Buried not hidden

Welcome back to the Made for More podcast. On this week’s episode, we’re diving into the truth that just because something is buried doesn’t mean it isn’t growing. We’re talking about the gifts, dreams, and visions planted deep within us, and what it looks like to keep tending to them even when all we see is dirt. This episode is your reminder that not all growth is visible, that roots grow before fruit, and that the unseen work in your life still matters. If you’ve been feeling discouraged, questioning your progress, or wondering if what you’re nurturing is ever going to take off, this conversation will encourage you to keep showing up, keep watering what’s planted, and trust that in time, a beautiful harvest will come. 

Because You were made for more, and you always have been.

With love, Miranda Hammock

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Welcome back to the Made for More podcast, and welcome to episode 42 titled Buried But Not Hidden. I'm your host, Miranda Hammock, and together we now make up a growing and connected Made for More community that currently consists of 39 countries and territories in 476 cities. This is really cool to see the Made for More reach all these locations and listening ears and reach the people that it's meant to reach. And I just have to continuously say a huge thank you to you, the listener, because yes, while I produce the show, you are actually the ones that are helping it grow. The more that it tends to get streamed, downloaded, shared, and the more reviews that the show gets, the more the algorithm pushes it out so that the right people can find it and the right people can hear. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you. And today I have just got to be honest about where I've been this last week because your girl was down bad, like real bad, like crippling anxiety bad. And as a girl who considers myself the queen of pushing through, I just couldn't push through this. And it became to a point where I got to debilitating anxiety. I'm talking like midweek, I hadn't eaten in almost two days, I wasn't sleeping, and I eventually couldn't even go to work, which is very unlike me. A number of things took place this week and a number of very valid reasons of why I felt this way, including one of my neighbors had their garage catch fire when they were not home. And I have a huge fear of fires, and I was in such a panic, and I just thought her whole house was about to go down, and I just I just knew I couldn't let that happen. Luckily, it did not. Uh, between myself and a couple very fast-acting neighbors, we were able to put out the fire and get the fire department on the way, and it was just contained to their garage and it did not spread inside. Thank God. Oh, I also got scammed out a couple hundred dollars this week by a fake company. Not on my radar this week. Um, talk about feeling like an absolute idiot, and also added to my panic. Just overall, it was just honestly like a heavy week. The days that I was behind the chair just seemed like I had a lot of clients that were just carrying extra heavy things. And as a fixer, I just wanted to fix it all. And I, you know, on top of carrying my own stuff that most of them didn't even know I was carrying, there was just a lot and a lot of other things I can't even begin to talk about, but I've just been feeling it all, like all of it. And my husband said it best to me one night when I was really upset. He just hugged me and he said, You just feel things so deeply. And he's right, I do, which is one of my gifts. It's the gift of depth that I carry. And oftentimes that can be a great thing, but too much heaviness or too many things around me that I want to fix, save, or change, or take on, those things can send me into a really hard mental state because I feel so deeply. And that was where I was this week. Just like I said, your girl was down bad. And because I've been down bad, it sends me right off of all of my good habits and right out of my positive, high energy vibe. And my brain begins to get very loud. It begins to get very negative and weak, and the mental insecurity really starts to set in. And I started to have thoughts like, you're going to lose clients because you had to cancel your day, or you're such a baby and you're so embarrassing. Why can't you get yourself together? Or no one really cares what you have to say, anyways. Why do you think you're going to make a difference? No one notices when you're silent. Why do you even try? You're nobody. Yeah. The girl that you know who is typically pretty fierce, passionate, confident, and always on the up, she began to spiral like a tornado mixed of anxiety and self-doubt and fear. But the reason I'm even telling you all of this is actually really important because I want it to be vulnerable and to be a reminder that we all have moments where we second guess ourselves, we second guess who we are, or we struggle from time to time with anxiety. We all have mental health days that we need to be aware of. And two, this spiral is actually about to turn into a beautiful pivotal coaching moment. So, you know, if you pay attention close enough, life is always providing its lessons to you for you to learn from. All you have to do is truly just listen beyond surface level, and you will begin to see how life is here teaching you in real time. And I was in the car with my husband and daughter when one of those very unexpected life lessons landed right in my lap at perfect timing. My daughter started asking my husband how long it was going to take for her seeds that she planted in our backyard to turn into trees. She had recently buried a couple of blueberries and an apple core with some apple seeds. And in her little mind, she was wondering how long it would take before she saw something happen. So I was listening as my husband explained to her that growth takes a long time and you can't miss days watering it. It needs the right amount of sunlight, oxygen, and attention and consistency. And even then, it could still take years and years of doing that before you'd ever see something like a true apple tree. And as they kept talking and she kept asking more questions, my mind immediately went somewhere much deeper because isn't it so much like us? How often are we carrying a gift we know is planted deep down inside of us? And instead of honoring and trusting the process, we just want to rush it straight to the tree. And a lot of us give up on what is planted deep within us because we don't see the proof fast enough. We don't see the growth fast enough. But not seeing it yet doesn't mean that nothing is happening at all. We want this evidence far too early. We want visible growth while we are still busy growing roots. Before something ever produces its fruit, it has to grow those roots, right? And those roots are the part that nobody really sees. The roots are the hidden work, the part that nobody claps for. It's the foundation, the stretching, the deepening, the strengthening. And without those roots, nothing sustainable would ever grow. It would not be able to hold a tree without those roots. And I'm telling you this because this week, while I was down, I started to lean towards that voice of tapping out. That voice that says nobody cares, nobody sees it, and it doesn't matter, why do you even try? Why would I spend years preparing soil, watering, and tending to something that was planted within me only just to walk away because I don't see a tree yet? Why would I get all the way to episode 41 and convince myself to stop at 42 simply because the growth isn't visible yet, or I don't feel like it's a tree yet? Let me put it this way. We are all designed with some type of unique gift. Some of us are deeply aware of those gifts and we're in tune with those gifts that we carry, while others are still on some journey of discovering what those gifts within them actually are. But either way, whether we've identified them yet or not, we all carry something unique within us. So maybe you have the gift of empathy. Maybe you're like me and you have the gift of depth. You feel, you see, you hear, everything is a lot more depth. Maybe you have the gift of nurturing. Or how about gifts like these? Leadership, curiosity, creativity, perseverance, discipline, compassion, eagerness, conviction, music, thought, discernment, intuition, serving, storytelling, vision, loyalty, or hospitality. There are so many unique gifts, and some of us actually hold many of those. Regardless regardless of each gift, they're there by design and for a unique purpose. So what I kept hearing today was don't hide your gift just because it's buried. And just because it's buried doesn't mean that it's not there at all or that nothing good beneath the surface is happening. It just means that it's in the beginning stages, and those beginning stages are what lead us to the result that everybody sees and the result that everybody honestly wants. The deeper message here is that the most meaningful things in life are built beneath those buried seasons. They're not going to be in the spotlight or in the visible result, not in the look what I've accomplished part of life, but in the quiet, repetitive, hidden work that nobody claps for beneath the surface. And honestly, this is why stewarding your gift makes it so hard. Because people won't mind tending to something once it's obvious that it's working and it's thriving. People won't mind putting in the work when they see immediate reward or immediate success or satisf satisfaction. But what's more difficult is continuing to tend to something when all you see, when all you see and you look down is just dirt. You see nothing but dirt. And that's right where I think so many of us get discouraged within our journeys is because we're busy judging what's happening above the surface while completely forgetting that the most important work often happens underneath that surface where things are buried. So maybe you're like me and maybe you're tending to your gifts, and all you see right now is that dirt. Maybe you're wondering if the effort you're putting in, the consistency you're trying to maintain maintain and the time you're spending nurturing what's been planted is actually going to be worth it. Or if anything's happening beneath the surface at all. And if you've ever felt this way, I want you to come back to this picture of a seed buried in the ground and think about all of the unseen things that have to happen for that seed to one day become a tree. And not just any tree, but a tree that eventually is going to produce fruit. Because before it's ever visible, it's got to be vulnerable. Before it's ever fruitful, it's got to form. Before it's ever impressive, it's got to be buried deep and shoved in that dirt. And I want you to know that it's okay to have moments where you feel self-critical, and it's okay to have moments where you realize that your gift, even the gift of feeling deeply, can often come with a side of anxiety. It's okay to question whether what you're pursuing is ever going to work or grow or take off. But what's not okay is giving up on the gifts, the dreams, and the vision that are buried deep down within the soil within you. Because when you look around, you'll see that even through doubt or insecurity, you most likely still have the resource of water. You still have the resource of oxygen and sunlight. And your job is to simply keep tending to what is unseen, to keep showing up when nobody else sees what's happening beneath the surface, to keep nurturing what's planted within you, even when it doesn't look like much is happening yet. And you have to trust that in time there will be a beautiful and fruitful harvest for all to see. And when that harvest comes, you'll know exactly the work that it took to get there. That is what it looks like to not give up. That is what it looks like to choose to stay, to not stay stuck in the spiral of negativity and anxiety. That's what it looks like to keep pouring rich fertilizer over the soil of your life so that you can continue to become who you were created to be. And that's what it looks like to live a made for more life. Because you were made for more, and you always have been.