We recently connected with Jojo Diggs and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Jojo, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
Hope. I think resilience is formed by the courage to believe in something bigger than where we are. If we stay centered on our “why” we don’t give up.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
My name is Jojo, and I’ve spent most of my life desperately insecure and the only thing that helped me feel better was moving my body. I’ve always been exceptional at sports and dancing, and it gave me a lot of release. And then as I got older I craved stability, confidence, and inner peace. So I started doing deep inner work through shadow work and subconscious exploration. I healed a lot. But the more I healed the more I felt like I wanted to teach it in a way that simplified it and made it easier to understand and connect with.
I traveled the world teaching dance, choreographing, judging and competing. (over 30 countries) and have performed on stage with the worlds most famous dancers. But I wanted more personal experiences and connection and impact. So, now I lead courses that help people come back to their heart space. I help people get out of their head and back to their heart so they live in the present and not from their wounds.
I include a lot of decolonial and somatic practices which I think are crucial to the transformation aspect and not just temporary fixing. I use community, artistic metaphors, communication and so much more. My work really changes lives and I love that.
When I’m not in my office I’m hiking, dancing, eating, thrifting, coffee-ing, meditating, traveling, hanging out with amazing friends or cuddling with my 2 cats. I am blessed.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
My three most impactful qualities: 1. Willingness to take impractical risks on myself
2. Ability to understand what’s happening in other peoples worlds
3. Communication skills
How to develop these:
1. The more risks you take the more you realize it always works out. Start with little ones and work your way up. But just GO!
2. Shadow work is the most helpful work for understanding others. This has helped me calm my nervous system, get out of my head, and trust that most of the the world around me has positive intentions.
3. I think this ones just practice with speaking from the heartspace.
As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?
“Letters To A Young Poet” by Maria Rilke
— “Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you?”
— “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart so one day you can live into the question.”
— “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
Contact Info:
- Website: https://intotheheartspace.com/
- Instagram: instagram.com/jojodiggs
