Why Your Story Is A Gift

What 15 Years of Storytelling Taught Me About Finally Opening It

I turned the camera on the other day and just reflected. Just me thinking out loud about 15+ years of writing books, hosting podcasts, and creating spaces for people to find and use their voice.

What came out surprised even me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfHj8sjo8Zo

The gift was always there.

Long before I had a podcast, before the books, before any of it...there was something in me that believed people’s stories mattered. That the in between seasons, the messy middle, the parts we’re tempted to skip over in our testimony, those are exactly the parts someone else needs to hear.

I didn’t always know what to do with that. For a long time I sat on it. Talked myself out of it. Convinced myself the world didn’t need one more voice.

Maybe you know that feeling.

You've been sitting on something.

A story. A message. An idea that keeps coming back no matter how many times you push it away. And every time you think about actually doing something with it, you talk yourself out of it.

There are already so many.

Who am I to think mine matters?

I’m too late.

I want to say something clearly: those thoughts are lying to you.

The world doesn’t need another podcast. It needs yours. Those are different things.

More than a gift.

God doesn't give us gifts just to have them. The gift was never meant to sit there. It was meant to be opened, used and put to work in the world in a way that only you can do it.

That’s what this video is about. Not podcasting. Not building a platform. Just the reminder that what’s in you is bigger than your fear of it.

If this speaks to you, watch it. And if you’re ready to actually do something with what’s been sitting in you, I’d love to hear about it in the comments.

God already gave you the gift. It's time to open it.

Love & Light