Opa Hysea Wise
Opa Hysea Wise is an American author, born to mixed race parents, and her latest book “No Place to Hide” was released in 2020. Like so many people of color, she came to experience a sense of “otherness,” which fueled her desire to discuss diversity as the woven fabric within the American tapestry. She worked as a Training and Development specialist and manager in Government and Corporate organizations. Often tasked to develop and deliver diversity courses, Opa brought a sense of understanding, compassion and a call to action to her audience, with the firm knowledge that returning to the connection we all have would be but one step to returning to love. As both a Jack Canfield Success Coach and an author, Opa Hysea Wise looks to set a fire within the hearts of both her students and her readers.
Her book No Place to Hide released on Nov. 3, 2020, is a a riveting page-turner about a woman caught in the crosshairs of an agri-business’ corporate assassin. Against hope, Smythe Windwalker Daniels’ anonymity is compromised, and a threat has been made against her life. The danger impacts not only her life but the lives of those around her. She reluctantly accepts the FBI’s protection, hoping to testify and bring a promise of justice to a community. Smythe is a woman with vision in her eyes and fire in her soul. From a young age, Smythe was discriminated against as a mixed-race girl in a predominantly white neighborhood. She leaves her career to escape the corporate rat race, only to get entangled in a pesticide poisoning cover-up attempt by a mega corporation. While on the run, she seeks to find meaning in events that now threaten her life. Through a series of misadventures, she discovers how all events are all woven together in this tapestry called “life.” As she uses her past experience to find meaning in her present, she begins to see beauty in the midst of chaos. But the harder she tries to hide, the more difficult it is to survive.
Opa’s journey began with her imagination, and the wisdom she shares in today’s episode about choosing your imagination, letting go of any attachment to our dreams, realizing you have everything you need to make your dreams a reality, and not giving up is timely and powerful. What do you believe in? Is your mindset one of growth and expansion, or limited? A powerful question, Opa begins today’s episode with this question and the perspectives she grew up with. As an adult, Opa looked at life through the lens of her life experience, personality, and social conditioning. She now realizes that those filters had an impact on what she believed in, and whether she believed in a universe that was full of abundance and endless possibilities, or believed it to be a universe with just enough finite range of options, limitations and full of lack.
Today, she’s moved to a perspective where she’s allowed her imagination to see beyond what’s in front of her, a universe with limitless potential, a place of expansion. As she shares, to reach this space of expansion only requires s a willingness to open up to a greater version of oneself, a shift that will create a more meaningful life. We just have to be able to imagine it. For Opa, the key was to let go of any attachment she had to her dream. She had to let go of attachments to how her dream would show up, she couldn’t insist that her dream would occur only under a certain set of specific circumstances, but instead she had to trust. She had to trust that step by step, her path would open up before her. That there really is a universe full of abundance and endless possibilities, and Opa offers her story to encourage you to not give up on your dreams, especially if you’re in the throws of trying something new.
“[None of the struggles of 2020] have the ability to diminish the use of our imagination, to call forth what does not exist into existence, to try something new that when you think about it puts a smile on your face. I know for some of you there is doubt right now, but you have to understand that your doubt is only a pre-programmed social condition that you have bought into for far too long. Isn’t it time for you to follow a new path? The only thing that is required from you right now is to determine what you want, dream big, and let go of any attachments to how your imagination will become a physical reality.”
Tune in on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bZHrtjAzbksbLWNaak1NM
Tune in on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-of-inspiring-joy/id1510488632
To learn more about Opa, her work, and her new book visit her website Opahyseawise.com and on Facebook @opahyseawise Twitter @Opahyseawise and you can find "No Place to Hide" is available wherever books are sold including Amazon Indiebound Bookshop Walmart and Barnes & Noble
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