Today we’d like to introduce you to Dee Dee Dochen.
Hi Dee Dee, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
There’s a quote I love, by Ed Wulfe of blessed memory: “Everyone should have a dual career – a career focused on your profession and a career focused on the community. They both benefit each other and each makes you better at the other. You’re helping and growing with people and helping the community.” Indeed, I feel lucky and grateful that I’ve long found so much fulfillment, for 30+ years, investing time and heart into my business, the community, and a third element, my music. Best is when the three intersect, as they have the past few years via the ReelMusic concert of JFS Houston’s ReelAbilities Film & Arts Festival. Initially, something I chaired and helped produce voluntarily, ReelMusic has grown to be a full-fledged, professionally produced performing arts event that showcases the talents of creatives who live with disabilities and that goes far in energizing, entertaining, and enlightening audiences. As a singer who knows music’s power to connect hearts and souls, I love working with amazingly talented individuals who do the same. And I am immensely grateful to have had parents who instilled such strong values of insight and caring. Their model powers my passion for helping individuals, organizations, and businesses tell their stories.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle-free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
Sometimes, I have to get out of my own way and do for myself what I coach clients to do: proceed with confidence and conviction. Believe in the possibilities!
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about DDD Marketing Communications?
Helping individuals, businesses and organizations find and articulate their most powerful messages in order to achieve impact has always been a fulfilling passion of mine. The approach has informed everything I’ve done professionally and voluntarily for 30+ years, and takes many forms. Through my business, DDD Marketing Communications, it comes in the forms of presentation coaching, transition communications, crisis communications, storytelling consulting, and message-based event production. In my volunteer world, and in the professional work I do for nonprofits, it also means getting inside the core of organizations, helping them tell their stories in ways that transform hearts, minds, and inspire action. The rewards come when I watch my clients and their messages soar!
We love surprises, fun facts and unexpected stories. Is there something you can share that might surprise us?
People don’t believe me when I say I was a shy child, but I was! Precocious, yes, but shy. My confidence found its voice when I found my own voice through singing. This experience has helped me help others who have “it” but who just need a little help finding the power in their own unique talent or message.
Contact Info:
- Website: DDDMC.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deedeedoch/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dee.dochen/
Image Credits
Marc Nathan
