Today we’d like to introduce you to Isaiah Laskowski.
Hi Isaiah, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I was raised on a 70 acre plot of land in Fennville, MI with 9 siblings. My mother is from an immigrant family from Mexico & father is 2nd generation American from Poland; both of which came from small families in the city so this was an experiment. By divine fortune, it turned out well.
I always had a wild side. My older brother, Andre, was the same. By age 14, we’d conquered everything there was to conquer in our 70 acre plot of land and we began to desire the CITY. PEOPLE. EXPERIENCES!
I broke up with my highschool girlfriend and moved to California at 18 shortly after my brother left for college in Northern MI. He joined me 2 years later when I was about 21 and we spent the next 5 years together FULLY basking in the fast life of Southern California.
Somewhere along the way, I met a girl who got me into Door to Door sales and it changed my life forever. I had always been a confident man–but when it came to conversational effectiveness & adaptability, I wavered. I had always been a thinker & very athletic, so I was able to skirt along just fine without ever honing in my communication skills. After about 6 months of getting my face kicked in by a variety of homeowners of all personality types, cultures, & moods, I started to become quite confident in my ability to communicate effectively. In fact, over the next 2 years it became a strong-suit. The problem was that somewhere along the way, I’d lost my playfulness. In my new found skill of effective communication, I was developing a bad habit. I’d turned a skillset into an identity.
As a young person, I remember always having a lighthearted, sparatic, energetic side of me. You might hear me burst out in a random song or say something in a wild voice that sounded goofy. OR take off in a full sprint and dive into the grass headlong just to get it out of my system; But somehow, I got caught up in “sounding cool” or “being cool” and I’d forgotten my ability to NOT take myself so seriously.
As I was looking at an old archive of snapchats one day, I saw some videos of me making the goofiest and most energetic videos by myself in my car and with old friends. Something in me WOKE BACK UP. I realized that the way I had begun to carry myself was not ALL OF ME. A side of me that was important for joy had been traded in for a societal structure of what an “adult man” should look like.
That day I made a pivot. I began going on bike-rides and popping wheelies again. I’d run barefoot in the mud and by the river and I’d smile and laugh to myself as I enjoyed the things I used to do as a small boy. My joy came rocketing back.
A few months into this new transformation, a voice came to me at night in a dream and said loudly: “CHILDISH & WISE!”
It hit me DEEP. It was as though my deepest life revelation to date had been wrapped up in a two word phrase.
I woke up and I’d forgotten it. Damn.
I began praying and beckoning God to give me that phrase again. I tried so hard to remember and squeezed every ounce of juice out of my brain trying to recall the phrase. But I couldn’t. I’d lost it–Until about a month later.
Roughly a month had gone by and now I’d fully gone back to life and released the desire into the atmosphere. I was visiting an old friend in North Carolina about a 14 hour drive from where I lived at the time. We were on our way to disc golf and life was simple… and beautiful… That’s when it hit me: “CHILDISH & WISE!” Immediately I heard a second voice this time say: “start a clothing line called Childish & Wise.”
A week after this I had another vision: This one was a moving image, sort of like an animation. I saw myself lying on a bed with the look of utter rest, scerenity, peace, and Joy on my face. Clouds were flowing down from above, passing through my head and flowing over to a desk where an older gentlemen was frantically writing down the content of these clouds… I woke up.
The revelation had deepened. I knew now that the DEEPEST revelations and truths come to us when we’re at a state of total rest. When we’ve surrendered our worries to the Divine Source. And the ultimate way to live is NOT to “mature” in the sense that society tells us; but to KEEP the Childlike ‘awe’ and ‘wonder’ we had as kids and combine it with the wisdom that ‘age’ gives us.
Live Childish & Wise!
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The road was fairly smooth in the natural.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am currently a full time contractor in the trades in order to fund my dream of being full creator, artist, designer & producer. I spend my early mornings talking to God, meditating, & sometimes writing songs before my day job begins at 8am. I get off around 4, decompress my brain & work on designs for Childish & Wise or music.
I have made music since I was a youth and the passion has only grown. I love to write and I love sound. Music happen’s to marry the two.
My deepest desire in life is to inspire people to live at FULL CAPACITY.
TO LAY IT ALL ON THE LINE & BELIEVE THAT ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
To dare to be wild enough to believe that they can DIE WITH PASSION. THEY CAN WALK OUT THEIR DAYS WITH UTTER VIBRANCE & Vitality. And that there life TRULY HAS MEANING.
And that OTHER HUMANS are COUNTING ON THEM to STEP INTO 100% of themselves.
Risk taking is a topic that people have widely differing views on – we’d love to hear your thoughts.
The cave you fear to enter most holds the treasure you seek.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://childishandwise.co/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/childishandwise/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552605682456
