In December of 2012 I decided I wanted a voice in this world. I wanted to write and I wanted to be heard. So, I started...

It took me over a year to hit a 100 followers on Facebook. I shared inspiration quotes but if I shared my own words no one (literally not 1 like) would like my posts. I was a stay at home mom with absolutely no idea how to write or use the internet (still don’t really know that much lol). My only real talent was courage. I never had any kind of big break to help get my name out there. I started out completely and totally unknown. I didn’t really do anything special or unique, I just showed every day and kept at it. I just kept writing!

I’ll tell you this: I was made fun of and criticized a hell of a lot more than I was praised.

I’ve done all of the things they say can’t be done in all of the ways they’ve said not to do it. Every day for 7 years I have shown up and shared my soul with the world. I wrote and wrote and I wrote some more, even when no one was listening and even when the only people that seemed to be listening were judgmental assholes. Today I posted a quote of mine from back in 2012...it got 2 likes the first time I shared it. Today it got 80k likes and was shared over 458k times with a reach of 23 million people.

What do you want to do? What are you feeling called to create? Don’t tell me it’s not possible. Anything is fucking possible!!! Just show up.

-Brooke Hampton