Motivation Monday #15: My new position
Monday, September 21, 2020
Where You’ll Find Me
Celebrating a rare champagne moment in 2020: I’m thrilled and grateful to join the fight against invisibility as VP Group Strategy Director at The Martin Agency this week!
Earlier this year I committed to spending more time mentoring others and gave myself the title of Chief Visibility Officer for women, POC, and LGBTQIA+ talent in advertising — and I couldn’t have found a better match in an agency that’s working so hard to fight invisibility.
❤️ If you are so inclined, please give my LinkedIn post some love — would appreciate your likes and comments to boost visibility!
Thank you for the support!
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(Thank you Jess for the bubbly, the rooftop, and the constant encouragement.)
Bring it on, corporate America! My calendar can handle it.
Reading
The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour: a psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive.
![The cover of The Twittering Machine The cover of The Twittering Machine](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb3fde42d-c45e-46db-a952-ec3cc6be9398_1064x1619.jpeg)
![Paul Heyer, Text from Crush, 2020, oil and acrylic on polyester, 44 x 34". Paul Heyer, Text from Crush, 2020, oil and acrylic on polyester, 44 x 34".](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7817fb28-fcc0-4176-a8cb-e678cdc39176_1064x1347.jpeg)
Paul Heyer, Text from Crush, 2020, oil and acrylic on polyester, 44 x 34". Courtesy the artist and Night Gallery.
Watching
💔The Social Dilemma (Netflix). Heartbroken to see cold fact charts about the 150% rise in suicide and self-harm in young teen and tween women corresponding exactly with the rise of social media.
![Twitter avatar for @arilevine](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/arilevine.jpg)
Creativity/Productivity Hack
Communicate with images or video using Awesome Screenshot, a Chrome extension power tool to capture static images or videos on the fly, mark it up, then share a direct link to the image or video. Et voila, screenshots 2.0.
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Dope Stuff for Your Desk
Touchland hand sanitizer that sprays in a non-sticky fine mist! And looks like a cute chunky old school iPhone! Comes in all sorts of yummy scents: citrus, mint, aloe vera, lavender, vanilla cinnamon, mmmmmm….
(Also a Jess recommendation!)
From the Mixtape
Vivaldi’s “Winter” 3 ways: for those days you need some really intense strings.
🎻 Traditional
🤘 Rockstar Cello
👾 8-Bit Classical
Remembering
RGB reacts to SNL. Amidst all the grief, this little clip made me crack up in a good way. May her memory be a revolution.
![Twitter avatar for @gigiphobia](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/gigiphobia.jpg)
Deck of the Week
The Visibility Brief by The Martin Agency. Respect.
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Take care ‘til next time,
SP
From the desk of Sharon Panelo, queer nerdy Filipina strategist and radical optimist.