Nicole Gibson

Nicole Gibson
From: Gold Coast
Lives: Los Angeles, USA

This is who I am in the world:

I am first and foremost a messenger. I always made my frame that love is the master and I’m it’s student. I try to carry myself each day in a way that that is a reminder that I’m not done and I do not have the answers. I am constantly learning and in a state of humility. I am an eternal student. Love continuously initiates me and it takes me outside my own ideas of who I should be. It allows me to be flexible and to breathe it and not be so attached to who I should be.

My vision has become other people’s vision, through Love Out Loud. It is insane. The community make it their own and I constantly learn through them. I’m not the only one who created it and so I also get to be a part of it.

It can be very easy to fall into significance and power. Power chooses us, it’s not something that we choose, yet we are responsible for it in our pursuit. We all seek to belong to something bigger and to be leaders and we all want to know “who am I, as I relate to the greater whole?”.

We all seek to belong to something far bigger than us. All great philosophers have asked who am I in relation to the greater whole and there are endless possibilities in answering this question.

This is the story that I would like rewritten for women:

I’ve never overly identified with gender in relation to my work or anything and I’ve always remained quite ambiguous in that. Because of that, my experiences of men and women are not as everyone sees. I don’t see women’s projections and so women feel safe with both my strength and gentleness.

I essentially feel that men and women are the same, apart from our biology. We are all human and have a soul. We are all a child who wants to be loved. We all want to be seen, loved and acknowledged and we want to be met, irrespective of our gender. We all have a unique experience, expression of the divine and we are each the evolution of innocence. We are all holding different gifts and parts of our evolution.

I was a young female working in politics, and many women saw that we had a glass ceiling. There was competition and resistance by those who were middle aged and deeply insecure. I never made it mean anything about me. I saw the internal struggle that these people were living with, a struggle that is deserving of love, regardless of man or woman.

My work has taught me so much about how to really listen and to be present beyond our own triggers, biases and projections. I was so young when I began my work at 17 years old and I’ve since learned that not everyone sees beyond the distortions in front of them. It doesn’t matter if you are old, young, gay or straight, we all suffer. It is part of the human condition. Many people with the greatest privilege struggle the most. Our universal language is joy, love, suffering and pain. It helps if we can meet here, see and listen from this place of humanity.

A healthy version of men’s work and women’s work brings both closer together. It is innate for a woman to want to be a mother, and for a man to want to protect. Once we have reached a higher initiation as a human, we don’t see the separation as much. In the sense of “I am you and you are me”, we see that oppressors have been in equal pain that which they are creating. I am interested in how we can bring the genders closer together, rather than further away.

The next story that I would like to write for myself is around how we flip the traditional narrative and script of how celebrities are seen as being a hero. I want to change the culture to “I’m not free until you’re free” and to help people see that they are in fact the hero. I never feel like my personal story is different for that of humanity and I see my role as a facilitator for the next decade as being to support this bridge for humanity.