I was going to record an episode but I feel like it might be easier to write about how I'm doing it wrong. I recently sat down and recorded an episode, on my own, where I was basically telling my listeners "what to do". After recording the episode, something didn't sit right with me. The first question was - "Who da FK do I think I am?" The next, was "who am I to sit here and preach to an audience on how they should handle certain situations?" Then I spiraled and went down a rabbit hole. I spent the next few days listening to other Podcasts and was shocked. There are other women telling their listeners how to live their lives, how to be more confident or how to be the best they can be... it almost made me feel like I wasn't doing enough or good enough. Then it hit me, I DO NOT want to do the same thing.
My mission isn't to sit here and tell you how to live, it's to share stories on how women have lived through seasons, sharing the good, bad and ugly parts of those experiences. My mission is to share with you, stories from REAL women. That to me, is THE MISSION. It's not to sit here and talk down to you, to make you feel like you're not good enough. It's to find comfort in knowing, you are not alone.
Do I have a lot to say about what you are doing with your life, of course, but do I want to stand on of my soap box with a mic and tell you them, No. I want to be the friend that will listen and validate how you are feeling while also throwing in some tips, some hard truths and some guidance on how you can change your environment by taking action. Basically, help you get your shit together, so you can be and live the life you want for you.
I've said it before and I will say it again, I care about what you are going through, but I care more about what you are doing about it. I hate to hear how so many women just find themselves stuck. Whether you feel safe in the misery that is your situation or you haven't found the means to get yourself to transition into the next season. My mission is to share women doing just that. Women, figuring out what they needed to do, to make that transition. I also want to bring experts on to share tools to help guide you to a place where you can ask for help, by introducing different mechanisms that you may have not heard of.
The point of this post is for me to make a promise...a promise to not sit here and use my platform to make you feel like you are doing life wrong or that you can be doing it better; it's a promise to share stories of other women who may have been in the same place you are finding yourself in and what they did to get out of it. My hope, with these stories, is to hopefully help push you to your next season. To remind you, that you are not alone and there are other women out there who have been through it and have made it out. We all deserve to be the best versions of ourselves in any way, shape or form. I can't tell you how to get there, but I can share examples of real women getting there.
I do not want to be another social media account or podcast that makes you feel bad. I want to be a platform that you come to when you need an example of who we are as women, as singles, as friends, as girlfriends, as wives, as moms...but most of all, as humans.
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