Well the first thing that I want to say is, that I am so honoured to be here with you guys- Ladies and am sooo happy that you have created this awesome community- #LadiesOfHive.
And now I feel complete, though I didn't know exactly what was missing, this community has definitely filled that void, so thank you so much once again, it is so nice to be here with all of you.
Anyway, My name is ChocolateScorpi and sometimes people call me Leesa- Leesa Jane if I am in trouble...Lol..🤣., though I much prefer Scorpi, chocolate, or Lees- anything really, as long as you don't call me boring!
I spent 30+ years working in all facets of Hospitality- Food and beverage was the most fun- especially as I was a serious cocktail Queen (and still love mixing things...), however front office reception and reservations is much cleaner....
Anyway, even though I was always a career oriented hospitality girl, I had my first heart attack at 38- which was a good thing, because then I had an epiphany of sorts and decided that I really wanted to help people that actually need the help.
A rare selfie of me today on my #WednesdayWalk
So I tried to get work in the medical industry after doing a few courses, but that didn't pan out and in the mean time, found employment in a non profit community media production house producing a human rights, social justice, environmental, youth and minority community current affairs show called SKA TV for 4 years.
Recovering from my heart attack (which I will talk about tomorrow night as it is very relevant to ALL females), I realised again, that even though the people that I had been helping, by being a platform for them to create awareness of their issues, thought that they had no voice- they did.
So then I created my own production company- https://www.chocolatescorpion.com did a few commissioned jobs- mainly for non-profits, so not a lot of $$$ there and created my own original and unique passion projects to be a voice for animal rights and welfare, of which I have been trying to get funding for the past 10 years to get on the air.
Now we all know that animals do actually have voices- it's just plain and simple logic and we humans can definitely hear them, cause they sound exactly the same as humans voices (just not as whiny), it's just that most humans tend to ignore those voices- and there's the problem (one of the many...) to my solutions. https://www.chocolatescorpion.com/animalis
Anyhooo, I know what my whole reason for being here is, and that is to help the animals and the environment by using my video production skills and I will never, ever stop trying to get these co-produced and broadcast. https://www.chocolatescorpion.com/animal-volunteers-abroad
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And that is also how I feel about Women's issues too, which is why 10 years ago, after getting out of hospital, I teamed up with a friend of a friend, who has now become my dear Susie Q, as for the past decade I have been following her around to film an observational documentary following #MeetMyHero- genetically radical Sue Armstrong- fine artist, peer advocate as she pounds the pavement meeting with all kinds of people in the community to speak to them about supporting her campaign to get female only wards re-instated in hospitals for the safety all females in psychiatric care and I finally finished editing a 45min cut and a 5min teaser of my doco. And by the way- I've got 17 interviewees and about 34hrs worth of footage to cut down...https://www.chocolatescorpion.com/impatient
And here's a photo of mission control.
I've done everything on it, including the sound treatment on Audition- after I taught myself to do it with the help of some youtube tutorials (damn Humming airconditioners and hissing mics) and creating a music score (Garageband) and although it's far from perfect- as I had zero budget when shooting it, so no help- just me doing all cameras, sound and lighting and having been editing it on an old Imac from 2009 AND had heaps of corrupted footage, I'm pretty happy. So a last watch tomorrow for those pesky little mistakes that you always notice AFTER the export... and then onto export.
The 45 minute version is being submitted to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System
So only a feature length and another couple of versions to edit (for festivals) and then onto my other passions- Animals, Animals and animals rights and welfare issues.
And a couple of years ago, as I was caring f/t for my beautiful Mum Lola for 9months before she died from Bowel Cancer, I created my own online shop on Redbubble, https://www.redbubble.com/people/CHOCOLATESCORPI/shop, and Fine Art America- https://fineartamerica.com/art/chocolatescorpi, started digitally massaging my own photos and uploading them to sell on their 77 products, which was fun for Mum and I to be able to do together when she was in laying in the hospital beds (a lot) and then very therapeutic for me to do when she was asleep. And something that I really haven't touched since I met #Hive and became so dedicated (distracted) (addicted..lol....🤣🤣🤣🤣..)
I missed the boat on kids and marriage and sometimes- though not very often, kind of regret that a little bit and if you've even seen the horror movie Idiocracy you'll understand why...😳🙄
And apart from LOVING COLOUR, COLOUR AND MORE COLOUR and having a HUGE sense of humour, with the deep desire to make people laugh, therefore filling them with endorphins AND burning calories, I love Chocolate. Not the expensive, too creamy, too sweet Swiss or Belgium chocolate, but plain old, actually chocolate flavoured chocolate, Cadburys chocolate.
I am a vegetarian and would be vegan, except sometimes, I eat creamy Danish Fetta and sometimes I also eat smoked Salmon and Tuna, though I really wish that I didn't, 😳😞 otherwise I practice all other vegan based philosophies and principles.
And I intend to get the #charity Community on #Hive AND hopefully a #charity Dapp with @AchimMertens, BasilMarples, 
So here's a photo of my Dearest Mum (RIP my love) at #Floriade in Canberra just a few weeks before she left us.
And this was Chad- Chooky, Cheeky, Widgie.... the love of my life..
And here's (was) Snowy the funny little rat bag cat
And here's (was) my 2 beautiful, hilarious girls Thelma and Louise...
And so you have it. Me.
So once again thank you sooo much for creating this community and for having me here!!!
So I look forward to meeting you and your hero and until then, please be safe and well, and look after your family and friends as good as you look after #MotherEarth and all of her furry, scaley, hairy, feathery, wiry, soggy, slimy, tiny, enormous, hooved, clawed, webbed and padded footed children too! 🐠🐃🐌🕷🐍🐓🦆🐸🐁🐿🦋🐢🐞🦍🐈🦆🐥🐜🦑🐛🐄🦇🐪🦏🐳🐊🦀🦌🐖🐢🐏🐋🐝🐒🐙🐠🐃🐌🕷🐍🐓🦆🐸🐁🐿🦋🐢🐞🦍🐈🦆🐥🐜🦑🐛🐄🦇🐪🦏🐳🐊🦀🦌🐖🐢🐏🐋🐝🐒🐙 So #WhoIsYourHero!
And unless otherwise stated- ALL photographs are my originals taken by me sometime in the past decade or so somewhere in my travels and as such, ofcourse they are subject to all international IP and copyright laws and I may have already used them for my own commercial purposes here https://www.redbubble.com/people/CHOCOLATESCORPI/shop And here https://fineartamerica.com/art/chocolatescorpi, So please ask first if you want to use any of them thank you 😀