The Inner Compass

Fabiola Delva: Before I introduce you to someone special today, I want to tell you where I am right this moment. As you're listening to this episode, my daughter is getting ready for her prom. And if you hear a little bit of ⁓ heaviness in my voice, that why. I'm tired, I'm happy, I'm excited. A couple of weeks ago, Hailey and I were heading out my picked up where my ⁓ phone left off. Kobe Bryant's voice filled the car. ⁓ And I am also standing at the edge of something new. I have never ⁓ before. A life that is about to look ⁓ looked at and said, I don't want to listen to motivational speech. I said it's an interview. She still wasn't ⁓ I didn't push because I knew about her. ⁓ Bryant. I don't listen to him I need to be motivated. Kobe Bryant someone who understood what it cost to have a dream that size. But if you have been listening this podcast, you know now that waiting is a thing of the past. So here am. ⁓ voice and all. The kind that fit neatly in any conversation. The kind that requires you to become someone most people you don't yet recognize. And when your dream that big, ⁓ you need to hear from someone who survived having one that Not for a push. ⁓ But Hallie ⁓ never needed that, because she never doubted dream possible in the place. ⁓ I'm Fabiola and this is Waiting Is It Working? Six episodes and here we are. I don't know where you started, but I know this. You're not in the same place. Something moved. Maybe you can name it. Maybe you can't. Either way, you felt it. I want to tell you what this podcast has been. Not motivation, not strategy. A mirror Every episode I held it up. And I ask you to look. Not at me, but yourself. At the thing you've been carrying. the thing you kept calling timing. And that thing, me be clear, ⁓ not your friend. It never was. It how to sound like one. Like caution. responsibility. you listened. ⁓ did too. somewhere across this ⁓ something shifted. you started to see clearly. Today I want to introduce you to someone, my daughter, Hailey. Let me tell you about Hailey. is my second child, ⁓ one who keeps me grounded. She pushes me, challenges me, ⁓ by saying anything, just by being herself. When it was time to perform, she showed up. Dance cheerleading, choir, safety patrol, class secretary. Nobody pushed into ⁓ any of She just did. She showed up. No validation, no no interview. And this she's walking college, ⁓ away from me for the first time, carrying something more than any she'll ever earn. a compass that has never pointed her in the wrong direction. I don't want to stop here for a second because I think someone listening right now just felt something. a little recognition, maybe a little sadness. Maybe you thought ⁓ used to be like that before world got loud, before ⁓ fear showed before procrastination pretended to be looking out for you. You had a voice, your own voice, the original one, the one that knew. And here's what I want you to know. It never left. still there. Underneath else. Underneath the fear. Underneath the procrastination. Underneath the years of very careful storage. It has waiting. Not in your journal. in your note app. but in you. If that's okay with you, I want to leave a message here for my daughter, Hayley. You are about to walk, into the most exciting chapter your life. And I need you to know, ⁓ everything you need, ⁓ you already have, you always have. Don't let the convince you otherwise, ever. That is the only that I will of ⁓ And to everyone listening, so do you. You always have the compass never left. just have to get quiet enough to it again. ⁓ If this resonated with you, share it with someone who might need it. I'll see you in the next one. Bye!