That shift usually doesn’t happen all at once—it builds quietly over time. For a lot of people, it starts at the moment when avoiding those feelings becomes more exhausting than facing them. Early on, low self-esteem tends to feel like something you have to hide or “fix” before you can create anything meaningful. But the turning point comes when you realize those exact struggles are the raw material. Instead of waiting to feel confident, you start expressing yourself as you a

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I think when there’s more to build from, it allows for more transformation. It’s like taking each experience and adding it to the next. Bringing all the consciousness I’ve collected from and making it fit into a cohesive narrative, becoming that narrative inside and out, conveying it by wearing whatever I feel like wearing. My identity has been shaped by my ancestry, music, fashion and spirituality.

The early experiences were great, because I had an early introduction to the industry and how it runs. Although I didn't understand it as a kid, it does help me now as an adult and gives me confidence with the fact that I am very familiar with everything.

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