Unmuted: Speak the Truth you were Trained to Hide
Unmuted: Speak the Truth you were Trained to Hide
Podcast Description
A podcast for soul-led creators, poets, and truth-tellers reclaiming voice and visibility. Host Gillian Wray — poet and voice guide known as The Sovereign Poet — invites artists, coaches, and rebels to share what it means to unmute in a world that taught them to stay quiet.
Raw, reflective, and radically honest, these weekly 40-minute conversations light a fire under silence — and make space for the truth beneath the story.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of reclaiming voice, personal transformation, and the power of spoken word. Notable episode topics include reclaiming self-expression in the face of societal expectations, as discussed in episodes featuring guests like Dianne Casey, who shares insights on the courage it takes to speak before feeling ready, and exploring the struggles of women who feel the need to suppress their emotions while also unpacking societal labels in solo episodes.
A podcast about voice, desire, and the cost of staying quiet.
Beyond the Good Girl explores what happens when people who have been trained to be palatable, polite, and small begin to speak honestly. Through conversations and solo episodes, we examine self-erasure, social conditioning, and the courage it takes to live differently.
This is for anyone who feels their voice stuck in their throat and knows that something needs to change.
Gillian Wray welcomes Lea, who helps women ”come back to themselves” — work born from her own journey through people-pleasing, self-abandonment, and the search for external validation.
Lea shares her story of leaving home after a painful relationship, initially feeling profound relief from a suffocating environment, only to discover she'd recreated the same patterns abroad. It took hitting rock bottom before she began investing in herself — through the gym, online programs, human design, and past life regression. These tools, particularly hypnosis, helped her access her subconscious, gain perspective, and release deep-seated fears.
The conversation explores inner child work, emotional regulation skills Lea developed while nannying, the particular shame that comes from tying identity to others' perceptions, the necessity of boundaries, using isolation as self-protection, and the practice of consciously curating one's environment — from social media feeds to news consumption.
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