Myra Gerdes

I attribute my success to choosing me, to choosing presence, to coming into coherence with myself, coming into self-realization with myself. I've learned how to exist in our more natural ways, beyond judgment, beyond metrics, beyond identity. By doing that, and by choosing me in every single moment, it allows me to step into a place of presence and build and design from there with true integrity. I'm able to access information through the field in order to share out with all. When you leave a successful career and go down to zero and start fresh with no idea exactly what you're going to do, but fully trusting in the journey that you set out for yourself, that's when the magic happens.

The best career advice I've ever received is just to keep sharing and go for it. It's okay if you're introducing something that's a little bit early on for the world to be a part of, and just to be brave and confident in what you're delivering and sharing with everybody.

I would say be brave. We've been taught to be small and to compare. It's okay to branch out and do something you've never done before. It's okay to take a step in a new direction. It's okay to stumble. Don't worry about what anybody else says about you. Let them have their stories, because none of that matters. Only you have to know who you are in this. Each of us has a unique function, and we're here to do what we do best, and that's simply just to be ourselves. As a woman, we can do anything.

The biggest challenge that we have is that we've been building and have put every single bit of our own resources into Lumosphere, and now the app is getting ready to launch. We're turning it over to the world, but our goal is to offer it for free. I'd like to do it without investors, but that being said, each area of Lumosphere to build takes quite a bit of resources. The biggest challenge is marketing it in a new way because it's not a typical app. We're trusting that if you build it, everyone's going to come in and help to fuel the bloom so that we can continue to design and build the different environments for everyone to participate in.

Being present in each and every single moment is most important to me. Living a life with unconditional love and acceptance, and finding the joy and the beauty in every single moment. We work when we're called to work, we rest when we're called to rest, and we play when we're called to play. Everything I design is built on non-identification, non-metrics, non-gamification, and non-attention fragmenting.