What if becoming more fully yourself isn’t about resolving your contradictions, but making room for all of them?

In the Season 3 premiere of Here Be Dragons, Rachel and Clair honor Dolly Parton by looking beyond the milestones of her extraordinary career and toward the lessons found in how she lived. Through stories about her early self-belief, her departure from The Porter Wagoner Show, the publishing rights to “I Will Always Love You,” Dollywood, the Imagination Library, and her deeply practical generosity, they return to one of Dragonhood’s central reframes: two things can be true.

You can be confident and nervous. Grateful and ready to leave. Kind and boundaried. Ambitious and generous. Rooted in where you came from and determined to build something new.

Whether you’re learning to trust yourself before the world catches up, protect the value of what you’ve created, or use your own success to create opportunity for others, this episode is an invitation to replace either/or with and—and to keep becoming more fully yourself.

Stay tuned for Part Two!

Action Item:

Where could your skills and compassion come together to create meaningful action?

Where are you treating two parts of yourself as contradictions when they might both be true?

Share your thoughts with us at askthedragons@dragonhood.world or join the conversation using #HereBeDragons.

Keep Soaring with Additional Resources:

• Dolly Parton: Here I Am (2019)
• Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute (2021)
• Steel Magnolias
• 9 to 5 (1980)
• Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
• Buy the book! Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You by Dolly Parton
• Buy the book! Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson

Related Here Be Dragons episodes:

• The Power of AND
• Make Room: The Practice of Letting Go
• Second Acts: The Art of Becoming
• Better Ways to Say Yes and No