I have this dream of creating a show that features people defying the norm, doing something other than what society or the media deems normal, acceptable or beautiful.  I want to feature people who are doing their own thing that is positive and breaking barriers all over the spectrum. I cannot take it when expectations are put upon people to act, be, dress, or behave a certain way because it is what is “right” or acceptable! Acceptable to who? Don’t we all just have to answer to ourselves? I am of the school of: IF YOU AREN”T INTENTIONALLY BEING CRUEL, HURTING ANYONE- Anything goes! Seriously, why bother to judge people who are being honest and true to themselves? But really, what made me think of this was my friend Janet Ettele. She told me about going to her mother’s 70th High School Reunion! At this reunion, Janet sat at a table with other attendees, and apparently when you get up to th 70th year, many others from other classes attend as well and there was a particular man who made an impact on her. He was 90 years old and drove by himself to Maine, I think, and then had plans to drive to another city to check on his brewery company investment! At 90 years old, driving all over the place, partying, socializing! This to me is DEFYING THE NORM in every way. It also tells me that one should never retire! If you love what you do, it isn’t work, it gives you purpose! Like my old boss, Russ Reynolds, who had more than enough success, but loved to go to work each day at 74! He loved interacting with all the company CEOs, and developing business! It made him feel alive!

In the show, I would like to feature people who have beaten illnesses, been told they couldn’t do a particular thing and then DID IT! Isn’t life really all about the biology of belief- as Bruce Lipton talks about?! And my boss, Henry Grayson, Ph.D.!? Seriously, breaking boundaries, not being afraid to be who you are, and what people think is a BIG DEAL! It is what entrepreneurship, and individuality is based upon. Do people really need to be a certain age to date one another? Do they need to be young to be beautiful? Do people have to judge so harshly one another? Do people  really have to limit themselves by putting themselves in a box of description? Don’t we all have so much to learn from each other no matter where we may be in life? How does one define success? I will tell you that money has made no one happy. Achieving personal goals, and creating something yourself and actually executing it is success to me!  We place far too much importance on what others think. I pretty much feel that if you like what you do, others will too! If you don’t like your job, others won’t feel great around you and you will ultimately pay for it in some way or another, by under-performing or having a bad attitude. I have been there, trust me.

Think about defying the norm, breaking barriers, and being true to yourself for yourself. It is really the only way to be. I want to do this show! I want to talk to people who have defied “societal rules”… who don’t hold themselves to imaginary rules bestowed upon them by a false media, who walk to the beat of their own drummer, who don’t fall prey to limitations that others place on them or that society places on them.  Are we all really that small that we can be convinced to care what the fuck the Kardashians are doing?

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