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Episode:

From Waiting to Walking: Stepping Boldly Into Purpose
Category: Business
Duration: 00:50:13
Publish Date: 2025-11-26 11:00:00
Description:

In this episode, I sit down with my dear friend Joy Shaw for a powerful and heart-opening conversation about calling, courage, and trusting the path God lays in front of you. Joy shares her incredible journey of walking away from what was familiar, stepping into the unknown, and learning to follow divine direction even when it didn’t make logical sense. We talk about what it looks like to surrender your timeline, obey the nudges you feel in your spirit, and allow God to reshape your identity in real time.

Joy opens up about seasons of waiting, feelings of unworthiness, and the moment she finally stepped into her purpose with boldness. This episode is an invitation to trust that you are being guided, supported, and prepared for exactly what you’re meant to do.

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KEY POINTS: 

00:00 Welcome to Woman of Influence

00:49 A Deep Friendship and Shared Journey

01:27 Defining a Woman of Influence

03:14 Embracing the Shadow

04:07 The Medicine is in the Stay

07:44 Introducing the Growth Collective

09:27 Facing Fear and Staying Present

20:11 Patterns of Codependency and Narcissism

25:57 The Struggle with Receiving Help

26:33 The Stroke and Its Impact

26:46 Learning to Ask for Help

28:49 Challenges in the Healing Space

30:13 Ethics and Integrity in Plant Medicine

32:30 Personal Identity and Healing

34:09 The Importance of Self-Love

36:31 Collective Healing and Evolution

43:06 Embracing an Untethered Life

45:10 Conclusion and Final Thoughts


QUOTABLES:

“  I used to have this victim narrative around being around feeling taken advantage of. But there was a victimhood to that because if I believed that I was being taken advantage of, I could then be resentful to be taken advantage of, which would then just perpetuate the narrative of, well, Julie just has to do it herself. No one's gonna show up for her. She's just gotta do it. Which would then keep me in the driver's seat and in control, which would continue to perpetuate that narrative.” - Julie Solomon 

“  Our minds are wired for survival, and if you have trauma, they're doubly wired for survival, right? Because you had to make it through a really unsafe environment that you were growing up in, or some event that happened that you had to survive. And so your mind is almost more programmed to keep you alive and to be hypervigilant. I work with a lot of people with PTSD and so we're deprogramming a lot of that and, and we're having to build safety and trust with it.

And the other thing that we have to do is we have to befriend this part of us.” - Joy Shaw


GUEST RESOURCES:

Website: https://www.joyshaw.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/alchemizewithjoy


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