Isabel Mata
• – • The Collective
About the speaker
Isabel Mata is a queer, neurodivergent storyteller and mental health advocate based in Seattle, Washington whose personal essays, lifestyle, and wellness content has been published in more than 50 outlets across the world. She is the host of "Being Yourself Loudly," a Queer podcast de-stigmatizing mental illness and hosts the bi-weekly advice column “Ask Izzy” for the Seattle Gay News. When not writing, she spends her time making mood boards, solving elementary math problems, and painting.
We all are creatives. Describe what you do, make or create in one sentence.
I am a storyteller offering my authentic truth, experience, and point of view to inspire, lead, and empower.
What are the top creative challenges that you face in your day-to-day?
Imposter syndrome, digital burnout, idea fatigue.
When you get stuck creatively, what is the first thing you do to get unstuck?
Take a walk and immerse myself with nature.
Local partners
Catalysis is a full-service marketing agency located in Capitol Hill. We were founded in 1992 and have worked with some of the most well-known Seattle-area companies over our 30 years in business. We specialize in design, advertising and branding, web development, and data and analytics. We’re also active members of our community and maintain several relationships with local non-profits.
Design Citizen is an executive recruiting and career advisory firm specializing in full-time opportunities across North America.
The Collective is a membership community designed to bring creators, thinkers and doers together to build social capital, leveraged around a common purpose of improving our world - and to have fun doing it. As a participant of Creative Mornings, you’re invited to the basecamp to experience The Collective’s great food, drink, ambiance and people.
Additional details
November’s Theme is Truth.
Truth lies at the bottom of a well, winding from its source in the icepack of distant mountains. Truth tastes pristine, uncompromised by what would be profitable or convenient. Truth causes your body to hum like a tuning fork, resonating at the same frequency as the universe around you. “When you experience an undeniable truth,” writer and social worker Jessica Dore observes, “you will beg, borrow, and steal. You will rearrange your whole life, forsake everything, just to serve what is real.”
Our Buenos Aires chapter chose this month’s exploration of Truth and Sol Cotti illustrated the theme.
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