The truth will reveal people’s true character, or more accurately, their lack of it.
This past year was a roller coaster for myself and my family. Not a lot different than the upheavals most people have felt during the chaos of the past two years, but different in that most of our discomfort stemmed from us telling the truth.
There are a lot of people who don’t like how honest I am, especially those who are dishonest actors. Astonishingly, these people dislike my honesty enough to have threatened my husband’s livelihood in order to shut me up.
It didn’t work.
Quite the opposite was the result. After months of quarreling and contention within our marriage, and endless discussion on how silence would be the easier route, we both stood our ground and decided we will always choose truth because we have integrity. Little did anyone know that our happiness comes from our integrity, not a paycheck, a title or any outside factors. Little did anyone realize in nearly 30 years of life together, we’ve buried a daughter, been so broke we couldn’t afford groceries until a next paycheck, lived apart, broken one another’s hearts and we always come out the better for it. Idle threats from cowards were nothing compared to the storms we’ve weathered.
Silence is the breeding ground of cowardice and lies. Those who choose to stay silent when faced with injustice, become the perpetrators themselves. Even worse so in that they agree to lies because it makes their lives easier. They choose comfort over character. They choose conformity over their comrades.
This week, I’m resharing our #1 downloaded podcast episode in the two year history of EML Radio. I am eternally grateful we recorded this episode together, not knowing at the time it would be the tool that allowed us to see the cowards squirm out of their holes in the ground and show their faces in the light of day.
Truth is an invaluable tool. It will always reveal true character.
Be sure to give this one a listen if you haven’t yet or a revisit if you have. It’s worth the reminder to stand up for what is right.
Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eml-radio-talking-truth/id1498113483?i=1000549964541
And next week…big news!!! EML Radio will now include full video on YouTube of all episodes!
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Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eml-radio-talking-truth/id1498113483?i=1000558947971
Hello my friends!
I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
This will be the final week I post content here.
I will resume the live recordings over there, starting with our first call on Friday, March 3rd at 9am/12pm. Invitations to join the Zoom calls will go out on Substack. Mark your calendars!
Also, be sure to download the Substack App! I love the app and find it so helpful in organizing content I want to read later by keeping it on my dashboard.
See you on the other side!
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
