Giving You Permission To Share Your Gifts
This is an empowering talk where I challenge the idea that you need a certification, title, or step-by-step formula to share your gifts. He speaks to creatives who feel boxed in by rules and external validation, reminding us that our worthiness comes from within, not from approval or credentials. With warmth and clarity, Lou encourages you to stop waiting for permission and trust the intelligence of your soul to guide the way.
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Podcast Transcript
Lou: Hello. Welcome to another solo episode of the Art and Business of Meditation podcast. I am your host, Lou Redman, and today is just a boost of motivation. So if you're feeling like I just need to get empowered, I want to share something that I think will help you move forward, help you take action on your work. So I really hope you enjoy this. I've been sober for 10 years. I've also been a solopreneur for 10 years. Often, our healing and creative journey go hand in hand. It's as natural as an apple ripening on a tree. As we transform ourselves, our creativity opens and the fruit of our healing makes a contribution to the world. Many people who do this become teachers, healers or guides. They are often forced into this category called coaching, which doesn't capture the essence of what they do. The coaching industry gets a bad rap. People want to make it wrong because it's unregulated. Sure, some toxic players will take advantage. Of an unregulated system. Discernment is important. But does anyone question this need for something to be regulated? Why are we so obsessed with following the rules laid out by others? Maybe because we're still waiting for someone to give us a gold star and say good job, you're doing it right. If we stack enough letters after our name and certifications on our wall, people will think we're legit. However, that's not empowerment, it's dependence. We're brainwashed for approval because we don't trust our innate resourcefulness and we don't trust the intelligence of our soul. Anyone who wants something to be regulated should spend a week in nature. They'll see nothing regulated by anything, yet everything is in harmony and unfolding exactly as it should. God is the great regulator. Nature doesn't need a certification board. What if our human nature was part of the same unfolding? What if we are encoded with everything we need to express and thrive? Remember, we are a speck of dust on a planet spinning through outer space in a universe that is infinitely expanding. Yet we're scared to post about our new business or something on Instagram because oh my gosh, what will my sister in law think? It's helpful to remember. It won't matter. No one cares. We're going to die if we can feel those things in the best way possible. We become free of the little box we put ourselves in. Free to take the leap, start the business, share the post, write the book, say the thing. And yes, get the certification if it calls to you. But don't think that it will Give you the worthiness you seek. As our buddy Joseph Campbell said, if you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path, your own path you make with, with every step you take. That's why it's your path. Put in other words, if you're following someone else's method, there's no room for your unique gifts to blossom. I get it. We're scared. We just want someone to tell us the answers. We want someone to give us the procedure, give us the step by step formula. But that is not what our spiritual journey is. That is not where our true essence, our true fulfillment, our true expression lies. It's in taking that next step, even. When we don't know what is on the other side. And so I share this message as. A boost of motivation for you to get out there in whatever way that means for you, for you to stop waiting for permission, stop waiting for other people to give you the green light, to take the step, start the thing and know that you are being supported. You are being directed. It is like a GPS system. You go off track, you're going to get directed back on. But we need to go off track sometimes to get back on track. So know that I am rooting for you. Get out there. Thank you so, so much for, for listening. Before you take off, I just want. To say that I'm not anti certification. I've been in training continuously over the years and I'm currently getting certified in a new method that I love. But I'm doing it because I'm genuinely. Interested in the work, not because I think it's going to finally make me worthy. I actually have a dream one day of creating a coaching uncertification program where you don't throw out your training. You, you bring it in and you. Learn how to use it as scaffolding. So that your essence comes through. While I have not created that uncertification program yet, I do have my group, Meraki Mastermind, which is the closest thing that I can offer to helping you grow your business your way, supported by others on the same journey. Meraki Mastermind is for meditation teachers, wellness coaches, creative guys who are fun, following a calling and wanting to build a business from their soul. It's a space to clarify what makes you you and be witnessed, challenged and supported by others doing the same. Doors are open. Whenever you're listening to this, if doors are not open or not, please reach out and say that you're interested. Right now the doors are open. For the next cohort. So please would love to bring you in. It is a place of real momentum, loving support, and a deep commitment to your soul's work. So shoot me an email in the description below and I will chat and see if it's a good fit.