Meet Josh Trimble

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Josh Trimble. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Josh below.

Josh, first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.
Although it is an ever-evolving climb, I always find the best remedy for imposter-syndrome is through the belief in those around you. I am very blessed to be surrounded by people who I think are incredibly talented, hard-working, and noble. One day I had the realization that if those people tell me I am worthy of what I am searching for, why would I not believe them? It would be a disservice to them and to myself to not believe them.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I am an independent artist focused on music and cinema. I was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, surrounded by loving family and friends. I am very fortunate to have been immersed in a community that always championed my desire to pursue art.

I was a relatively healthy kid with a lot going for me, but I struggled early in life with mental health, which led to an intense battle with addiction throughout high school and early college. I am now 8 years sober and have a story to tell.. and for that I am forever grateful!

I am in the process of recording my first album and filming a visualizer for it. It’s titled: “Love & Adolescence”

This project serves as a eulogy to the early part of my life where I struggled to find balance. The process of putting so many massive moments into a focused story has been incredibly cathartic and I am so excited to share it with people.

After years of schooling in Audio Production and Jazz Guitar at various institutions, I am grateful to have finally reached a space where I can support myself independently through my art. The next step is to graduate from some of the busy work that comes with being a working musician and funnel that extra time into my own art, which I have slowly started to do.

My goal in life is to inspire others with the resilience and perspective I’ve gained from overcoming my own challenges.

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?
The most impactful qualities, skills, and areas of knowledge in my journey include curiosity, diligence, and loving people.

For as long as I can remember, I have always had a competitive and diligent spirit. I come from a family of survivors. There were people around me who were deeply struggling. To witness their strength and determination to overcome made it impossible for me to fein in the face of their strength.

I have always been blessed with a gift of curiosity from an interesting mixture of personality/thinking traits from my parents. This curiosity has protected me from the nature of life’s redundancy. My curiosity has also pulled me from the darkest of spaces. Throughout the multi-year battle with addiction, I had maintained that my will was driven by a curiosity to do better for myself. At one point I had convinced myself that it was through drugs I could explore and be infinitely curious.. but it would eventually be my curiosity to see past the things the held me from finding more value and meaning in life that motivated me to walk away from drugs.

Ultimately, my greatest asset in life has always been my love for people. No matter where I have been or what I have done, I have always had an innate sense of adoration and fascination for people and their stories. I am incredibly blessed to have come from 2 parents who are incredibly generous and thoughtful human beings, both with a love for people that was instilled in me.

My advice to folks early in their journey would be to lean into your community as much as possible. I spent years pouring myself into others and denying them the right to do the same for me. Everything changed when I started asking myself what I wanted/needed and literally SAYING IT OUT LOUD!! Those who love and care for me have never once hesitated to help me get the things I need. I have developed a mantra that I live by everyday:

“Pour yourself into those who pour themselves into you, and your cup will never be empty.”

Any advice for folks feeling overwhelmed?
I am still working on developing a more consistent approach to this, but one of the main things that changed my life was yoga/meditation.

Yoga was a necessary grounding vehicle to force me into my own vessel and make me stop for the first time in life.

I have always had an incredibly active brain, for better and for worse. The Meditation that comes from yoga offers me the gift to just simply notice the thoughts I have and realize that I AM NOT MY THOUGHTS.

I don’t do as much yoga as I should, but when I do it seems to fix almost everything.

Being overwhelmed these days is most likely a product of being overstimulated (at least at a basic level). Put the phone down, do NOTHING but breathe and think for 10 minutes. It may feel torturous at first but it’s because we are so addicted to being constantly stimulated that we don’t know how to be still. It is through stillness that you will rediscover your truest intentions and find a calm in the storm of life.

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