From Silent to Soul-Spoken: How Owning My Voice Opened Opportunity's Door

My voice and I were once estranged enemies. My voice didn’t act in the way my brain told it to. Yet, I didn’t realize this until another kid in grade school played a recording of my voice to me. I could barely recognize it. The words I thought I was saying came out entirely different—alien.

I learned more about why this was when I was put into weekly speech therapy sessions. I discovered my mouth wasn’t making half of the sounds of the english alphabet “correctly.” THAT explained why people always asked me to “speak up” or repeat myself so damn often.

The speech therapists guided me to do some funky things—peanut butter on the places were my tongue was supposed to be during the fear-inducing “r” sound, sticking a mirror in my mouth like a dentist to show me what I was doing and what the “right” way was.

This isolating experience was intense—but it also gifted me with very early communication training. You see, because I couldn’t say a majority of my native language words correctly and I didn’t wanted to avoid being singled out and made fun of for these differences, my brain got really good at thinking through everything before I said it.

Speaking is the primary way we connect as humans, so these speaking blocks also generated BIGTIME social blocks. You can imagine I spent more time thinking than talking, so I just became that shy kid who barely said anything. Fearing what might come out.

It took years and years of speech therapy to work through the physical challenges of this, training my mouth muscles to know the “right” way. But it took many more years beyond that to break through the social barriers it created.

A life-changing mentor gifted me the way through. He taught me to enter every social situation with a question at the ready. A question that becomes your easy in to engaging conversation. So, I started crafting my master list of questions. Ddeep, juicy self-reflection questions I loved. This question list became my passageway to connection. And slowly, word by word, it worked.

Later on in my adulthood, people honored and complemented my “intentionality” when communicating. This story is the roots it came from—the meticulous crafting of every sound, word, and sentence internally before daring to utter them aloud. The epic gift is that these roots made me into the writer, conscious communicator, and speaker I am today. (Little me would have been SHOCKED and shaking if she watched the way I naturally move through a networking room or dance through my words while on stage.)

There’s a lot in between there and where I am now.

But, let’s fast forward...

Little me would have been SHOCKED and shaking if she watched the way I naturally move through a networking room or dance through my words while on stage...

At the start of 2025, I presented a 20 minute pitch about a mission & vision deeply dear to my heart—Womb Wise Co. A daring act of communicating my soul's Calling and the taboo topic of women's menstrual cycle health to a room of business people. Yet, it wasn’t challenging…it was ENLIVENING. Not just for me, but for the audience too. I was communicating a deeply personal and spiritual topic…and it resonated.

Right after and for weeks to come, I received so many reach outs, thank you’s, and even an opportunity to meet one of my 3 year goals for Womb Wise: to teach cycle-aligned business strategy workshops to a company team.

And this wasn't a one-off phenomena.

This pattern happens again and again:

(1) Communicate the vision with confidence and passion.

(2) Magnetize win-win-win opportunities, collaborators, clients, deals, sponsors, and more.

(3) Spread brand awareness > expand impact.

If you don't believe me yet (or if you think this is just me, it's not!), here's another speaking serendipity...

I recently had a pitch meeting with a potential partner for my latest startup venture, Me2We: an app service offering a simplified way to find your Dream Team. I was meeting with the CEO of a coworking space + large entrepreneurial community—the exact people we need to collab with in order to quickly grow our network & our service's impact. (P.S. Every entrepreneurial venture has these high-leverage, synergistic opportunities right under their nose...just waiting for you to connect and communicate to reach them.)

I entered the meeting with ease, connecting with the CEO and Manager of this organization from my heart, hearing and relating to them, then authentically asking the questions that actually led to THEM pitching ME! They offered to not only refer their community members to us, but also, ended up sponsoring us and giving us their event space for free to host our launch events! WHAT.

I was grateful, but not surprised.

Because when life gives you a mission, and you communicate it with confidence...

it moves people.

So how did I get there? And more importantly, how can YOU get there too? (because yes, you can).

1. Practice. Rip the bandaid off & get in reps!

2. Clarity. Knowing what you're here to do and who you're here to serve.

3. Tools to fly amidst fear & bridge the gap from stress and anxiety to ease and strength in the moments it matters most.

   
   

I'm here to support women's wildest entrepreneurial dreams. One essential tool I can provide for that is supporting you to awaken your most confidence, true voice.

I invite you to join Voice Your Vision Lab, a weekly gathering, to uncover the magnetic speaker in you too…

Learn More about Voice Your Vision Lab!

Voice Your Vision Lab is a weekly meetup group (hybrid) where female founders come together to break through speaking fears and gain reps and confidence in communicating your vision and business offers. This means easier sales, magnetizing your Dream Team, and even gaining investors.