Meet Grace Anne Jarrett

 

We were lucky to catch up with Grace Anne Jarrett recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Grace Anne, we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?

When I was growing up, I felt like a bit of a social outcast. Particularly when I was in middle school, I would try to befriend people or they would try to befriend me and things would fall apart fairly quickly. It wasn’t until my early 20s that I learned that this was probably because I am neurodivergent (I likely have ADHD and/or Autism). But at the time and as a kid, it just felt like there was something wrong with me. Now I know that my mind just works in its own way.

There was one particular incident where nobody came to my 12th birthday party, and the following fall, two girls in my grade threw me a party to make up for it. Within a week, one of them passed me a note saying that she and the other girl didn’t like me anymore and didn’t want to be friends. I talked to the second girl about it, and she said that she didn’t have anything to do with the note. I learned at a young age that everybody has their own opinions about people and things. I became okay with the first girl not liking me and learned from the second that you can get a story straight and still have others who don’t like you.

This experience in middle school really sparked my confidence in a way I haven’t experienced since. I said, “well, some people won’t like me anyway, so I’m just going to be myself either way.” I chose confidence one day and never looked back. Well, sort of. Since then, I’ve had many experiences where I felt less than 100% confident, but the total sum of my experiences let me look past that. I wanted to bartend from the time I was a teenager, and got my bartending certificate in 2018, when I was 23. It took me three years to find a bartending job because I was concerned about finding creepy customers or managers who would bother me. I’ve worked several bartending jobs, and I’ve managed to actually find those characters! My fear was a reality and I’ve left bartending jobs because of a customer or coworker that creeped me out a little too much. I usually ended up better off by doing that and following my intuition. Sometimes making that change wasn’t because I wasn’t confident at the job, but because I wanted to make a better move for myself. Right now I’m a grocery cashier, which was one of those better moves, even though it may not look like it to everybody else. I deal with people all the time and talk to them every day, and I still found myself anxious at the beginning of my cashier shift the other day. I had to push through my anxiety and settle in. I can do that now because I know that the anxiety isn’t the whole of who I am, but that instead it’s something I’m experiencing.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I’ve been an artist, musician, and content creator since I was very young. Music has been my greatest passion since I was very small. I discovered in middle school that I enjoy and am good at visual arts as well. I also started my first blog in 2007 when I was 12. I enjoyed being creative and wanted to give advice to and talk with other children. When I was 14, one of my high school friends gave me the first nickname I’d ever had – ‘Seis’, which means ‘six’ in Spanish. This person comes from a Spanish-speaking family, and her younger cousin, Grace, was six years old at the time, and would say “I am Grace, I am seis”. The nickname she gave me stuck, both with her, myself, and others. I added my middle name, Anne, and made my social media name seisanne in 2009. It has remained my creative alias since.

I started pursuing content creation professionally in 2017 when I launched my blog Take Seis. It turned out to be just that – a ‘take,’ an attempt. A lot of my creative and entrepreneurial journey has involved trying new things. Back in 2017, my goal was to create prints and work at art markets. It took me about six years before I was able to do that in 2023. Now I’ve already done that and have new goals in my business. My process has involved a lot of ups and downs. I wasn’t focused as much on entrepreneurship while I was living with my mom. While I was living with her, she found out she could pass away, and she eventually did in 2021. One of my best friends and the only pet I’ve ever had also died that same year. This really affected my life, my business, my jobs, my finances. It also inspired me to make changes and think about what was really important to me.

Right now I sell my stickers on Redbubble and share content on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. I also have two songs in the works with a friend of mine who is a producer. Right now, I’m not terribly focused on selling. There’s so much more to art than just how many people bought a particular sticker, or how I can make something that would be more sellable. I enjoy that I’m in an exploratory phase of my work, and I’m in a secure enough place where I can do it for money, or not. That’s really valuable to me, and my doing that seems to excite both the business bros and the anticapitalists. If that stirs people up and gets them to make a positive change, whether in their own lives or the world, I think it’s important for me to do. With the way that housing and food prices are rising, I think it’s important to be a voice against the status quo. I ring people up for their groceries every day and see exactly what is happening. I think it’s more important than ever that I share some art and content for free, even if I also offer paid content and art now or in the future.

I’m currently on tour sharing my work and looking to meet new (and known) creatives! As a musician and artist, I’ve always wanted to travel in order to share my work. I don’t feel like I should have to sit around and wait for a record label, a manager, a million followers, or a million streams, if I have a way to do that entirely on my own. I’ve been working a lot so far this year and haven’t made time for much new content or even taken many photos for myself. This is an opportunity for me to change that and see some new things in my life, as well as to market my work and hopefully collaborate with even more people! If you’re interested in collaborating with me along my tour as another artist, or hosting me as a vocalist, DJ, live painter, or art vendor as a business, I would love to hear from you!

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Integrity will always come first on my list. I have had to remain true to myself over and over again throughout my life. I’ve found that the more truthful you can be with yourself, the more truthful you can be with others. I’ve also considered how the word also refers to ‘integration’. To me, integrity also means being able to integrate all aspects of yourself, whether positive, negative, or neutral without shame or fear. It’s about being rooted in who you are. I’d say that I’m also rooted by my faith – I have plenty in both a higher power and in myself.

Creativity has always been really important to me. Some people tend to say that “everything’s been done already”, and while I think on a certain level that this is true, I also think it’s a dismal way to look at the world. We are constantly creating and discovering new songs, new genres, new art pieces, and more, and humanity learns new things in science at the same time. I think it’s arrogant for humanity to think that we have already discovered everything about how the world works. I also don’t like the phrase “this is the way we’ve always done it,” particularly in art. I think that creativity also applies to many other aspects of life.

One word I came up with was “adaptability,” because being adaptable has been really important on my journey. But I came up with a different word that I can’t remember, that had more to do with being able to change or improve a situation, instead of just adapting around it. I think that so many people are more capable than they have been given credit for. Some people will just say “oh, people are stupid,” but it’s not that simple. Some people will just say that because they don’t like the way that you do things or because you are different from them.

I’m a firm believer in free will – what are you going to do with it?

One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?

I will always be looking to collaborate with other artists and musicians!

I’d like to release as many records as I can over my lifetime, but I’m also interested in jamming with no plan and just vibes. I’m a multi-genre vocalist with 15 years of choral and vocal experience and would love to sing or rap on your record, or even try my hand at screaming. I love music and enjoy so many genres that I would never hold myself to a single genre. Let’s mess around and B2B as DJs or write songs together! I’m up for almost anything that involves music and I’m open to travel.

I’d also love to make collaborative art pieces! This can also look like a lot of things. I’m an acrylic painter, I’m an illustrator.
I have an unfinished collaborative painting with my friend who passed away in 2021. It sits unfinished on my wall, and I wonder if it’s right to finish it or not. Maybe I’ll just have to make more collaborative pieces. We’re here now, let’s live and make some art!

You can reach out to me by DM on social media – @seisanne – or my email address is [email protected]!

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