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Shared privately on G+ — Apr 8, 2015

Can't sleep. Unemployment and more of the same seem to be getting to me, so I think I'll ramble, here. Snarky comments toward my plight or person will not be appreciated, as it is roughly 2am at the time of posting. This will likely sound completely ridiculous to me come morning. Impending ramble is go.

Unemployment is around the time that someone starts a podcast, right? That idea keeps floating around in my head, and I have several acquaintances who encourage its presence there. I'm part of this professional women's association (invited because I opened a business, wooo...) and one of our meetings had a life coach presenting her philosophies and strategies. Here's an exercise she had us do (some of you are familiar to tears with it):

  1. Write down a goal.
  2. How long have you had this goal?
  3. What roadblocks have you encountered with this goal?
  4. What have you done in the past 24 hours that relates to your goal?
  5. How do you expect to feel once you've accomplished this goal?

The first four were easy to tackle. I've always wanted to write a book, time management has gotten in the way, and I'm always reading. Snarky response ("I'd feel accomplished!") aside, I realized that I expect to feel heard if I ever publish a book.

I think this is supposed to be a light bulb moment? It felt more like a circuit closed and rave lights shot on. Since I was in middle school and my parents would complain they couldn't see me when my choir performed, I'd tell them, "I'm there to be heard, not seen." I thought myself very clever, turning the whole, "Children are to be seen and not heard," adage on its head.

Even if I'm in a large performing group, I still feel heard, as long as the group is supportive. My saxophone skills are still mediocre as all get-out, but my section is very supportive. They grok my concern about carrying my own weight, and that alone makes me so much better.

I can't stand the pseudoscience and lack of ethics that are running the massage industry. I've tried to talk to multiple people about this multiple times, and I've failed to connect with anyone who truly wants change. Given this failure to communicate, I'm out. I thought massage therapy would be the perfect combination of psychology and physiology, where I could let people decompress and focus on themselves to the fullest extent, but that is not what the industry is, at this point in time. I'll keep my state certification since it doesn't require any continuing education, and things might get better in the future, but I cannot continue paying for services that my two other affiliations fail to live up to. Complete and total lack of communication in those departments.

I went to an employment agency on Monday, and the orientation facilitator was even talking about the importance of being heard. I wanted to stop her then and say, "I WANT YOUR JOB!" I'll just trust the process, for now.

Everything that I ever latch onto (reading, music, writing, friends) feeds into my desire to be heard, even during the times when I'm the one doing the listening. Given this tendency, multiple people have suggested a start a podcast.

Sure! And talk about what, exactly? If I go through with it (as the list of ifs grows), how about a podcast about being heard? I'm sure it's been done before, but that's one of my roadblocks to writing. Why should I work on a story that might have been done before? Because this perspective would be mine. Who would want to listen to it? No idea. But for starters, I could talk about how poorly university advisers seem to listen. I could make a VERY long podcast about how Lunapads is keeping girls in school, giving them a chance to be heard.

I dunno, I'm just spitballing, here, and waiting to make sure Simon is finished puking is furry little guts out (picture was taken on Sunday), as he is heaving on a hairball.

I think I'll hit Share, now.

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