
Does Everything Happen for a Reason? With Katie Dalebout
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The Origin of 'Let It Out'
Exploring the backstory behind the podcast's name and its connection to journaling, self-honesty, and vulnerability.
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Speaker 2
And the name of your podcast that you started 10 years ago is called Let It Out. And now that's the name of your brand and you have Let It Out kits, which I want to talk about as well. But what did that mean to you? The phrase Let It Out and why you wanted that to be the name of what you were doing.
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Well, to be honest with you, it really just, again, like most things in my life, like it just sort of happened that way because. So I had this blog that was wellness related. So I had a different name and then I was like, oh, I feel like that shouldn't be the name of this operation anymore, but I wasn't really so sure about changing it. And so I got a book deal kind of unexpectedly with Hay House and it was the book I wrote is about journaling. And it I got this book deal when I was 23. And it was kind of it was a really wild experience. And so then I was writing this book and I knew right away what I wanted the book to be called even how to in the book proposal. And I actually had a longer title, but the book is called and it exists. It's called Let It Out, A Journey Through Journaling and like cringe at the word journey. The whole thing is it's very 2013, like I'm wearing a flower crowd on the cover. And it's like a script font that I just like even at the time, it's like, oh, I feel like I want to change this because it was too late. You know, it didn't the aesthetic didn't age well, but I'm also so grateful I chose journaling because it's free and it's accessible and it's quite useful. And it's something that I still really stand by. But you know, of course, anything that that you do when you're younger, we our opinions change. So the book was called Let It Out. And when the book came out, I was like, I think I'm going to change everything to be called that because and my publisher loved that idea. You know, they were kind of like, that seems best for your platform. You know, and so I did. And I was just kind of like, all right, well, it kind of works for the podcast, right? Like it's kind of a force. Like I think it works a little bit better for journaling than it does for the show, but I just kind of went with it. And as you know, I have, you know, what I call soft stories, which are these tender moments that I hope that if we record for long enough and we can kind of just forget we're recording for other people to hear and we can just be people with each other and really earnestly have a conversation that is somewhat vulnerable or just we can actually connect. And I think there's so much transference with people that's so important and that can actually happen on podcasts. I think there's like a conversation intimacy that we're all craving, which is why I think people will will eavesdrop on other people having conversation intimacy and feel like they're getting it too. You know, I think especially us being so isolated just the way that we live less in community than we did, you know, many, many years ago. And so anyway, I think let it out kind of works for that, letting out a part of ourselves, that's true and real so we can connect with each other. And when I was a kid, whenever I was sick, my mom would, I just remember like, got to let it out like if you like needed to throw up or something, you know, or you needed to blow your nose like let it like, okay, come on, let it out. And then it was opposite emotionally. It was like, push it down, push it down. Like, come on, perfect attendance. Let's go. It works. So like, hurry up, you know, and so I think if I just kind of flipped it of like, what if it is just as important to get the snot out as it is to get how you're feeling about something that's needling at you, you know, and that that's kind of what, why I think I turned to journaling. Nobody really told me to it. Just it felt so cathartic to be real for the first time and honest for the first time because I never ever was. I was constantly just like chameleoning and trying to fit in and not be found out. And like, you know, and I think there's a real release that comes to self honesty, you know, beautiful.
This episode we're pondering the age-old question- "Does everything happen for a reason?" with a wonderful guest, Katie Dalebout, a writer, interviewer, host, and facilitator of creative community. Through a mini-coaching session, we explore topics like emotional decision-making, regret, and personal agency.
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