By Angela Noel
January 19, 2017
Seems like just yesterday we were dressing up in feather boas and funny hats together, but CK Sanders has been CEO of a successful New York business for sixteen years now. She once helped me catch crawdads in a pond, and now she helps New Yorkers experience the great outdoors through day trips to craft breweries, wineries, and other hot spots for agritourism.
If owning her own business wasn’t enough, CK launched a music career as a side project. Her recently released single, “Who We Are,” feels like an anthem to everything I want 2017 to be: heartfelt, collaborative, creative, and true.
CK’s band, Spiral Jetty Club, consists of herself, and a rotating list of collaborators. She deals with heavy issues like consumerism, love, spirituality, and women’s issues with playful empowerment and a pop, electroacoustic sound.
The band released “Who We Are,” the first ever crowd-sourced song and music video, in December, 2016.
The vocals are beautiful, the message is simple: Don’t just say you’re fine. Do Something. “Shed the old skin,” CK sings, “grow the light from within.”
The images in the video–women of all shapes, colors, sizes, and professions from a range of historical periods–speak to the power in all of us.
“Sometimes,” CK says about why she and Jocelyn Mackenzie wrote the song, “just taking a small action or facing down one of your fears opens a whole new world of possibilities.”
Please enjoy.
WHO WE ARE by Spiral Jetty Club
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Inspiring women rock. Lovely post Angela. Have a great week.
I’m so glad you liked it! I can’t get the song out of my head. Enjoy your weekend!
What an inspiring song! So glad that I found your blog and found this.
Thanks, Louise! It means a lot to both CK and me that you stopped by. I’m determined to make 2017 a year when I step up my advocacy for others. WHO WE ARE helps remind me of what we can accomplish together.
A truly inspirational woman. 🙂
Thank you for stopping by! I totally agree.
Great song, I even found her on Spotify so I’ll listen to her other stuff, too! Thanks for telling me about it.
She is really a go-getter! Love the video.
I’m so glad you think so! I do too.
I’m listening to Sapiens on CD right now and it seems to go hand in hand with an Undoing Racism workshop I attended this last week. Heavy stuff. Still processing but hope to write about it somewhere, because that’s what I do. It is speaking to me as part of my whole “listen first” and “acknowledge the other side” path I have been talking about lately. It’s testing my ability to do so… 🙂
I think that’s awesome. I’d love to read more about what you’re thinking about.