Hear Here :: Hello, hello! I got a chance to talk about the show and this Substack in a Q&A recently published by the widely enjoyed BestEverYou.com. You can read it here. We also talked authenticity, re-invention, and joy. Thanks to BEY and Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino for the coverage.
If you missed my video interview with RuPaul’s Drag Race S18 stand-out, black sheep, fan fave Discord Addams, you can hear it this episode.
And I’m not a woman, but I know that every woman I know has been told, “You can have it all.” But what if “having it all” is the very lie keeping high-achieving women exhausted, guilty, and quietly miserable?
That’s the premise of The Success Lie: Reframing Your Reality to Thrive Personally and Professionally, the new book coming this July from Chantell Preston. This episode Chantell and I look at nine lies keeping women stuck.
And here’s something I used to do many moons ago; we all have: I shrank to please others; I took up as little space as I could. So I loved talking to Leslie Lee Sanders, someone else who learned early how to shrink herself to fit the world around her. Staying silent kept the peace and ensured approval, but it also kept her - and me, maybe you? - from fully living.
“I come from being afraid to speak up to needing to speak out, from listening to what society told me I was, to listening to spiritual guidance and intuition,” Sanders says. “From seeing how systems and ‘structure’ can keep us in a box, to the realization that breaking out and being unique is a superpower.”
In Ready to Listen?: A Spiritual Self-Help Memoir, Leslie chronicles her transformation, not just as reflection but as lived experience. If you’ve ever played small - or are playing small today - this is a conversation for you.
Enjoy the listen!
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Why Some Straight Men Are Afraid Of Gay Men
Looksmaxing: Straight Men Have Discovered Moisturizer And Are Calling It Sexual Strategy
All My Good Ideas Start With A Leash
Pedophiles? Groomers? Don’t Look At The Queer Community, Look Up
What I’ve Learned Interviewing Thousands Of People (And Why It Matters To You)
The One Thing I Hate About Having A Pet (It Rhymes With Vet)
We Fixed Sex. Now We’re Breaking It Again
Gambling With Our Mental Health
Shaun Proulx hosts The Shaun Proulx Show heard weekends on SiriusXM Canada Talks 167. Subscribers can listen to it on this Substack as well. More: ShaunProulx.com
