Welcome to Sunday Stillness, a few minutes each week to meditate on one idea that will bring us closer to who we want to become.

The whole 10 Things to Tell You, podcast concept, is predicated on this idea that sharing yourself will make you less

lonely. I have been shouting from the rooftops for years now about sharing your stuff.

That's the name of my first book, share your stuff, I'll go first, that book came out of the show,

which is about telling one another things, for all kinds of reasons.

Yes, to make us less lonely, but also to make us feel like we're not the only ones,

to build connection, to deepen existing connections, to know

ourselves better, to write our own histories. There's so many reasons and angles and layers to this idea of sharing

and telling that I've been so passionate about for so long.

And yet, this week, I was given so much pause by an Instagram reel that my friend Joy Cho, creator, founder of Oh Joy, that she posted.

She was really speaking to other creative business owners about telling people your plans, your

products, your hopes, your services, your launches. But she was basically reminding us to tell one another things.

This should be something that I happily like and scroll on by, you know, like, yes, preach it sister, keep going. But instead, I was like, oh, because one line in that reel was about how sometimes it's easier to tell strangers things

than it is to tell our friends and family.

And so here, let me just play you a little bit of the audio from this Instagram reel.

I'll also link to it because you're going to want to go follow Joy.

And I hope to have her on the show soon anyway so if you don't already know her wonderful work I do want you to know it.

Here's what she said in this reel this week.

Are you telling those in your life that know you and love you what you do,

what business you've started, what side hustle you're working on,

what you want to do or pivot in your next phase of your business or a career?

Are you telling them?

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