We have a tendency to underestimate quiet leaders. Or we assume anyone successful ISN’T a quiet leader. This hit home for me when my friend Ashley Looker said she wanted to come to my Gathering of Quiet Leaders. As an Empowerment Coach, Mindfulness Teacher and Journaling Expert for ambitious over-achieving humans, Ashley’s got 11,000+ followers for each of her biz and podcast accounts on IG. Her voice is definitely getting heard, and she’s no beginner. 

Listen to our co-hosted convo to reorient and peel away layers of internalized bias. AND if you’ve got a more mature business and want to be in the company of other established quiet leaders!

In this episode, Ashley and I talk about… 

• How our relationships with our voices have evolved over the past several years
• Who we’re taught to be as business owners & disrupting the expectation to be loud and showy
• How we are each doing things differently than we were taught 
• Why she hadn’t thought of herself as a quiet leader until now and what shifted

Mentioned in the Episode:

• Ashley’s Website: http://uniqueholistichappiness.com 
• Ashley’s Instagram 
• Rest is Resistance Book
• Adrienne Maree Brown
• Rachel Cargle

Connect with Adria: 

• Uncover your Messenger Archetype & more at AdriaSophia.com.
• Adria's Instagram @iamadriasophia

When we choose to take our work deeper and bring others into it, some inquiries arise: How do we create offerings that forward our message and mission, that are thought leadership, personified? How do we share in ways that help people feel our offering and that light our fire and keep it burning? And when what we’re creating is so potent and felt, how do we convey it CLEARLY?

Recording this episode with my friend Ahava Shira — author, memoirist, caregiver for her husband with Parkinson's and creative midwife for other writers and caregivers — became a transmission of energy, of feeling. We’ll help you feel what it is to breathe life into your work, to commune with the soul of your offerings and to channel that into sharing. 

In this episode, Ahava and I talk about… 

• Co-creating with the souls of Rooted and TendHer 
• What it means to create on a felt level versus an intellectual level
• How we share without losing that felt sense and bring people inside that feeling
• How we talk about our work clearly without losing the beauty of the language

Connect with Ahava:

• Ahava’s website & TendHer lovinginquiry.com
• Substack “What the Day Holds” 
• Ahava's IG @ahava.shira 

Connect with Adria: 

• Uncover your Messenger Archetype & more at AdriaSophia.com.
• Connect with Adria on Instagram.

We are made up of those who came before us, and the story of our lineage (which doesn’t have to be blood relatives) may hold clues for how we want to show up. Ancestral work can be a way to understand our own voices and can be healing for us and our leadership, helping us show up as fuller, more rooted versions of ourselves. 

For quiet leaders, ancestral work can create a pathway back to our own power, to feel safe to be ourselves in ways we haven’t before, to take up more space and to speak quietly but clearly. 

In episode 206 of Quiet Messenger, I’ll help you investigate the themes in your own lineage, what you hold carried down from your ancestors, what patterns you’re here to shift.

In this episode, I talk about…

• How ancestral connection helps quiet leaders find the courage to speak up
• Stickier aspects like cultural appropriation and the erasure that came with "white"ness 
• What it means for those of European ancestry to connect back to their indigeneity 
• Ancestral connection as a spiritual practice & my rituals to connect with ancestors 
• How to draw on the strength of your ancestors and questions to take you deeper, wherever you’re at in your journey

Mentioned in the Episode

• https://landback.org/
• Nisha Moodley 
• Becca Piastrelli, Belonging Podcast
• Susanna Barkataki - Cultural Appropriation in Yoga
• Dr Rosales Meza’s Decolonize Your Mind course
• Racial Justice educator Lettie Gore - @sincerely.lettie 
• Mallorie Vaudoise - Honoring Your Ancestors

Connect with Adria

• Uncover your Messenger Archetype & more at AdriaSophia.com.
• Connect with me on Instagram.