2020-03-05
1 小时 19 分钟My guest today, Morgan Harper Nichols, is a writer, artist, and musician who spent the first few years of her adult life as a college admission counselor and then as a full time touring singer, songwriter and musician.
And it was on the road that she really began to cultivate a sense of curiosity and deep interest and passion for the written word beyond music and for art, and slowly began to share her art and her words with others online.
And then in 2017, something happened.
Morgan started a project where she invited people to privately submit their stories to her on her website, and from there she would choose them and then create art.
So words and illustration inspired by what they sent her, then send them the original art for free.
And nearly everything Morgan creates and shares today is from this project.
And she always keeps the names and stories private.
The public fruit of this project is shared daily on her Instagram community, which is now over a million people globally.
And it also ends up often in publications on murals around the world.
And from this beautiful act, really, of service and generosity and love and sustained creative devotion, Morgan has increasingly been commissioned and collaborated with global brands, from anthropology to Adobe Live Nation, coach, so many others.
Her first full color art and poetry book, all along you were blooming is now out in the world.
It is beautiful and moving, inspiring and reminding people that they are not alone.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
It's so good to be hanging out with you.
We're in LA right now, which is, I guess you were born here, but in a heartbeat the family jumped over to Atlanta area, right?
Yes, very true.
I lived here for the first part of my life, and somewhere around, I was almost two years old.
We ended up in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
And my parents, my mom's from there originally, and my parents moved there to start a church.