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Are you ready to get unstuck in your career and take your career to the next level? Are you an ambitious professional that just can’t seem to get ahead? Are you tired of feeling like your next promotion, your next opportunity is in the hands of someone else. Well, then this podcast is for you. Every week, Sonja Holmes brings you the inspiration, tools, and strategies to help you take control of your career and build a work-life that you love.Through interviews with thought leaders in the professional development space, Sonja asks all the right questions to help you get the answers and strategies you need to get ahead. She covers everything from landing the job or promotion, improving performance and productivity, personal branding in the workplace, effective communication skills at work, and much more. If you are ready to win at work be sure to subscribe through your favorite podcast app of choice or head on over to sonjaholmes.com/ownyourwork.
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Send us a text In today’s episode, I’m sitting with a question that’s stretching me in the best way: What do I need to fully release so I can fully receive what God is trying to give me? I talk about the tension of holding on to old identities, old urgencies, and old rhythms that no longer fit the woman I’m becoming. I share how God keeps inviting me into ease, clarity, and a softer rhythm — and how that invitation requires open hands, not clenched ones. This episode is for anyone feeling t...
Send us a text Today I’m sitting with a gentle but necessary question: What am I carrying that I’m not supposed to carry? So often, the pressure, urgency, and weight I feel… I’m the one who created it. And a lot of what I hold onto was never meant for me to carry alone in the first place. I reflect on the scriptures that remind me to cast my cares and burdens on the Lord because He cares for me and sustains me. This episode is an invitation to look honestly at the heaviness we’ve picked up—wo...
Send us a text Today’s episode is short, simple, and so necessary. I’m sitting with one question that’s been grounding me in this season of transition: “What permission do I need to give myself so I can move forward with peace instead of pressure?” For so long, I equated transition with punishment. I thought I had to hurry, control, and force outcomes. But when I really look at it, so much of that urgency was rooted in fear—stories I created in my mind, not truth. In this season of transition...
Send us a text Today I’m sitting with a question I can’t shake: What is the next thing being stirred in my spirit—even if I can’t explain it yet? Not the edited version. Not the realistic version. The uncensored, unfiltered whisper. There’s something about allowing yourself to name the nudge without talking yourself out of it. So I’m letting myself dream without shrinking, and I’m inviting you to do the same. What’s that quiet invitation that keeps returning? What’s been pulling on your hear...
Send us a text In today’s episode, I reflect on the scripture, “My tongue is the pen of a ready writer,” and what it means to speak with intention. I ask myself — and you — a simple but powerful question: If your words are writing the next chapter, what are you speaking into being? I share how I’m choosing to declare peace, favor, clarity, and joy over this season, trusting that my words carry creative power. This episode is a reminder that our story is still unfolding, and we have the author...
Send us a text The question I’m sitting with today is this: 👉🏽 If I truly believe that life and death are in the power of the tongue, how would I speak over this moment? Sometimes it’s so easy to forget that our words aren’t just sounds — they’re containers. They carry direction, atmosphere, and weight. The way I speak over a moment becomes the way I experience it. In this episode, I share how I’ve been reflecting on the power of my words — not just what I say out loud, but the silent d...
Send us a text Key Points: Reflecting on the truth that “nothing is impossible for those who believe.”Asking: If God delights in my desires, what does that mean for how I dream?Reframing desire not as selfishness, but as divine design — desires are planted to draw us closer to the life He’s already written.Visualizing this season as a blank canvas — a chance to co-create with God.Exploring what it means to begin again with faith, words, and aligned action.Reminder: The next chapter isn’t wait...
Send us a text Today I had this question looping in my spirit: What would it look like if I actually believed that I am right where I need to be? This came up because I noticed myself slipping back into those old patterns — the urgency, the need to produce something, the itch to control the moment so nothing falls apart. That part of me that thinks my worth is tied to what I can show for myself. But when I slowed down, I realized… maybe the falling apart is the thing that’s making room for so...
Send us a text In today’s episode, I share the question that’s been sitting deep in my spirit lately: “What could this moment be trying to give me?” I talk about this gentle whisper I keep feeling — don’t miss what this moment is trying to offer you. I open up about how easy it is for me to slip back into striving, overachieving, staying relevant, or trying to control what God has already released me from. This episode is really a pause… an invitation to notice the transformation God mi...
Send us a text Today I’m sitting with a simple but grounding question: What do I need to believe about myself - and about God’s sovereignty - in this moment? I think about David in 1 Samuel 17, standing before Saul, naming the evidence of who he was and the evidence of who God had already been to him. He didn’t hype himself up he remembered. He pulled from his history with God. So I’m asking myself the same thing: What truth do I need to stand on today, and what evidence do I alre...
Send us a text If you really knew that everything happening right now — the uncertainty, the waiting, the transition — was actually working for you, how would you move through this season? I’m not talking about the surface-level “it’s gonna be okay” kind of faith. I mean deep down in your spirit, in your belly, where peace lives even when the path doesn’t make sense. If you believed that all things were working together for your good — not in hindsight, but right now — what would shift? Would...
Send us a text In this short, reflective episode, I invite you to pause and look at what’s forming in you and not just around you. So often, when life shifts or things fall apart, we focus on what’s being taken instead of what’s being taught. But every experience carries the power to reveal a new version of you — one that’s stronger, softer, wiser, or more grounded than before. This isn’t about pretending the hard isn’t hard. It’s about asking, “Who am I choosing to let emerge because of this...
Send us a text When everything shift- your title, your role, your season - it’s easy to feel like you’ve lost a piece of yourself. But even in the middle of change, there are things that can’t be taken: your growth, your lessons, your love, your character. In this short reflection, I share the question that’s grounding me right now: When everything else falls away, what’s yours to keep? Because some things aren’t lost-they’re just coming with you into the next chapter. Reflection question: Wh...
Send us a text In this episode, I want you to really see yourself through this—whatever this is for you right now. I want you to imagine being on the other side of it, standing in your promised land, and ask yourself: what would that version of you say to the you who’s still in the thick of it? A week before I got laid off, I was walking through my yard and had this quiet moment where I realized… I was standing in the middle of answered prayer. Not because of anything material, but because of...
Send us a text Before we dive into daily prompts, you need to understand WHY they work—so you don't skip them when you need them most. This episode breaks down the neuroscience of the Reticular Activating System (RAS), the brain's filter that decides what you notice out of 11 million bits of information per second. Host Sonia Holmes explains how daily questions literally rewire your neural pathways, and shares how years of this practice gave her peace instead of panic when she got laid off la...
Send us a text I got laid off from Amazon this week. My 9-year-old announced it to my 7-year-old: "MOM GOT FIRED!" This is me processing out loud. Figuring out what's next. In real-time. I'm launching Season 2 of Own Your Work and I will be doing daily prompts for people in transition for the next 2 weeks. Not from the mountaintop. From the field. Here's the thing: I'm really talking to myself. These are the messages I need to hear. The questions I'm asking myself as I build something new. Bu...
Send us a text In this conversation, Elaine Lin Hering discusses the power of silence and the importance of unlearning it. She shares her personal journey from being a lawyer to becoming a leadership development consultant and author. Elaine emphasizes the need to create safe spaces for individuals to speak up and challenges the notion that speaking up is solely an individual's responsibility. She also explores the unintentional ways in which people silence others and suggests ways to design ...
Send us a text Are you ready to redefine success on your own terms and live a joyful life? That's what we did in our recent life-transforming conversation with the dynamic Jessica Kascov. As a bestselling author, speaker, and life coach, Jessica shared her journey from a thriving engineering career to the inception of her company, Joyfulness with Jess. We delved into her personal life and discovered her deep-seated love for self-help books. You'll be inspired as we explore her transformation ...
Send us a text What if you could take control of the autopilot mode of your life? That's what we're diving into in today's episode. I share my personal journey of disrupting ingrained habits, those default modes that have been silently dictating the course of my life. Using a specially created journal, filled with insightful prompts, I've been able to identify and begin to alter these default habits. Change isn't easy, but acknowledging these habits and recognizing their impact on our lives i...
Send us a text What if we could disrupt the ingrained habits and routines that dictate our actions and potentially hinder our growth? Join me as I candidly share my own journey of challenging my default mode, a habit of remaining silent when I should speak up and saying yes to everything to the detriment of myself. This is an expedition not just into my personal default mode, but a collective exploration of how our default modes shape our work life, sometimes incongruously with our desires. ...
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