We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Sie Savage Chambers. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Sie Savage below.
Sie Savage, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
I’m just a firm believer that it’s not about what happens to us, it’s what we do after the fact. I’ve lived by that for most of my adult life. There’s always going to be good and bad. Comes with the balance of life. More recently I added that Things are happening For me, NOT to ME. It’s helped me to embrace the things I can’t change or understanding that not all things go as planned, but they will work out if we let it. It’s not always the pretty package we envisioned, and we just have to keep going. These values, remembering that I have everything that I need already within me keeps me strong.
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 plant based for about 8 years now. My health journey started alongside my hormonal transition. Having health issued early in my 20’s, I was married, working a 9-5 post college attempting to pursue the “American Dream”. The more I tried to keep up, the more lost I felt. I made the decision to start changing my lifestyle habits, and truly began a journey of self discovery. I’ve been through many unfortunate events that have forced me to make drastic life changes over time resulting in many transitions of starting over. I’ve been divorced, in a 2 alarm house fire, was asked to sign from my career in human services after a decade and start over. I’ve been homeless, I’ve been jobless, Ive been dependent on the very same agencies I used to work for. I’ve been in the room with millionaires, and I’ve been in the room with people who have lost everything. The intersections of my experience are vast. I’ve worked in the private sector, for local government, non profits, and community service organizations. It wasn’t until the past two years that I finally made the sacrifices to full work for myself. I’m neurodivergent,, I have AuDHD, and I’m at the age where I can no longer conform to other social norms. Ive been forced to carve out my own way. I’m a chef on the days folks want to order food and I have access to a kitchen. I’m a health coach daily because it’s a life style. I’m currently paying the bills by reinvesting my pension in cryptocurrencies, and working as an independent whole sale distributor selling anything form chips and drinks to local convenience stores. If I see a need, I fill it. I’ve been lucky to learn how to do many things, so I try to keep myself busy with a variety of things because I have too. My brand as the Plant Based Savage is based on my wellness and lifestyle. That includes, food, fashion, economics, and the environment. I spent over ra decade working in government and doing community work where I was exhausted, but still wanting to contribute artistically. Ive been working on three manuscripts. I have a Rhymes & Recipes Cook book that is currently shelved for various reasons. Im looking to self publish as soon as Ive created the funding a poetry series called For Black Lover Boys Who Arent’ Afraid To Cry Vol. 1, and Vol.2 Broken Rubies. This project tells the very personal stories of life, love, and transition that Ive been through the past decade. It’s a huge part of my focus right now to complete the project, and my other endeavors or otherwise the means to fund this project. Once published I’m looking to travel and get reinsured with the ultimate goal of being a celebrity plant based chef. .I recently started a new online shop with some of my favorite products that will also feature my personal works once completed. Thaplantbasedsavageshop.com
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
I’ve always been told how you do anything, is how you do everything. In my early years I was a student athlete and used to working in teams. Effort can’t be taught. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. There’s a lot of cliche themes, but they have always resonated with me and kept me morally centered in whatever I was doing personally or professionally. I’ve never sacrificed quality and taken my time to do my best. If I can’t do my best, I’m honest enough to not waste my time or anyone else’s. Be accountable, and just be honest and things will go a lot smoother. If you’re not good at something all you can do is work to be better, figure out what works for you.
Before we go, any advice you can share with people who are feeling overwhelmed?
I just stop. Reset. Breathe. I had to stop normalizing this hustle culture and thinking that my value is based on what I’m doing all the time, or how I’m doing it. I’m more focused on doing things well and with quality and effort and understanding that If I can’t, that’s ok too. Being overwhelmed happens to us all, but it’s managing my reaction to things. I’m very passionate, super emotional. I have a lot of triggers. But once I just was honest and accepted those things, I was able to fully embrace myself and just respond and react in a way that was more true to who I want to be, even if I’m not that person right now. It made it more tangible and less pressure to be something I’m not. I had to realize that being overwhelmed was usually linked to some other type of disappointment and I had to start reflecting on those feelings. I learned to never panic, just pivot and it will all be ok. Absolutely nothing last forever.
Contact Info:
- Website: thaplantbasedsavageshop.com
- Instagram: thaplantbasedsavage & TPBS_Rhymes_Recipes
- Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/sie-savage-chambers-5398b7253
- Other: https://linktr.ee/thaplantbasedsavage?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabaFqoV1LyW_XyQdNuI-rU7ussNCIjfCEVvd0Hqt3FBfmpp7jT3r2TyGWA_aem_s5GVkvW_bYDy4_n1jc8BuQ
Image Credits
Vee Rubi Sie Savage
