We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Gigi Bisong . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Gigi below.

Gigi , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

I have had so many meaningful projects that I have been involved in. But one was with the pillsbury house. My first exp was public speaking with them at their north Minneapolis site. I was schedule to give an hour talk. I had no idea what I was going to share but was called to speak from my heart and not have a speech prepared. I showed up and began telling the youth my life story – there was one moment when I questioned if I should tell the full/deep version or skim past some of the more raw and vulnerable details. My intuition said to share it. So i did. As I did I could see the kids eyes light up (mainly boys that were 11th grade). They kept shouting out “Mrs. Gigi – thank you for sharing this no one every talks about this” Thank you – we have heard this before but no one every shares this” This really made me realize how hungry youth are for our truth and our powerful guidance and how it pays to listen to our intuition when it comes to being an artist. This is the base of allowing your art to impact lives.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I have also been an intuitive and creative person. Writing and reading were my first loves and storytelling was soon to follow. I was terribly shy as a child but I always seemed to step into my power when I was writing our when I was on stage sharing a story.

I knew early on (age of 9) that I wanted to be a teacher but not to teach math, science or english. I felt called from that young age to teach what was not being taught. In order to aide people into liberation and healing.

I now use storytelling as a way to heal and to unite. I also guide women on various life transitions so they can feel rooted and deeply connected to what is available for them during this new journey.

I believe the messages I receive during meditation and prayer are what makes me different. They are unique messages with my unique flavor that can bring wisdom, witnessing and most importantly a space for women to cultivate their own deep and intuitive relationship with their body and their unique medicine. I believe we are all so capable of birthing powerful visions, businesses and ways of being in this lifetime but most of us have been conditioned to think otherwise. My work is about holding a space for the programs and conditioning to melt away so the sovereignty and power can be fully revealed.

I am very proud of the unique work I have cultivated for youth, black women, racism, womens work and visionaries. All of these gorgeous offerings came to me in a moment of when I was either in meditation, prayer or deeply in the underworld for me to break wide open so I can collect the gems to create these offerings. They have impacted so many and I continue to show to serve so more and more women, young people and all folks can tap into the medicine and power they hold within.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

When the women are well the earth is well. This is a phrase that came to me a few years ago and this is what keeps me going. It is my mission to make sure as many women feel well and feel supported in this lifetime because when the women are well the earth is well. Our earth and the humans on it can not be well if our mothers, women and are unwell.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

It is a non linear path. And as a creative we must be tapped in and open to feel. Living a numbed out hectic life of being pulled around in the directions of the world does not work for a creative (at least not for me). It is in my ability to FEEL is where my medicine, intuition and creative juices begin to flow. So to the non creative mind – it can look as though I am not producing enough, moving fast enough, spending time doing non essential things (like napping, nature walking, reading, pondering, meditating) but these are in fact all apart of the process. This being is a channel – and the channel gets clogged if it those things are not in place. So I think it is important for non creatives to get curious, lean in and ask questions that stem from love and curiosity and to invite a space of non judgement when relating with a creative. We are all so gorgeously different and we really need our visionaries and creatives to be supported, seen and heard. No one wants to live in a world where creatives are shut down or holding back their gifts. We all benefit of the beauty and power of the creator and visionary. We all have so much to offer (non creatives included) and its important for us all to have space fo all to feel that.

Contact Info:

• Website: gigibisong.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gigi_bisong/?hl=en

Image Credits
school of yoga institute – Tuuli – Yoga Room Minneaplis, the wilderness co working space MPLS