…everything we went to! From picking cotton, to our incredible uniqueness in making a way out of no way. Inventing things, creating art, making discoveries that changed the world. When faced with situations we had no control over to situations that we did, we have always found a way to reinvent them to create purposeful pathways. The great thing about reinvention is the surprising journey it takes you on. The wonderful gifts it unveils. Strengths you didn’t know you had become evident.
I’m a storyteller now and I love it. Each time I tell my personal story of professional and personal reinvention and someone is inspired to take a risk to try something new, I get excited! Who knows how they may save a life, create something for millions delicious to eat, toe-tapping to dance to, beautiful to look at, comfortable to rest on, simpler to calculate with, or change the world?
Sometimes, people have to see it before they can believe it can be done. Then they can take it further than they or you thought possible. So, my purpose is to inspire; to tell the authentic truth of reinvention. That it takes faith and faith doesn’t make things easy. Faith makes things possible. Resilience makes things possible, too.
Inspiration is more than cheerleading. It’s more than “you can do it!” More than affirmation. To me, it’s seeing. Reaffirming the possible. When I saw what we have actually gone through as a people and saw in such totality what we have done and FELT our history at the Museum, I came away feeling more powerful than ever.
Finding your purpose gives you power. Embrace it. And never give it away.
Born and raised in Detroit, Amy S. Hilliard is the Principal of The Hilliard Group, founder of The ComfortCake Company and former President of Fashion Fair Cosmetics as well as a senior executive for Gillette, L’Oreal, Pillsbury and Burrell Communications Group. A graduate of Howard University and the Harvard Business School, Amy is known as the “The Mother of Reinvention”. She is an international speaker and author of TAP INTO YOUR JUICE, Find Your Gifts, Lose Your Fears and Build Your Dreams, endorsed by First Lady Michelle Obama. Join Amy’s email list herehttp://eepurl.com/b2S5CD http://eepurl.com/b2S5CD. Visit her website, www.amyshilliard.com, and check her out on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.