Your Voice Is the Strategy

Why Speaking the Truth Isn’t Just Personal - It’s Foundational for Business

For years, I stayed silent.

Not because I had nothing to say. Not because I lacked intelligence, insight, or ambition. But because I had learned-through trauma, through judgment, through shame - that being visible wasn’t safe.

When you are sexually abused at a young age, you learn shame early. When you survive through choices others don’t understand, you learn to stay quiet. When someone you love cloaks you in their shame to protect their fragile ego, you learn to hide. I knew I had a powerful story. I knew I had ideas that could change rooms. I knew I had presence, charisma, and the kind of mind that could pull apart and rewire entire systems. But I kept it buried. Confined to whispered moments with strangers who didn’t know my name - safe containers for a truth too heavy to carry into the light.

So, while I was leading businesses, scaling companies, sitting in boardrooms - I was still hiding. I didn’t post. I didn’t speak. I didn’t share. I believed that my past disqualified me from holding space in the present.

And then came The Cadence Method.

Creating this body of work demanded something different. It demanded truth. Depth. Expertise. And not just the kind you can list on a resume - the kind you have to embody. The kind you have to live.

Because building a business like this one - a values-led, purpose-fueled, impact-oriented business -requires more than skill. It requires alignment. It requires clarity. It requires voice.

And voice can’t co-exist with shame.

So, I started speaking. Not all at once. Not perfectly. But piece by piece, I let my truth take up space. And what I found is this:

The more I aligned with my values, the more courage I had to speak. The more I connected with my purpose, the less power shame had over me. The more I shared my truth, the more powerful my business became.

And here’s the part most business owners miss:

Your voice isn’t just personal healing. It’s business strategy.

Clarity around who you are and what you stand for is positioning.

The courage to speak directly is marketing.

The ability to tell the truth is leadership.

If your business isn’t resonating, it might not be a product problem. It might be a voice problem.

If you’re not attracting the right clients, you might be muting the parts of you they most need to hear.

If your messaging feels flat, it might be because it’s not rooted in anything real.

We don’t need more polish. We need more presence. More depth. More unshakable alignment between who we are and what we’re building.

That’s what I’m doing now. Showing up. Speaking clearly. Saying the things I once kept hidden.

Not because it’s easy. But because my purpose is louder than my shame.

And the truth is: if you’re building something that matters, you’re going to have to find your voice too.

Because you can’t lead in silence. You can’t scale while hiding. You can’t create resonance without revealing your truth.

I’ve found my voice.

And I intend to use it.

So let me ask you: What might change in your business if you finally gave yourself permission to use yours?