Mar 11 | Alex Maceda: The Healing Power of Art

​I'm excited to invite you to another virtual event in our Event Series which will take place on Clubhouse. Joining us this time is Alex Maceda – a dear friend, a genius artist, and a truly inspiring human being. Join us. Gain new perspectives on what matters most to you. Come away refreshed and equipped with actionable insights, tools, and tactics to create more joy, meaning, and fulfillment in your life.

​About Alex: Alex Maceda (@aaamaccc) is an artist (@amac_things), writer, advisor to leading consumer brands, investor (Omsom, Zuzu, Sunwink, Bacon’s Heir, Monpure, and more), speaker, and advocate for mental health. She's a former executive at such remarkable startups as Two Chairs and Everlane, who a year ago made a conscious decision to pursue full-time her passion for art.

​Conversation topic: Navigating big life changes to create joy, meaning, and fulfillment in life. Alex will share a story of leaving the comfort of her day job, stepping into her inner strength, and embracing her artistic calling. Transitions don’t happen overnight. Alex’s had been several years in the making. And yet there were a handful of decisive moments which provided the clarity needed to take the necessary step. Join our conversation to learn how Alex prepared for those moments and turned her life around.

​Event format: It will be a free-flowing conversation for one-and-a-half hours. I’ll reserve the last 30 minutes to answer questions from you. Feel free to stay for as long as your schedule allows.

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​For me, Alex is the epitome of courage. Just like I did in the past, Alex used to prioritize perfection over progress. On rare occasions striving for perfections serves well, but mostly it’s stifling at best and totally demoralizing at worst. On the one hand, the pursuit of perfection has enabled Alex to have a thriving career in the Silicon Valley. On the other hand, it’s led to consistent dissatisfaction with her life choices, burnouts, and depression. (These things are all too familiar to me.)

​Alex had been holding it all in for a long time. Approaching the point of no-return, she made a difficult decision to leave her full-time job a year ago, prioritize self-care, and dedicate more time to her biggest passion – art. This was around the time she and I met. Hence, I didn’t know her throughout her struggles with mental health. What I did see was her cutting ties with her old way of living, stepping into the unknown, and pursuing her heart’s calling.

​Although the uncertainty was weighing on her, Alex said she was feeling happier day by day. This was a good reason for her to stick to her surrender experiment and explore what else awaited her. Feeling recharged and most joyful she’d been in years, Alex eventually saw an opportunity to reconnect with her mission (to enable healing for others) in a new way – through art. Stepping into her new role as a creator was the most empowering moment in her life, which unlocked new levels of performance, joy, and fulfillment. There were still occasional “WTF am I doing?” moments and meltdowns, but enduring them had been worth it for the new life that was unfolding.