Welcome to ConnectED
This morning - as I do every morning - I am turning up, just as I am.
Nothing is brushed (yet).
I'm wearing the jewellery and a Bonds tracksuit top I slept in. Something I'm fairly certain was never deemed 'fashionable' let alone 'fashion-forward'.
You see, I've made a committment to Do Me in every conversation, everyday, unapologetically this year.
I know that's going to be difficult for some of those closest to me, but it certainly is going to lighten the load for yours truly.
It's just gone 6am on a beautiful winter morning. I've been settled here at my kitchen bench since 4:30am and I am feeling overwhelmed.
Overwhelming gratitude.
Gratitude for getting the job done, despite the night's distractions.
I've also texted my ex-husband to let him know our daughter isn't well, so we've both got some rescheduling to do.
I know he won't like it, but that'll be his choice to either deal or burden those around him.
While my morning routine has been reduced, I've still managed a little 'Me' time. Afterall, that's a non-negotiable.
Sure it's been between 4:30am-5:30am - but by golly - I've risen a little earlier, despite the exhaustion because I know 'ME time' is the most important hour of my day.
Why? Because it'll sustain me. It will also act as a reminder to me for the rest of my day - that I am worth it. Afterall, one should never underestimate ones value. That's why its called Self Worth.
As I look around me (self-awareness is a skill developed over time), the cinnamon is crusted onto the rim of my now drained coffee cup and I am finally free.
Free to venture here with you, for the first of what I hope will be many times.
You see, I AM an adventurer of the mind.
I travel daily into the deep dark recesses of my grey matter and write about the stories - real, researched and imagined - I find there.
I 'see' stories, like you would a film. They 'play' in my mind's eye so every story is already in 4D to me.
In my 20's, I made a humble living writing in stadia all around the world. For me it was a 'safe space'. I'd grown up observing this business called Sport - from the player and parent-side.
I learnt very early on how those who 'knew' sport interacted on and around the game, and just as importantly how those who needed something from it, framed a 'state of play'.
I have always loved the process of interviewing and the opportunity to write the stories I found in between the pauses that occur when crafting stories for an audience.
In my 30s, I evolved my writing in both the creative and academic forms. Finding within this new world of knowledge, the art of writitng for screens of all sizes and data collation for real world analysis, simply intoxicating.
Having only found my maternal instincts in my 40's, I've lived many lives since.
@home @work and @play - I've failed - and on more than one occasion.
If I'm honest, there isn't a social issue stat that doesn't somehow describe me. I've been single/ married/ divorced/ successful/ broke/ living high and homeless and I wouldn't change a thing. If fact, I'd go so far as to say, I'm lucky - Lucky to have had the opportunities to learn!
Now in my 50s, I am grateful. Even for the cortisol still endeavouring to leave my body... because I am relishing the opportunity to evolve the wisdom I've gathered so far...
Sure, I could step into all the stories and I could tell a trauma tale for tomes...
Just like all the Myths, Legends, Facts we've been telling ourselves here on Planet Earth across multiple formats.
I could draw directly from the Scriptures - talking Sin and Judges - How I have judged and been judged and how in consequence, I have doubted and muted myself. While experiencing the projections of 'friends' as a central topic of gossip within a 'civilised' circle.
So yes I AM SO GRATEFUL for all of it!
But rest assured, when you journey with me...
I won't dim my joy, for anyone.
I remembered I AM my greatest love story and through my work, I endeavour to remind you that you are yours.
Mastery results from failure, but when we fail to Master our own thoughts, how can we ever hope to Master Community?
Remember:
Our thoughts become our words, and they become our actions.
Too often, I see friends, clients, peers and colleagues fail to remember that incredibly powerful truth.
Men and women, girls and boys, all dimming their light, but for what?
To fit in...? Be cool.. Popular...?
Friendly reminder: You are Perfect. Just as you are.
Recently, I've seen students from high school to postgraduates crippled by fear and anxiety over sitting for a handwritten open book test - and they're the ones who have studied and turned up to class regularly!
Our social interactions are seeing the next geners both here and abroad, disconnecting from their physical selves in preference for the convenience and unseen stress of a digital spine.
That's why last year, I opened the doors to my extended family of friends and colleagues to road test my health education and wellness AI campus, The Living Centre prior to it's official launch in July 2026.
Since 2019, I have self-funded the creation and build of social health intiatives close to my heart.
I have scaled up and back, pivoting with purpose, as resources, tech and living situation deemed appropriate.
I have been on my own health journey which has seen me add to my academic and research bow, studies of holistic wellness and food and nutrition coaching to further enhance DMA programs.
My mission: to bolster mental, social, digital and academic fitness for performance @home @school @work @play for all families in the age of neuromorphic computing and engineering.
The soft launch of the ConnectED programs via the purpose built DMA Mentoring App is now.
The DMA Mentoring MEMBERS ONLY App is available for download on iOS and Google
As it is a MEMBERS ONLY App you will need to purchase an annual DMA Memberhsip for $99 via www.tiffannyjunee.com to get access to e-programs, broadcast and academy publications I've produced or sponsored.
On the App, you will also find a buffet of options for riding along with me on this guided journey of Love - for Self and Others within our communities.
The How 2 Series represent the suite of ConnectED programs aligned to mission. Designed to mute the AI-generated hype of sales and marketing platforms masquearding as commercial education/ technical 'solutions'.
For those who have only just recently joined me on this journey, it would be timely to remind you, that 2026 represents the 11th year of a longitudinal study into the power of platforms to reconstruct society, which originally began in 2015 as How 2 Social which at the time Salesforce was 3 years into providing social media 'certifications' by way of professionalising AI-led social media platforms in the Australian market.
Why now? Because the lines are no longer distinct between digital influence and human performance. So the art of connecting with Self in order to maintain sovereignty, has never been so important.
xo Tiff
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