With these new opportunities for speaking and not writing.
It's out of my comfort zone for sure.
It is the storytelling part I love, but I it's always been a written, you know, avenue for me.
And so when I say, well, I'm, I'm, I'm a writer, I'm not a speaker.
And I have a good friend who said, well, you prayed to be his instrument.
You didn't specify writing or how that was going to go.
I'm like, okay, that's fair.
That's a fair point.
## 🎙️ Introduction & Episode Context
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Hello communication Queens, and welcome back to another episode of the communication Queen podcast.
Today I am so excited because we have a podcast first.
This is Leah Vidal's first podcast interview, first podcast session, first experience.
And I was like feeling all the feels right before she popped on because she, like, avidly read my book.
And I was so honored to just know that, um, and to to meet Julie.
I'm so excited and happy, and I'm so honored that this is your first podcast.
Thanks for having me.
You are so welcome.
We met Leah, and I met through, uh, April's Light Beamers community as I taught a master class in there, and she snagged one of the coveted five spots.
And this this just goes.
Honestly, Leah.
Like, this shows.
It's like the power of showing up and how you just show up.
You say yes, you raise your hand and you figure it out on the way.
That's exactly right.
That's exactly what I did.
And I jumped on that.
You are working and serving with young male athletes and moms of young male athletes, and you have a three 365 day devotional for young male athletes.
What made you feel like this is the population for you to serve?
So I have always, um, through the years and different devotionals and, um, Bible studies and such.
And so I wasn't it wasn't a foreign concept to me, a devotional.
I write for guidepost magazines and other publications currently.
So a lot of my writing is spiritual Christian.
Uh, so again, right up my alley.
But I never imagined myself writing a devotional.
Um, through the years, we've moved a lot as a family.
Uh, relocated.
We lived in Puerto Rico, Pennsylvania, back to Texas.
Uh, so we've moved a lot.
I always lived far from my mom and my mom, and I got into the habit years ago at some point of starting our day with, like, a morning coffee chat, if you will.
We would just talk about anything.
About nothing.
You know, she'd sometimes I'd call and she'd say, let me grab my coffee.
I'll be right back.
Um, and so it just kind of became our daily routine.
## 🛐 From Grief to Devotional Writing
And, um, about three years ago, I lost my mom.
But I haven't had one of those coffee chats in in a couple of years now.
And, um, when I lost her, I lost my brother at the same time, so I was devastated.
Um, as much as my faith has carried me through so much, I, I was kind of not even on speaking terms with God, if I'll be honest.
Just questioning, you know what?
What the heck?
Why?
Now?
This doesn't make any sense to me.
So my mornings kind of became the worst time of day for me because I get up and I.
I mean, my coffee didn't even taste the same.
I'd sit there with my cup of coffee and and just sob, honestly.
And so I was out of sorts and I didn't.
I was missing that key component of my mornings, and I was missing my mom.
You know those conversations.
Well, um, my sister in law gifted me a small daily devotional that, you know, she swore by she used year after year, and it was a 365 day devotional, one I had never read before.
And so she said, I don't know, you know, if you even want to do this, but this, this is mine.
She showed me hers a little bit more and a little bit tattered, highlighted words, um, certain days the year, she says, you know, I, I will look back when I do it the next year again and I'll see those words and I'll see how far I've come where I was at that point.
So she said, I don't know, you know, just a gift.
Well, it was a Christmas gift.
And so I vowed to God that I was going to start my year.
Chatting with him instead of my mom.
And while I sobbed through January and February and probably March and April, if we're being honest.
But day by day I felt like I got a little bit stronger.
Um, talked to him a little bit more, tried to understand, um, you know, his plan for us and and why the timing of things.
And I don't think we ever truly get those answers and understand.
I think a lot of times I say he leaves a little post-it notes, you know, and says, you know, we'll explain later.
God, um, you know, and we'll get that answer when we get it right.
But not now, not in this lifetime.
And so, um, I continued my little devotional while getting to the teenage part.
I have a son and a daughter.
My daughter is now 22.
My son is 19.
He just turned 19.
And I got it right because I've been saying 18 and he turned 19 a couple of days ago.
## 📖 The Birth of 'Light Up the Sky'
But, um, he came by.
I had my little space where I sit and do my devotional.
He came by and he picked it up one day and he's kind of flipping through it, and he said, this is really cool, mom.
Like, it's short.
You know, it's not this whole chapter.
You know, I like it.
It's kind of sets the tone for your day, that's all.
He said, you know, as a teenage boy.
And he walked off and, well, that sent me spinning trying to find one for him.
So I started shopping and shopping and shopping, and I'm trying to find one for his age group, and he's played sports his whole life since he was itty bitty.
Um, and I thought I had to find something that speaks to him the way this one has spoken to me.
And I just couldn't find anything.
And I and I, and I look and I found for women we every stage of life, there's a devotional for us, which is great because we gravitate towards that.
Right?
And we feed off of it and we love that.
But but I think they crave it, too.
You know, sometimes they don't even know they crave it, but they crave it.
And so I looked and looked.
They had for adults, men, husbands, fathers, you know, the cute little children's devotionals.
And I'm like, we need to get them from here to there.
And how are we going to do that?
There's this gap.
And I do believe they have so much pressure on them at that age and that group that they needed more than the rest of us sometimes, you know, um, and I just wanted them to feel like they could be the men that God created them to be.
Be strong and be protectors, but also be sensitive, be compassionate.
You know, God gave you all of those qualities, and he that's the man he wants you to be.
And so for me, it came easy in that when I did sit down to write it, and the reason I did sit down to write it was because one morning I'm doing my devotional, I could swear or God chuckling, going, well, you're a writer.
Why aren't you writing it?
Why are you spending all of this time trying to find something that you can write yourself?
And I.
I decided to go for it.
You know, never imagined that would be a book that I would write.
But but I did.
I went for it.
And so it was easy in the fact that everything I wrote, I imagined my son reading it.
Words I would say to him, advice, guidance, him and his friend that I knew you know as well as my son, because, you know, they played on teams together and been to our house and we know their families.
And so boys that I love just as much.
And I wrote it for them with them in mind.
Yeah.
So I love that especially.
It's like there's some there's a super power that moms have when it's like, if it's not there or the advice from experts or something's not there, we're going to find it, we're going to find it, or we're going to create it because that's.
Just naturally we're designed to birth things into reality anyways.
So we both got children.
Why not birth a book or a business?
That's right.
We do it differently.
And when you were looking at this and you felt those words of like you being a writer, when did you know that you were a writer?
Oh, gosh.
Um.
I've always loved to ride.
I was a kid.
I had my nose in the book, so I loved reading.
I was just, you know, the.
And the kids would be my cousins.
I had a million cousins.
They'd be playing, you know, and and I'd be in my book just devouring books after books, after books.
I spent a ton of time in the library.
You know, the librarian, I think, was exhausted with me trying to recommend more books.
And and I would just I loved them and so I loved reading.
So, so I think my love of, of reading and books carried over to my love of writing.
## 🧠 Reclaiming the Writer Within
And my favorite assignments were always English.
My favorite classes were my English classes until high school.
I had, um, we moved.
I grew up in new Jersey.
We moved to Florida when someone it was the summer before my senior year of high school.
I had had honors English classes.
Not to be, you know, weird brag, but I had honors English classes all through high school.
I loved those classes.
I thrived in those classes.
And when we moved to Florida, it was a new high school, huge high school, and they just enrolled me in a regular English class.
And I didn't want to rock the boat and draw attention to myself.
I didn't say anything.
I just started attending this regular English class and it was great.
The teacher was great, the class was great, but probably about a month or two in a couple of assignments and I'd say she pulled me aside and she said, I think you need to be in the honors English class.
So I said, well, you know, I tell her the story kind of always been, but I didn't want to rock the boat, so I didn't say anything.
And she said, well, at this point in the semester, if you want to transfer to the honors English class, your parents have to come to the school, meet with the Honors English teacher to get you in the class.
So I said, okay.
I told my parents, my parents are Cuban.
They came from Cuba, the Cuban immigrants.
So English was not their first language.
Um, they worked hard, so they had to take time off, you know, to, to, to go to the school.
But they were going to do this for me because they knew how much, you know, how strongly I felt about it.
So we go they cities in this conference room, you know, long conference room table.
And, you know, the clock's ticking and we're just the three of us sitting there nervously, quietly and and here comes this English teacher.
He walks in.
Doesn't say hello.
Slams this stuff on the table across from us and shuffling papers.
And he said, so I understand you're here because you want your daughter to transfer into my honors English class.
And my parents.
Well, I guess she's been in honors English three years.
This is what she would love to do.
And he says, well, obviously English isn't your first language.
And while I can appreciate you wanting your daughter to maintain that stream of honors English classes, I don't think she's cut out for my class.
Yes, George has hit the floor, and as a mother, I would be like, how dare you say that to my child?
Exactly.
So then I'm just dying.
I'm like, oh my gosh, like, I don't even want to be in this man's class now, you know?
So yeah, I wouldn't want my class either.
My dad, um, stood up and said, well, I, I do believe my daughter has what it takes to be in your class.
So are you saying she's not allowed in your class, or is that just a comment that you're making?
Because I assure you, she has what it takes.
Long story short, he agreed to allow me into the class, but he made my year a living hell.
He he wouldn't give me anything above a C.
He always had this.
You know the read all over my paper, but but really no feedback.
You know, just stuff crossed out and so I, I, I, I had the nerve to go to him time and again and I just, you know, I wanted I wanted to understand why I can get anything above a C for a kid like me.
The C was an act.
Oh, yeah.
You know.
Yeah.
Because that's just how I loved my English class.
Like, if I got a C in math.
Totally expected, you know?
I'm like, I'm okay with that.
That.
That's great for me.
That was an A, but.
But in English it hurt.
And so I would go to him and I'd say okay, well what how can I improve.
What can I do.
And nothing.
## 📚 Overcoming Doubt & Academic Gatekeeping
He would never give me anything until finally one day he just said to me, well, you just can't write.
You're just not you're not a writer.
You're never be a writer.
You're not a good writer.
And this and that.
There's nothing I can do for you.
Yeah.
So sadly, I let that get in my head.
And I didn't write for years.
For years I set it aside.
I just I let him get in my head and looking back, you know, older, more experienced, I shouldn't have, but but that's kind of how that ended up.
And so I didn't write for a very long time.
I started writing again when we moved the my family moved from, um, from Texas to Puerto Rico for my husband's work.
And here I found myself, you know, away from family and friends and with two little ones.
And I started this little photo site just to share, you know what our little adventures around the island were and what I was doing with the kids.
And just so that the grandparents and the family members and our friends could keep up with us.
And there was this little section on the side of that little photo site that was just empty and just begging for something, and I called it Random Thoughts.
And I just started writing about our little adventures around the islands.
And, you know, it just something in me kind of came alive again with each little story I wrote and each little thing I shared.
And then I had a friend who said, why aren't you writing like a dog or something?
I don't even know what a blog was.
And she said, well, it's what you're doing.
Just go put it on the website and basically put it out there for more people to read.
## 📝 Rediscovering Her Voice in Puerto Rico
And so that's kind of how I got back into writing.
I started this little blog and, um, and it's still there.
It's still going and, and that's kind of how, you know, writing kind of just was that love of writing came alive again for me.
I love that, Leah.
I too, had two men in my life, so I have a similar experience.
One was my, uh, English Shakespeare teacher who I couldn't even though I had gone to England to study Shakespeare for some.
Wow, I came back.
I could not get above an A-minus and it drove like B a minus, and it drove me bananas.
And I'm sure I drove him bananas because there regularly was the comment, does anybody with, aside from Kimberly know the answer to the question?
I love that I'm looking back.
I'm like, okay, I saw preferential treatment of certain students.
It was just it was so interesting.
And then fast forward my business partner years later in my e-comm business, I would write the the the marketing messages and I would get red line back not only from him, but also from one of our readers who was one of his associates and or friends or something.
And she was a copywriter, and she's like, how could you send this out with the grammatical errors?
And I was like, I said, I'm a writer.
I'm not an editor.
I'm not a grammar person.
I can I just can't edit like grammar and me kind of suck.
And like, I may or may not have dyslexia.
So there is a difference, though, between like the true storytellers.
And I do have to say, Leah, in the way that you show up for your first podcast interview, you are a storyteller queen.
Oh, you speak and think and story, and it's something that is a skill set that most people actually don't have.
So I want to acknowledge that here, because so many people will go on podcasts and I need to like, extract the story from them to try to, like, paint a picture and get a setting.
You do that beautifully and naturally with how you speak and communicate, and I just want to acknowledge that.
Thank you so much.
That means so much to me.
## 🎤 From Page to Podcast: Finding Her Voice
Of course, I was very nervous to come on and had this first experience, but like I said, I, you know, God has been nudging me and shoving me really into these new adventures and the new direction in storytelling.
You know, I've, I would say I'm a writer, not a speaker.
But this book has opened up doors lately to speak.
And, you know, I'm like, I've always prayed over every word I write.
I pray over every word, whether it's for the magazine, my blog, anything, the book, whatever it is.
And I always pray for God to just use me as his instrument.
For whomever is reading my words to read the message they need to read.
Coming from God, not coming from me.
Right?
And so with these new opportunities for speaking and not writing, it's out of my comfort zone.
For sure it is.
But storytelling, what I love, but I it's always been a written, you know, avenue for me.
And so when I say, well, I'm, I'm, I'm a writer, I'm not a speaker.
And I have a good friend who said, well, you pray to be his instrument.
You didn't specify writing how that was going to go.
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So I do appreciate your compliments and my website.
My blog is actually Little Miss Wordy, so I love words and I'm learning that I just love them written or spoken or, you know, however however they come.
Yeah, so I think.
Of course, of course.
I think the thing that that you probably will get as, as I have and had to work on in the past as a speaker is like brevity of like, how do you how do you tell a story with having it be succinct and still having that punch?
And then how do you tell a story?
And like when discerning on the time frame of speaking, I think that that's going to be the next level of your evolution for sure.
Yes, definitely.
I can see how that would be a challenge for a little maturity here.
But also something continuously.
You also own that.
Brevity is not your specialty.
It's not mine either.
Like I when I originally wrote my book, it was 500 pages because I, I feel that.
So I'm like, I, I get you I, I don't know like she had her work cut out for me, but I was like, yeah, I hire an editor.
Like, I'm happy to write it, but oh, me.
Yeah, that's me too.
And, and and the reason why, you know, with the with the women's devotionals, I had always read it.
Was it they were a brief I mean, you get like a whole paragraph and you get a whole page, a couple pages sometimes.
And I and, you know, boys and books don't always mix.
Not all boys, but a lot of teenage boys are like, you want me to read?
What?
Like it's enough that I have to read for school.
You know, I don't if it's.
It's an assignment.
And I didn't want it to feel that way for them.
So.
So my devotional for the for the young male athletes, it's brief.
It's.
And I had to work on that for sure because I wanted to say more each day, but I kept it brief just to set that tone for their day.
And I think that's.
B is so keen of an awareness to know the audience that you're communicating with.
It's something that I know I mentioned in my book as far as like, who is the audience, who you're speaking to?
And especially when you write a book, you want to know who that audience is.
And so understanding that the audience of young male athletes and I mean, I have an an seven and a half year old, and he loves these little brief eight chapter pug books that are like basically a lot of written, like a comic, but they're also like a diary.
He adores them, but they're succinct and it's like he gets that, like he gets a win from being able to complete that, like minute task of reading and getting his chapters in.
But it's not, um, it's not this big, long, drawn out thing, which I agree with you because I've seen women's devotionals too, and you're like, this is like three pages.
I'm like, right?
You're like, I'm trying to make this a daily habit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is like a daily habit I got.
I got 15 minutes.
Maybe I have two minutes and one on the way, so.
That's right.
Exactly.
We got 10 to 15 minutes, tops to make something work.
Yes, absolutely.
So I love the fact that you really were catering to that audience and that you saw the need in the marketplace as well.
And that's just smart business practices.
And and you've adapted and grown.
And there's a reason why I call this podcast communication queen.
Not writing queen or speaking.
Yes, Queen.
Because communication comes in all variations of modalities.
We communicate through our bodies in dance, in other forms of art.
So it's like looking at what is that communication space that really works for you, that also you can leverage as a marketing asset to generate more income for your business.
And it sounds to me like you've really nailed it with writing.
Thank you.
It's something I just I absolutely love.
And, you know, again, I'm sad that I went so many years not writing, but but once I did, there's no stopping me now.
I just I love it.
The more I write, the more I want to write.
Um, you know, the, the the more things I think about to write about, you know, what's the next thing I want to, you know, I want to write.
Um, so.
And and everything.
I see the world that way.
I see the world as you know, in my day to day life.
Just not looking for stories, but paying attention to the details, you know, to those moments that I, I know I call them big lessons from life's little moments because we go through the day and we're just in a rush and we're getting this done and rushing off to do this.
But there's so many little nuggets throughout the day that are just pure gold, you know, and that that if we just kind of jot them down and go back to them later, they're lessons.
I honestly think that's your next devotional.
Big lessons from life's little moments.
Thank you.
I don't have much time.
Find the little moment for about 10 to 10 minutes.
Exactly.
I love that, I love that I'll have to thank you then.
In the in the, in the in the book.
Just like the podcast.
It's always the.
There's so much power that comes from just being in dialogue with people and also being able to be in dialogue with yourself.
Have you always had have you always listened to that inner voice within?
Uh, or did you have those times where you're like, I'm going to do something different and suddenly it you realize that that may or may or may not have been the right path for you.
Yeah.
So I mean, yes and no.
I think, like I've told my kids, you know, you need to learn how to listen to that intuition and that's hard to teach.
You know.
But but I feel like I've drilled it in there, so hopefully they've got it.
They crisscross.
Yes.
Hopefully.
But you know it just because it is something that's so important to to listen to that, you know, and and you could call it your gut feeling, your intuition, whatever we call it.
But it is something very internal and, and and that little voice, whatever it is, I mean, you know, so many different ways to refer to it, but it is it is a thing.
It is a thing.
And I think it's a very valuable.
Part of us that we need to tune into and know we're not always going to get it right.
You know, I mean, you know, my my son now just finished his freshman year in college playing sports.
And and when he was trying to make a decision to which school he was going to go with, he was at a loss.
And this is a confident, athletic, you know, kid.
You know a strong faith.
And and he he was just like I don't know what if I made the wrong choice.
And I just kept telling, well though there will be a different path then it's okay if you make the wrong choice.
No one's going to hold you hostage.
You can make that decision.
And if it didn't work out for you, it's not right.
It's not a good fit.
Another path presents itself for you.
You say, okay, this isn't this, isn't it, and that's okay.
There's nothing wrong with that, you know?
So I think sometimes we get so hung up on, oh, well, this is what we chose or this is this we have to stick with.
No.
If it's not right, it's okay to shift.
It's really okay.
Um, and it's and it's our path.
Right.
And and God has a plan for us.
But but we got to take those steps forward to.
And then my vision for this book was very small.
## 📣 Publishing with Purpose
I wrote it for my son and his friends and senior senior night at the, you know, the senior night at the football game.
They get presented by the parents with a basket full of goodies, you know, gift cards and all kinds of stuff.
And I thought, I'm giving myself a deadline.
I'm writing this book.
This is going to be my gift in that basket.
And that was it.
That was my vision for the book.
I'm going to give it to these boys and and that's it.
Right.
And first of all, the deadline didn't work out because I killed myself.
Writing it.
I got it done.
I got it out to the printer.
It was all of it ordered.
It was going to ship in time.
It was going to be here in time.
And then shipping delay after shipping delay after shipping delay.
And it just I was devastated.
I'm like, okay, this is never going to happen.
Okay fine.
And I was upset.
But I'm like, okay, I'm gonna have to just give it to them at a different time.
Well, the game Friday, this guy opened up.
It rained on and off all day.
I was sat at the game under an umbrella and I thought, okay, God.
My book would have been a soggy mess out here.
This is.
You know, I.
Good that it didn't come right because I would have tried to force that.
And the very next day, the books arrive in the morning.
Just so happened Saturday night.
We were having a Halloween party at our house, friends and family and all but one of the boys was going to be in attendance and I thought, oh my gosh, I'm going to be able to actually give it to them, talk to them a little bit about it.
My inspiration behind it, how I thought of each of them as I wrote it, and it ended up being such a special moment that I wouldn't have had on a football field, handing them a basket full of other stuff with it.
Right.
And so sometimes our vision is one thing, but God's like, no, this, this can be so much more, right?
And we don't see that.
And of course, I'd say it was it'll be memorable forever because it was a Halloween party and I was dressed as the Mad Hatter.
So those boys will never forget that I have that emotional game, this little talk, wearing a mad Hatter costume that is brilliant.
And.
All.
Everyone listening.
I want you to pay attention to the specificity that Leah just gave in her own storytelling.
Like now, you painted such a beautiful visual picture and you have a way of doing this.
I have noticed this since we started talking.
## 🎯 Storytelling as Transformation
Um, you have a way of doing that with your words, of paying attention to the scenic and specific details that paints a picture in the mind of the listener, whether it's the reader or the listener of giving specific details.
And so, as our listeners are doing their own form of communication, whether it's you're writing marketing copy or you're speaking on a podcast or you're writing your book, one of the things that I see missing from most authors, most communicators, is a level of specificity to detail that you do naturally well of painting a scenic picture, because as soon as we get that picture in our mind, we suddenly can put ourselves in there and no longer is it you, as in Leia, the main character.
It's the audience as the main character seeing themselves because now they have a full body, you know, five dimensional picture and just that little detail of, you know, the party and it's intimate and it's in your home.
And so we feel that.
And then and I'm at a mad Hatter costume.
That detail is so beautifully woven in.
And so I would encourage our listeners to just be able to see how, if what specific details in your stories can you weave in a bit more, just like Leah has done so expertly and unconsciously, competently, like you're so good at it, you don't know you're good at it?
I already can tell.
And that, like there, that is a skill set that she is naturally good at.
So I'm going to encourage you to read her writing and follow her on social media so that you can grasp and start to understand how.
Not just the content of what you're creating, but also the context of like how you structurally beautifully weave in these specific details that allow our unconscious minds to go on a journey with you and feel a part of your story, and thus get to see ourselves in the story, which helps enact our own transformation.
So thank you for being such a great embodiment of that example.
Thank you so much or words are so kind.
I really appreciate them.
## 💬 Final Thoughts & Resources
So, Leo, where can we follow you?
How can we get your book?
How can we give this to every teenage boy that we know?
Who is an athlete, who has a little bit of guidance and support for this access?
Yes.
Pivotal years?
Absolutely.
I do think that that that our boys need it and crave it and, and need to set that tone for themselves both on and off the field.
And that's one of the things I say about about light up the sky.
Light up the sky was what I always said to my son before every game.
And so I knew it was going to be the title of the book once I wrote it, you know, and so you can find it, Little Miss Widdecombe.
Basically, there's my shop, is there, you can connect with me through social media by going to that site, signing up to get my emails and, and, and read my other writing because I also that's where I host my blog as well.
So basically, Little Miss Widdecombe is the place to go for for all things Leah Vidal Carrasquillo.
Amazingly, I always love to ask my guests, what did you love about this competition?
I love that it was a conversation that just.
I felt like I was sitting with a friend just talking, and I think maybe that's why my stories came across naturally.
Because you just made me feel very comfortable for someone who's never done this.
You just.
You made me feel like I was just sitting there in your home with you, just chatting about, you know, my latest book or my writing, my life.
And I do appreciate that because you have a way of making someone feel very comfortable on your show.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
I think that, well, I not all podcasters may have that more often.
You'll find with the podcasting medium that is more the space.
I always like to say it's it's a beautiful way to have an intimate one on one conversation blasted out to 100,000 people.
Yes, absolutely.
It's it's able to have it be at there's a level of connection that comes from the, the intimacy just of the medium itself.
Because when you think about a podcasting audience, they're listening to this as they're doing their dishes, as they're folding their laundry, as they're carpooling the kids back like they've already picked up the kids or they're they're on their way, or they're waiting in the carpool line and there's there's the space of doing this that people like we are in their intimate environments.
And so the medium itself tends to lead to it being more conversational storytelling, which I think is what draws people to it anyway.
Absolutely.
And it does feel intimate.
And, you know, I'll say to your book, I told you before the show, but I read it cover to cover, I loved it, I highlighted so much, but I thought I was going to run out of highlighter.
And, you know, I don't like to mark up my books, but boy did I mark that book up because there is so much good stuff in there.
And I think that's why, too, I felt more comfortable and prepared honestly today because of your book.
And I loved when you said you're in the ear.
You're in their ear because a lot of people are listening on their headphones.
And I never really thought about that as a with a podcast.
Right.
But you really, literally are in their ear.
So I mean, that's that's pretty close and you're getting their attention.
So I loved that.
I loved all those little tidbits and visuals you gave in your book.
So thank you for that, because I think it prepared me for sure.
Well, that's why I wanted to go out and get make every podcast once you if you.
That's a testimonial I've ever heard one as well as light up the sky for all your teenage athletes.
Leah, thank you so much for coming on the show today.
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