Joy Donnell > Quotes

“If you look beyond being a brand, you’ll find legacy. When I state legacy, I mean a calling to do something that extends beyond your solipsistic life. I mean a fiery mandate you believe you should answer to serve as a bridge to what is possible for humanity and culture.”
― Joy Donnell, Beyond Brand: Master Your Power, Joy, and Media To Live Your Legacy

“Once you realize it’s not your job to be a brand, your energy shifts. You embrace the cultural legacy you wish to build. You don’t wonder how to be authentic. You are authentic. You don’t succumb to trends. You exist beyond them. You tell your unique story. You create your world.”
― Joy Donnell, Beyond Brand: Master Your Power, Joy, and Media To Live Your Legacy

“Your ego is either your tool or your master.
The ego is a signal. Grandiosity is a form of shame. Doubt is a form of fear. Getting fed up is a form of self actualization. Ego plays into all these moments in different ways. It can be a tool for self realization if you understand why it’s acting up and acting out. It’s part of the collaborative thought within.”
― Joy Donnell, Beyond Brand: Master Your Power, Joy, and Media To Live Your Legacy

“Self care is the most underrated leadership skill.”
― Joy Donnell, Beyond Brand: Master Your Power, Joy, and Media To Live Your Legacy

“Equity is not a finite resource.
Especially when we understand it
as love.”
― Joy Donnell, Show Us Your Fire

“Here is also a direction. It’s impossible to have any trajectory or speed of motion without starting here. Here is our beginning, and every great story requires an origin.”
― Joy Donnell, Beyond Brand: Master Your Power, Joy, and Media To Live Your Legacy

“Nurturing your self compassion is anti-oppression work within yourself.”
― Joy Donnell, Beyond Brand: Master Your Power, Joy, and Media To Live Your Legacy

“I've met enough horror to close myself off, and be justified, yet I move through this world with both hands open, ready to give and receive, refusing bitterness, rebuking a deadening, allowing this flame to rise from my unshakeable palm.”
― Joy Donnell, Show Us Your Fire

“I prefer
to keep
some parts
of myself
unruly.”
― Joy Donnell, Show Us Your Fire

“You can get caught up in being celebrated just as easily as you can get distracted by being criticized. Finding balance is required.”
― Joy Donnell, Beyond Brand: Master Your Power, Joy, and Media To Live Your Legacy

“Championing equity is a centering of love.”
― Joy Donnell, Show Us Your Fire

“In your voice
you will find
a sword beside a garden.
Wield
whichever weapon
you need.”
― Joy Donnell, Show Us Your Fire

“how might I
recognize myself
as medicine
instead of messiness?”
― Joy Donnell, Show Us Your Fire