Read the fullepisode breakdown + show notes:
https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/blog/ep198-when-your-mission-meets-silence
What do you do when you have never once doubted the mission, and the grant still doesn't come through?
Dr. Jordan Ashley is a sociologist, TEDx speaker, and the founder of Souljourn Yoga Foundation, which has spent a decade funding girls' education through yogaretreats and teacher trainings in 10 locations around the world. Her challenge was never believing in the work. It was what to do when other people didn'tfeel its urgency, and how to keep a quiet response from deciding how she moves forward.
In This Episode, We Explore:

• The Urgency Gap: Why believing in your mission and helping others feel its urgency are two separate challenges.
• Disappointment Without a Verdict: How Jordan lets a missed grant be information about the how instead of a reason to stop.
• Ethical Storytelling: The one question that strips the ego and the optics out of impact work.
• The Minimizing "Just": What changes when you stop shrinking the way you describe your own work.
• Deep Instead of Wide: Why doing less, and putting everything into the less, created more impact.

Episode Chapters:
00:00 Inner work as the work
01:40 How Cambodia started a heart cause
05:00 When others don't feel the urgency09:00 Ethical storytelling without the ego
17:00 When the grant doesn't come through19:30 Redefining success: less, but deeper
23:20 Bringing the work home to Los Angeles
26:20 Advice for the before season
Connect with Dr. Jordan Ashley:
Instagram: @souljournyoga
Website: https://www.souljournyoga.com/
Tulum 2027 retreat: https://www.souljournyoga.com/tulum2027
Yoga camp and teacher training:https://www.souljournyoga.com/teachertraining
Join the Conversation:
This one is for the founder who has never doubted the work, but has started to wonder whether a quiet inbox means she should stop. The mission doesn't need more certainty from you. The response just needs to stop deciding what'spossible.
Where are you standing?
Know where your Floor is firm.
Know where it's still moving with results.
Know where to work next.
Three minutes.
theselftrustcoach.com/where-are-you-standing