It's easy to assume that once you know your purpose and mission in life, that there are few barriers to actually accomplishing your mission.  However there are times when, even though you know your mission, for some reason, you can't find your voice to speak the truth of your mission.

In today's episode, I talk about the time this happened to me. It was this past year and I just couldn't even verbalize why I couldn't record a podcast, but I just knew I couldn't. I pulled the plug on the podcast, and was ready to pack it in. When I told my podcast producer, Christy Haussler about this, she sent me an email that I read and re-read again and again. Eventually, I found my voice again. Learn what I did and how I dealt with myself during this difficult time.

Show Highlights:

• Finding your voice happens over and over again throughout our lives - it's not a one time thing.
• Why you have to give yourself grace and space when you can't find your voice.
• How Christy's email helped me give myself room to flounder a bit.
• Women in particular, are susceptible to losing their voices
• Where to find support when you don't even understand what is going on with you.
• Podcasting has been a tool that has given thousands of women a voice AND a platform.
• Why patience with yourself is critical when you can't find your voice.

Links:

Christy's Website

Teresa Ott isn’t afraid of the unconventional. When you find yourself questioning “why are we doing what we are doing”? - just because it’s what's expected - it’s time re-evaluate your answers. When she and her husband started questioning why they needed to have a house at all - they began looking for some out of the box ideas. Living in an RV was supposed to be a temporary transition - but after each started second guessing whether the other would “go for it”, they finally reached the point that they were done!

Turning Inward is all about the questioning process and figuring out why you are doing what you are doing and setting your life up to reflect that answers that you want to have to those questions.

Show Highlights:

• The transition out of the traditional life isn’t easy or quick
• You can’t put your transition on a calendar and make it happen on schedule.
• When you do what you are “supposed” to do, it puts you in a perpetual cycle of assimilation.
• Tribalism wants you to fit in and wants you to be like everyone else - but it isn’t your only alternative.
• It’s ok not to have everything all figured out. Give yourself the whitespace.
• In order for creatives to create, you have to give yourself the space to create.
• If we waited to speak until we had it all figured out, we’d miss so much learning from the doing part of the journey.
• The more you learn about something, the more you realize you don’t know a fraction of what there is to still learn.
• You have to find people to support you and believe in what you are doing, but no one else can give you the blueprint for your life.
• Sometimes your relationships will have to shift to accommodate your transitions.

Resources:

Teresa’s Blog - wanderingporcupine.com

AFearlessVenture.com - Teresa’s Business