221 - Creating Space to Hear Your Inner Voice with Sheetal Story (Stillness, Intuition, and Burnout Recovery)

Carole Jean Whittington (0:00)

Okay. So getting to have my darling friend, Sheetal Story here today is just my giant spark of joy, y'all. I am like over the moon excited because this gorgeous, glorious woman has had such a transformative impact in my life since I met her, and so I'm so thrilled to introduce you to her. Welcome to the show, Sheetal.

Sheetal Story (0:22)

Thank you so much, Carole Jean. This is so wonderful. I feel like it has been so long since we first met, but yet we've only actually known each other for about two years. But yeah, I feel like it's been lifetimes. Like I really, you're a kindred spirit to mine for sure. So thank you for having me.

Carole Jean Whittington (0:41)

That first night out on the patio when we met and started talking, I was like, she's my person.

Sheetal Story (0:46)

I felt that way with you too. You're like, come on over, join us. I wasn't going to join because we were ready to give some context. We were at a conference together for entrepreneurs and Carole Jean had put out the call that if you had been in this group, come join for a drink, a cocktail on the patio. And I was going, not knowing anyone. This is like over a thousand people are at this conference. I didn't know anyone, but I thought, I'll go down and see what this is about. And I peeked my head out on the patio and I saw all these women in the blue light. There was no light out there at all, just the blue from the fluorescent lights from the side of the building. And Carole Jean's like, are you here with the conference? And I said, yes, I am. And she said, come sit down, come sit down. And she pulled up a chair for me, made a spot at a very busy table. And then it was just like fate, where everyone said, what do you do for a living? And I said, I'm a psychic medium. I'm a Greek support counselor, a professional astrologer, and a law of attraction master coach. And everyone went quiet and they left.

Carole Jean Whittington (1:47)

And I went, oh, really?

Sheetal Story (1:49)

Yeah, you leaned in. Yeah, all of them leaned in. It was really fun. Yeah, whereas I'm like, what do you all do? And everyone's like, I'm a coach, I'm a physical therapist. I was like, oh, all right. So nobody here, when you're psychic, yet that you know. So yeah, we just hit it off right from the beginning.

Carole Jean Whittington (2:07)

And then we end up with like this great little group. By the end, we have like attracted all of our people.

Sheetal Story (2:17)

We were laughing, we were talking loud. We, yeah, everybody left there as friends and it continued on, you know, that group, because of you, you know, really, we continued on into the next phases of that group. So we talk about you often and miss you much.

Carole Jean Whittington (2:33)

Oh my gosh. Yes. You guys make such a huge impact in my life. And I was telling you in the green room before we came on, 2024, I don't know that I would have come through it in the same way that I did had I not met you. Because you really helped equip me in ways that I wasn't before I met you. And so, I mean, I am so incredibly grateful for having met you and to have you in my life. So, I'm really thrilled to have you talk about the things that you are so amazing with, and the glorious person that you are, to share the same experience with the other people on the other side of the camera today.

Sheetal Story (3:21)

I'm so honored to be here. Yes, let's share all the things. I'm an open book.

Carole Jean Whittington (3:27)

Let's dive in. So, the title of the day is Preventing Burnout Through Creating Space with Discernment.

And this, this has really been like the topic of 2024 and going into 2025 is creating space. And then once we create the space, how do we know what the heck we're supposed to do with it? Right? How do we discern what's the right next step or what should I be doing? And you do this so beautifully. What?

I mean, just to kind of get us started, Sheetal, what has been your experience of burnout? How did it show up for you? How did you finally maybe recognize it? Because it will creep in and it is super silent and it you don't always know it till it gets really big and uncomfortable.