Amplify! with Karen Curry Parker

How much do you edit yourself?

How much do you hold yourself back from radically authentic self-expression?

These questions aren't about shaming you or judging you for toning it down. It's about exploring where you may have allowed yourself to muffle your own voice, your own creative drive.

Let’s talk about becoming the patron of your own art this week. What would happen if instead of doing a commission for someone else with your art, you commissioned a project for yourself?

Here's to wildly unedited works of art and amplifying your true and relentlessly authentic voice.

If you want some support in amplifying your voice, here's a powerful, next right step for you. Go to our website, www.gracepointpublishing.com, and schedule a call with our publishing consultant. Together, you're going to craft a powerful plan to get your wildly authentic message out into the world.

I'm Karen Curry. Thank you for joining me for Amplify!. Make sure to subscribe and follow us at https://podfollow.com/amplify-with-karen-curry-parker or on your favorite platform so you don’t miss any of the amazing shows we have in store for you. 

May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

Produced by Number Three Productions, www.numberthreeproductions.com

How much do you edit yourself?

How much do you hold yourself back from radically authentic self-expression?

These questions aren't about shaming you or judging you for toning it down. It's about exploring where you may have allowed yourself to muffle your own voice, your own creative drive.

Let’s talk about becoming the patron of your own art this week. What would happen if instead of doing a commission for someone else with your art, you commissioned a project for yourself?

Here's to wildly unedited works of art and amplifying your true and relentlessly authentic voice.

If you want some support in amplifying your voice, here's a powerful, next right step for you. Go to our website, www.gracepointpublishing.com, and schedule a call with our publishing consultant. Together, you're going to craft a powerful plan to get your wildly authentic message out into the world.

I'm Karen Curry. Thank you for joining me for Amplify!. Make sure to subscribe and follow us at https://podfollow.com/amplify-with-karen-curry-parker or on your favorite platform so you don’t miss any of the amazing shows we have in store for you. 

May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

Produced by Number Three Productions, www.numberthreeproductions.com

Last week, I shared some information with you about your Chief Aim. This week, I have a short exercise for you to help you assess whether you’re clear on your chief aim. If you’re not? Keep listening and we’ll discuss 6 steps on how to create your chief aim statement, together. If this is hard for you, that doesn’t mean you’re not ready. If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll never start.

Here’s a powerful next right step for you.  Go to our website, www.gracepointpublishing.com and schedule a call with our Publishing Consultant. Together, you’re going to craft a powerful plan to get your message out into the world. So you can meet your Chief Aim - and do what you came here to do.

Thank you for joining us for Amplify!  Make sure to subscribe and follow us at https://podfollow.com/amplify-with-karen-curry-parker or on your favorite platform so you don’t miss any of the amazing shows we have in store for you. 

May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

Produced by Number Three Productions, www.numberthreeproductions.com

Last week, I shared some information with you about your Chief Aim. This week, I have a short exercise for you to help you assess whether you’re clear on your chief aim. If you’re not? Keep listening and we’ll discuss 6 steps on how to create your chief aim statement, together. If this is hard for you, that doesn’t mean you’re not ready. If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll never start.

Here’s a powerful next right step for you.  Go to our website, www.gracepointpublishing.com and schedule a call with our Publishing Consultant. Together, you’re going to craft a powerful plan to get your message out into the world. So you can meet your Chief Aim - and do what you came here to do.

Thank you for joining us for Amplify!  Make sure to subscribe and follow us at https://podfollow.com/amplify-with-karen-curry-parker or on your favorite platform so you don’t miss any of the amazing shows we have in store for you. 

May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

Produced by Number Three Productions, www.numberthreeproductions.com

1% of people have impact

99% barely make a ripple

If you’re like most people with an idea they want to share, you’ve been collecting all kinds of publishing and marketing “checklists” and “how to publish” reports.  That information is pretty easy to find.

Our clients are a little different.  They want more than to just write and publish a book. They want to make an impact. Maybe you relate to this?

You’ve got a wish, a hope, a snarled up frustrated feeling in your gut that you’ve got something important to share with the world.  You watch other people do it.  Maybe you even hear other people say things that you know you could say better…but you never act on it. 

Or you start, get in the weeds, get too busy, go round and round with it, but never get it done.  In some cases, you never even get it started.

Here’s a powerful piece of intelligence we’ve dispensed to our clients over and over again during our combined 60 years in publishing and visibility coaching.  Until you know why you’re here on the planet - that ONE thing that you were born to do and give to the world - you won’t be ready to share your message with the world.

Napoleon Hill, the great American self-help writer, called this your “Chief Aim.”  Successful influencers - writers, podcasters, speakers - know how to activate their own initiative, because they know where they are headed before they start.

This is more than goal setting.  Goals are tangible metrics that measure how far along you are on the path and are often something you can reach in a short amount of time.  This is about having a big vision, a tangible, but breath-taking desire, to do something impactful.

Pretty much any good publisher and visibility coach can help you meet your goals.  An exceptional publisher and visibility coach will help you push towards that dream that takes your breath away and helps you fulfill the true purpose (the really, really BIG one) of why you’re here. That’s what we live for.  Helping you fulfill your “Chief Aim” is our “Chief Aim.”

Usually it’s not knowing your “Chief Aim” that gets you hung up. 

You might tell yourself:

Who am I to share my message?

I don’t have enough time.

I don’t know where to start.

My business is already successful.  I don’t need to do this.

I have too many ideas.

I don’t know what to say.

I won’t know how to market or promote my work.

I’M NOT READY YET. (We hear this one all the time!)

(Fill in your creative excuse here _________________________)

These are all just clever - but pretty convincing - excuses.

Look, we’ve written books with newborn babies sleeping in our laundry baskets at our feet while sucking on strong coffee to stay awake.  We’ve written books when our elderly parents needed extensive support and care.  We’ve written books from scratch in less than three weeks after losing the entire original manuscript file on our computer. We’ve written best-selling books, launched podcasts, given TedX talks, while homeschooling our children during a pandemic. We’ve written books, spoken on podcasts, given talks on global stages, while raising teenagers.  We’ve written books, hosted podcasts, given talks on global stages while running million dollar companies and simultaneously getting dinner on the table for our families.

When you know your Chief Aim, your excuses don’t win.  You do it anyway. 

Here’s the deal.  Finding your Chief Aim isn’t always easy and if you’re struggling to connect with it, it’s not your fault. 

We live in a culture that encourages us to put our Chief Aim on the back burner - until we retire or we have money or we do it on the weekends or when we have nothing to lose…

We live in a world that teaches us that dreaming is great, but your dream better be practical and “realistic,” otherwise you’re going to get hurt, disappointed and waste your time or money and people will judge you.

We’ve been trained to put our “ego” aside, to deny our own value, and to be humble to a fault.  We’ve been told to not stick out - too much.  We’ve been trained to create with our minds and ignore the screaming of our Hearts begging us to fulfill the reason why we’re here.  We’ve been conditioned away from trusting our intuitive knowing that we’re here to contribute something powerful to the world.  We’ve been schooled in “fitting in” and not “standing out.”

People who have impact aren’t “normal.”  They don’t fit “in the box.”  They don’t even often follow the same set of rules.

The reason why they can go against the grain?  They know their Chief Aim. 

When you know your Chief Aim, you can buck against all those places where you doubt your lovability, question whether it’s safe for you to be authentic, defy all those things you’re afraid of, boldly stand in your power, trust yourself, know how to make good and clear decisions that bring you closer to your Aim, act with great deliberation no matter what is going on around you, and cultivate the energy to get things done. You value your purpose in the world enough to commit to it.

Even if you have bad days - or a rough cycle - you keep going.

We can get you published, produce your podcast, or get you up on stage - no problem.  (We have all of that “in house” and a team of the world’s leading experts who can help you get to the top of bestseller lists, get your Voice out into the world, and help you craft a powerful signature talk.) The tactics and techniques to do this are pretty boiler plate and there are a lot of good people out there who can help you with this. 

But the one thing we do best, is help you find your Chief Aim so that your very presence in a room creates impact. 

Here’s a powerful next right step for you.  Go to our website, www.gracepointpublishing.com and schedule a call with our Publishing Consultant.  Together, you’re going to craft a powerful plan to get your message out into the world.  So you can meet your Chief Aim - and do what you came here to do.

I’m Karen Curry Parker.  Thank you for joining me for Amplify!

May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

Thank you for joining us for Amplify!  Make sure to subscribe and follow us at https://podfollow.com/amplify-with-karen-curry-parker or on your favorite platform so you don’t miss any of the amazing shows we have in store for you. 

Find out more on how you can explore your creativity at www.gracepointpublishing.com

Produced by Number Three Productions, www.numberthreeproductions.com

Find out more on how you can explore your creativity at gracepointpublishing.com

Produced by Number Three Productions, numberthreeproductions.com

Sometimes finding your Voice means that you have to let go of old internal stories and narratives that can make you feel like your Voice is muffled or invisible.  We hold these old stories in our minds and sometimes even in our bodies. 

Anytime we internalize the idea that it’s not safe or okay to be who you are and how you are, the body literally experiences that as trauma.  Obviously, it’s not the same as some of the big, life-threatening traumas that we sometimes experience in life.  And yet, the body responds to messages that disconnect us from the value of who we are and the power of our Voice, in almost the same way.

Having your authentic Voice denied repeatedly actually causes your brain to store the pattern of this experience.  Your hippocampus goes on high alert anytime it perceives that you might be under threat of being re-traumatized and you experience stress.  You also often react to life events in such a way that you take action that “protects” your Voice.

Usually that means we deny our Voice and, often, the purpose of our Voice.

This is one of the hidden reasons why we often procrastinate, fail to follow through, or fear the expression of our creative power. This is why being creative is often vulnerable.

But, the creative journey also has the potential to be a tremendously healing journey. 

Finding your Voice and committing to expressing yourself authentically into the world is a profound reclaiming process that helps you not only help others, but also to remember the true story of Who You Are.

This week I invite you to contemplate the following list of reasons why we deny our Voice.  Explore through journaling whether any of these themes are holding you back from stepping into the power of that once-in-a-lifetime-Cosmic-event that is You and your beautiful and powerful Voice.

Use the following journal prompt to start your exploration: 

What needs to be healed, released, aligned, and brought to my awareness for me to rewrite the part of my story that is still carrying the energy of ________________________________ ?

Listen carefully as I read this list of possible things you might want to put in that blank and feel whether any of this is true for you….

• Over giving and rescuing
• Disorganization and chaos
• Denying myself and what I want and need
• Perceiving aging as devaluation
• Failing my mission
• Not valuing my dreams, my values, and my standards
• Adapting to the expectations of others
• Struggle
• Martyrdom
• Facades and false faces
• Feeling responsible for other people’s feelings
• Losing myself
• Trauma
• Manipulation
• Spiritual warfare
• Lack consciousness
• The patriarchy and oppression
• Compliance out of fear
• Self-Doubt
• Bullying
• Drama
• Projection and expectations of others
• Mediocrity
• Stress and pressure
• Money fears
• People who use fear to manipulate
• Deprivation
• Disrespect
• Binary and limited thinking
• Illness
• Pain
• Sexual shame
• Sexual trauma
• People who don’t hold their own vibration
• Mind control
• My own lack of worth and my own devaluation
• My own “not enough-ness”
• Overdoing
• Overcompensating out of fear
• Desperation
• Disconnection from my Voice
• Disconnection from my Power
• Fear of speaking my Truth
• Weak boundaries
• Guilt
• Shame
• Fear of being authentic
• Lack of self-love
• Not honoring my courage
• Misusing my own energy
• Lies I tell myself
• Lies others tell about me
• Disempowerment
• Denying my wisdom
• Seeing rest as weakness
• Seeing rest as laziness
• Not seeing my own value enough to nurture myself
• Not honoring my own energy
• Not being in integrity with who I am
• Not feeling free
• The fear of prosecution
• The fear of being judged
• The fear of losing my loved ones
• Old vows and promises that are no longer valid
• Denying the power of my own words and my own story
• Feeling abandoned
• Feeling abandoned by God
• Losing my connection to nature
• Not trusting God
• Not believing in myself

Obviously, you may also fill in your own “blank” with whatever feels relevant to you. 

Here’s to unleashing the true power of your unique and relentlessly authentic Voice and telling the true story of who you really are!

May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

Find out more on how you can explore your creativity at gracepointpublishing.com

Produced by Number Three Productions, numberthreeproductions.com

1% of people have impact

99% barely make a ripple

If you’re like most people with an idea they want to share, you’ve been collecting all kinds of publishing and marketing “checklists” and “how to publish” reports.  That information is pretty easy to find.

Our clients are a little different.  They want more than to just write and publish a book. They want to make an impact. Maybe you relate to this?

You’ve got a wish, a hope, a snarled up frustrated feeling in your gut that you’ve got something important to share with the world.  You watch other people do it.  Maybe you even hear other people say things that you know you could say better…but you never act on it. 

Here’s a powerful piece of intelligence we’ve dispensed to our clients over and over again during our combined 60 years in publishing and visibility coaching.  Until you know why you’re here on the planet - that ONE thing that you were born to do and give to the world - you won’t be ready to share your message with the world.

Napoleon Hill, the great American self-help writer, called this your “Chief Aim.”  Successful influencers - writers, podcasters, speakers - know how to activate their own initiative, because they know where they are headed before they start.

Pretty much any good publisher and visibility coach can help you meet your goals.  An exceptional publisher and visibility coach will help you push towards that dream that takes your breath away and helps you fulfill the true purpose (the really, really BIG one) of why you’re here. That’s what we live for.  Helping you fulfill your “Chief Aim” is our “Chief Aim.”

Look, we’ve written books with newborn babies sleeping in our laundry baskets at our feet while sucking on strong coffee to stay awake.  We’ve written books when our elderly parents needed extensive support and care.  We’ve written books from scratch in less than three weeks after losing the entire original manuscript file on our computer. We’ve written best-selling books, launched podcasts, given TedX talks, while homeschooling our children during a pandemic. We’ve written books, spoken on podcasts, given talks on global stages, while raising teenagers.  We’ve written books, hosted podcasts, given talks on global stages while running million dollar companies and simultaneously getting dinner on the table for our families.

When you know your Chief Aim, your excuses don’t win.  You do it anyway. 

We can get you published, produce your podcast, or get you up on stage - no problem.  (We have all of that “in house” and a team of the world’s leading experts who can help you get to the top of bestseller lists, get your Voice out into the world, and help you craft a powerful signature talk.) The tactics and techniques to do this are pretty boiler plate and there are a lot of good people out there who can help you with this. 

But the one thing we do best, is help you find your Chief Aim so that your very presence in a room creates impact. 

Here’s a powerful next right step for you.  Go to our website, www.gracepointpublishing.com and schedule a call with our Publishing Consultant.  Together, you’re going to craft a powerful plan to get your message out into the world.  So you can meet your Chief Aim - and do what you came here to do.

I’m Karen Curry Parker.  Thank you for joining me for Amplify!

May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

Find out more on how you can explore your creativity at www.gracepointpublishing.com

Produced by Number Three Productions, www.numberthreeproductions.com

Sometimes finding your Voice means that you have to let go of old internal stories and narratives that can make you feel like your Voice is muffled or invisible.  We hold these old stories in our minds and sometimes even in our bodies. 

Anytime we internalize the idea that it’s not safe or okay to be who you are and how you are, the body literally experiences that as trauma.  Obviously, it’s not the same as some of the big, life-threatening traumas that we sometimes experience in life.  And yet, the body responds to messages that disconnect us from the value of who we are and the power of our Voice, in almost the same way.

Having your authentic Voice denied repeatedly actually causes your brain to store the pattern of this experience.  Your hippocampus goes on high alert anytime it perceives that you might be under threat of being re-traumatized and you experience stress.  You also often react to life events in such a way that you take action that “protects” your Voice.

Usually that means we deny our Voice and, often, the purpose of our Voice.

This is one of the hidden reasons why we often procrastinate, fail to follow through, or fear the expression of our creative power. This is why being creative is often vulnerable.

But, the creative journey also has the potential to be a tremendously healing journey. 

Finding your Voice and committing to expressing yourself authentically into the world is a profound reclaiming process that helps you not only help others, but also to remember the true story of Who You Are.

This week I invite you to contemplate the following list of reasons why we deny our Voice.  Explore through journaling whether any of these themes are holding you back from stepping into the power of that once-in-a-lifetime-Cosmic-event that is You and your beautiful and powerful Voice.

Use the following journal prompt to start your exploration: 

What needs to be healed, released, aligned, and brought to my awareness for me to rewrite the part of my story that is still carrying the energy of ________________________________ ?

Listen carefully as I read this list of possible things you might want to put in that blank and feel whether any of this is true for you….

Obviously, you may also fill in your own “blank” with whatever feels relevant to you. 

Here’s to unleashing the true power of your unique and relentlessly authentic Voice and telling the true story of who you really are!
May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

Find out more on how you can explore your creativity at gracepointpublishing.com

Produced by Number Three Productions, numberthreeproductions.com

My grandmother had a major stroke 10 years before she died. This left her wheelchair bound and living with limited perception.  Before we brought her home to live with us so that we could take care of her, she had a long stay in a rehab center. She often didn’t recognize our faces, but she always knew our voices.  As soon as she heard any of us talking in the hallway - even though our voices were muffled through the door, she knew we were there. 

We all have a unique voice.  Scientists can measure your voice sound signature and tell the difference between your voice and someone else’s voice. 

You have a unique voice.

And yet, as we grow up, we lose connection to our voice.  We learn to modify it, tone it down, make it more presentable and pleasant, filter what it says and turn it into an acceptable voice. 

We say - or write - the things that are appropriate, that will make us more valuable and increase our perception of our ability to “play the game,” and be successful and correct in public.

But if scientists were to measure your voice signature while you’re saying things you don’t really want to say in the name of being “polite,” they’d still be able to tell your voice apart from someone else’s.

Being a creator - a relentlessly authentic creator - often means liberating your true voice.  Not just having a signature measurable vibration that scientists can assign as being “yours,” but to make sure that the words you speak or write or the art you create actually matches the unique signature of your voice. 

For most of us that means that we have to dig deep and remember our True Voice.  We have to ask ourselves key questions such as:

Who would I be if I wasn’t told to become the person I’ve been pretending to be?

Who would I be if I wasn’t the person I was told I “should” become?

Who would I be if I wasn’t the person I was told to be?

This often begs of us to explore what would we say if we weren’t pretending to be someone we aren’t? 

These questions can be profoundly uncomfortable and yet simultaneously liberating.  Questions that, ultimately, can transform your creative self-expression into a passionate, authentic, and sustainable practice. 

This doesn’t always have to be a trauma-riddled deep dive, although if these questions trigger some grief over the loss of your voice, may I gently recommend that you allow yourself to mourn for your lost voice.  The good news is that this awareness can actually allow you to bring your authentic voice back and share it whole-heartedly with the world. 

I invite you to start this week with a simple exploration that, in and of itself, might be a wildly liberating query.  Begin with this question:

What do I long to tell the world? 

What do you want to sing from the rooftops?  What do you sometimes have to fight to keep yourself from blurting out at the dinner table?

What is your Heart begging you to say?

Those words - that longing - THAT’s the resonance of your Authentic Voice rattling the cage where you’ve hidden it away.

What do you long to tell the world?

May this week be the week when you begin to remember Who You Truly Are - and recover your True Voice. 

May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

Find out more on how you can explore your creativity at gracepointpublishing.com

Produced by Number Three Productions, numberthreeproductions.com

My grandmother had a major stroke 10 years before she died. This left her wheelchair bound and living with limited perception.  Before we brought her home to live with us so that we could take care of her, she had a long stay in a rehab center. She often didn’t recognize our faces, but she always knew our voices.  As soon as she heard any of us talking in the hallway - even though our voices were muffled through the door, she knew we were there. 

We all have a unique voice.  Scientists can measure your voice sound signature and tell the difference between your voice and someone else’s voice. 

You have a unique voice.

And yet, as we grow up, we lose connection to our voice.  We learn to modify it, tone it down, make it more presentable and pleasant, filter what it says and turn it into an acceptable voice. 

We say - or write - the things that are appropriate, that will make us more valuable and increase our perception of our ability to “play the game,” and be successful and correct in public.

But if scientists were to measure your voice signature while you’re saying things you don’t really want to say in the name of being “polite,” they’d still be able to tell your voice apart from someone else’s.

Being a creator - a relentlessly authentic creator - often means liberating your true voice.  Not just having a signature measurable vibration that scientists can assign as being “yours,” but to make sure that the words you speak or write or the art you create actually matches the unique signature of your voice. 

For most of us that means that we have to dig deep and remember our True Voice.  We have to ask ourselves key questions such as:

Who would I be if I wasn’t told to become the person I’ve been pretending to be?

Who would I be if I wasn’t the person I was told I “should” become?

Who would I be if I wasn’t the person I was told to be?

This often begs of us to explore what would we say if we weren’t pretending to be someone we aren’t? 

These questions can be profoundly uncomfortable and yet simultaneously liberating.  Questions that, ultimately, can transform your creative self-expression into a passionate, authentic, and sustainable practice. 

This doesn’t always have to be a trauma-riddled deep dive, although if these questions trigger some grief over the loss of your voice, may I gently recommend that you allow yourself to mourn for your lost voice.  The good news is that this awareness can actually allow you to bring your authentic voice back and share it whole-heartedly with the world. 

I invite you to start this week with a simple exploration that, in and of itself, might be a wildly liberating query.  Begin with this question:

What do I long to tell the world? 

What do you want to sing from the rooftops?  What do you sometimes have to fight to keep yourself from blurting out at the dinner table?

What is your Heart begging you to say?

Those words - that longing - THAT’s the resonance of your Authentic Voice rattling the cage where you’ve hidden it away.

What do you long to tell the world?

May this week be the week when you begin to remember Who You Truly Are - and recover your True Voice. 

May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

Find out more on how you can explore your creativity at gracepointpublishing.com

Produced by Number Three Productions, numberthreeproductions.com