Reading: #90: Everything is a Learning Opportunity (Meg Jordan)

“You look at the way the fates dangle tiny golden threads and you grab them!” That is how Meg Jordan, PhD, RN, CWP, NBC-HWC, Chair and professor of integrative Health Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies explains why — as the acronyms after her name show — she just can’t stop reinventing. “My mindset says there is no such thing as failure,” she says. “Everything is a learning opportunity.” Jordan, who calls herself a “social activist at heart,” began by working as a waitress in the Black Panther pubs, did LSD, rode motorcycles, became a journalist, “wrote commercials for celebrities with sagging cue numbers,” and created documentaries that aired on PBS. Her ability to reinvent comes from “the gumption” she got as a kid from an uncle who believed she could do anything. “I had the gaze of an adult who says you’ve got what it takes.”