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March 21, 2019 By Valerie Brown, JD, MA, PCC

Look up!

Cultivating a Kinder World by Reorienting Your Vision.

Slowly, making my way along the rutted dirt path, I reached the top of the mesa, set down my backpack, leaned against a nearby log, and looked up at the sky and clouds. In that moment, everything changed.

Arriving at that moment took a very long time, and here’s why.

I grew up in the People’s Republic of Brooklyn, far away from the grandeur of the natural world. At that time, Brooklyn wasn’t the swanky place it is today. There were no yoga studios or latte shops. Growing up low-income and locked in the inner city, I wanted to escape Brooklyn, and everything I thought it represented. So, I did a lot of running from Brooklyn to undergraduate school, graduate school, law school, and to ‘The Big & Important Job’ as a lawyer-lobbyist. The only problem with the ‘Job’ was that it was killing my spirit and my soul.

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HI, I'M VALERIE BROWN.

I transformed my high-pressure, high-stakes, 20-year career as a lawyer-lobbyist to follow my passion doing human-scale work with diverse leaders and teams.

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Book cover: Living from the CenterLiving from the Center: Mindfulness Meditation and Centering…

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