Limitation to Liberation, with Harriet Tubman Wright

Say YES to Your Soul

Join host Tessa Lynne Alburn and Harriet Tubman Wright as they explore Harriet's transformative journey and how she got to sizzle and joy from battles with depression. Throughout challenges such as single parenting and being in unfulling jobs, Harriet’s inner creativity persisted, driving her to recognize the value of living one's soul's calling.

Harriet’s passion centers on uniting generations, uniting older and younger women to co-create a more peaceful, authentic future. This collaboration, she believes, can spark a paradigm shift fostering healing, empowerment, and transformation for humanity and the world.

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• From education and modeling to single parenthood and unfulfilling jobs
• The need to follow your soul's calling and living in alignment with one’s true purpose for sizzle and the current paradigm shifts we’re all facing
• Visioning for a fulfilling life to help you tap into your heart and soul's desires
• The growth of Harriet's vision of nurturing environments for women to share their stories and the importance of community
• The work of uniting older and younger women to co-create a more peaceful and authentic future

About Harriet Tubman Wright:

Harriet Tubman Wright, MS, MA is an accomplished Speaker/Storyteller, Published Author/Poet, Person-Centered Expressive Arts Facilitator, Metaphysician, Initiated Priestess and Elder.

As Director of The Wright Resort, Your Soul Safari to Success, she guides mature spiritual women to fulfill their passion, so they can live healthy, purposeful, prosperous lives, doing what they most love to serve others. She also helps them develop “(R)evolutionary Leadership” skills to transform businesses, organizations and communities to ultimately heal people and the planet.

Harriet connects with business, professional, and cultural groups through Transformational Talks on Feminine Leadership, Soul Power, Holistic Health and Elder Enrichment, captivating audiences with humor and wisdom.

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5 Essential Tools to Lead the Revolution toward Love, light, and Liberation, A Spiritual Guide for Change Makers by going to www.thewrightresort.com/

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Transcript

Tessa (00:09):

Hello, I am so happy to be able to introduce to you

Harriet Tubman Wright. She is a very accomplished woman. She's a speaker,

storyteller, published author, poet, person centered, expressive arts

facilitator, mettaphysician, initiated priestess and elder. And, you know, when I first met Harriet, I just

thought this gal has seen a lot of stuff, and I could tell when I listened to

her voice also. She's been through a lot, and she understands on a deep level,

compassion and connecting to one soul. As the director of the Wright

resort, your soul safari to success. She guides mature spiritual women to

fulfill their passion so that they can live healthy, purposeful, prosperous

lives, doing what they love to serve others. And she also helps 'em develop

revolutionary leadership skills, woo, to transform businesses, organizations,

and communities to ultimately heal people and the planet. She connects with

business professional cultural groups through transformational talks on

feminine leadership, soul power, and other amazing things with humor and

wisdom. And I really wanna give her a warm welcome. Hello there, Harriet.

Harriet (01:38):

Well, hello. I'm happy to be here. Happy to connect with

you and your listeners.

Tessa (01:47):

Well, thank you. We're really glad you're here. So I know

that you have been through many, many things in your life, and you've got a

story that, when you said, you framed it for me before we started this, and I

was like, yes. Okay. That's gonna be exciting. So I'd love for you to just

begin to take us on that journey and share some of what your challenges were,

and we'll get into how you overcame them.

Harriet (02:24):

Thank you. What I want to say, basically the theme is from

limitation to liberation. I've had the opportunity to live in Africa and travel

all around the world, but I remember, and when I was younger, I played violin.

I was in the modern dance honor society. I fashion model. I sewed my own

clothes. So the creativity was really, really important to me. And, as I got

into job situations, once I returned from Africa, as a single parent and, you

know, get a job, I was working in situations where I had the skills, but it was

not my heart's work. It was not my soul's calling. And as I started working

with women who were frustrated, stressed, angry, about the situations that they

were in because they were not being who they were born to be, or doing what

they were born to do, and I was in that same situation, I'd be stressed and

frustrated.

(03:38):

After work, I'd go to the adult center and take creative

writing or learn other things that were more stimulating and more in sync

helped me be more in sync with my authentic self. And so, when I work with

mature women who are frustrated and stressed, I'm focusing on what I call

soul's calling and soul's calling is really, we know that we are here for a

purpose. We know how it feels when we're around someone who is in their

element, whether they're a musician, whether they are a salesperson. They are

juiced about serving you and they serve you with excellence, with joy. And so

that's what I want and help women get to a place of joy because they are

sharing their gifts, their talents, their skills in a way that is making a

difference in an organization or their business or their community.

(04:53):

We're here for a purpose. Let us share that purpose and

passion. I say that because I have dealt with depression. I've been you know,

two or three different times because I was not living my soul's calling. I was

trying to follow somebody else's agenda that was totally inauthentic for me.

And I have since learned from those times how important it is for me and how

important it is for other mature women to really sizzle in our element. And

that means being who we were born to be and doing what we're born to do. That's

what I call soul's calling, answering your soul's calling.

Tessa (05:50):

I love the elements of joy and sizzle that you're bringing

forward here. I think, you know, sometimes when women who are frustrated and

stuck, they're not thinking about sizzle, right? They're just thinking peace. I

just need peace. Darn it, . And so, when you were going through

your times, those darker times, the harder ones, maybe you were depressed and

you weren't in that place of joy and sizzle yet. I wanna know, whose rules were

you following? Like, what was the programming for you at that time?

Harriet (06:35):

I can tell you that the programming for every woman on my

father's side, the right side of the family is get a good education. Go to

college so you can get a good education so you can get a good job so you don't

have to depend on a man.

Tessa (06:58):

Mm-hmm.

Harriet (06:59):

That was pro I mean, generations of that programming. And

so, and I can remember in high school, you know, there was an opportunity to

take chemistry and I didn't wanna take it. And well, you don't know what you

wanna do, so just take chemistry. Well, I sat next to the smartest person that

my job was to hand out the goggles for the experiments. And by the time I did

that, my partner had already completed the experiment. He got the highest test

and the highest score and the standardized test. The teacher was kind to give

me a B minus , that's my final grade. But it was an example of

living out that got a good education, go to college so you can get a good

education so you can get a job so you don't have to depend on a man. So that

was following a mandate that really did not fulfill my heart's longing, my

soul's calling.

Tessa (08:06):

Yeah, you're being told what to do and then after all that

work you get a B minus and basically like supporting some man to

be great.

Harriet (08:20):

Well, you know, that, I'm just saying that was the

programming. And so if when I'm working with women, it's like, well, you know,

do you long to share your talents and gifts in a more suitable environment? Can

you imagine yourself content and fulfilled doing what you really love? And so

that's the way that I've worked with women to come to a place and the

transformation is phenomenal. There is joy, there is sizzle, there is peace

there, you know, it's like you are on, and of course you've got, meditation helps,

yoga helps. There are self-care practices that we want to also incorporate. But

as I said, anybody knows if, whether it's an entertainer, you know, when

someone is on, it turns you on .

Tessa (09:14):

That's right. And, you know, sometimes there are, and

you're probably one of these people, you have a lot of skills and a lot of

gifts, but that doesn't mean that they're all in your genius sizzle zone.

Harriet (09:28):

Mm-hmm. mm-hmm. .

Tessa (09:29):

Would you say that's true? Like there were some things you

were doing that were like pretty good, but not like, you know, on fire for you?

Harriet (09:38):

Well, I can say that, you know, I've written three poetry

books and there's been a kind of evolution. They reflect where I was at that

time. But, you know, when I was laid off from a job and it created the opening

for me to write my first poetry book. It created the opportunity for me to be

closer to who I really am as a creative being. And, that again, you wanna be

around those people who are on, who are happy, who are joyful, who can't wait

to provide the highest and best service to others. And ultimately, I think

whatever we are doing as entrepreneurs, as executives, as retired individuals,

you wanna be engaged in something that generates joy, sizzle and peace. You

know, peace of mind is, and one of the ultimate, I think, ultimate places we

wanna be, have peace of mind because we are living our purpose and passion

serving others.

Tessa (11:10):

I love that. So, Harriet, I'd really think it would be

helpful to the listeners to share a little bit of how you transitioned into

that joy and then ultimately into sizzle.

Harriet (11:29):

When I lived in Nairobi, I had a vision of the Wright

resort and a body, mind, spirit wellness center. And I had in mind a physical

plan and, you know, but I told myself, oh, but I don't have the money to do

that. And then someone said, well, you always use somebody else's money. And I

came back to this country and, you know, got a series of jobs. And in my final

position, I was asked to do something and I said, I'm not doing it. And so I

was written up for subordination. My pay was docked. And I had to go to a

hearing and pretend that I was sorry that I said it, but...

Tessa (