Listener Voicemail Day: Five Women Say the Quiet Thing Out Loud

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There is no guest on the mic today. There is you. It is Listener Voicemail Day, one of Jen's favorite episodes to make, and it lands in the middle of our permission series, right after Jen asked you to find your one true sentence and say it out loud. You did. This episode is what came back.

It comes in two halves. First, the women who called about Jen's mom, Jana King, who, as Jen puts it, a genre.

Have something you need to say out loud? Head to JenHatmaker.com/Podcast, look for the Send Voicemail button, and tell us the quiet thing you finally said, or the one you are still working up to. We are listening.

Thought-provoking Quotes:

• "It is real work as moms to not take our own burdens and gently pick them up off of our own shoulders and place them on the shoulders of our kids." - Jen Hatmaker
• "Hearing your mom describe a different way of loving and existing was incredibly freeing for me." - Stacy, listener voicemail
• "It's just a new terror every day." - Sena, listener voicemail
• "I betrayed myself to keep everyone comfortable." - Gina, from her poem "Backfire"
• "The truth is, I'm sad because I've given up on myself." - Courtney, listener voicemail
• "You do not have to have the answer, or even the path, in order to say the true sentence." - Jen Hatmaker

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Sacred Yes: What My Mom Taught Me About Courage, Curiosity, and Starting Again (Jen and her mom, Jana King) - [EPISODE LINK]
• Say the Quiet Thing Out Loud, Jen's solo episode and the one true sentence assignment - [EPISODE LINK]
• https://jenhatmaker.com/podcast
• Letters from the Middle, Jen's Substack, where the honesty conversation runs all month - https://jenhatmaker.substack.com/
• The AWAKE Collective, Jen's subscriber community on Substack - https://jenhatmaker.substack.com/p/the-awake-collective
• Tell us your story. Leave a voicemail at https://jenhatmaker.com/podcast, look for the Send Voicemail button.

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