Coffee & Grit - My personal growth in joining my first podcast

Doing the Coffee & Grit podcast was a huge growth experience for me…

First, being on a podcast and sharing my story was scary and something I had never really done on a level like this. I was comfortable sharing most things 1-on-1 with people or even in my private Facebook group, but to share my story with even more people all at once was a bit terrifying!

Here are some of the things I told myself:

Will my story be big enough to be impactful for anyone?

What if we get into topics I’m not ready to share about yet?

What if the message that I need to share doesn’t come through?

What if people don’t like it or me?

I need to be on my A-game to make sure I get the best message out!

These are all limiting beliefs, by the way!

The morning that I was going to be recording this podcast, I felt sick to my stomach. I felt low energetically/spiritually, and I almost called Jason to see if we could reschedule. I felt like if I wasn’t at “my best”, then the message I would get out wasn’t going to be the right one.

I was chatting with a friend that morning about how I was feeling (Thank you Justin), telling him what I thought I needed to do and to send prayers and high vibes my way….and he said “It’s not about efforting”.

Those simple words were hugely impactful for me and they were exactly what I needed to hear at that moment.

After he shared those words with me, I started surrendering (surrender is my word of the year – because I need to work on it)…To just trust that God was going to get the most important message out that was needed for people that day. I took that pressure off of myself, and just knew that He would make sure the message that needed to get out, got out!

Afterall, this podcast isn’t about me, yes – it’s sharing my story and the growth I got personally from doing it, but it’s also about the people listening. It’s about them hearing something that sinks in differently than ever before. Its about them saying - you know what – I want to show the real me to the world, and that’s how I will find freedom in my life!

The morning of the podcast, I was in a state of lack – and we all get into this state where we feel we are not good enough, or that our change hasn’t been BIG enough to truly impact someone else…but you know what? We ARE freaking good enough – we just need to show up as our true authentic selves and things will start aligning.

All too often, we have this perfect image of ourselves that we could NEVER achieve, and it keeps us living small…it keeps us from doing what we’re made to do! If we show up as our messy selves, we grow into the person we were always meant to be. I almost called off that day because I wasn’t feeling energetically aligned and I was making myself sick! Funny enough, once I released that pressure I had put on myself, my stomach was perfectly fine

Obviously I am still learning this message of fully showing all of myself to others. I’ve come a long way, but as you will hear in the podcast, it is a repetitive thing happening in my life right now. I will overcome it someday, and I will surely try my hardest to enjoy the journey as it unfolds.

Sending love to you guys today – keep going and keep growing!! If you want to take a listen, I popped the button below! Let me know what you think of it!!