Disrupting for Good: Shifting to Sustainability

Sometimes I compartmentalize my work. Over here, I’m working on a report. Over here, I’m planning a meeting. Over here, I’m writing a book.

And then an opportunity presents itself out of the blue, and I look at it and think, I cannot add another separate thing. My brain is compartmentalized to the max. 

This happened ten years ago when the Action Hepatitis Canada role was offered to me. At the time I already had 4 jobs and so even though I was interested, I thought, what am I doing with my life? I can’t take a 5th job. I’ll look like I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. But a friend helped me see the throughline of advocacy across all of my contracts: 5 expressions of the same thing. MY thing. Once my 5 roles felt cohesive, the compartmentalization fell away, and I felt really good about my work.

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