Wake Up & Show Up
Hello Daarlings! This podcast is a collection of interviews and stories that weave together life's pivotal moments and the decisions made to show up and impact humanity one person at a time. Each week you will hear from me or a house guest as we discuss how to show up intentionally and make an impact along the way. Real People. Real Stories. Real Impact.
Wake Up & Show Up
Finding Grace and Gratitude in Life's Transitions
TRANSITION. On this episode of the Wake Up and Show Up podcast, I am sharing why I am relaunching the podcast but more importantly why I stopped. I invite you to embrace the power of gratitude and grace as guiding forces in your life. Discover how divine timing and love have played pivotal roles in my journey and how they can inspire you to pursue your dreams with purpose.
This season of the podcast is a journey of transition. Join me as we hear stories, conversations and interviews that cause us to live intentionally and create a ripple effect in our communities.
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Hello darlings, you're listening to the Wake Up and Show Up podcast with Portia Scott. This podcast is a collection of stories, interviews and conversations, weaving together life's pivotal moments and the decisions made to show up and impact humanity, one person at a time. What am I grateful for? So you got me, because that's what I ask everyone In this moment. I am grateful for grace. I'm grateful for the fact that we can always get another chance, and I feel like grace has been such a big thing in my life. I've not always gotten it right, I don't always do it right, and so I have that ability to lean on God's grace and also have grace for myself and for others. So that's what I'm grateful for. Since you moved here, like grace has really affected our lives, because what you'll hear in some episodes with the kids, you'll hear that you know their transitions were each different and I think them having grace with my husband and I such a big transition. I think my husband and I having grace with one another. But the biggest thing would have to be the grace and the provincial timing of God in this season, like he has been so gracious to us too. I tell people the story of the move and they just cannot believe how the pieces came together so seamlessly. What else could that be Like? What else could that be Right, but the hand of God, but the grace of God. And so, um, when stuff started happening, I would just say, all right, god, now you're showing out, because at first it was like, oh my goodness, this is such a blessing, this is amazing. And then it gets and it's like you're really showing out, like this is really too much for me to handle, because I know how I guess like feeling undeserving, right, that we feel, but that is the grace of God. Um, I have children, three children, and we think, oh, my goodness, we're not deserving and he's so loving. You know, I can't love my children as much as he loves us, but I don't, you know, I can't love my children as much as he loves us, but I don't do things for my children because they deserve it per se. I do it out of love. And so I would say that feeling the love of God, just because he loves, has literally been a guiding force for us this season. I know that was a long way to answer that question, but yeah, so the wake up and show up podcast is was born, um, on a beach in South Africa and I realized that I was not living this amazing life, crazy life that we all have intentionally and with impact. It just was kind of going through the motions. So the Wake Up and Show Up podcast really is a podcast of stories and interviews that weaves together life's pivotal moments and the decisions that we make to intentionally show up and impact our world, because we may not impact millions of people, but we can impact the people in our world and so I get the opportunity to talk with incredible people and share stories about those pivotal moments and how they're showing up and impacting their world.
Speaker 1:And your second question was the relaunch of the podcast. Right, what caused me to relaunch it and can I go back and say kind of why I stopped or why I took a break Is because when I started this podcast, I loved podcasting for podcasting. I loved podcasting because I realized that it was making an impact. Right, it wasn't impacting millions of people like I initially thought, right, but I'd only been in it like a few years, but I knew it was impacting people. I knew they were listening to the stories and some people were starting their own organizations or some people were saying I'm living differently and um. But I stopped because that why shifted and it was no longer about impacting people, but it was about impacting numbers. And it was about, well, this isn't monetizing and everybody else is monetizing and following everybody else's flow.
Speaker 1:And I feel like I needed to pause so I could get back to the why and get back to what really mattered for me in podcasting. And so that's why I paused, and so I'm relaunching, because I found that whyies I mean thirties and twenties, but in a world where youth is so like, so, so very important that you could get to this age and feel like, well, all my dreams, all my visions, all that stuff, I'm too old for it. And so I want people to see the podcast and I want them to be inspired to write the book, I want them to be inspired to go feed the homeless, I want them to be inspired to go back to school or whatever that dream is. Miles Monroe would always say that the richest place is the graveyard, and it is because we leave this earth with so much that we didn't accomplish, but so much in us. And so if someone listens to a podcast like I did, that will say I'm going to start the podcast, I'm going to go take some pictures, I'm going to go be part of the PTA, whatever it is, whatever it is. So I feel like the relaunch of this podcast is so that people will be inspired to live this beautiful thing that we call life with purpose and with impact. Um, as far as so, as far as like the goals for this podcast, okay, so what I desire for this season of the podcast um, for me, I will say is that I will be as committed to it as I was when I first launched it, when it was just about the impact, where the numbers were not the driving force. That's what I perceive for this season. I do want people to come in and hear the stories and we have some incredible interviews lined up with incredible people and whether or not they go and do their own thing, or whether or not they come in and they support somebody else that we have on another organization Sometimes we're not called to create maybe our own, but we're called to really support that. So I hope that, again, that when people hear this season of the podcast that they're inspired to do the thing that they know that they're called to do, that they change a mindset, that they impact someone you know in their world, as I like to say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you guys have a second episode where you tell me you love podcasting. And does this love of podcasting come from your love for people and, ultimately, god's love for you to be able to talk to people my children and my husband. Sometimes they're like we cannot, we're scared to let you go somewhere by yourself, because you are always so friendly, like you're meeting people, and so, secretively, I do my podcast so I can meet people, so I can hear stories. I love stories and so it's so funny because I can meet someone literally walking my dog in this neighborhood and I learned so many stories about people in such a small amount of time. And all of those stories matter, and I think that sometimes we don't realize how our stories matter, and so I do this podcast because I want people to know that their stories matter, and when they hear other people's stories, it gives them permission to share theirs, it allows them to know that they're created on purpose, for a purpose. So so, yes, I selfishly do this podcast because I get to meet incredible people, but I love people and so it really is a way to tell those incredible stories of, of people who are, you know, building multi-billion dollar, you know nonprofits or whatever. And also the little lady that has a coffee truck, um, that I had, uh, in Georgia, so, um, that I had on the podcast in Georgia. So it is all of those stories culminate this beautiful thing that we call life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, can you share your personal experience with living intentionally and why you believe it's important? Yeah, can I share my personal story about living intentionally? I was doing amazing in my career. So I tell people all the time I didn't leave corporate. Oh, this makes me tear up. I didn't leave corporate because it's a big bad. It's a big bad wolf. Most people are like, ah, corporate is terrible. It was so amazing. I had such a great career. I was traveling, um, I was working, um, in hospitals, um and so.
Speaker 1:But I remember my daughter had. She went into school, was like one of the first weeks of school, and they did this tell me about yourself. And they said what is one thing you love about your mom? And she was like she's such a hard worker and I was like, oh, yeah, you know. And then one of the questions was like what is something you wish she did less of. And she said work. And I was like brokenhearted because I'm like, wait a minute, what is going on? So that's like August, fast forward to that.
Speaker 1:November, october, november, my husband and I take a trip to South Africa and we're on the beach in Cape Town. It's absolutely beautiful, it's this big moment of life, right. And I say, john Henry, I feel so connected being with you on this beach. And he says, portia, I feel connected to you whether I'm on this beach or whether we're having a coffee date. And I cried my eyes out because somewhere he had still been living intentionally, where the small moments mattered. But for me I had been going through the motions, I had been a wife and a mom and doing all the right things but not taking in consideration that moments matter. And so it was on that beach that I decided that how many people are living unintentionally, not thinking about the moments that are mattering in their lives? And so that's that's kind of my story With transitioning from corporate into becoming an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1:Um, one of the reasons why was I wanted time with my children and I realized how important time is. I realized it in that transition and in the transition from Georgia to California. It was about time spending time, and so I think one of the things that I try not to do is take time for granted. Whether it's my children coming to ask me if he has time to make some soup before I do this for the world, I'm going to take that time and I'm going to talk to him. Or whether it's my daughter that needs five minutes, but maybe I have something I could be doing, I'm going to take that time. Or maybe my husband needs to talk through something. So for me, it is being intentional about those moments, and so I've taken that from my corporate career into, you know, entrepreneurship, into the podcast and then definitely into our transition.
Speaker 1:Is that I didn't want to rush this moment. I didn't want to just be like, okay, god, you did all this amazing things. We're here, yay, the sunshine. But I wanted to take those moments to breathe and be like, wow, god, you did amazing. And I love that my family is still together, even after a big move, and I love that my children are thriving after a big move.
Speaker 1:So, making sure that, like I'm so grateful for time and spending that time, how do you translate this concept of intentional living into your podcast and how do you hope it resonates with your audience? Yeah, so how do I translate the concept of intentionality or intentionally living um into the podcast? I think I'm, I'm really I won't say picky because I'm I'm not in that way, but I am. So the podcast is my baby, so I wouldn't let anyone just come give my children advice. The same way that when you know people are like I want to be on a podcast because I want to be on a podcast, well, that doesn't work here, because whether or not your audience is 200,000 or 2000 or 200, it really is about what impact are you making and the motive of that impact, where's it coming from. And so when it comes to the podcast, I do I have like a pre interview so that I can understand who's coming to give advice, you know, to my children per se, and so I just the questions that I ask and trying to hear their stories of the way that they're showing up in the world and how they're impacting their sphere of influence, whatever that looks like. So I try to translate that into the stories and the interviews that I tell.
Speaker 1:Can you share some examples of guests or stories that particularly exemplify this idea of making an impact. Yes, can I share stories of interviews that I've done that exemplify intentional living and making this impact. I've had incredible guests. I'm I've had, like, some incredible people, but right off my head would be one Kitty Murray. She is the founder of refuge coffee and they started out in Clarkston Georgia. I went to school, high school in Clarkston Georgia. I went to school, high school in Clarkston Georgia and what they do is they have a coffee truck. Look at that and they give jobs to refugees, and so not only do they give them jobs but they train them in coffee making, in business and how to run the trucks, and so they've been able to expand business and how to run the trucks, and so they've been able to expand. So Kitty Murray would be one. Markita Goodwin would be another one.
Speaker 1:She was a breast cancer survivor and I remember from her interview when she said when something's going on whether someone has breast cancer, maybe someone's lost something, or you know they're going through a tough time she said that when people would ask her what can I do, she was like I didn't know. So she would always say just do it Right. So just come by the house and see do you need me to take the kids or send a meal or send a coffee or send a tea, um. So she was incredible, um, I would say. Let's see go Zulu from South Africa. Her and her husband were climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and unfortunately, she tragically lost him. However, she does so many things. She is still keeping his memory alive. She wrote a book. I read the book. She supports another organization called Caring for Girls, and so that is Robert Mabasso. He is the founder of caring for girls, and what they do is they provide feminine hygiene products to girls in um South Africa and around the continent. Um, because they miss about I can't remember the number cause it's been a minute, but they miss school. Some of them drop out because they don't have what they need. So that's just like off the top of my head.
Speaker 1:A couple of um impactful interviews, um that honestly, you can go watch right now. And are there any interviews with this next interview that you tease us about but also share stories of potential work? Yes, so I guess I'll give you a little teaser. One of the people that we are interviewing is Kevin Adler, and he wrote a book when they Walk by, and it is about homelessness and the work that he is doing around homelessness, and it is doing around homelessness, um, and it is a beautiful story, and so that just kind of gives you a little teaser of where we're going, um, in this season of the podcast.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, and to go back, I don't know if you necessarily are a fan of this, but you want to add to why did you stop podcasting? Yeah, so why did I stop podcasting? I think I I did answer, but I will go back is that I lost the joy of the? Why? Because I allowed what everyone else was doing, what every other podcast looked like, what their numbers were, how they were monetizing. You go to these conferences that are absolutely incredible and I've had the opportunity to speak at a really incredible podcast conference, podcast movement but you go and you see what so many people are doing, right. Or even you look at the Joe Rogans of the world, right, just because his podcast is so everybody knows that podcast. I don't care what you listen to, what your niche is, you know his podcast, um, and so you look at that and when your numbers don't line up, when you feel like I think for a while I was like I was putting so much into this podcast and the numbers, what was going, what am I doing wrong? Um, and so it is very easy to forget your why, to look at what other people are doing and feel like you have to change to fit that. And a couple episodes I did change to fit that. And a couple episodes I did, and I felt terrible because I knew that wasn't me, that's not my podcast. I tell real stories about real people making a real impact, and there are people who want to hear that. But when I stopped, I didn't see it that way and so, yeah, I just felt like I'm not good enough. But I know differently now. So life has changed. You said you know differently now.
Speaker 1:So can you give us an update on what's happened since your last podcast episode?
Speaker 1:Yes, so a lot has happened since my last podcast episode, but what I will say is you'll hear a little bit of it in some episodes this season, but my family and I relocated from Georgia to California, something that we have wanted to do for many, many, many, many years, and this was just the opportunity that God gave us.
Speaker 1:I keep saying that this is our season of Sabbath. It's a season of rest. It doesn't mean like we're not doing anything, but it is a season of rest and so, yeah, me and my family, on May 22nd, once our kids got out of school, we hopped on a flight, landed in LAX, and California has been home for the last 60 something days and we are loving it. We are absolutely loving it. So that has happened. John Henry and I continue to run our consulting business and the podcast is back, so those are like some big life updates. Yeah, that has happened since the last podcast. So this season of the podcast, we're super excited because we are a video podcast now and I cannot wait to see you as you join us on this journey of impact.