Listener Voicemail Day: Five Women Say the Quiet Thing Out Loud

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There is no guest on the mic today. There is you. It is Listener Voicemail Day, and five women called in to say the quiet thing out loud. This one lands in the middle of our permission series, right after Jen asked you to find your one true sentence and say it. You did. It comes in two halves. First, the women who called about Jen’s mom, Jana King, who joined the show from home during Me Camp and has since become, as Jen puts it, a genre. Trish is a fellow 1974 baby who was handed limiting beliefs instead of courage, and who is doing the work now so she does not pass that down to her own young adults. Stacy is caring for a mother with dementia and heard in Jana a picture of the kind of older woman she still wants to become. Then the women who took the assignment. Sena calls from Wilmington, North Carolina about the particular weight of parenting kids who came home through adoption, sons who are Black in a country that does not extend them innocence or youth, and the loneliness of a fear you cannot say out loud in public. Gina answers with a poem. Courtney says the truest sentence she has: she is sad because she has given up on herself. Jen sits with every one of them, and not a single woman called in with her thing resolved. That is exactly the point. You do not have to have the answer in order to say the true sentence. Have something you need to say out loud? Head to JenHatmaker.com/Podcast, look for the Send Voicemail button, and tell us the quiet thing you finally said, or the one you are still working up to. We are listening. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE The Sacred Yes: What My Mom Taught Me About Courage, Curiosity, and Starting Again (Jen and her mom, Jana King) — [https://jenhatmaker.com/podcasts/series-64/the-sacred-yes-what-my-mom-taught-me-about-courage-curiosity-and-starting-again/] Say the Quiet Thing Out Loud, Jen’s solo episode and the one true sentence assignment — [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-love-with-jen-hatmaker-podcast/id1258388821?i=1000780030567] Letters from the Middle, Jen’s Substack, where the honesty conversation runs all month — https://jenhatmaker.substack.com/ The AWAKE Collective, Jen’s subscriber community on Substack — https://jenhatmaker.substack.com/p/the-awake-collective CONNECT WITH JEN Connect with Jen! Jen’s Website - https://jenhatmaker.com/ Jen’s Substack - https://jenhatmaker.substack.com/ Jen’s Instagram - https://instagram.com/jenhatmaker Jen’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/jenHatmaker/ Jen’s Facebook - https://facebook.com/jenhatmaker Jen’s YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JenHatmaker The For the Love Podcast is presented by Audacy. #JenHatmaker #ForThelove #Midlife

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• Peace