#175 Layers of Awakening: What It Means to Truly Have a Voice

Find Your Voice, Change Your Life · Dec 4, 2025 · 30m

Today, I interview Manya Gittel who lost her voice during a stroke and woke up to something far more unexpected than the crisis itself. She describes that moment as an inner awakening she didn’t see coming, one that shifted her sense of who she was and how her voice lived inside her.

Manya shares parts of her early life, shaped by her parents’ history and the roles she learned to carry as a child. These patterns became so natural to her that she never questioned them, even as they influenced how she showed up in the world.

What changed after the stroke is something she explains in a way that…