Integrity Is Sexy

The word “integrity” was foreign to me up until my mid-twenties. This is not to say that I did not have integrity, I suppose I just wasn’t conscious of how my personal integrity impacted my everyday existence. Right before I resigned from my job at WeWork in the spring of 2021, a member of the building I managed took me out to lunch as a gesture of gratitude. For context, I worked for my former employer for over 2 years and formed some of the most genuine relationships with the tenants of the community that I was a part of. 

While at lunch, I asked this person, who has great success in their business, “what is the best piece of life advice that you would give me?” They replied by saying, “if you speak with integrity, and have good intentions, you can do no wrong.” Little did this person know how much that advice would impact me over the past year and a half since I started my next life chapter in New York. I am now coming up on my one-year living in Brooklyn, and I can honestly say that my integrity has been the backbone of every single decision I have made. 

From my relationships to the professional opportunities that I have had, I know very quickly whether or not something or someone aligns with me because I know what my values are. I know that I can wholeheartedly stand behind the decisions that I make and the things that I say because I have grown to develop an unwavering sense of integrity. I don’t feel the need to make people question my intentions or feel less than me because it feels so much better to act and speak from a place of honesty. It is a reflection of the person that I am and has allowed me to see people for who they truly are, too.