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05: Taking Risks As A Practice // Jezz Chung (Author, Speaker, Artist)

Sep 7, 2023
Jezz Chung, author, speaker, and artist, talks about their religious upbringing, leaving a successful advertising career to become an artist, embracing sensitivity as a superpower, taking risks, and the importance of self-care and community care in personal transformation.
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Quick takeaways

  • Taking risks as a practice leads to personal transformation and collective change.
  • Being your own biggest source of permission and following your own path is essential for fulfillment.

Deep dives

Discovering Personal Transformation Through Self-Reflection and Community Care

In this episode of 5 to 9, host Tina Yiff speaks with Jess Chung, an author, artist, and public speaker. They discuss growing up in a religious household and how it influenced their journey of personal transformation. Chung shares their experiences as an advertising professional, their decision to leave the industry, and the importance of following their own path. They emphasize the relationship between self-care and community care and stress the significance of taking risks and being one's own source of permission. Chung also talks about their artistic ventures, including acting, and how they embrace change as a constant force in their life.

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