We’re looking forward to introducing you to Dricka Necole. Check out our conversation below.
Dricka , really appreciate you sharing your stories and insights with us. The world would have so much more understanding and empathy if we all were a bit more open about our stories and how they have helped shaped our journey and worldview. Let’s jump in with a fun one: Are you walking a path—or wandering?
I am most certainly walking a path however, I would like to take a moment to introspectively break down walking a path & wandering. Walking a path & wandering can go hand in hand. Think of it like Failure & Success-You can’t be successful without experiencing failure because in order to win or be successful, you have to both accept & learn how to lose or fail. Walking a path can’t be accessible if you don’t wander because in life you have to wander to even find a path. The question I’m sure can be perceived in different ways of course but that’s how I perceive it. Furthermore, I say that I am walking a path because I know thyself, meaning I know who I am, I know my purpose for why I am here on Earth & I know the power that I wield within myself. Have I had to wander? Absolutely! The thing about me personally, is that I’ve always had a knowing what my path was, I have just had to wander a little to regain clarity & restore my vision on how to get back to walking my path. My path is the path of a Service Leader where I provide a service to others through advisory & teaching while leading with Love because I am an Agent of Love. I naturally exude it. Has my path been easy or is my path easy? Not at all. But it’s my path that aligns with my purpose & I wouldn’t change it for the anything else.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Sedricka Morris but you can call me Dricka or Dricka Necole as that is what I prefer. I am a bit of a Jack of All Trades but more than anything I am a Creator. Some would say I’m just an Artist, whereas others may say I’m a Visual Artist. I consider myself to be both amongst a Digital Artist & a Spiritual Artist. It’s a One size fits all kind of ordeal for me. To explain what I do as an “Artist”, I create self portraits digitally on my iPad that depicts my emotional & spiritual experiences. I then take those images & make a short promotional video out of them aligning a song that further narrates the message or the purpose of the image drawn for my self help podcast, “Vision It With Dricka Necole”.
We all have a purpose here on this earth. I am here to utilize my creative talents but in a way that helps serve, inspire & encourage others. I also believe an aspect of my purpose here on this earth is to utilize the gift of my voice to share my accrued & generationally passed down knowledge & wisdom from my personal experiences & the lessons I have learned & am still learning on my own journey as a means to help guide others on their individual journeys. That is the purpose of my podcast with the help of my artwork to ignite connection to & from my audience from a mental & emotional perspective because we all as human beings endure emotional experiences & as spiritual beings having human experiences we also have spiritual experiences that serves as catalysts to our souls to evolve in our levels consciousness.
Okay, so here’s a deep one: What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
As a child I really struggled with what to believe regarding the many social contructs in society. I questioned a lot early on because a lot of things that I noticed around me didn’t make sense. The biggest thing for me was how & where do I “fit” in with the way I am. I consciously knew I was different because I just didn’t think or see things the same as many around me. I was already conscious to individualism & being so was very overstimulating. I feel like many of us as kids, we are already born with a sense of individuality however our minds are freshly undeveloped that they’re the easiest to program like a robot. Those within our environments will install within our minds a, “this is who I need you to be” systemic program. So, my environment programmed me to believe, amongst other things, that in order for me to receive love & be liked by others, I needed to put others needs & wants before my own because mines didn’t matter. I also believed that I needed to dim my light & conform to fit in & not be problematic for my uniqueness. A few very big lessons in my life & on my individual journey has been to fully accept myself, be myself, love myself, & put myself first. I genuinely enjoy serving & helping others because it makes me happy knowing how much I can make a difference in someone else’s life in such a positive way however, I’ve learned that I can still do that just without having to compromise myself by setting healthy firm boundaries or even changing who I naturally am because honestly I don’t know how to be anyone else so, conformity has always been a struggle for me because I just don’t know how to be anyone else but myself.
What fear has held you back the most in your life?
Honestly & truly the fear of never being seen & appreciated for my value is what holds me back in my life. This is typically a fear that is developed when one has been abandoned, discarded, mistreated, ignored, &/or abused. Overtime you begin to feel as if you have no value. This is a constant battle especially with my art work & my podcast or just all in all my goal to be an Entrepreneur. I sometimes lose my faith in humanity because I feel like a lot of people don’t truly appreciate certain things & for me I’m a person that understands value. I strongly believe in treating people how you want to be treated & I strongly believe in living my life in a purposeful & intentional way. Everything I do has to have genuine intention whether that’s where I choose to work, to the people I connect with & to the businesses or projects I create. I desire to make things better & ignite positive change but I have a deep understanding that change starts within myself first. This fear I am very aware of it & I know how to manage it. I’ve never fallen in my life & not gotten back up so, I just keep pushing forward. I quiet the negative talk that comes with that fear by talking positively more loudly to myself & reaffirming to myself that no matter what I see my value & I appreciate my value & honestly that’s enough for me. I don’t need others to see my value but I know the right people will.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. What’s a cultural value you protect at all costs?
I protect the cultural value of individualism at all costs. This isn’t to say that individualism is better than collectivism because that’s a subjective way to look at them both when they both have great aspects & can exist as one however, I protect individualism at all costs because although as human beings we are defined as social creatures by nature, individualism I feel is significant for one’s evolution of consciousness. I believe it’s significant that we as individuals develop our own beliefs, have our own opinions, learn to depend on ourselves & accept ourselves for who we individually are & not base our identities & our overall beings based on what a group thinks, feels, accepts or believes. From my personal experiences, individualism is something that has been shunned, mocked, criticized & belittled in some communities although I can recall being rewarded for it in school. When you are a person who is self-sufficient, free-minded, independent & all in all not afraid to be alone, people are either intimidated by you, don’t understand you or they think something is wrong with you. I feel like the human race has been programmed to believe that collectivism is more significant than individualism. This, in my opinion, is why many of us feel a need to be validated in our thoughts, opinions, & feelings as groups because being an individual is not ideal. To some it’s too “lonely”. Being an individual doesn’t mean you don’t know how to work with a group or a team, or even know how to congregate & mesh with others, in fact you can have all the traits that aligns well with collectivism however, you know how to also be an individual. Maybe I protect individualism at all cost because my life’s journey & experiences have taught me to accept me for how different I am & be okay with being alone & walking a path less traveled but of course I hold on to those natural traits that benefits my ability to work well with collectivism because they are beneficial. We do need other people but not no more than we need ourselves because even though we can turn to a group to support us, help us, encourage us, agree with us, cheer with us, collaborate with us, we will have to do all of that within ourselves us individuals. But in my opinion both collectivism & individualism can co-exist because we are all one collectively however, we are also all individually unique & different.
Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. If you laid down your name, role, and possessions—what would remain?
I would just have my spirit, which is the light of my soul. The soul is the only thing that lives on. I think this is what some people don’t understand, we can accumulate all the material wealth, win the biggest awards, be honored the highest accolades, & promoted to the most prestigious role there is, at the end of it all none of that stuff would matter because none of that stuff defines who you are at the core-your soul. We think these things define us because that’s the illusion that many like to create. Having all of these things earn you respect & make people look up to you. Our world predominately operates on Status, Money, Power & Control because with money & status you have power & you have control. This is all an Egoic philosophy to life. Your true power lies when you operate accordingly to who you are at the soul level. Your soul isn’t attached to the ego. Those are two separate channels of energy. So, if I am stripped of my name, any role I have & all of my possessions, I am nothing but my soul. I am Sedricka Necole Morris, preferably Dricka Necole because I am a human being. This is my surface level identity however, as a spiritual being borrowing a human vessel to operate in this 3D realm, I am nobody. The soul isn’t attached to a name or possessions. Our souls do have a role though. The role of my soul is to be my true authentic self unapologetically. Utilize my human experience to live accordingly to my heart & souls desire & not so much of the desires of my ego but maintain a healthy balance with my ego for it is apart of me & serves its own role in my life.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://drickanecolesgallery.my.canva.site/drickanecole
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ne.coleworld?igsh=MXh6OTNtbG56YmN4Yg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@ne.coleworld?si=bZPP1s7ZtU2z9jru
Image Credits
Personal Photo: taken by photographer Larry Patrick Oates.
Additional Photos: artwork drawn by Sedricka Morris “Dricka Necole”
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