WHY YOU ARE IRREPLACEABLE

My favorite TV show (maybe of all time) is Mad Men, which aired on AMC from 2007-2015.

It's a period drama about an advertising agency in the 1960s, and as I have found myself obsessed with that decade throughout my life, I watch it from start to finish, over and over.

In one of the episodes, the ad agency Sterling Cooper is making an ad for the diet drink "Patio," which would later become Diet Pepsi.

Their strategy was to do a copy, frame for frame, of the opening of Bye Bye Birdie. However, the song would be about "Patio," rather than the original Bye Bye Birdie lyrics.

"Bye bye sugarrrrrr!" 🎶

Yet, when the ad was done, the people at Pepsi said that while it was an exact copy, it just wasn't right. They acknowledged the work was well done, but something was "not right about it."

After they left, one character affirmed:

"It's true. It's not right. It doesn't make any sense. It looks right. Sounds right. Smells right. Something's not right. What is it?"

Another matter of factly answered, "It's not Ann-Margret."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AgTnQok3RU

In my community, Day 1. we had a call where we talked about Superpowers and The Inner Light.

It was kind of a two-fold conversation because it was about the superpowers we hold as individuals, and also, the inner light that works through us in the grand theatrical presentation of manifestation.

Acknowledging and seeing that your "being" is enough to move someone tremendously is very powerful, and it has little to do with what you do.

This was a powerful realization for me years ago, being raised in the "doing-obsessed" culture of the West.

The truth is, while I do things, I understand my being as sacred. This is why I don't really give a fuck about what other people do, and I don't see anyone as "competition."

Someone can come along and make an exact copy of everything I do. (Nothing's original anyway.) They can come in and follow me and copy me and do things based on what I do... but... they're not Andee Scarantino.

They don't have my voice.

It isn't that one voice is greater than another, but that one voice will touch certain individuals no MATTER the action.

It's the light.

People will be attracted to your personal light. Your actions are simply 🪓🪵🚶🏻‍♂️💦 (chop wood, carry water)

Just like in that Patio ad, it wasn't about the singing, the frame-for-frame movements, or the skill. It was the essence of Ann-Margret.

And you, my friend, have an essence. You have an inner light and a superpower that is manifest due to that light.

It doesn't matter what you do or how you do it. People will be attracted to that light because it's you. ✨