to articulate what it is that we want. But first, we're going to articulate some podcast ads. Don't go anywhere.
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