What’s Inspiring Me - Awaken Your Myth
August 2026
What I’m reading
Awaken Your Myth by Erik Ireland
6 Steps to Discover a Life of Peace and Purpose
What's Inspiring Me: Being fully seen isn't the same as being “real” for an audience — it's the harder, quieter choice to stop editing yourself down to something palatable.
What's Inspiring Me: Awaken Your Myth by Erik Ireland
I found Erik Ireland the way most people do — through his voice. He's the host of Listen to Sleep, a podcast where he tells bedtime stories and reads meditations from what sounds like a cabin somewhere in the mountains. I put it on one night, heard him mention growing up in New England, time spent in Rhode Island — where I grew up — and something in me just went: this is my person.
That recognition is what pulled me toward his work in the first place. But what kept me there was watching how he'd built it. As a business consultant, I pay attention to how people share their gifts — the shape of an offering, the way someone turns what they know into something others can actually use. I started circling his site, his courses, his 1:1 sessions, and eventually landed on his book, Awaken Your Myth.
The book itself is an object worth mentioning. They don't make them like this anymore — the cover, the care in the artwork, the weight and texture of the paper under your fingers. It's a sensory experience before you've read a single word. And then you start reading, and you can hear him speaking. His voice comes off the page the same way it comes through your headphones — which means you can read this book tucked into bed, cozy, half-asleep, and still feel like he's right there telling it to you. Slow and intentional.
The hero's journey isn't a new framework. Erik isn't claiming it is. What he does is make you feel it — not as a story structure you're studying, but as the story you're actually living. Hi, it's me. I'm the hero. The book's real work is showing you how to show up as yourself, fully — not the hipster version of "being real" that's really just a different performance, but something closer to being fully visible. Fully seen. As you are, not as the edited version of you.
A lot of us — especially those of us running our own businesses, especially those of us wired a little differently — have spent years getting good at being palatable instead of visible. Erik's book is a quiet argument for choosing the harder, truer thing.
What would it look like to show up fully seen in your business — not masked, not "authentic" as a brand strategy, but actually visible?
What's Inspiring Me: Being fully seen isn't the same as being “real” for an audience — it's the harder, quieter choice to stop editing yourself down to something palatable.
