Your Bold Yes Will Change Everything.
The One Question That Changes Everything: What You Truly Desire but Haven’t Dared to Admit
When you finally speak the desire you’ve been running from, life reorganizes around your courage.
It happened in the stillness of a WhatsApp call, the kind where your breath grows shallow because you already know you’re about to be seen.
My mentor asked the question she’d asked me a dozen times before: “What is your deepest desire? What do you truly want?” And just like all the times before, I said everything except the truth.
I wrapped myself in stories of why I wasn’t ready, why I didn’t deserve it, why the life I secretly longed for felt too far, too unrealistic, too… much.
My deepest desire stayed buried under layers of self-protection while my excuses spoke for me.
Looking back now, I see it with piercing clarity, the kind of clarity that feels like cold water on the spine. I wasn’t confused. I was afraid. Afraid that naming the desire meant I’d finally have to rise to meet it. Afraid that claiming the life I wanted would require me to leave behind every version of me that survived by playing small. Afraid that once I admitted what I truly wanted… there would be no more hiding. If I’m brutally honest, here’s what was really happening:
1. Staying a victim was easier than taking radical responsibility. As long as I kept telling the same story, I never had to choose differently.
2. I feared endings more than I feared stagnation. I kept trying to force old chapters to fit inside a new book. Ever tried to bend a life that’s expired into the shape of a life that’s meant for more?
3. I was afraid to own all of who I am. Not just the polished parts, the tender, messy, unfiltered truth too. Because the moment you own your full self, there’s nowhere left to hide from your power.
4. I didn’t trust the sacred weight of my internal YES.
That one YES that rearranges everything, the way you walk, the boundaries you hold, the boldness you embody. It’s the compass. It’s the becoming.
And yes… I made it sound poetic back then, but the real work was gritty.
Somatic. Daily devotion to taking aligned action even when discomfort burned through my ribs. And then it hit me: The life I am living today… was once a wild whisper in my journal.
A wish I barely allowed myself to write because it felt ridiculous to want that much. I wasn’t Wonder Woman. I wasn’t even sure who I was becoming. All I had was a heart that said, “There is more for you. Don’t look away.”
And as I kept choosing that inner yes slowly, awkwardly, imperfectly life met me.
Clients came. Purpose came. Opportunities unfolded.
What I truly desired wasn’t just the result. It was the transformation. The evolution. The remembering. The becoming of the woman who could hold the very thing she once doubted she could have.
So now I turn this moment gently toward you: What is the desire you’ve been avoiding? What truth have you been circling but not claiming? Because your next chapter doesn’t begin when you feel ready. It begins when you tell the truth.
And if you desire support, clarity, and the kind of mentorship that activates the version of you who knows she’s meant for more.
Book a call with me.
Not because you need fixing. But because you’re done repeating the same stories that keep you small.
Here’s the truth your body already knows:
If you say yes to the call… you’ll meet the version of you who’s been waiting, the woman who leads with clarity, walks with certainty, and moves with a heart unburdened.
If you don’t… you’ll stay standing exactly where you are now, knowing there is more, feeling the ache of it, but not stepping toward it. Your future is built in a single choice. Choose the one that feels like oxygen.
You are one breath away from the life you’ve imagined. One bold choice away from meeting the woman you are destined to become.
Your desire is not random. It is a remembering. A direction. A destiny. Trust the whisper. It already knows the way.
Joanne Genoza