EP 63: Finding Your Voice Means Losing Some People

What happens when the life you thought was yours suddenly disappears?

On this episode of Affirm That Sh!t, I sit down with Sarah Barnes Humphrey, entrepreneur, podcast host, and author of I Buried Her in a French Press. Ten days before her 37th birthday, Sarah watched the family logistics business she thought she would eventually take over close its doors. She went from being a Director of Sales and Marketing to taking part time jobs, including working as a receptionist and mopping floors, while quietly building the podcast that would eventually become Let’s Talk Supply Chain.

Sarah gets real about the power we give titles, status, and other people’s opinions. We dig into finding your voice, setting boundaries, code switching, entrepreneurship, releasing control, and why waiting until everything is perfect can keep you stuck. Her advice is refreshingly simple: just do it. People probably aren’t paying nearly as much attention to you as you think, and if you hold too tightly to what something should become, you might miss what it could become.

But growth also means accepting that not everyone gets to come with you. Sarah shares the affirmation hitting closest to home in this season of her life: “I release the people who love the old version of me, but can’t handle the healed one.” Finding your voice isn’t a finish line. You may lose it, find it, and redefine it again. The point is giving yourself enough grace to keep becoming.

Connect with Sarah: https://sarahbarneshumphrey.com/