Your Write Life Coach | Motivation and Momentum for Heart-Led Authors

You may have already called yourself a fraud at least once this week. Not out loud, but just that quiet voice that shows up right before you hit send, right before you speak up, right before you finally share the thing...

In Part 1, Laurie Davies got honest about the decade of inner work — and self-rejection — behind her debut book, Emotional Hoarding: Letting Go of the Stuff That Keeps You Stuck . In this second half of the...

In this first half of a two-part conversation, I sit down with author, speaker, and lay counselor Laurie Davies to talk about the long road to her debut book, Emotional Hoarding: Letting Go of the Stuff That Keeps You...

Most of us never actually stop to ask why we write. We assume we know — and often, we're wrong. In this episode, I take listeners back to my own teenage assumption that being good at English meant I was meant to be a...

I sit down with author Angela Ruth Strong — flight attendant, breast cancer survivor, and multi-published, award-winning writer of Christian romantic comedy — for a candid conversation about the real road from...

Before Chicken Soup for the Soul became a bestselling franchise, the original manuscript was rejected 144 times. Jack Canfield's advice for handling a pile of no's? "Reject rejection. If someone says no, just say NEXT!"...

That email. That phone call. "Thank you for your submission, but it's not a fit for our list right now." If you've ever felt your whole identity as a writer wobble after reading one of those, this episode is for you...

Readers don’t connect with your vocabulary — they connect with who you’re being on the page. In this episode, I break down three practical ways to help readers experience your writing instead of just understanding it...

From the outside, momentum looks like nothing's happening — until suddenly it is. In this episode, I take us back to my childhood, riding shotgun in my uncle's twin-engine Cessna, to unpack a truth every heart-led...

You've been told your whole life that multitasking is a skill — maybe even a superpower. You put it on your resume. You wear your ability to juggle everything as a badge of honor. But what if it's been costing you more...

What if the pressure you feel to make it happen right now is the very thing standing between you and a lasting publishing career? In this episode, I share one of the most powerful — and most overlooked — strategies in...

You’ve probably said it. Maybe you’ve said it this week: “I just don’t have time to write.” In this episode, I lovingly, firmly push back on that story — because what looks like a time problem is almost always something...

<p>What if the wall between you and the work you were made to do isn’t your writing, your marketing, or your platform at all — but something much closer to home?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I get honest about what...

<p>You’ve poured yourself into your writing. You’ve revised, wrestled, and stayed up too late getting it right. And still — crickets. Polite nods. A readership that doesn’t quite connect the way you...

<p>Have you ever felt so harshly judged that you stopped being yourself just to survive? </p><p><br></p><p>In this deeply personal episode, I share the story I don't tell lightly — the time I almost lost my dream job...