Finding Your Authentic Voice

Renaissance Voices

This week, Kristene speaks with Talor Boyd on the process of knowing how to write your redemption story from an authentic place. They talk through a coaching session they held as they walked through the ins and outs of writing your story for six months with others attempting to do just that–write their story.
1:52: Last season you heard Talor and I talk about the Write My Story Challenge

2:25: Today’s discussion will be the very first lesson we started with in the challenge–finding your authentic voice.

2:54: This lesson helped Talor journey through solidifying her authentic self. She said, “We all go through stages of wearing a mask, people pleasing, or trying to be who everyone else says we should be; and along the way, it’s very easy to lose who we truly are.”

4:17: This is important for anyone looking to write a book because you want your readers to know who you are from the beginning so they can connect with you.

4:30: Your redemption story is your authentic encounters with Jesus, and what He has done in your life and by telling it, you are introducing people to an encounter of their own. They need to understand how real this has been and how Jesus is not afraid to go to the real places of your life and they need to know that they can trust you. They only way they can trust you is if they really connect with you.

5:26: We can’t mimic somebody else’s voice and really be a true witness for Jesus.

5:40: For Talor, she had to get off social media so she could speak authentically and not just become what she was inundated with through media sources.

7:08: As Christians we often learn what we call Christianeze. It becomes its own language; and it hinders us from connecting with this culture because it becomes its own sub-culture that doesn’t speak the same language as the people who Jesus wants us to reach.

7:54: The culture we are living in is looking for authenticity, something real, and wholeness.

9:46: Being honest with yourself and getting in a vulnerable place helps you truly define your core values which leads to your authentic voice. It allows Jesus space to break in and shape you into who He has truly created you to be. It’s okay if you are not like everyone else around you. We need different perspectives centered around Jesus. That’s what the Kingdom is built on.

14:40: Your voice is the aspect of yourself that only you possess. It is God-given. Voices can be different from one another and yet combine to make beautiful music–beautiful harmonies–but only if we are all using our voices to their fullest potential. It’s not that I walk around with an undisciplined voice. I just know who I am.

19:35: If Jesus’ voice, His compassionate truth, is not coming through the pages of your story, it’s not redemptive.

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