The Quiet Ones Are Listening

Today was one of those days.

The kind where you look at your numbers. You look at your offers. You look at the effort.

And you quietly wonder, Is any of this landing?

You know the work matters. You know the message is important. You know you’re not building something shallow or trendy. You are building something that asks people to confront who they are becoming.

And yet… there are days when it feels like you’re speaking into an echo chamber.

This week I had one of those days.

I had been thinking about the tension so many Soul Professionals feel, the push and pull between calling and practicality. Between vision and bills. Between service and survival. Between the pasture that always looks greener and the messy field you’re actually standing in.

I wrote about that tension honestly in my Substack post last Friday.

From the part where you are still figuring it out. Where you feel the weight of responsibility while also feeling the pull of something larger trying to emerge through you.

I hit publish.

And then I went about my day wondering if it mattered.

A few hours later, I received a message from someone in my community. Someone who has been quietly in my world for some time. 

She wrote to tell me that the article mirrored her experience over the past few months. That in a world where authentic voices are rare, it helped her understand her own experience in a fuller way. It comforted her to know she was not alone. That she rarely makes split-second decisions — but felt a clear intuition to support the work when the pledge prompt appeared.

And then she wrote the words that landed in my chest:

Please continue writing and shining the light for many who follow this path.

I needed to know that, because here is the truth most thought leaders don’t say out loud:

There are seasons when you are pouring your heart, intellect, and spirit into something… and nothing obvious is happening.

No viral spike. No sudden windfall. No applause.

Just the work. Just the showing up. Just the faith.

When you build from soul and strategy, growth can feel invisible for long stretches of time. You are not manufacturing urgency. You are not manipulating fear. You are not promising overnight transformation.

You are speaking to the part of people that is thoughtful, discerning, and deeply reflective.

And those people are often quiet.

The ones who are new to this path of becoming a Soul Professional — of integrating who they are with what they do — are often wrestling privately. They are questioning their sanity. They are wondering if everyone else has it figured out. They are looking at curated feeds and thinking, “The pasture always seems greener on the other side.”

They are navigating the push and pull between calling and practicality.

They are trying to reconcile spreadsheets with intuition.

They are asking: Can I trust this? Can I really build something aligned? Am I the only one who feels this torn?

When they read something that names their experience without glorifying it… something shifts.

It gives them language. It gives them perspective. It gives them relief.

And sometimes, it gives them the courage to keep going.

We underestimate the power of being mirrored.

We underestimate how much people need to hear, “You’re not crazy. You’re not behind. You’re not alone.”

Authentic leadership is not about positioning yourself as the one who has transcended every dilemma. It is about articulating the dilemma clearly enough that others feel seen inside it.

Today reminded me that not all impact is loud. Some of it is quiet and precise.

Some of it is one woman sitting at her desk, reading an article, exhaling for the first time in weeks because someone finally put words to what she couldn’t articulate.

Some of it is a split-second intuitive decision to support the work because something in her nervous system said, This is real.

If you are walking the Soul Professional path — especially if you are newer to it — let me say this clearly:

The tension you feel does not mean you are failing.

The push and pull does not mean you are unqualified.

The financial practicality questions do not mean you lack faith.

The doubts do not mean you are not called.

They mean you are human. They mean you are integrating. They mean you are learning how to hold both vision and responsibility in the same hands.

There are days when I feel the full weight of this work. When I look at everything I am building — the movement, the writing, the programs — and wonder how to sustain it all while honoring the integrity of it.

There are days when I question whether the world wants depth… or just noise.

There are days when I feel I am working so hard and nothing is moving.

And then a message like this arrives. And I remember.

This is not about scale alone. It is about resonance. It is about coherence.

It is about writing and speaking in a way that allows someone else to see their own experience more clearly.

That is the work.

To the quiet ones who are reading — even if you never comment, even if you never attend a live event — I see you now in a different way.

I understand that some of you are processing deeply before you move.

I understand that some of you are integrating privately.

I understand that some of you are balancing enormous responsibilities while holding a fragile but powerful vision for your next chapter.

You are not alone in that tension. And I am not alone in mine.

The Soul Professional path is not linear. It is not always glamorous. It requires a level of internal coherence that cannot be faked.

But it is real.

And when we speak honestly about it, we make it safer for others to stay on it.

So today, instead of measuring impact by visible metrics, I am measuring it by something else:

By the courage it takes to tell the truth.

By the willingness to keep writing even when no one seems to be responding.

By the quiet pledge that says, This matters.

If you have ever wondered whether your voice is landing… keep going.

If you have ever questioned whether anyone understands the dilemma you’re navigating… they do.

Sometimes they are just quieter than you expect.

And sometimes, on a day when you need it most, they will let you know.