The Pivot

Pivot: in this sense, it means a change in the way you do something, but usually with discernment, incorporating and investing the sweat equity and hard-earned experience from the previous way you did it.

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I received a note the other day from someone telling me how seeing me have success at something new at my age gave them hope, that they were at mid-life too and at a turning point themselves.

I thought back to when I decided I would change my professional life and take a chance at yet another act about three years ago—summer 2023. I’d already been through two acts—singer-songwriter, mother, wife, author, independent working artist, etc.—and I felt compelled to keep going, to keep evolving as much as I could. I also needed security and stability due to several factors. I sensed the foundation I’d depended on was crumbling and I knew I had to provide steadiness for John Henry in an unsteady time—long story short, I recentered us. Again.

And necessity is the mother of invention. I’m lucky that I knew how to turn have to into want to.