Soft Power Project

Soft Power Project is a podcast about the part of reinvention we don't always talk about—the uncertainty, fear, failures, identity shifts, and moments when you have no idea what's next. Sherry Fang has honest conversations with women who are figuring it out as they go. No polished success stories. No pretending to have it all figured out. Just real conversations about becoming. ✨Communicate From Within✨ Do you want to communicate with more confidence without becoming someone you're not? My 1:1 coaching helps leaders build confidence, clarity, and self-trust in the real situations that shape their leadership. If you want to have a chat to see if you are ready to become a leader who communicates with confidence and clarity, fill out this form -> https://forms.gle/Ck9YCxzUzamNGJ4v7 👉 For any questions, please find me at softpower.you@gmail.com

Soft Power Project is a health podcast hosted by Sherry Fang, with 114 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Sherry Fang hosts Soft Power Project, a health show with 114 episodes published.

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  Episode #113

  Real boundary setting and the misconception

  Oct 2, 202617 minS1

  A year and a half ago, I set a boundary with my ex: no more direct communication, go to my lawyer. A month later he messaged me to say he'd talked to my lawyer, didn't like what she said, and had blocked her. I didn't hold that boundary. I held an empty fake peace for a year and a half. Last week I told him one last time: all communication goes to my lawyer. Has he listened? Obviously not. But that's okay. That's not my job. Communication only does 10% of the job. The rest is your action. I'm a communication trainer, and I know the irony. I kept hoping that if I could persuade him, everything would be okay. I was wrong. Today on the Soft Power Project I'm talking about setting a boundary when you know the other side won't change. Boundary setting is like strength training. With heavier weights, you're still going to feel uncomfortable. This is your invitation to set yours in one line, with no explanation. Need help confirming a boundary? Email me at softpower.you@gmail.com . If you need my coaching service: https://forms.gle/w4hA9zB1MNCWTfjL8 0:00 - Boundaries When They Won't Change 2:50 - Setting a Boundary With My Ex 5:27 - The Empty Fake Peace I Held 8:33 - Why Written Beats Direct Communication 11:11 - Holding the Line Is 90% of the Job 14:07 - Heavier Weights and Asking for Help Want to understand your own boundary? Let's talk! Fill out this form and see you soon. Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.fm/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/comments Youtube Instagram Do you want to become a more confident, clear, and self-trusting communicator? Let's talk! Fill out this form and see you soon. Would you like to share your life stories? Please fill out this form .

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  Episode #112

  Sometimes the scariest choice is the best one | Stephanie Whitley

  Sep 25, 202652 minS1

  Stephanie Whitley was still in the middle of domestic violence, a new mom to a three-year-old and an almost one-year-old, when a moment in her garden knocked her to her knees. It was late spring or early summer of 2022. She was watering her plants with music in her headphones when grief arrived out of nowhere, and with it a realization: the situation she was in, the choices that had led her there, and the life she could give her children instead. She describes it as a veil being lifted. She knew it would be incredibly difficult. She also knew what she had to do. Sherry and Stephanie talk about what happens after you choose to leave. Getting out was not one decision. She compares it to separating industrial strength Velcro, slowly and methodically, and she names why the time after leaving can be a dangerous one. There were moments when getting back together looked easier. From shadow work, to a therapist who pushed her back into dating, to the custody weeks alone that gave her time with herself. She is fierce about protecting her peace now. She still struggles with guilt about the life with mom and dad both at home. Her definition of soft power is a kind of alchemy: turning darkness into lightness, gently, without forcing it. Her advice for anyone going through it right now: sometimes the scariest choice is the best one. 0:00 - Intro 1:29 - Lost, then a moment in the garden 6:26 - Why leaving is like separating Velcro 15:11 - Rebuilding a relationship with herself 18:53 - Dating after trauma 28:39 - Dating as a single mom 34:47 - Protecting her peace 43:41 - Did it make her a better mom? 46:40 - Soft power as alchemy MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Roddy by Djo, the song Stephanie says resonates with her moment in the garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCfCzzCyMU4 ABOUT STEPHANIE WHITLEY: Stephanie Whitley is a single mom to two young boys. She left an abusive second marriage, and she says she has since worked through most of the trauma it left her with. She is on the parent teacher organization board at her kids' school, was recently appointed to a city committee where she lives, and is going back to school. #SoftPowerProject #SingleMom #Healing #Boundaries Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.fm/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/comments Youtube Instagram Do you want to become a more confident, clear, and self-trusting communicator? Let's talk! Fill out this form and see you soon. Would you like to share your life stories? Please fill out this form .

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  Episode #111

  Validation is delicious, but it doesn't nourish us

  Sep 17, 202612 minS1

  Last year I started the Soft Power Project. I was on my way to reinventing myself, and I really thought I had nailed it. This year I realized I was judging myself for judging myself. Ever since I was little, I've had a camera in my head to judge myself and make sure I show up in a way that's acceptable. When I got divorced at 35 and my world got bigger, that conditioning got worse. This June and July, when I felt my reels weren't getting the likes I wanted, I got really depressed, and I didn't understand why. I had thought healing was black and white. Instead of completely detaching from that conditioning, I just kind of switched audiences. What I'm experiencing is kind of a messy middle, like being handed Lego pieces with no diagram. I'm still not sure who I am or where this is going. Validation is delicious, but it doesn't nourish us. So I ask myself, am I here? If you're in your own messy middle, this is your invitation to sit with a cup of coffee, taste it, and keep that moment to yourself. 0:00 - The Camera in My Head 3:02 - Judging Myself for Judging Myself 6:01 - The Messy Middle and Validation 8:43 - Glow-Ups and the Imaginary Audience #SoftPowerProject #SoftPower #SelfDiscovery #Reinvention Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.fm/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/comments Youtube Instagram Would you like to share your life stories? Please fill out this form . See you there~

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  Episode #110

  Does the healing come before the LOVE? | Mia Vivon

  Sep 11, 20261h 4mS1

  Mia Vivone's measure of a relationship is not the bouquet. It is the man who drove through a parking lot in the pouring rain to help a stranded couple. It was around Valentine's Day, the couple was stalled in the middle of a five lane road, and he happened to be carrying a charging box. She filmed it, posted it, and said: this is the man that I chose. Sherry and Mia talk about what happens when the beliefs we absorbed as children start choosing our partners for us. Mia is back on the Soft Power Project after their first conversation about trauma and the nervous system, this time to say what emotional availability actually means. Not the absence of conflict. She defines it through conflict. From dating apps to princess treatment to the fifty three years it took her to go no contact with her own mother. When a couple tells her they never fight, what she hears is how much has frozen. How long ago the talking went quiet and the flirting stopped. And the women waiting to meet someone already healed are waiting for something she has not found in herself. The more she grows, the more comes for her to grow. Mia says soft power is a sacred commitment to keep the promises she makes to herself. No matter what, she will honor who she is. If nobody has ever shown you what repair sounds like, this is a good place to begin. 0:00 - Intro 1:10 - Same song, different partner 2:38 - What the dating apps make harder 11:19 - Can you do the work alone? 16:10 - Emotional availability and conflict 28:26 - Princess treatment and what it costs 33:22 - The beliefs we inherit 45:25 - Stability, not rich 52:44 - Soft power in a relationship MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Mia's first appearance, Episode 102: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVCRNJxuqvM The UNTRIGGERED Woman Trauma Transformation System: https://miavivone.com/the-untriggered-woman-trauma-transformation-system Dr. Aaron Beck on cognitive schema: https://beckinstitute.org/about/dr-aaron-t-beck/ ABOUT MIA VIVONE: Mia Vivone is a relationship and success coach for trauma survivors and the creator of The UNTRIGGERED Woman Trauma Transformation System. She raised two children mostly alone after coming out of an abusive relationship, working two and three jobs across eleven years of college. She hosts The Untriggered Woman Podcast. https://miavivone.com/ https://www.instagram.com/mia_vivone/ #SoftPowerProject #Relationships #EmotionalAvailability #WomenPodcast Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/comments Youtube Instagram Would you like to share your life stories? Please fill out this form . See you there~

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  Episode #109

  Start with the why

  Sep 3, 202611 minS1

  Putting your healing journey on social media means living in a constant contradiction between authenticity and performance. I don't think anyone ever told me that part. Late June and early July arrived all at once. The Soft Power Summit in New York had just happened, I hit the 20k mark on Instagram, and my family life was coming apart. I'm working on resetting my relationship with my parents. When you set boundaries, people who don't know this new version of you push back. I let the ugliness come out. Then I spent about a week and a half in bed. Then came the question of why I do this. I had started asking whether to work the hook better, reorder my own story so it lands harder. I'm not here to be an influencer. I'm here to take away the shame. I'm still figuring out the balance. It still bothers me when something doesn't perform. On the Soft Power Project I want more unpolished conversations, the ones that aren't success stories. Soft power here looks like telling the story instead of performing it. I'm here to find my people. If you're struggling with this, start with the why. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 0:17 - What Happened in June and July 0:51 - Resetting Things With My Parents 1:33 - A Week and a Half in Bed 2:13 - Authenticity Versus Performance 3:33 - I'm Not Here to Be an Influencer 5:04 - A Better Place With Social Media 6:42 - Why I Started, and What I Want Now 9:08 - What Do You Want to Know? #SoftPowerProject #SoftPower #MentalHealth #SelfDiscovery Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm5etbvm00a1i01sl6k6h99de/comments Youtube Instagram Would you like to share your life stories? Please fill out this form . See you there~

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