6 Universal Truths I Am Using to Navigate My Twenties

Rae ☀️
6 min readMay 26, 2023

I’m 25 today and want to share with you what I’ve come to know.

I’m 25 and I’ve seen many successes:

  • I speak 7 languages
  • Notion consulted for a company with over 500+ employees
  • Organised a Youth Mind Summit involving several embassies
  • Published articles in culture magazines, such as The Restless Magazine, CotoJapan and others
  • Taught Spanish & Productivity in low-income area schools in Jamaica
  • Taught English to hundreds of students of all ages in Korea, Japan and online
  • Been on Japanese TV on two occasions
  • Played an extra in a Hollywood film

… and I could list more.

I’m an intersectional mess of experiences. I moved 12 times before I was 10, I have an incurable chronic illness that I conjured up from stress when I was 15, I grew up with a family plagued with all sorts of mental illnesses. I have ADHD and was late-diagnosed only after I paused university in a cry for help, citing depression and crippling anxiety. I’m a mixed-Asian heritage, Jamaican who is currently trying to get a…

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Rae ☀️
Rae ☀️

Written by Rae ☀️

global citizen who loves empowering human-centred, *nonlinear* lifestyles // productivity & personal dev // polyglot, creator, coach & chronic illness warrior

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