The Soundtrack of Becoming

Music has always been my private geography — a way of locating myself across time.

Certain songs don’t just evoke memory; they restore whole emotional landscapes.

A childhood living room.

A teenage bedroom.

A crowded dance floor.

A late-night drive with windows down.

I grew up surrounded by records spinning on turntables, lyrics memorized before I understood their meaning. Over the years, my tastes expanded — gospel hymns and 80s pop, house and alternative rock, trip-hop and jazz, hip-hop and ambient soundscapes.

Each era left a trace, marking who I was becoming.

What fascinates me now is not nostalgia, but resonance — how sound imprints identity, how shared cultural artifacts bond strangers, how memory and meaning intertwine through rhythm and lyric.

Music, like story, bypasses analysis and goes straight to recognition.

This is why storytelling matters in leadership and brand expression. People don’t remember data points. They remember how something made them feel. They remember the moment they saw themselves inside the narrative.

We are all composing soundtracks of belonging.

Some unconsciously.

Some with intention.

My work lives at that intersection — where memory, meaning, and message converge.