About Trish
As a coach, I didn't start out talking about ‘The Voice’ or Identity.
Here’s how that part of my journey began...
It was 2012 and I was serving at a women's drop-in evening at church. After we had finished praying for one of the women, the lady I was partnered with looked at her and said quietly:
"It sounds to me as though you've lost your voice."
I had never heard that phrase, “lost your voice,” in this context before.
But I watched that woman break down in tears.
She described feeling like the silent partner in her relationship. It was affecting her confidence at work and she felt completely trapped.
The thing that struck me most was this - she was articulate and intelligent. She wasn't timid or lacking ability, but she realised she was no longer able to be herself.
Something about that moment never left me and months later as I was reading my Bible, 1 Corinthians 14:10 stopped me in my tracks:
"There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without significance."
This verse spoke to me so loudly and all I saw was that every woman has a voice. And her voice has significance.
Not the loudest voice. Not the most polished or the most confident.
But it’s her voice.
The problem has been that this voice was the one that got buried under responsibility, expectation, comparison and years of being shaped by everyone else's definition of who she ought to be.
That scripture became the catalyst for the book, ‘Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Voice.’
Restoring The Foundations
Though a coach for some years, after this experience, I stopped trying to fix women.
Instead I turned my attention to something deeper… helping women identify the false foundations they had built their lives on and to restore their God-designed identity underneath all the responsibility, expectation, comparisons etc.
I wholeheartedly believe no one ever truly ‘loses their voice,’ it’s just been buried.
And then I began seeing results I had never seen before. Professional women - successful, capable, responsible women - who hadn't realised how suppressed their voice had been, suddenly discovered a new found freedom they’d never experienced before.
This new approach led me to looking at purpose from a different angle.
For years I had approached coaching from a “Finding Your Purpose” angle and I struggled. The disconnect between what women said they wanted and what they settled for was like night and day.
To say I felt like a failure is an understatement.
But when these women stopped trying to perform their way to living on purpose and instead returned to who they truly are, change was inevitable.
Breaking into The Voice…
As I said earlier, my research on ‘The Voice’ eventually became the book...
‘Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Voice.‘
Seven ways to wake up your voice and maximise your potential.
At its heart, it's about identity. About living and leading from the inside out rather than performing your way through life from the outside in.
And out of the book came the IW Unleashed community which supplemented my over three decades of working with women in corporate, in business and in ministry.
Women whose voices had been suppressed - through rejection, divorce, disappointment, abuse, expectation. Many of whom were successful. Many who were respected and many who were leading others whilst quietly losing themselves.
All of them had more inside them than the world had been allowed to see.
I'm Trish Jones - voice and identity coach, podcaster, speaker and author.
Ready to stop performing
and start living?
IW Unleashed is where the mask comes off. Community, conversation, live group coaching calls and resources built around one thing - knowing who God made you to be and living from that place.
$29/month. Come as you are.
Looking forward to seeing you inside the community.
Ciao for now…
