Have you lost your voice?

How comfortable are you to speak up? Speak your truth?

Speak truth to power?

Truly, really?

It's an interesting question I’ve been asking myself over the last few weeks of summer.

Thinking about themes of visibility and truth and courage.

And what happens when you lose your voice, metaphorically and literally (in my case, thank you asthma).

There is a journey I continue to be on moving my mindset from past employee to fully fledged business owner.

It takes a mental shift to truly feel comfortable to create what you crave and ditch the unconscious programming of what we “should” be doing.

I’ve spoken before about the fight to get a seat at the table.

And instead of fighting, making a choice to build your own.

And I truly believe that.

But I realise I’ve only really just started the building of my business consciously and intentionally in the last few weeks.

And its entirely an inside job.

It's not about business plans and websites and cash flow (although tick, very important!).

It's about the questions that I always ask my clients, but have not given myself deliberate permission to dig a bit deeper into for myself until now.

Questions like…

What’s the hardest thing for me to forgive that may be holding me back?

How do I truly want to define what my purpose and mission in my business really is?

Are my stated values truly my real values, or do they need a whole injection of more “T”ness?

What are the lessons and blessings I can be grateful for from every shitty boss I’ve ever worked for? (news flash, there are more than a handful.)

And can I thank them and move on?

What is truly the kind of power I want to create for myself and others?

Because to take the leap of faith and start my business, seems like a huge amount of wasted time and energy if I don't truly take the time to create it the way I want.

Its starting with asking the right question and hearing my own voice again.

I hope as we head into the fresh start of September that you can refind your voice too.

You could start by giving yourself permission to ask the right question for you.