So what’s it all about, really?

It started with friends. And sadly not your gather at the trendy-neighborhood cafe to chat about humorous professional and personal misadventures kind of friends.  As I write this, I realize I might be dating myself with that pop-culture reference.

Oh well.

But I digress. Where was I?

I have friends and they couldn’t be more different. Thank goodness!  What they do share is an inquisitive nature, dogged resourcefulness and a desire to experience things on their own terms. On the record, my friends are exhausted undervalued teachers, eager small business owners, 

 

Ours is a group with both common and drastically disparate tastes. So while we all rise from the bed in the morning for different reasons, one thing is clear. We’re trying to be the most successful versions of ourselves on good days and simply survive on bad days.  My friends are like a lot of people, actually.

 
 

The TruCuriosity Collective (TCC) is a platform that gives a voice to people who question everything: from how things work to how frequently they should work.

Guest editors will contribute to TCC because it wouldn’t be a collective without them!

budding financial specialists and abused political analysts. They are dedicated physicians who both hate and love what they do; ambitious, young professionals who have clearly outgrown their jobs but are perhaps too afraid or too exhausted—there’s that word again—to go back to school and start anew.

 

Day-to-day discovery is key. I listen intently to my friends. I learn from them. I proudly write because of them. And if I had this clever thing down, I’d find a way to get them all in one state, one room.

Just once.

But for now, this site will have to do.

 
 

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