Rewritten Stories

Welcome to my edgiest interview yet! A conversation with Darshana Avila, an “erotic wholeness” coach.

I began working with Darshana in 2021 as the stress of the pandemic amplified a need to examine old programming around sex and reclaim more of myself.

In this episode On Sexual Healing and Reclaiming Your Erotic Self we explore Darshana’s one-of-kind work and my learnings from it over several years including:

• One simple question that can change your whole life along with your sex life
• How to love ourselves into wholeness and access our highest wisdom
• Why safe, shame-free spaces are needed for the unfolding of our erotic selves
• How we grow our capacity for pleasure in all of our lives

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📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com. 

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.

I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people. 

I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

This week I’m speaking with Tovi Scruggs-Hussein about racial healing and how my own journey began in earnest with a shame-filled moment of her calling me in, back in 2020.

That moment and how Tovi met it and me, taught me how to work with shame in a way I never have before. It sent me on an ongoing path to be more forgiving of myself when I inevitably get things wrong. To grow my confidence in my ability to make an ongoing impact through radical self-love and acceptance. 

This conversation is not only about racial healing work that I believe to be some of the most important work of our time. It’s about a path to finding our voice along with our humanity.

In this episode On Racial Healing and Untethering from Shame, Tovi and I dive into:

• The limitations of quick fixes for systemic racism and the need for ongoing self-reflection
• How shame sabotages our ability to heal and use our voices
• How the medicine of forgiveness and compassion grow our capacity to do hard healing work 
• The therapeutic and healing nature of racial healing autobiographies, and how they can set people free and change their mindsets

✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com. To learn more about Tovi’s work and download the latest edition of Racial Healing Autobiographies visit: https://www.ticiess.com/racial-healing-autobiographies-ebooks

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.

I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people. 

I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

There is a quality that lives in all of us and I think is essential in our ability to heal, speak, create, make art, make a ripple here in this world.

And that quality is willingness.

Willingness has driven all the twists and turns on my path.

Willingness is a unique flavor of courage that puts the soul in the drivers seat.  That helps us stop fighting the resistance and instead welcome it.

In this episode on The Willingness to Be Seen I dive into:

• A song that is supporting me to shift out of validation-seeking work and into something truer
• An experience of willingness from my childhood that holds an ongoing lesson 
• How the willingness to be seen can open up new possibilities
• A willingness prayer to guide you next time you face a scary decision to put yourself out there and be seen.

✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

📓For full show notes and to learn about Cara’s work, visit www.cara-jones.com

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.

I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people. 

I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

What are you willing to risk to speak your truth?

When I started making ‘Blessed Child’, my documentary about leaving my parents’ faith, it opened up some painful history I had tucked away. From early childhood trauma to struggling in my arranged marriage during my twenties.

It took me seven years to make this documentary, in part because I was terrified of losing my parents. At one point it felt like there was no possibility of a happy ending. Either, I speak my truth and lose this relationship or I hold it all in to try to preserve what we have. I got to the point where I was willing to risk the relationship to speak my truth. The call to tell my story was just that strong.

In today’s episode, I’m sharing this story with you and the lessons I have learned on the way. You’ll also hear a conversation I had with my parents last fall about their experience of me creating my documentary and the way it has changed our relationship.

In this episode on speaking your truth, I dive into:

• My considerations between speaking my truth and preserving my relationship with my parents;
• The opportunity of healing together;
• Letting honesty with loved ones be a process;
• A vulnerable conversation with my parents;
• And more.

✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up or go to www.cara-jones.com

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.

I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people. 

I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 6-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

Does speaking your truth come easy to you? It never has for me.

Twelve years ago, I got a call to tell my story about growing up in a wild religion/cult. When I first started, I had every reason not to tell this story. This part of my life was behind me, it wasn’t part of who I was anymore. There was no point in bringing it all up again.

Exploring my story put me on a healing path and part of that healing was letting my version of the story and all the emotions wrapped up in it be witnessed. When our stories are witnessed, they start to lose their grip, and over time, new ways of looking at that story emerge. 

Listen in, as I share how I answered the call to tell my story and the lessons I learned through it.

In this episode on answering the call to tell your story, I dive into:

• The lessons I’ve learned from answering the call to tell my story;
• How each of us holds a unique kind of wisdom because of how we’ve struggled;
• Finding the energy to create the life you want;
• Every time we lose our way, it’s because we’re disconnected from our own medicine;
• And more.

✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up or go to www.cara-jones.com.

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.

I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business.  I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people. 

I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 6-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

Finding your voice and sounding like yourself doesn't just happen overnight. It’s a practice.

We all have these parts in us that are scared and much more comfortable playing roles than being ourselves. The only way to make them feel safe is by taking small bold action. And, little by little, show them that they get to relax, and we can let more of ourselves out.

I’ve been on a long ass journey when it comes to sounding like myself and I’m sharing part of my journey, my practice, with you in this first episode. 

In the end, the only way to find your voice is to use it. Let’s start.

In this episode on sounding like yourself, I dive into:

• My journey and learnings when it comes to finding my voice and sounding like myself;
• How we hold ourselves back from speaking our truth, and sounding like ourselves;
• Finding creative expression through small bold action
• The only way we can find our voice;
• And more.

✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up or go to www.cara-jones.com.

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Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.

I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business.  I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people. 

I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 6-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

We are all born truth-tellers. But we learn too soon how to bury that truth.

Welcome to Untethered Voice, a podcast for soulful entrepreneurs, creatives, healers, coaches, humans with a calling to find a voice that sounds like you. So you can speak your truth, show up, and be seen in your soul-based business.

I’m Cara Jones. I’m a storyteller, a visibility guide, Emmy award-winning journalist, and a total human cheeseball, and I’ve been on a long ass journey with this myself. I’m sharing what I know in the only way I know how… through the hard, beautiful, awkward truth of my own experience.

I share what I know about following your soul's call, finding your voice, being seen, deepening your relationship with yourself and others and growing your work, your business. It's all connected.

An untethered voice is one that holds unique power because of how very long it has been held back. And finding yours will be one of your greatest assets in authentically building your business.

Subscribe to make sure you're not missing an episode, and tune in every Tuesday, starting April 23rd, for weekly episodes on telling your story, speaking your truth (even if it disappoints people), reclaiming lost part of who you are…sexual healing, race, money, power and a whole lot more….

To learn more about how to work with me, visit: www.cara-jones.com