259: Raising the Volume on Voices that Matter with Rebekah “Bex” Borucki

In this season of highlighting women creatives who have several different outlets, businesses, and creative modes going simultaneously, I have an incredible creatrix for you to meet today. Join us!

Rebekah “Bex” Borucki has been on the show several times before. She’s a dear friend with whom every conversation is a special treat. She’s the founder of Row House Publishing and the WPP LIttle Readers Big Change initiative. She’s a busy mom of five, meditation guide, author, and publisher of books for big and little readers. She has a penchant for collecting vintage 80s toys, and she was the Cranberry Queen of 1995.

Music Credit: My good friend Lindsay Katt – https://lindsaykatt.bandcamp.com/track/stick-by-me

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Show Highlights:

Bex’s childhood as an artist, knowing she had “something to say” to the world
How her parents encouraged her in creativity but never gave her the formal vehicle to accomplish what she wanted
How some “very cool” teachers, mentors, and other adults helped her along the way
Bex’s creative, professional life today as an author, publisher, mental wellness advocate, meditation guide, social media dweller, and neurodiverse person
How Bex had to shift how she made money and how she views “things”
What Bex has learned about purpose in life: “We all come here with the same purpose: to love, be loved, learn, and teach.”
How privilege has played into Bex’s creativity
The inspiration behind Row House Publishing, a new, equitable, and transparent model to “raise the volume on voices that matter” and highlight authors who have been marginalized in some way
How Bex was driven to create the innovation that is Row House Publishing
How Bex knows to maintain her creative energy with discipline and routine
How Bex finds ways to help others when she feels helpless
Advice that helped Bex along the way: “Discipline brings freedom. Don’t try so hard to be good, but try to be human.”
Those who inspire Bex: her son, Calvin, a barber in Philadelphia who gives haircuts to the homeless population, a man named Terrence who has a kids show, and a poet in Philadelphia (@lindoybs)
How Bex approaches rules: “Ask, who made the rule, why did they make it, and was it made for me?”
Why we have to protest some established rules and create new opportunities
Rules Bex follows: the Golden Rule and the two commandments to love God and love your neighbor