Ruth Stitt appearance: Find Your Voice, Change Your Life Podcast

The Find Your Voice, Change Your Life Podcast

Doreen Downing is a psychologist with over thirty years of experience working with individuals, couples, and groups. She is also the founder of Essential Speaking and is the Training Director for Speaking Circles® International.

Having experienced a fear of public speaking early in her life, Doreen found ways to overcome her fears by honoring her “essential self.” Now she is passionate about helping others to find their voices and speak confidently from their “vibrant inner spirit”.
Doreen hosts a podcast called Find Your Voice, Change Your Life, which has gained a huge following, now ranking in the top 5% of 2.8 million podcasts. This is how she describes the purpose of her podcast:

“I interview people who share how they overcame their fears about stepping up and speaking out. They each offer tips and strategies that you can apply to your own journey to find your voice and change your life.”

I was honored to appear as Doreen’s guest on the podcast, where I shared my own story of finding my voice throughout my life journey—as a creative, adventurous youth, a musician, a Christian, a therapist, a professor, and now, as an author. We spoke about times when I lost my confident voice and had to find it again.
Doreen is a highly gifted interviewer, listener, and encourager. She helped me to feel brave as I shared some personal, vulnerable parts of my story. It was a delightfully honest conversation. Learn more about Doreen and the podcast here.

Watch/listen to my interview here.

 


 

Innovative Teachers of Texas

Innovative Teachers of Texas

Innovative Teachers of Texas is a newly established professional teacher organization providing an alternative for Texas teachers who find that their values and priorities may not align well with previously existing organizations. Their mission as stated on their website is:

To support teachers as individual practitioners by providing professional insurance, dialogue, and resources with which they’ll have freedom to innovate and excel, rendering excellence in American Education. (https://www.ittexas.org/)

I recently was invited to be a guest on the podcast of the organization, hosted by Bailey Baker. Because of my long background as a therapist, Bailey asked me to address questions about specific stressors teachers are facing, their most prevalent mental health challenges, the added trauma of the COVID pandemic, and the difficulties of staying true to their personal faith when working in a secular environment that may feel hostile to people of faith. We ended with some practical steps teachers can take to keep a healthy perspective when under pressure, and how to practice good self-care.

Listen to my interview here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the Deep Dish Discussions website:

Deep Dish Discussions features Authors, Artists, Community Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Experts across the spectrum.

Deep Dish Discussions is an informative, uplifting and empowering talk radio show. Using the Blog Talk Radio platform, we strive to interview experts from every facet of life.

Our mission is to serve our listeners by bringing powerful and informative interviews designed to help them migrate through life. Life is ever changing. So too, are the demands placed on us daily. We strive to be the bridge that connects the information, resources, services and stories of triumph of our featured guests, with the needs of our listeners.”

On May 18, 2023, I had the honor and pleasure of being interviewed on this radio program by Shamielle Alston. Shamielle is a pastor, speaker and author in her own right. In launching the show this year, she demonstrates her gift for facilitating communication about important ideas. She readily and generously encourages others to share their work and unique perspectives on life, faith, and work in a variety of fields.

Having read Scripture Comes to Life: Reflections on Biblical Wisdom in Everyday Experience, Shamielle was prepared with great questions. We discussed some of my personal stories, my work in counseling and education, and the development of my blog and other writing projects, including the book. Shamielle gave me the opportunity to read several excerpts from the book that were especially meaningful to her. It was a delightful conversation, and I look forward to the next opportunity to speak with her!

You can listen to the recorded interview here 

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