Speak Your Truth and Let the Miracles Begin

“At any moment, you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The journey to Speaking Your Truth is a road of self-discovery.

And it hasn’t always been an easy journey for me.

As a child, I chose to please others as a way to get along — a choice that moved me further from the truth of who I am.

I had learned early on that having my mother’s opinions made life easier.

When I graduated college, I didn’t know what I wanted to do next.

I had a Government and Economics degree from Bowdoin College, one of the top 10 liberal arts colleges in the country, and didn’t feel prepared for anything.

I took a job in the Tax Shelter Department of Paine-Weber in Boston, just because it sounded good and I didn’t want to go back to homecoming without a job.

I tried hard to fit in and it is hard to fit in where you really don't belong.

It wasn't long before I realized, this job was leading to a future I did NOT want.

I attended a transformational seminar that promised I could have anything I wanted.

The one thing I stood up in the seminar to share was, "What if you don't know what you want?"

As I sat and watched the transformations, and experienced my own freedom for the first time. Freedom to choose a future that was not predicted by my past. I saw the fulfillment of what I wanted out of studying both Government and Economics. I saw a path to a world that worked for everyone, with no one and nothing left out. I saw speaking creating new futures. I wanted in on that.

I began the path to leading transformational seminars with the goal of traveling the world as a highly-paid business consultant bringing a new way of partnering with employees where everyone profits.

I still didn’t know what I wanted, but I knew I loved the transformations that happened in the seminars, so I volunteered to lead their seminars.

I was well-trained and awarded for my effectiveness, but it was their material, their words, and their money...not mine.

After 15 years of speaking, I still didn’t think I had anything of my own to say.

Take it from me, you have no idea what you are missing when you withhold your truth from yourself and others.

However, just speaking for my self, my business, my money, did not mean I was speaking MY truth, I said what I was told my audience wanted to hear.

While the attendees got value from my expertise, how to take the stage, where to stand on stage, how to stand in their power and speak up to be heard, I was still cautious about sharing my true self, my God Self. My Soul. I was a supporting player in my own life.

I argued with God,

“Speaker Training, really?

This is your big idea?”

 and heard,

“I’ll bring you my messengers. you have them be good.”

I recognized that was my mission. Speakers who knew their mission didn't necessarily understand how to deliver their message effectively.

Even as a solo-preneur, doing my mission, I was STILL acting as a supporting player in my own life.

I trusted, [and with the help of divine guidance from both mentors and clients I was divinely “brought”,] I began the journey to reconcile my Speaker Self with my God Self.