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Hey, it's Jesse. Now that we've been making the show for a while,

listeners often write in with our own career stories.

The truth is, you don't really have to be famous or a career expert to have a story

that can teach us something. So I'm going to start bringing you some of those stories and if

you've got something to share I hope you'll write to us at hello Monday at LinkedIn.com.

Sharing our stories, well, it's what gets us through.

It's what helps all of us get smarter about the way that work is changing and that's what we're trying to do here

Elise Patterson first wrote to me last spring after our episode on Blue Delta genes

Remember that was the geneses Company from Tupelo, Mississippi, where

I spent most of the spring, and where, as it turns out, Elise was born. Now she lives in Boston, where she finished up a master's a couple of years ago.

We got started exchanging emails and I was just really impressed with the thing that she's creating.

Here's Elise.

I'm the founder

director of Abilities Dance and as a Boston-based nonprofit dance

company that uses dance as a tool for intersectional disability rights.

We have three different programs and we have our performing company which are all adults with and without disabilities

that train and create work, not just in the dance or choreographer space

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