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 voices
• How our sound can become a channel for the wisdom of our bodies, ancestors and more
• Working with the inner child to free up your expression
• How 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.

📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered 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 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

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 Institute

In 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 it
• My personal experience and struggles with reclaiming my inner leader
• One 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.

📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com

For more information about Joanna Lindenbaum’s work visit: applieddepthinstitute.com

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered 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 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

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 many
• How the resistance to being seen can become creative fuel
• How the natural world support our creativity
• Melodee’s story of the life-saving medicine of creativity
• Our 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.

📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com

For more about Melodee and our Edgewalker’s Retreat visit:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58b609b81b10e310610a1a68/t/663a62e15dede84996675c87/1715102434180/EDGEWALKERS+RETREAT+BROCHURE+-+REGULAR+RATES.pdf

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered 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 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

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 say
• Prompts to help you get to the deeper layers of your truth
• My 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.

📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered 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 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

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 life
• How to love ourselves into wholeness and access our highest wisdom
• Why safe, shame-free spaces are needed for the unfolding of our erotic selves
• How 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.

📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com.

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered 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 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

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-reflection
• How shame sabotages our ability to heal and use our voices
• How 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.

📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com. To learn more about Tovi’s work and download the latest edition of Racial Healing Autobiographies visit: https://www.ticiess.com/racial-healing-autobiographies-ebooks

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered 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 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

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 truer
• An experience of willingness from my childhood that holds an ongoing lesson
• How the willingness to be seen can open up new possibilities
• A 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.

📓For full show notes and to learn about Cara’s work, visit www.cara-jones.com

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered 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 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

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.com

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered 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.