Vanessa Ferlaino, Author of HUMAN. Small book, big mission: challenging what it means to be human.

Vanessa has done many things, and has been many people; she has been an award-winning corporate innovator at a national telecommunications company; she has been an executive at a gene therapy company, and she has also done investment and portfolio strategy for medtech companies. She has also watched her father lose his battle to brain cancer at the age of 49; took too long to realize how a man had taken her voice away, and has made many other questionable choices that forced her to address the trust and value she places on herself.

“But are these the things that define my person? My being?” she questioned. "I have had to be many people — but have I had to be these people for myself? Or for others?

With a new lens, Vanessa sees the system we live in, but thankfully, as an artist, she also sees beyond this framework into the larger world we exist with. She puts these two visions together to share what being #beinghuman means and how the movement was born.

“To me, being human is about our truth — and standing tall when our truth, our voice, is challenged. #Beinghuman is about putting all of these pieces of ourselves together so they can co-exist inside of us.

I founded Vienna Studios to tell true stories of darkness to light and address human nature in this system. And this starts with my debut book, Human, which takes you through a humbling journey of human ignorance of both ourselves and others, and how it can blind us from all that is truthfully in front of us.”

(Listen for the fun story behind the name "Vienna Studios")

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