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Wayward Trading Post
Edition Five Feature
Words by Tina Lewis
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Photo Credit: ©Tina Lewis @waywardwoodshop
As a young woman, my fingernails were always stained with paint, dye or charcoal. My dream was to become an artist. Somehow along the way, the true desires of my heart took second place to ‘making a living’ and I fell into the corporate America abyss.
I spent 15 years giving presentations, travelling to meetings, drinking airport coffee, spending countless hours focusing on unfulfilling things and climbing that oh-so-important corporate ladder. I felt like an imposter. I snuck in the back door, covered my tattoos with a blazer and no one noticed for over a decade. In the struggle to be the person I was meant to be, I learned that the hardest part of corporate America was stepping out of the economic safety net. I knew I had to jump into the unknown with both feet, even though I was bound to get mud on my shoes.