Untethered Voice: Speak Your Truth, Show Up and Be Seen in Your Life & Soul Based Business

In this episode of Rewritten Stories, we step into a moving and transformative narrative from RJ Jennings, first shared on stage at the Stories of Love and Resilience event in Oakland.RJ takes us on a journey of intergenerational healing….one that comes with more surprises than any of us saw coming.✨ This is a conversation for anyone ready to break free from inherited patterns, embrace their truth, and boldly declare a new path forward.Inside this episode:RJ's upbringing on the south side of ChicagoLessons in love and resilience from his familyThe healing practice of self-declarationAn unexpected family connection that shifted everythingThe freedom that comes with finding — and using — your voiceLet this episode remind you: when you declare your truth, you don't just rewrite your story - you create a new legacy. RJ Jennings is a somatic executive coach and facilitator mentored by the late Sensei Wendy Palmer. He is a joyous dad, granddad and Aikido black belt.✨ About Your Host: Cara JonesI'm Cara. Storyteller. Initiator. Voice-liberator.After 25+ years as an Emmy-winning journalist, filmmaker, and trauma-informed coach, I guide soul-led creatives to tell stories that transform and ripple into collective change.My work helps you alchemize the most tender parts of your past into magnetic, service-driven narratives that build real resonance and soulful visibility.I do this work because I've lived the silence, disconnection and performance and I know the cost of holding it in.This podcast, my coaching, and my storytelling mentorship are born from a simple vow:Never abandon your voice again. Not for approval, branding or belongingAlso About Me — I'm a mother to a wild, wise 8-year-old who reminds me daily what untethered expression really looks like, wife to my favorite dance partner, Don, and dog-mama to our yellow Lab Henry.

In this episode of Rewritten Stories, we step into a raw and transformative narrative from Carla Zilliox, first shared on stage at the Stories of Love and Resilience event in Oakland.Carla's story is a powerful reminder that sometimes our greatest gifts are buried under what we were shamed for. ✨ This is a conversation for anyone standing at the threshold of healing, ready to transform old wounds into wisdom and to see emotions not as burdens, but as strengths.Inside this episode:Carla's story of LloronaMetamorphosis from shame to authenticityThe liberation that comes with sharing your story aloudLet this episode remind you: your past does not define you — but owning it can set you free.Carla Zilliox recently retired from 45 years in communications. She's now entering her ‘Crone Soul' Era of trusting her wisdom and guides others to do the same.✨ About Your Host: Cara JonesI'm Cara. Storyteller. Initiator. Voice-liberator.After 25+ years as an Emmy-winning journalist, filmmaker, and trauma-informed coach, I guide soul-led creatives to tell stories that transform and ripple into collective change.My work helps you alchemize the most tender parts of your past into magnetic, service-driven narratives that build real resonance and soulful visibility.I do this work because I've lived the silence, disconnection and performance and I know the cost of holding it in.This podcast, my coaching, and my storytelling mentorship are born from a simple vow:Never abandon your voice again. Not for approval, branding or belongingAlso About Me — I'm a mother to a wild, wise 8-year-old who reminds me daily what untethered expression really looks like, wife to my favorite dance partner, Don, and dog-mama to our yellow Lab Henry.

“Storytelling, when done from truth, becomes a rite of passage, a way to alchemize pain into power.” – Cara JonesThis season of Rewritten is not just a return, it's a new chapter.After walking through a year that stripped everything: anxiety, hormonal upheaval, and the sting of my book being rejected for being “too heavy,” I re-emerge with a deeper truth:✨ Storytelling is not performance. It's initiation.A vision during breathwork cracked me open: It's time to release the inheritance of pain and choose joy as the new bloodline.This episode is for creators, healers, and humans ready to stop performing their wounds — and begin creating from the full spectrum of who they are.Inside this episode:The intimate unraveling that shaped this new seasonThe psilocybin ceremony that changed everythingHow rejection led to realignmentA call to storytellers: stop making pain your brandWhy joy is now my north starLet this episode be your permission slip to tell the whole truth — not just the heavy, but the holy.✨ About Your Host: Cara JonesI'm Cara. Storyteller. Initiator. Voice-liberator.After 25+ years as an Emmy-winning journalist, filmmaker, and trauma-informed coach, I guide soul-led creatives to tell stories that transform and ripple into collective change.My work helps you alchemize the most tender parts of your past into magnetic, service-driven narratives that build real resonance and soulful visibility.I do this work because I've lived the silence, disconnection and performance and I know the cost of holding it in.This podcast, my coaching, and my storytelling mentorship are born from a simple vow:Never abandon your voice again. Not for approval, branding or belongingAlso About Me — I'm a mother to a wild, wise 8-year-old who reminds me daily what untethered expression really looks like, wife to my favorite dance partner, Don, and dog-mama to our yellow Lab Henry.

So much of finding our voices is about remembering who we are and saying YES to our soul's call. In this episode I speak to a long time psychotherapist and guide who uses psilocybin mushrooms in her practice. Together we explore:How plant medicine can help us heal by turning towards vs way from our pain The trance of struggle and how our awareness of it can wake us upThe importance of trust in ourselves and the unfolding of our lives in answering our souls call ✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

There are endless sounds and stories held in our bodies, when we learn to free them, we discover our one-of-a-kind music.In this episode on The Music In You with Phoenix Song we dive into:How to let go and free our voicesHow our sound can become a channel for the wisdom of our bodies, ancestors and moreWorking with the inner child to free up your expressionHow music and sound can help us heal and accept more of ourselves✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

Whatever it is you are afraid to be, you have likely tucked away in what's called your “shadow.”Your shadow contains vital parts of yourself that, when cut off, also cut off your life force and ability to create amazing things in this world. These buried parts of ourselves want expression and, when we pretend they are not there, usually end up causing trouble.On the flip side, you can harness the power of what's in your shadow to fuel your life, creativity and work.“Our shadows are necessary parts of ourselves. Inside of each shadow is a gift and when we try to cut parts of ourselves off we no longer have access to that gift.” - Joanna Lindenbaum/ Coach & Founder @ Applied Depth InstituteIn this episode on The Power Hiding in Our Shadows, Joanna Lindenbaum and I dive into:What the “shadow” is and why we hide parts of ourselves in itMy personal experience and struggles with reclaiming my inner leaderOne thing I never thought I'd say out loud How to notice and bring buried parts of you back to your consciousness and life✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

We are not taught to see ourselves accurately and so, for so many of us, the prospect of being seen makes us want to run and hide.Photographer and breathwork facilitator Melodee Solomon uses fear as fuel to create.She holds space for people to be more fully seen with her camera and, in doing so, step into the next level of their work. In this episode on The Medicine of Creativity and Being Seen, Melodee and I dive into:Why being seen can bring up so much for so manyHow the resistance to being seen can become creative fuelHow the natural world support our creativityMelodee's story of the life-saving medicine of creativityOur upcoming retreat in Joshua Tree June 28th and why you should come!✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

You don't need to spill your guts and life traumas online to grow an audience.You need only learn how to speak human to human.Excavating your one-of-a-kind truth is one of the most powerful ways to connect with yourself and your people.In this episode on 10 True Things + Other Ways To Stir Your Truth, I dive into:Why paying attention to who you're speaking to frees you up to say what you have to sayPrompts to help you get to the deeper layers of your truthMy favorite “10 true things” prompt including my May 2024 answers✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

Welcome to my edgiest interview yet! A conversation with Darshana Avila, an “erotic wholeness” coach.I began working with Darshana in 2021 as the stress of the pandemic amplified a need to examine old programming around sex and reclaim more of myself.In this episode On Sexual Healing and Reclaiming Your Erotic Self we explore Darshana's one-of-kind work and my learnings from it over several years including:One simple question that can change your whole life along with your sex lifeHow to love ourselves into wholeness and access our highest wisdomWhy safe, shame-free spaces are needed for the unfolding of our erotic selvesHow we grow our capacity for pleasure in all of our lives✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

This week I'm speaking with Tovi Scruggs-Hussein about racial healing and how my own journey began in earnest with a shame-filled moment of her calling me in, back in 2020.That moment and how Tovi met it and me, taught me how to work with shame in a way I never have before. It sent me on an ongoing path to be more forgiving of myself when I inevitably get things wrong. To grow my confidence in my ability to make an ongoing impact through radical self-love and acceptance. This conversation is not only about racial healing work that I believe to be some of the most important work of our time. It's about a path to finding our voice along with our humanity.In this episode On Racial Healing and Untethering from Shame, Tovi and I dive into:The limitations of quick fixes for systemic racism and the need for ongoing self-reflectionHow shame sabotages our ability to heal and use our voicesHow the medicine of forgiveness and compassion grow our capacity to do hard healing work The therapeutic and healing nature of racial healing autobiographies, and how they can set people free and change their mindsets✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

There is a quality that lives in all of us and I think is essential in our ability to heal, speak, create, make art, make a ripple here in this world.And that quality is willingness.Willingness has driven all the twists and turns on my path.Willingness is a unique flavor of courage that puts the soul in the drivers seat. That helps us stop fighting the resistance and instead welcome it.In this episode on The Willingness to Be Seen I dive into:A song that is supporting me to shift out of validation-seeking work and into something truerAn experience of willingness from my childhood that holds an ongoing lesson How the willingness to be seen can open up new possibilitiesA willingness prayer to guide you next time you face a scary decision to put yourself out there and be seen.✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

What are you willing to risk to speak your truth?When I started making ‘Blessed Child', my documentary about leaving my parents' faith, it opened up some painful history I had tucked away. From early childhood trauma to struggling in my arranged marriage during my twenties.It took me seven years to make this documentary, in part because I was terrified of losing my parents. At one point it felt like there was no possibility of a happy ending. Either, I speak my truth and lose this relationship or I hold it all in to try to preserve what we have. I got to the point where I was willing to risk the relationship to speak my truth. The call to tell my story was just that strong.In today's episode, I'm sharing this story with you and the lessons I have learned on the way. You'll also hear a conversation I had with my parents last fall about their experience of me creating my documentary and the way it has changed our relationship.In this episode on speaking your truth, I dive into:My considerations between speaking my truth and preserving my relationship with my parents;The opportunity of healing together;Letting honesty with loved ones be a process;A vulnerable conversation with my parents;And more.✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up or go to www.cara-jones.comMeet your host, Cara JonesUntethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people. I'm also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 6-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

Does speaking your truth come easy to you? It never has for me.Twelve years ago, I got a call to tell my story about growing up in a wild religion/cult. When I first started, I had every reason not to tell this story. This part of my life was behind me, it wasn't part of who I was anymore. There was no point in bringing it all up again.Exploring my story put me on a healing path and part of that healing was letting my version of the story and all the emotions wrapped up in it be witnessed. When our stories are witnessed, they start to lose their grip, and over time, new ways of looking at that story emerge. Listen in, as I share how I answered the call to tell my story and the lessons I learned through it.In this episode on answering the call to tell your story, I dive into:The lessons I've learned from answering the call to tell my story;How each of us holds a unique kind of wisdom because of how we've struggled;Finding the energy to create the life you want;Every time we lose our way, it's because we're disconnected from our own medicine;And more.✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up or go to www.cara-jones.com.Meet your host, Cara JonesUntethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people. I'm also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 6-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

Finding your voice and sounding like yourself doesn't just happen overnight. It's a practice.We all have these parts in us that are scared and much more comfortable playing roles than being ourselves. The only way to make them feel safe is by taking small bold action. And, little by little, show them that they get to relax, and we can let more of ourselves out.I've been on a long ass journey when it comes to sounding like myself and I'm sharing part of my journey, my practice, with you in this first episode. In the end, the only way to find your voice is to use it. Let's start.In this episode on sounding like yourself, I dive into:My journey and learnings when it comes to finding my voice and sounding like myself;How we hold ourselves back from speaking our truth, and sounding like ourselves;Finding creative expression through small bold actionThe only way we can find our voice;And more.✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up or go to www.cara-jones.com.—Meet your host, Cara JonesUntethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people. I'm also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 6-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

We are all born truth-tellers. But we learn too soon how to bury that truth.Welcome to Untethered Voice, a podcast for soulful entrepreneurs, creatives, healers, coaches, humans with a calling to find a voice that sounds like you. So you can speak your truth, show up, and be seen in your soul-based business.I'm Cara Jones. I'm a storyteller, a visibility guide, Emmy award-winning journalist, and a total human cheeseball, and I've been on a long ass journey with this myself. I'm sharing what I know in the only way I know how… through the hard, beautiful, awkward truth of my own experience.I share what I know about following your soul's call, finding your voice, being seen, deepening your relationship with yourself and others and growing your work, your business. It's all connected.An untethered voice is one that holds unique power because of how very long it has been held back. And finding yours will be one of your greatest assets in authentically building your business.Subscribe to make sure you're not missing an episode, and tune in every Tuesday, starting April 23rd, for weekly episodes on telling your story, speaking your truth (even if it disappoints people), reclaiming lost part of who you are…sexual healing, race, money, power and a whole lot more….To learn more about how to work with me, visit: www.cara-jones.com