EP23 NOT HEARD: Say What You Mean, Receive What You Need

Boundaries, listening, and the provide-and-protect lens for safer love and real connection

This week on the Just Jax Podcast, we close out the Adopt-a-Not series with the hardest one of all: Not Heard.

For years, I believed the problem was men, my marriages, or the people around me. I carried a platinum card in the Man Haters Club, I knew how to cut men down, and I thought that made me powerful. What I refused to see was how much of my own voice I had buried.

In this finale episode, I pull the curtain back on four marriages, six long-term relationships, and one life-changing workshop that forced me to face the truth: before I could demand to be heard, I had to listen to myself first.

You will hear:

• 💬 Why recognition of your own power changes how others respond to you

• 🛡️ The two functions of masculine energy: provide and protect — and what happens when they protect themselves from you instead of for you

• 🪞 The hard lesson that listening to yourself comes before anyone else can hear you

• 🏥 The clinic showdown that proved how shifting energy can change the entire room without saying a word

• 👑 Why female empowerment is about standing beside, free from shrinking or cutting down

This episode is raw, uncomfortable, and honest. It is also liberating. The more I own my standards and my voice, the more space I create for men, my sons, and my relationships to rise into something stronger.

Not Heard is the final cut of the Adopt-a-Nots series. If you have ever felt dismissed, silenced, or talked over, this conversation will give you the courage to speak clean, set standards, and finally hear yourself first.

🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music.
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