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How to Find Your Voice, Overcome Self-Doubt, and Live Authentically · The Inspired Speaker Network

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  You are listening to The Awakening Woman on the Rise.
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  If you are a woman who is seeking to live a more authentic life
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  but are feeling not enough to step out fully just yet, you are in the right place.
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  If you are a woman who is looking to live your personal truth
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  and make the impact you truly desire, you are in the right place.
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  I'm your host, Wendy Yacboski. Let's step out in this together.
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  I can only speak for myself. When I go into the deepest part of myself, I get so darn scared.
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  It's like I want to cry. It's like I want to run away. It's like, I can't do this.
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  But I want to. I need to do this. And I want to do it for all of us.
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  There's just something that is so scary that says you can't speak from the deepest part of you,
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  Wendy, because if you go to the deepest part of you and you don't get validated for it,
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  then it's almost like I'm not valuable. Do you feel like that ever when you want to speak from
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  the depths of you because it matters so much, but you're afraid that you're going to somehow
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  fall on your face in terms of who wants to listen to me? This matters to me. I need to say it. I
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  want to say it. You know, one of the things I've noticed is that when I'm teaching for
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  Canadian Mental Health Association in a program called Living Life to the Full,
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  what I've noticed is, and yes, sometimes I have difficulty hearing, but what I've really noticed
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  is that so many women, any age, talk so quietly. They think they're speaking loudly.
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  They think that they are speaking powerfully, but they are hiding. They are hiding behind
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  a quiet voice that takes their power away. It doesn't allow them to speak up,
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  and I'm one example of somebody listening to them. What about other people that want to hear them
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  like I do, and I can't? Maybe other people can't too, and are they thinking,
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  nobody wants to hear what I have to say? It's not the truth. People do want to hear
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  what you have to say, but you need to speak up, and in speaking up, what I'm finding even right
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  now as I'm speaking to you is that the more I speak up, the more powerful I feel,
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  and the more powerful I feel, the more I want to share with you, the more I want you to hear what
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  I have to say, and that is that I care about you, that I care about you living the life that is
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  calling you from your soul. I care about you being able to look in the mirror, and if you did just
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  one small thing today that helped you express your soul in a greater way, that is like the most
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  huge success that you could ever have. Maybe one thing a day, maybe one thing every two days,
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  no one's judging, but you get to look in the mirror and say to yourself, I am for me.
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  I am acting on what's important to me, and that is what I want to be able to help you with
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  in these episodes, is seeing that there is hope. Is it not so easy to go, there is no hope,
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  I can't do this, I'm just going to stop right here and right now and just forget the whole thing.
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  I know what that feels like, I truly, truly do, but there's something stronger than that,
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  and that's that calling that we each have to show up, not to show up and be someone that we're not,
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  but to show up and be who we are, and yes, I get it. Others have not maybe thought that that was
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  the greatest thing, or they have ideas about what you should be doing to show up right in your life
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  and to be successful in your life, but what if they are wrong? What if who you are, what you
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  want to do, and how you want to do it is all that matters, all that matters, and yes, it takes
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  practice, it takes people who believe in you, this is who we're going to be looking for,
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  it takes people who believe in you that say, I'll take your hand, I'll be there with you,
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  I appreciate who you are, it has helped me so much,
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  and when we have that, when we don't think, I need to do this alone, when we know that
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  we don't do anything alone, then we can move forward with the support that we deserve
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  to follow that calling, whatever that is for us. I believe that we are born with,
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  I want to say purpose, but I'm going to call back from that a little bit. I think we're born with
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  an affinity to do things in a certain, when I say in a certain way, in our way, like maybe
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  how we listen to someone, maybe how we talk to someone, maybe how we hold someone, whatever that
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  is, that is from us. I just had a couple of women tell me just in the past two or three days,
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  the difference that I've made in their lives, and it was only by listening to them,
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  believing in them, and you know what, they didn't tell me, Wendy, I need you to believe in me,
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  they were just sharing with me what was important to them, and that is what I'm hoping,
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  that eventually I can hear what's important to you, so that I can see you, I can hear you,
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  you can know that I believe in you, and that what you want is absolutely possible,
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  absolutely possible. So if you are feeling afraid to say something that feels a little bit vulnerable
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  to you, that feels a little bit out there, that feels a little bit risque, I want to invite you
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  to continue listening to these episodes, because you are going to hear not only about me,
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  but you are going to hear about others that I know, very strong, very powerful women that also
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  sometimes feel vulnerable, feel like maybe what I'm going to say or going to do is not going to
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  be received really well, these are not things that we are alone with, they're almost like,
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  what's the word, it's something that we need to go through to get to the other side,
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  and what you will find is that there will be people that absolutely get you,
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  and those are your people. Welcome. I am so happy you're here for this podcast series,
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  and I look forward to being with you each time we come together.