Episode 22: Creative Director & Musician Jacqui Otaño on How Grief Deepened Her Sense of Self and the Present Tense Joy of Making Art

Jacqui Otaño and I met at a political march, and she is an
absolute beam of light. As a creative director, a musician, and a
creative coach, Jacqui has traveled the world and forged her own
path the whole way around it. In this episode, Jacqui talks about
grief leading into a deeper sense of knowing herself, the tension
of selfishness in telling your own story, and defying the
scripted path at every cost. We also wax poetic about Queens, the
subway, yelling at strangers, and baseball. 


The Mary Oliver poem "The Uses of Sorrow" we reference can be
read in full HERE.


Follow Jacqui on Instagram and Facebook. You can see more about
her work HERE.


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