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S3 E6: Landing That Dream Job—It's a Phrase With Special Meaning for Indigenous Colouring Book Entrepreneur Diana Frost

Unsettled: Journeys in Truth and Conciliation

English - February 23, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Her heart told her she needed to connect her work to helping others and making a difference. Calgarian Diana Frost's dreamscape looked after the rest, giving her a fully formed outline for what her future as a social entrepreneur would look like.
"I needed to do something I cared about, in order to justify the effort and time," she remembers. "And one morning, in the spring of 2016, I woke up suddenly and I remembered my dream, which was a very unusual thing for me: I never remember my dreams.
"And I rushed into the living room and I said, 'John (my husband), I'm going to publish a series of colouring books. And I'm going to work with elders and artists from different nations, and we're going to share stories and teachings and beautiful artwork and we're going to help people to connect.'
"And John looked at me and he was stunned, because how do you go from engineering to book publishing? But it just seemed to fit; it just seemed right, you know?"
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