What is your voice and where does it go?

When did you last say the thing you actually meant, not the version that sounded safe, polished, or approved of in advance?

In this episode Caitlin and Chantelle sit down with writer and creative coach Lois Mac to unpack one of the most misunderstood parts of being a creative, thinking person: your voice. Not how you sound. Not your tone or your niche. The actual perspective underneath everything you've borrowed, adopted, and decided because someone else told you to.

We get into:

• Why "authenticity" became one of the most inauthentic words online, and what it actually means to strip everything borrowed away and find what's left
• The three departments every creative process needs (creator, editor, publisher) and why the editor sneaking in too early kills more good ideas than bad execution ever could
• Why faithfulness to an idea is the wrong goal entirely, and what it means to stay faithful to the process instead
• The fear underneath "fear of being seen," which isn't about judgment, it's about being wrong in public and having to live with that
• Why the most interesting parts of what you believe live exactly where two of your values contradict each other

And the question that might sit with you longer than the episode does: what are you still wearing that was never yours to begin with, and what would it feel like to take it off?

Your voice was never missing. It was just buried under everyone else's idea of who you're supposed to be.

Ways to connect with Lois:

• Writing Wildly
• Instagram

If anything in this episode stirs something big, please bring it to a friend, a therapist, or someone who loves you.

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