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Yesterday I found out that two grant applications I submitted were not selected for funding. Two in the same cycle. Both I believed in. Both designed to serve communities I care deeply about.

This episode is what happened next.

It is not a framework. It is not a reframe. It is not a story I have already extracted the lesson from. It is the middle — the 48 hours of silence after the news, the loneliness of being the person who holds space for everyone else, and what it costs to keep teaching while you are still in the rawness of your own no.

If you are carrying something right now — a grant that didn't get funded, a paper that got rejected, a position you didn't get — this one is for you.

Soul to Soul, Lisa.

Soul to Soul with Dr. Lisa Carter-Bawa is a podcast for anyone who is in the middle of becoming — doing the inner work, asking the harder questions, and learning to live from the inside out.

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Not role to role. Soul to soul.