Ever head down a path of should, should, should only to one day look up and ask, where am I? Or, even worse, who am I?
This is where we start with this week's FIA Podcast guest, Kate Brewer. When your driving force is to show the world - and yourself - that you can make it, what happens when all the shoulds don’t feel right? How do we overcome our own limiting belief that to change course - call a real-time audible - isn’t proof that we ‘couldn’t hack it’ but rather a sign that we are more than your shoulds?
Kate is a writer and director, and her documentary film, Knots: A Forced Marriage Story was the original catalyst for our conversation; telling these modern day stories of forced marriage in the US. Yet, as we went into her own story, it became about the journey in its entirety; and how sometimes leaving the place you should be can deliver you exactly where you are meant to be.
Kate was unhappily living and working in LA, in a marriage that was falling apart. She told herself, when something needs to change, maybe everything needs to change.
And, then it did. She traveled, pivoted her career, eventually remarried, and along the way found her truth. So much of Kate’s story had me remembering my own departure from the shoulds. And, realizing the ones I'm still living.
For anyone out there doing the most to prove to the world - or more importantly, yourself - Kate and I are here to tell you - stop proving, and start living. ‘Cause when you do, the world opens.
What a beautiful way to send off Season 3. I’ve learned so much, and these stories will propel us forward into what’s next.
Kate, keep telling stories - yours and the world’s. Thank you for using your voice, and living in your magic; it invites the rest of us to be brave enough to do the same.
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