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Breaking Bonds and Making Strides with Sharon Simpson
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Sharon Simpson joins Yuliana today to talk about her work in the art industry and what it was like growing up in Belfast during the war. She opens up the conversation by talking about a tough time she went through when her husband’s new job forced her to move away from hers. She notes that she felt worse, not because she lost an income, but because she lost her community. Sharon goes on to talk about her experience working in the art industry and the round-a-bout way she found her role at the Museum of Natural History.
She traces her success and aptitude for change to her childhood in Belfast during the ‘Troubles’. Simpson has worked to overcome the trauma from this time by learning how to take risks and not look back. This is something she learned from her mother, and, as a girl, she always looked up to her mother for her cool-headedness and resilience. Simpson brings this episode to a nice conclusion by sharing her greatest lesson. Coming from her background, it would be easy to feel discouraged or that life is a series of road blocks. Sharon, however, takes the high road, and she values her sense of childlike optimism. She’s proud of the fact that she continues to see the good in life, despite seeing so much of the bad.
Episode Highlights:
- Simpson’s experience moving away from a job she loved
- What her life was like working for a museum
- Moving from London back to New York City
- Why she wanted to escape Belfast as a child
- Overcoming trauma
- How Sharon got her foot in the door at the Museum of Natural History
- The importance of not looking back
- Why her mother is Sharon’s greatest role model
- The importance of childlike optimism
Quotes:
“The advantage is that you plan your own time, and I found that incredible. I found that I was so much more productive because it was just me sitting at home. Obviously, I had to have phone meetings with people. But I didn't have to be anywhere at any particular time. I was in California, and I was working with people on the East Coast.”
“So the way that I dealt with that was to create a community. So I reached out to designers, writers, copy editors; people that I had known and worked with through the years. I hired myself as a contractor to come and work on projects, and we created our own little community.”
“What it did do was it made me turn in on myself, I don't mean that in a negative way. So I became a great reader, because reading is always a great escape. And it's a wonderful escape during a war. And I became very obsessed with music.”
“I actually did grow up right in the middle of Belfast, so I was not in a leafy suburb. So I was very exposed to everything that was going on around me, I was in bomb scares, I was in bomb buildings. I was in all kinds of situations. But I was a teenager.”
“When you take risks, you're gonna make mistakes, and the healthy thing to do is just learn from those mistakes.”
“I had this great start in life, with the family that I had. And throughout my teenage years, when things were really very difficult, my mother always just kept a very, very steady head and I think didn't ever instill in us any kind of sense of panic.”
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