Quiet Strength: Finding Your Voice in a Noisy World

What does it mean to truly know yourself in a world that's constantly trying to tell you who to be? This question sits at the heart of my conversation with Tabitha Langley, a woman who has mastered the art of quiet strength.

Unlike many of my guests, Tabitha isn't a public figure or expert - she's my close friend. But sometimes the most profound wisdom comes from those who've simply done the internal work of figuring out who they are and refusing to compromise on what matters. As Tabitha puts it, "I'm not necessarily letting other people's perceptions drive me."

Throughout our conversation, we explore how Tabitha has cultivated a rich inner life filled with diverse passions - from traveling internationally for Formula One races to maintaining a consistent yoga practice, building a library that would make Belle jealous, and creating a home that authentically reflects who she is rather than chasing trends. What connects these seemingly different interests is how they've allowed her to remain deeply connected to herself.

We dive into what it means to be an introvert in an extrovert-dominated world, and how Tabitha has transformed what others might see as a limitation into her superpower. "I have a lot of time to reflect on what I actually think about something," she explains, highlighting how her comfort with solitude has helped her develop strong, well-considered values.

Perhaps most compelling is our discussion about being overlooked in group settings. While many would find this frustrating, Tabitha's perspective is refreshingly unbothered: "I expect to not be everyone's cup of tea." This acceptance allows her to focus her energy on authentic connections rather than trying to impress everyone she meets.

Whether you're someone who tends to get lost in group settings, struggling to maintain your sense of self in a noisy world, or simply trying to figure out how to "unstuck yourself," this conversation offers insights that only come from someone who's mastered the delicate balance of staying true to herself while remaining open to the world around her.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:24

Welcome to the SheSweet Society, a community where women from all backgrounds come together to share their stories, support one another and reveal the unfiltered reality of our lives. I'm your host and empowerment, sherpa Dahlia, and this podcast exists to give voice and space to women whose experiences might otherwise go unheard. Today's episode is a little different because I'm sitting down with my close friend, tabitha Langley, for what feels more like one of our regular catch-up conversations than a formal interview. Sometimes, the most revealing conversations happen when you're just talking with someone who knows you well, and Tabitha is definitely one of those people who sees things clearly and isn't afraid to call it like it is.

Speaker 1 1:04

What I love about Tabitha is how she's managed to stay true to herself in a world that constantly tries to reshape us. She's someone who describes her job as information wrangling, travels internationally for Formula One races, has a library that would make Bell jealous and can put together furniture better than anyone I know. But beyond all of her interests and talents, she's mastered something many of us struggle with knowing who she is and refusing to settle for less, whether you're someone who tends to get overlooked in group settings, struggling to maintain your sense of self in a noisy world, or simply trying to figure out how to stay steady in your values while remaining open-minded. This conversation offers insights that only come from someone who's done the work of truly knowing herself.

Speaker 2 1:51

Though I know your story, people don't know your story, and that's the whole point of this podcast is to get people to know your story and love to talk about what you do now. It doesn't even encompass who you are or what your capabilities are, so let's talk a bit about that. Let's start there and then go backwards. So what do you do now? What is your day? Don't go with titles, but what do you do now?

Speaker 3 2:17

I do a lot of what feels like data entry and wrangling information as people need it. I made that joke recently and I was like that actually feels like my actual title is information wrangler. It's either entering the information, wrangling it that way, or I have to pull the information out into some kind of report and wrangle it that way, and I was like that makes a lot more sense as to what I do and that encompasses a lot more sense as to what I do and that encompasses a lot more than a title usually would.

Speaker 2 2:48

And you are someone who I am, what I understand, you're very detail oriented. Is that a fair statement At work?

Speaker 3 2:59

you are, I was going to say it depends on the situation.

Speaker 2 3:02

But yes, I would say I don't know, your art planning is pretty detailed.

Speaker 3 3:06

I can definitely get hung up on details. For sure, in general You're very good at them. I'm sorry I let them trip me up. I'll get stuck on something and I'm like, oh, I can't get past this until I figure out either where this detail piece fits or does it need to be taken out, and I'll be stuck there. And then I have to walk away for a bit and then come back to it, and usually it didn't magically clear up, but my brain cleared up enough to where then I can move forward. So being detail-oriented isn't always a great, so I guess not an easy route.

Speaker 2 3:42

I guess Right, fair enough.

Speaker 3 3:45

But there are some places where I'm really I'm just going with the flow. Um, usually it's not in a place where I don't feel the need to take charge, but in a work setting. It feels very much like you're still in the group projects of high school all over again and no one's willing to jump in and do something and I'm like I don't want to be the person, but if I, I don't, this thing is not getting done and then I will get blamed for it.

Speaker 2 4:09

Do you find that true in all the companies you've worked at? Because I do.

Speaker 3 4:14

Absolutely.

Speaker 2 4:15

One giant project.

Speaker 3 4:17

That's a giant group project. You say that about this whole country too. It's a group project. We all failed.

Speaker 2 4:23

You can say that, and fair enough to say that that's one thing school actually taught In group projects. What role you would have?

Speaker 3 4:35

That's the real life skill that they taught. We should have been learning about taxes and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 4:40

How did everyone else in those group projects somehow end up in similar roles and in similar capacities as the rest of us?

Speaker 3 4:49

Truly, I don't know, either they know some people or I guess their charisma gets them really far. I wonder if they just probably make a better first impression than those of us that feel like we have to push ourselves to be in a certain position. Other people, oh no, just la-di-da, and they happen to they just own it.

Speaker 2 5:08

Yeah, because they're so good at faking that they know how to do it. It's pretty amazing, I guess.

Speaker 3 5:13

And I don't do that so.

Yoga: Finding Strength and Breath

Speaker 2 5:16

No, I just noticed that. I don't know, maybe there's a lot of company policies, too, that have been very lenient on holding people's hands and letting them work through things, and then, alternatively I think we're seeing a lot of it, at least I see it posted all the time on LinkedIn about people vacating their jobs because they're tired of carrying the weight of three jobs or whatever the case. You see that all the time, but you're not your job. You are not that. You also do yoga. You also travel. So let's talk about those two things. What got you into yoga?

Speaker 3 6:04

what the official name was, but it was a full day and you got to pick certain sessions to try out of just different activities or whatever, and yoga was one of them and I tried it and I enjoyed that Um, cause I've always been kind of flexible. So I was like let me try this, see if I like it. Um, and I didn't. That was my first experience with it was in high school, and then left it alone for a while because I did other stuff in between. But then when I moved down to Florida for a couple of years, I was like, no, I need to some kind of exercise thing, and I'm not a runner type person, I don't have the knees for that and I found this yoga studio that was a block away from where I was working at the time at a hotel, and so they had a decent intro offer, trial thing, and their monthly payment wasn't too expensive for me at the time. So I tried it and I just fell in love with it.

Speaker 3 6:54

What I feel like a lot of people don't realize is that yoga is pretty much an exercise to teach you how to breathe. It's mostly about the breath. Obviously, you still have the physical aspect to it, but it's more about I'm truly. I never am certain if I actually know how to breathe, until I get to a yoga class, cause I'm like, do I breathe on a normal basis? Cause they have to keep reminding me to breathe and I'm realizing I am holding a breath. People make that joke in books all the time oh, she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. I feel like that's my normal life and yoga, like it reminds me to breathe.

Speaker 2 7:28

Why do you not remember to breathe?

Speaker 3 7:32

Genuinely don't know. Is it correct with the details and the general anxiety of it all, but yoga definitely helps remind me to breathe. And then you all know I just like the. Sometimes you get a really good stretch in and it hurts in the best way possible.

Speaker 2 7:48

Oh, I love that.

Speaker 3 7:48

That shows me that it's helped, show me I'm stronger than I thought I was. I've never been the most athletic person, but I am stronger than you would think or than I would think at least, just because of the specific yoga poses and how long you have to hold them in certain classes, and just I can. The first time I finished one of the power yoga class I was so proud of myself because I was like, oh, I've never been the super workout athletic person, but I made it and I did it and I was very proud. So I don't know, I just and I like that. It's not a super intensive exercise regime too, and it's really. You can modify it, it's friendly for everybody. I love how inclusive yoga is.

Speaker 2 8:27

It's like a total body, mind, emotion workout. It's very different, I think, from most other workouts. I can see that I've not done it for reals, I've only done the five minute, whatever thing, and I'm like what is this? I must be in pain to work out Old school Right. I know I have issues, but no.

Speaker 3 8:51

Probably why I like it more because it is more all encompassing. Whereas if I go to a gym or something, my mind has plenty of time to wander and think about everything under the sun, but in yoga I'm actually focused on am I doing the pose right? It's easier. I'm not always a one-track mind kind of person, but it helps put me in that at least for the hour I'm in class.

Formula One: Unexpected Passion

Speaker 2 9:10

I love that, so you've really stuck. What's really cool about that in particular I know I've never told you this is that you've stuck with that for so long. You're so religious about going to yoga and you make it a point to find it and I just I've always admired that about you. I've never told you that, but I've always admired that. I thought that that was really cool. You've so many things you're into. That is so interesting. Another one your F1. You travel for these races. I'd never heard of it really until the Netflix series of the F1, which I think got a lot of people into F1. But prior to that you were already in it, already in it. What's in? How?

Speaker 3 9:55

Yeah, I think technically the show had been out once before I got into the show, before I got into Formula One. But that's not the way. That was not my route. But I will. My route was actually a book series I read. It was set in the Formula One world, obviously a very fictionalized version, and it was kind of hard for me to picture the setting.

Speaker 3 10:17

I had obviously watched a NASCAR race here and there growing up, but I didn't. So I could relate like maybe a couple of things, but they're very different sports, even though it's both race cars. So, and then I saw an edit on on the internet on tiktok I saw, of a race driver. I was like, well, he looks cool, he looks fun, interesting, he's daniel ricardo, of course, that's awesome. My all-time faves, daniel ricardo. He got me into the sport, naturally, as one does, and no longer races anymore, but I'm happy for him. Um, no, I just then I realized, oh, it's on tv, I can watch formula one. So I watched a race or two and then it was really funny.

Speaker 3 10:53

My dad actually, I guess when I was younger he was a fan of formula one. I wasn't, obviously I was younger I didn't pay attention to that. Um, but he got out of it. I don't remember, I don't remember the reason why he stopped watching it, but right around the same time as I was getting into it on my own, he was also getting back into Formula One. So then that became I was at their house randomly one day and he was watching it and I was like, oh, and I mentioned the driver, I had seen the thing and I was like, oh, he's the one I like. And my dad was really shocked. He's like what? And then that just kind of became the basis of we bonded over it again and I don't know. That's just pretty much what my dad and I talk about all the time now just Formula One.

Speaker 2 11:37

And it's funny because a lot of people don't attribute women liking sports. They just don't. They think that women only like sports because their boyfriends, husbands, male co-workers or whatever the fuck.

Speaker 3 11:50

Or because the athlete is cute, the athlete is cute.

Speaker 2 11:53

You don't give a crap what the athlete looks like. You are like about the sport and you've got your team. You've got your hockey. You've got your football. I don't think you're into basketball.

Speaker 3 12:04

I enjoy watching a game when I'm see most sports I enjoy. When I'm physically at a game, I watch it. I can get into it so much. I'll usually pick someone. I'll see it for somewhat random reason oh I like that player, so that's who I'm rooting for in this game. That, so that's who I'm rooting for in this game, that type of thing. Not based on their looks, it's just something like maybe oh, this kid hit a three-pointer, so let me root for him, or something innocuous like that. But I can watch any sport I'd like, but certain sports they just call to me and I want to watch them on a regular basis. But certain, like baseball, basketball, I don't really watch those on television because I need to be in the atmosphere to really get into it. I like the camaraderie that sports creates in those atmospheres.

Speaker 3 12:47

Certain things will bring a whole community together. Actually I think I was told about this the other day, one that really brought the Formula One community together literally this past Sunday. A driver who has been in the sport for 15 years. He's done 239 races, never gotten a post. He literally had the record for longest. Most race starts with no podium place finish so first, second or third, and after 15 years with a three-year stint of not having a team so he wasn't even racing for three years of the 15, he finally got his podium at a team you wouldn't necessarily think is going to get a podium spot. It literally it truly brought the entire F1 community together rooting for this man to get his first podium after 15 years of perseverance and never giving up. And goodness, these edits that people are putting online are bringing tears to my eyes.

Speaker 2 13:46

A good sports moment when you're a true fan will make you cry and I live by that no, I know because we were celebrating your birthday and it was a really good, I think, birthday present that randomly you're like what, we're in the middle of riding roller coasters and you were losing your mind over this news and I'm like it's a special thing I very much enjoy. It sounds creepy out loud when you say it, but I enjoy watching people enjoy things. That's something I enjoy deeply. So when I worked in a restaurant, that's why I loved working there, because I would watch them eat food and I would watch it creep in the corner. Just I enjoy that. So that particular day I was enjoying watching you freak out.

Speaker 3 14:29

He's not even like a driver. I particularly like him, but he's never been my favorite driver, but I was just so excited for him in that moment. He finally got his moment in the sun. It's about the story.

Speaker 2 14:39

Yes, it's about the story. Yes, it's about the story. So that leads into the other big thing you're into, huge into. There's so many. I think we could spend the entire episode talking about all the things that you are very into and it's super, super cool. It's not defining you, but it's just things that bring you joy.

Speaker 2 14:58

Reading is one of those big ones, oddly, and I only want to put it as a small disclaimer, because earlier you said you never viewed yourself as super strong. I always did, by the way, because of your ability to put furniture together. I hate it so much and every time I put furniture together it's usually a little bit wobbly or wonky, and I watched you put all this furniture together, so you were in the zone. You were just methodical about it. Barely even needed the instructions Predicator, you did it and I was like wait a minute, she did it. I've never viewed you as not strong because of your weird and amazing ability to put shit together. It's super cool, de-attract. I just had to say that a little bit. That's another thing you like to do. If anybody's listening and needs something put together, call her. Yeah, but pair Books. You're into reading. I've never seen, aside from now my neighbor next door. Anybody that has as many books as you have that could marvel that could go against Bell's Library and Beauty and the Beast.

Speaker 3 15:59

That's the dream To be true. Go against Bell's Library and Beauty and the Beast. That's the dream. That is always. That library is the standard for me.

Speaker 2 16:05

When did you start reading and why do you like reading still to this day?

Speaker 3 16:09

Honestly, since birth my parents would always read me books. My mom still jokes that my favorite book when I was really young was the Clifford Peekaboo book. She can still recite it. That's good, so that I've always loved books. And then, once I started learning how to read, I was at the school, my elementary school library. I was in there every second. I could checking books in and out. Going to our public library, my mom would take us at least every other week, if not every week, so I could get books and movies. Because I also love watching movies too, I broke a few videos in my time from watching them, rewatching them, rewinding them and watching them again. Any Gen Z listening a video is a really old version.

Speaker 2 17:02

No, you're not what a video or a tape recorder is, so it's okay. I don't watch movies now old movies and it shows the person holding the video recorder, or even a camera on your shoulder, and what is that?

Speaker 3 17:14

right, I feel like I had one of those and my dad would just be walking around with it on his shoulder.

Speaker 2 17:20

They don't understand how much technology has really exploded over the last, arguably even 10 years. It's crazy If you look at movies, just that. Go ahead, sorry, go ahead, that's us.

Speaker 3 17:33

We always get on tangent, but no, I always, I don't know I loved reading, I loved losing myself in a story Helps me not necessarily forget about my real life for the moment, but just explore other lives and other worlds. Definitely, I would say the book that solidified my quote-unquote bookworm status would have been, when you know, a third grade Harry Potter. But I binged those. I think the first three had already come out. I like read them so quickly. And then when the fourth one came out, I devoured it and then continued on with that.

Speaker 3 18:08

But I wasn't necessarily a huge fantasy book reader outside of the Harry Potter series for a long time, and so a few years ago actually is when I really started to get into more fantasy books, but like not obviously like a young kid or young adult style, but like the more adult fantasy books where there's a lot more world building and a lot more nuance to the stories. I guess um, not that there aren't nuances in young adult books, but just more relatable to me where I'm at now as a 33 year old instead of where I was as a kid reading books. But I just love getting lost in a story. I love character development. That's probably my biggest one. I don't.

Speaker 3 18:46

I'm not necessarily a plot person that cares about a plot driven story. I like a character driven story. So a whole lot of nothing can technically happen in the book and I'll think, oh yeah, that's fascinating, just because I'm really getting into the mind of a character, or multiple characters, how they tick, why they're reacting to the situation in that particular way. That's what I usually look for in a story. So I know I'm not plenty of people like that, but there's, there are people that are more plot driven, so that would drive some of the books I read. Would probably drive them bonkers.

Speaker 2 19:16

But no very much err on your side. I do love a good plot.

Speaker 3 19:19

Yes, don't be wrong.

Speaker 2 19:21

A good plot?

Speaker 1 19:21

Yeah, don't be, wrong, a good plot.

Speaker 2 19:22

I can't appreciate a plot if the characters aren't developing.

Speaker 3 19:24

Yeah, exactly Like a lot of times, I'll read a book and my biggest criticism I feel like it's just not. There's not a lot of depth, like I don't really understand the characters. It felt very surface level, even if the plot was fabulous, or like it pulled from source material, because, you know, everything borrows from everything else. So I read a book that was based off of one of my favorite movies, roman holiday, thinking oh, this would be great. I love roman holiday, it's a classic story, um, but you really didn't get the character development throughout the story. It was how they were at the beginning of the story, was mostly how they were at the end, with maybe like a couple of tweaks. So it just wasn't my favorite, even though obviously I love the source material. But in the Roman holiday there was a lot of character growth.

Speaker 2 20:06

So I hate it when things don't match. Yep. One last thing your knack for decorating. People don't know this about you. Until they like, until out you or they. They get invited to my house or they get invited to your house. They have get invited to your house. They have no clue how good you are at decorating. They have, like no idea. Again, you're like our colleague where I'm like.

Speaker 2 20:28

Mr Calling, you should have done that, but you got a million and five calling. So do it, do what you like, but you're very good, did you? I know you didn't study that in college. I know in college you studied a lot of different things, but not interior decorating. Why are you so good at it? Where did you learn it? Is this just you born with it?

Speaker 3 20:47

Honestly, it feels like a strong block, yeah, or I just see something that catches my eye and I'm like you know, I like that, I think I can make that work and I'll just put it in my house and it might just sit in a corner for a while until I have an epiphany for how something could work or look together. Maybe it's part it comes from being chronically online as well. I used to when Pinterest became a thing. I loved just scrolling through Pinterest for a while and so maybe just like absorbing a lot of that over the years. And again, I watched a lot of movies and television shows. So you get a lot of movies and television shows. So you get a lot of different ideas that way, even if you're not necessarily seeking them out subconsciously, if you're watching a television show with the same sets, you're going to just start to put those things together in your head.

Speaker 2 21:30

I think no, that's just you. I get too absorbed in other things, I don't pick up on them. That's why my house looks the way I'm sitting.

Speaker 3 21:39

I just like things that are aesthetically pleasing, so I just sort of I'd mess around with things like not everything always works, but uh, I feel like when I was in your house if it's a space.

Speaker 3 21:50

I mean I know I'm gonna be in for a while because, like I'm slowly going through my house, like my main floor is pretty much where I want it to be feel wise, so that I kind of neglected some other spots in my house that I know I should get to, but it'll. It's a slow process but I feel like that's the sign. It's like not rushing through a space either, cause I feel like that's where a lot of people not to like judge anyone in their taste. But If you're rushing through because you just want it to look like a picture-perfect space, it's not really you. So I still feel like that's kind of empty and soulless. In that case, versus, take your time to pieces that either mean something to you or just express who you are. They don't necessarily have to mean anything to you, but just feel out your own vibe, I guess.

Speaker 2 22:37

Which means you have to know yourself.

Speaker 3 22:41

And not a lot of people know themselves.

Staying Steady in Your Values

Speaker 2 22:43

Not a lot of people spend enough time to figure out what they like, what they're into, and really stay that course and know themselves. It's part of what birthed this whole podcast is losing yourself because life defines you instead of you defining you. How have you been able to remain so steady, like you aren't somebody who lets life change you in a way that makes you no longer follow your own values and your core beliefs? You stay in your values and your core beliefs and you don't allow life to really shake you that way. I know it hits you, don't get me wrong. Life hits everybody, but for you in particular, I've noticed you don't settle. You don't just walk away. Do you think you settle? You're making a face. I don't think you settle.

Speaker 3 23:37

No, I don't think I settle, I think a lot of people do.

Speaker 2 23:41

A lot of people strong-willed, weak-willed, doesn't matter. A lot of people settle, you don't.

Speaker 3 23:47

No, I don't think I settle. I think sometimes I have ideas of grandeur and then I'm like you know what. I try to be a little bit more realistic about some things. I wouldn't call that settling, I'd call that. You know what. This is the time it's, this is what's I'm. It's not the time for my grant, like for something that I'm dreaming of grandeur. Yet I need to still work towards that. So I like take that back sometimes, but I wouldn't say I settle, I just I'm more. I feel like it comes a lot from having a lot of alone time. Like I, I'm an introvert very much, though so keeping to myself, that means I'm not necessarily letting other people's perceptions drive me.

Speaker 2 24:27

It's your superpower. You use it as a superpower.

Speaker 3 24:31

Like I love hearing other people's perspectives and where they're coming from and why they think what they think, but because I do have the time to like sit with myself. I'm not always itching to be around other people, I'm very happy with my own company, so I have a lot of time to reflect what I actually think about something. Like I might say something in the heat of the moment but then when I have time to sit and reflect I'm like you know, it really doesn't. That's really not how I think about that situation. So and again I think it goes back to my love of reading is I've been able to expose myself to other thoughts and ideas and belief systems. So I just kind of helped build my own because I had the time to like go through those journeys through someone else's mind to help me decipher my own.

Speaker 2 25:19

I think it's just brilliant. I study people because that's my favorite thing to do is study people. You're so good at it. Well, I study my friends too. I study everybody and whether I say it out loud or not, because I'm an ambivert, so I recharge introvertedly, but I'm a very extroverted, loud person when I'm an ambivert. So I recharge introvertedly, but I'm a very extroverted, loud person when I'm with people and I can tend to dominate and troll I wouldn't troll's not the right word, I wouldn't say the word Dominate. I tend to dominate and I tend to dominate every space that I get into. I can sense people's weaknesses very quickly and my nature wants to dominate. You are.

Speaker 2 26:04

Darwinism in a nutshell right there but I'm a healed version of that now. But what I've noticed is when I can sense other people are also strong, they just quiet. I tend to give space to that and I would argue a million times over you are one of those people. You are quiet, in group settings very quiet, but you are very strong and people tend to overlook that or mistake you for not being as important as you should be in a room. And it's what's so funny is the other people in the room that are like me recognize that in you very quickly and so everybody knows treat Tabitha with the same level of respect. It's crazy to me when people see you, approach you, or however many times we go out, they just don't see you the right way and you don't care. You just walk up and you don't get upset for you. I get so mad and you're just like who cares?

Speaker 3 27:13

I'm not their cup of tea, and that's fine.

Speaker 2 27:16

I'm okay. I expect to not be people's cup of tea. I don't like it when I see other people treated that way. It's a problem. But I would argue that for you and I would also argue, just because I know you, that maybe that's how it's been your whole life.

Speaker 3 27:34

Yeah, I mean, I mean no, no, no family or like close friends or anything. But yeah, I tend to not. I can get chatty in certain settings, Don't get me wrong, but I'm not necessarily in a group setting trying to fight for the attention or to force myself into a conversation. If it naturally happens, it naturally happens. But I'm not like going out of my way to, I don't know, make a certain impression on other people, especially if I don't know them. So yeah, I would say probably I get overlooked over the years, but usually it's by people that don't matter.

Speaker 3 28:09

Yeah, like it's not people, like it's a. I also think I'm a pretty good read on people, so the people that ignore me, they're not ones that I get a good vibe from anyway.

Speaker 2 28:18

Yeah, they don't matter to your life story. I just think it's really cool that you're able to again stay very strong and steady in your character and you don't let other people shake or move you, and I think that's really important for people to learn if they can, or at least learn that they need to learn it. So, in the interest of time, as I always do and every episode the same what piece of advice can you give to people that are listening as every episode goes? The whole episode is pretty much advice, but maybe it's a mantra you live by, Just something that you can pass along.

The Quiet Strength of Being You

Speaker 3 28:58

I would say always have an open mind. That's because I I like you said, I I am pretty steadfast in my beliefs, but it doesn't stop me from trying to understand another perspective. Or if it's something even I staunchly don't agree with, I still want to hear why they think what they think. Um, because maybe there's a reason for that that. Just always have that open mind. Just just learn something new, try something new, because you could find a new hobby way later in life that you didn't realize, that would take over your whole life, like me with Formula One.

Speaker 2 29:31

Yeah.

Speaker 3 29:32

Where you're traveling the world and you're making new friends because of this, um. So don't ever just like let yourself get stuck. If you're, if you feel stuck I don't know try to seek something new out.

Speaker 2 29:44

Yeah, you can unstuck yourself.

Speaker 3 29:46

We're going to coin that unstuck yourself, unstuck yourself, unstuck yourself, unstuck yourself.

Speaker 1 29:51

What strikes me most about this conversation with Tabitha is her quiet strength and the way she's cultivated such a rich inner life. Her advice to always have an open mind while staying steadfast in your beliefs feels like wisdom we all need right now. It's that rare combination of being rooted in who you are while remaining curious about the world around you. I'm particularly moved by how Tabitha has learned to be comfortable with her own company and use that introvert superpower to really reflect on what she thinks and feels. In a world that often rewards the loudest voice in the room, there's something powerful about watching someone who's perfectly content to let their actions and characters speak for themselves. Her reminder that you can unstuck yourself by trying something new, like how Formula One completely changed her world, is such a beautiful example of staying open to unexpected passions of any stage of life. Sometimes the things that end up bringing us the most joy are the ones we never saw coming.

Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways

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For those of you who feel overlooked or underestimated, maybe Tabitha's story is permission to recognize that the people who matter will see your worth and the ones who don't simply aren't your people. Anyway. If today's conversation inspired you to consider how you might unstuck yourself or stay truer to your own values. Share it with someone who needs to hear it. Remember SheSweet. Society exists to amplify women's voices from all walks of life, proving that strength comes in many different forms. Until next time, this is your host, dahlia, reminding you that your life is your message to the world. Why not make it extraordinary? You?