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The Voice Behind The Voice · The Voice: Breaking, Believing, Becoming

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  Welcome to The Voice, where breaking, believing, and becoming finally have somewhere to be heard.
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  My name is Kim Munoz, and I'm so excited that you're here.
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  I want to talk a little about the voice behind this voice,
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  because I didn't randomly pick today to start this.
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  April 16th would have been my dad's 79th birthday.
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  In a lot of ways, this moment feels bigger than just a date.
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  It feels like the space between what shaped me and what I'm now wanting to share with others.
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  Because I don't just live for
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  me, I live for my kids, and I live for the people around me that I love.
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  And if I'm being honest, it all probably started with my father.
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  He's the reason I ever paid attention to words in the first place,
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  to what people say, what they don't say, to the way life is felt,
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  even when it's not explained.
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  Without realizing it, he gave me a way to process life before I even knew how
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  much I was going to need it.
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  And boy, have I needed it over the years.
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  The first books he ever shared with me weren't stories.
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  They were always nonfiction, motivational, bettering your life,
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  the kind of books that made you think.
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  I mean, there wasn't a time that I didn't go visit him or he come visit me that
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  he didn't have a new book to give me.
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  I didn't fully understand it at the time, but he was planting something.
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  Actually, he was planting a lot of somethings. This idea that life is always
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  going to change, that the only thing we can really be certain of is that it will not stay the same.
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  I can remember when I was younger even arguing with him about this,
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  especially when it came to relationships.
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  But it turns out he knew a little more than I did.
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  And he used to say, it's how you respond to that change.
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  That becomes the dash between your birth date and your death date.
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  And your dash, well, that's who everyone's going to remember you were.
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  So in a lot of ways, it's the most important part of your life.
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  Because of that, I've always tried to live my best dash.
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  I try to soak up every day that God blesses me to still be here.
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  The thing is, my dad didn't just say these things. He lived them,
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  and he lived them out loud.
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  He also taught me how to laugh at life on the days that you can,
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  because there will be plenty of days where it's just not possible.
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  I think somewhere along the way, that became part of me, not perfectly, but definitely deeply.
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  So this, this podcast, is time I'm choosing to spend with you,
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  and this is me choosing to live it out loud.
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  For my kids, so they can see what it looks like to navigate life honestly.
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  For the people I love, and for
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  anyone trying to figure out how to navigate their own version of change.
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  Because let's face it, life has a way of handing you things you don't quite
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  know how to carry Years of lessons, of challenges, of moments that stretch you
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  in ways you didn't see coming.
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  Relationships that don't turn out the way you thought Versions of yourself that
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  slowly stop feeling like you The deep parts of life that we don't always share with each other.
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  There were seasons, for me, where the only thing that made sense of any of it was my faith.
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  Not the polished version, not the easy version, the version that questions God
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  in your hardest moments and praises Him in the good, but keeps Him in the room for all of it.
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  There was that time for me where the faith wasn't just something I believed.
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  It was something I leaned on every single day.
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  I remember just asking God, show me what you want for my life.
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  Because I didn't have the answers. I just knew I couldn't navigate it on my own.
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  But that faith didn't start with me. Both of my parents led with faith.
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  It wasn't something they just talked about. It was how they lived.
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  And because of that, it became a foundation for me very early in my life.
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  It was something steady, even when everything else wasn't.
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  It was the kind of faith that you could lean into when nothing else is holding,
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  the kind that meet you in the middle of the questions, not just the answers.
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  For a long time, I processed all of that quietly through my writing.
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  That's where the breaking lived, where believing started to take shape,
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  and where becoming began.
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  And that's really where this comes from—these stories, these seasons,
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  these moments that didn't make sense at the time, but shaped everything.
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  Breaking, believing, becoming—it was never just a title.
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  Because some of this was never meant to stay on a page. It needed a voice.
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  The pauses, the tone, the parts you can't fully capture in writing.
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  So this is where we will say it out loud. The things we've been carrying,
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  the things we've been healing through, the parts of becoming that aren't always pretty but are real.
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  Not perfect, not polished, but there will be some humor.
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  Because sometimes I can be funny. and honestly sometimes that's part of surviving it.
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  We'll have conversations, we'll have guests, people will share their own stories
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  of what they've walked through because none of us should be doing this alone.
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  So yes, there will be depth but there will also be a lot of fun along the way.
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  In a lot of ways this feels like a continuation of something that started long
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  before this podcast, a voice that was shaped through years of life,
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  through faith, through lessons I didn't always understand in the moment, but I certainly do now.
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  So wherever you are, if you're in a season of breaking, I want you to hold on.
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  Believing is coming, and becoming, well, that's already happening.
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  And the next time, we're going to talk about the glow-up, because what people
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  see in me didn't happen by accident.
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  Some of it was intentional, some of it was earned, through walking away from
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  what was no longer meant for me.
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  And I think a lot of times in life we skip over the part where it actually cost something.
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  And I'm not just talking about money, although yes, there was a little bit of
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  that too. I'll see you next time, and until then.