Showing Up
About seven years ago, I was asked to speak at a conference for creative entrepreneurs. The woman who ran the conference was an acquaintance I’d known socially in San Francisco, where I lived at the time. I used to run into her at nearly every event around town, from book signings to art shows to fundraisers for various causes. When she introduced me to the audience at the conference, she said the thing she most admired about me was that I “showed up.” It was the first time I noticed anyone describing me this way.
The compliment made me feel good, but it also caused me to want to explore this idea of showing up. I began thinking about it a lot. What did that mean exactly? And what were all the ways I was showing up?
