HIPP Manifesto

Every few years I refresh my website, I get a little braver to do more things with Living HIPP and somehow, I step back from it. While I have been such a vision caster and goal getter, I am also stuck at times, and let self doubt, distraction or my own vulnerabilities get in my way. Maybe you can relate….

I have an amazing assistant in place, and our goal this year is to create digital course content, launch my Podcast and bring more brand awareness to my little grass roots effort of Living HIPP. When I created this brand more than a decade ago, it was a passion project, and to this day, it is a passion project that gets only part of my attention. Over this decade, I have a better understanding of why Living HIPP (Happy Inspired Passionate Peaceful) is important to me.

You see, we all have our things.

For me, my things are anxiety, ADD, depression, and I have an addictive personality. This is hard to write, but I hit the jackpot. I have felt such shame over this, and I have wanted to avoid these feelings, topics, and realities because I just want to “feel normal” and “be normal”. My truth is that I am not, or maybe, just maybe I am. I believe we all have our thing(s), and these things make us special, and rather than hide in shame, we need to shine a light on this being part of our health and wellness.

I was in a really great place when I created Living HIPP.

It was that transformation that I spoke about. Also, the lifestyle brand encompasses my passion on how we as women show up in the world. I am so passionate about women cheering each other on and supporting each other, and I want to change the landscape more with women and girls and how we treat each other.
I have experienced both sides of this. I have worked with and am friends with incredible women that are positive, empowering, true partners, and cheer me on, as I do the same for them. I have also had the awful experience of women tearing me down. While it is brutal to experience, I know these things happen to remind me why I step up as a voice for good.

We are so powerful when we bring our best selves forward.

We will change the world when we change how we care for ourselves and those around us. So, as I work on the refresh, and launch the Podcast (which every year I have put off), I am gaining more clarity around how I want to influence others, and what spirit and energy I want to bring to the world.

So as I read this Manifesto I wrote a few years back, I think about why and what Living HIPP is:

—A lifestyle brand of Self Care
—A lifestyle brand of Kindness (being better to self and better to others)
—A lifestyle brand of Purpose and Intention (which is really good for someone like me with ADD)
—A lifestyle brand of Personal Development, being growth-oriented and balancing that with life.
—A lifestyle brand of Vulnerability, we all have our thing. “HIPP” is a set of tracks to run on when you carry your thing.
—A spirit of positivity, love, compassion, and empathy
—A spirit of being a force for good, with your life, with your words, and with how you treat others and yourself.
—A spirit of progress over perfection, life is hard and beautiful and we experience all of it.
—A spirit of gratitude, we react, we have fear, we have bad days but we are able to reset and renew
—A spirit of authenticity, we release comparing ourselves and embrace our authentic selves.

Living HIPP is about core behaviors (self-care, purposeful work/play) along with the power of women working together.

Be You. Be Love. Be Free. Be Kind. Be Vulnerable. Be Real. Be a champion of others!