🎤 Behind the Roar | December 13, 2025
It’s Saturday afternoon, snow is falling outside and leaving behind a beautiful blanket of sparkling white everywhere. It’s fitting for my mood today, which is leaning heavily towards introspection and “what do I want to be when I grow up” thoughts.
This week, I have leaned into the concept of reawakening our child-like wonder—asking questions as an adult that I have shied away from because honestly I don’t know if I want to know the answer.
It’s easy to stay in a place of comfort when the world is constantly shifting around you. But my own personal circumstances are challenging that comfort in a big way as I find myself no longer employed, questioning if/how/when I will find another job, wondering how I can pursue my dreams as an author, motivational speaker, empowerment leader when I still have bills to pay.
It is overwhelming, to be honest, when I think about what lies ahead for me, or rather what unknowns exist in my future. There are many unknowns, and that’s scary. But it can also be quite freeing. Allow me to explain.
When you are forced to rethink your path due to circumstances outside of your control, it breaks something loose inside you—vulnerability, fear, insecurity, and a flood of not-so-positive “what if” scenarios. And it’s easy—extremely easy—to get caught up in the negative spiral that can follow.
But, when you make a conscious effort to stop the “what can go wrong” conversations with yourself, and instead embrace the “what are all the amazing possibilities” ideas, that’s when the empowered curiosity shift happens.
And that’s where I am today. As I watch the beautiful snowflakes drifting down outside, I’m reminded that no two are alike. No duplicates. Not a single one. Every snowflake is unique—just as each one of us is unique. In my journaling of late, there are two phrases that I often repeat as I write, because they resonate so strongly with me, and they remind me to keep pushing forward into the purpose I know I’m being led to fulfill.
And I want to share these with you today, in hopes that they may spark a tiny ember in you that will grow into a flame of curious growth in your future:
“There is something in this world that only I can do and that is why I am here.”
— Maya Angelou
“I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
As you move forward through this weekend and into next week, I hope you will embrace these quotes and reflect on them. Consider how you can apply them to your own life, and how you can awaken your own curious nature to the possibilities that exist for you—the possibilities of something else, something more.
And I will close with words from last week’s Behind the Roar, because I still fully believe in their call-to-action power:
Dig deep.
Stay curious.
Be selfishly stubborn.
Be persistent.
Ask the questions your heart has been whispering.
And let your roar be loud and full of purpose—not from certainty, but from courage.
— With Gratitude,
Ronda 💛
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If fear can close the door, curiosity can kick it wide open.
When you choose to believe that something might go right—even a little bit—everything shifts.
Your energy shifts.
Your mindset shifts.
Your possibilities shift.
If you’re ready to walk deeper into that shift, Roar Like A Woman was written for you.
Let it guide you, challenge you, and remind you what you’re capable of when you lead with courage instead of certainty.
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