Meet Hope
WHO IS
HOPE HOLIDAE?
Hope Holidae says what Michele can’t.
Michele is the woman who learned how to be nice.
Keep the peace.
Keep showing up.
Hope is the voice underneath all of that.
She remembers the words Michele swallowed.
She says the shit Michele thinks before
Michele has a chance to clean it up.
Hope is not another person.
She’s a voice.
And every woman has a version of her.
REAL LIFE. REAL LOVE. REAL RAGE. REAL REBUILD.
The Heart Behind Hope
Hope didn’t come from a branding meeting.
She came from me.
The things I’ve lived.
The things I’ve loved.
The things that pissed me off.
And the things I finally decided
to say out loud.
-Michele D. Simon
MEET MICHELE D. SIMON
The woman behind Hope Holidae.
Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Michele D. Simon is an accountant by trade, a healer by instinct, a truth-teller by birthright, and a writer by purpose.
She loves hard, laughs loud, cusses when necessary, and has finally stopped trying to make the truth prettier than it was.
Say It Like You Mean It is her first journal.
Hope Holidae is the voice she finally
stopped editing.
To the women who made it through the fire
with their edges singed but their spirit intact—this is for you.
