Soul SiStories
Soul SiStories was born out of a mutual desire to bring forward hope and healing through sharing our lived experiences. Hope is embracing life despite adversity. Hope is our reason.
Soul SiStories
Hope Through Truth: Cynthia James
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Truth is a loaded word right now, but Reverend Cynthia James brings it back to something you can actually live: authenticity, integrity, and the inner compass that tells you when you’re aligned and when you’re not. We talk about why “facts” can still mislead, how trust is built moment by moment, and why truth seeking is less about winning arguments and more about becoming someone your own heart can stand behind. If you’ve been craving steadiness, this conversation offers it without pretending life is easy.
Cynthia shares her path from a childhood shaped by survival to a life of public creativity and spiritual leadership. We dig into the real work behind transformation: therapy, spiritual practice, and the slow process of integrating the parts of ourselves that learned to hide. Along the way, she reflects on mentors who saw her light before she fully did, and how doors closing in her career became an unexpected invitation to grow into a wider calling.
We also go straight at the hard question: how do you stay centered in truth when the world feels loud, divided, and manipulative? Cynthia’s answer is refreshingly practical, a non-negotiable daily spiritual practice, community with other truth seekers, and the discipline to do your own research instead of outsourcing your mind. Her performance insight ties it all together: real confidence shows up when you “perform through your heart,” whether you’re on a stage, in a meeting, or in a tough conversation at home.
If you want more hope without bypassing reality, press play and come sit with us. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs steadiness, and leave a review so more people can find these stories of healing and truth.
Cynthia James - Discover Your Purpose
777cynthiajames (@777cynthiajames) | TikTok
(4) Cynthia James Enterprises: Overview | LinkedIn
Thanks for listening to Soul SiStories. We hope you follow us on your favorite podcast platform. Five-star ratings and reviews always help to spread our message of hope.
Soul SiStories
Instagram
Facebook
Soul SiStories Podcast - YouTube
Welcome And Why Cynthia Matters
SPEAKER_00Welcome to Soul Sisteries.
SPEAKER_01We have just had a wonderful talk with Reverend Cynthia James, who talked to us about being a truth seeker. And I just I really do feel hopeful after this conversation. She's a beautiful soul with her hand in so many different things. I don't think anybody can listen and not be kind of invigorated and put on a path of truth seeking and hope finding.
SPEAKER_00And I just want to like crawl into the warmth of her presence. Like that is how I'm feeling right now. Come on, everybody. Listen in. Wow. Welcome everyone. We are so excited to be here with Cynthia James, who's somebody I've known of for many years, and I've had the privilege and honor of seeing perform her music, but she's so much more than a vocalist. But if it were only that, wow and amazing. Cynthia James, champion for change, has spent decades in self-examination, higher education, and working with people around the world who are seekers and change agents. As Cynthia says, she wakes up every morning excited and inspired to support leaders and organizations to awaken, embrace healthy mindset, and connect to their unique abilities, creating change on this planet. As a transformation coach, Cynthia's work invites people to take deep dives into three areas inquiry, introspection, and integration. She believes that her job is to support individuals, to find their authentic voices and to guide people as they make changes for lasting healing in their lives. Cynthia is an author, a vocalist, a speaker, a teacher, a workshop leader, and fundamentally a bright light in this world. Welcome, Cynthia James. I'm so happy to be here. Thank you for that beautiful introduction. My goodness. And this is this is what I know of you. When I say a bright light, I mean it. From the time I first heard you perform, I mean it was, it was decades ago. It was it was many years ago. Um I think it might have been in a unity church and then a in a science of mind church again. And I just the the way that you filled that space with your light, your warmth, your joy, your presence. It was um you you touched me deeply. You you touched me deeply. And I so I know I can speak to the authenticity of this work that you're doing and have been doing for a long time. What a place of truth, raw truth it comes from. Just a wow. A wow. Well, absolutely. So can can you um well let's start with we we do our little hope through and we have a focus um whenever we're speaking with anybody.
Defining Truth As Integrity
SPEAKER_00And um, I'm aware of a talk you just gave, and from it there's a word that I think resonates and I'd love for us to kind of focus in on, which is hope through truth. Hope through truth. And I'm wondering if if you if you could speak on that just a little bit. What does that mean to you? What is what what is truth fundamentally for you and why is it so important?
SPEAKER_04Well, for me, truth is connected to authenticity and integrity. You know, I I feel like you know, across all different spectrums, we're all being fed with truth that isn't necessarily true. It's facts that aren't necessarily true. For me, truth is is a level of consciousness that is integris. You know, it's like whether you practice religion or not, or or spirituality or not, that there's something in you that's aligned with the universe that lets you know that you have a compass, a moral, powerful, light-filled compass that that when you are in alignment with that, there is a flow in your life that cannot be denied. When you are out of sync with it, then there's struggle and there's chaos and there's all kinds of other things. So when I was speaking this last week about truth, it was like, how does an organization raise its consciousness consistently so that it can expand its ability to serve?
SPEAKER_00So that really hits on something because it's even you're stating that, so it can expand its ability to serve, to serve, I'm sorry, uh would suggest that is the end all and be all, right? That's the that's the goal to serve. Would would you agree? Would that be that be a fair statement?
SPEAKER_04Well, listen, we're interconnected, you know. I mean, all kinds of different paths talk about it, but we are interconnected.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04If we're not here in service to our own health and well-being and the and the health and well-being of humanity, then we're out of sync.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01That's really true. I I would love to hear Cynthia, because I I know Donna shared that she's known of you and kind of traveled in some of the same circles. Uh, I have not done the same. And so I would love to just hear a little bit about kind of what got you here. Like I would love to think, well, you've always been a truth seeker. I don't know if that's true. I think maybe something happened along the way that kind of opened you up to this path. So I would love for you to share with us kind of your journey that got you to this point.
Survival Childhood And Finding Safety
SPEAKER_04Yeah, well, definitely was not always a truth seeker. My childhood was about survival. I had an alcoholic father, the disappointical father that disappeared when I was like two, three years old. And then my mother met another uh man that became my stepfather, but he was a wife beater and a pedophile. And so my whole childhood, you know, you know, uh up to like seven years old was survival. And um, and and here's the thing, there was a dichotomy because I'm this highly expressive person, right? And but when you're afraid for your life, you know, it's like keep your head down. And so it it would like you'd see two of me popping up in different places, and the expressive child would get hurt and and punished, and the other one would be like, Okay, I'm pulling my energy back. And so for me, my my rescue area was school, uh, because I was smart, I had a great memory, I could do, and then I could also be involved in things in school, so I didn't have to go home. Yes. And so it and I'm very clear today that angels walked with me. I I'm very clear because some of the things I endured and some of the things I saw, children should not have to see, yes, right, or be uh uh exposed to. But there was always something in me. Um I I was uh I was writing, uh I wrote a book called Does My Voice Matter? And I talked about my room was my safe place. I go in there, I'd sing, I'd dance, I'd put on different clothes, I do all that stuff because that was the place where I could be me.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And what um, I mean, what a testament to you that you did have that fire, that life, that center within you to hold firm to the truth of you through throughout. It's not always the story for other survivors of such challenges that really speaks to your fire. And I hear you say that you had the angels with you always to keep that. Did you feel that then? Did you feel that?
SPEAKER_04I don't know that I thought that then, but I I will share that there was always like this little voice inside of me. Uh I today I think it's it's the voice of spirit or divine intelligence, but at that point it was just like it was like, don't go over there. Yeah. I mean, or you're gonna be all right, you know. I mean, um I remember when I was in middle school, they had this posture contest, and uh they and it was all you know, it was only for girls, which is interesting. We all had to get uh swimming suits and get on the stage in front of the school, and and then the school would clap for the one that they liked the best. Oh my gosh. Really? So somehow this person who liked to be invisible decided to be in the pasture contest. And my mother and I went shopping and um we found this beautiful yellow bathing suit, but I had no breasts, you know. I mean, you know, in middle school, you I'm developed. So it it was it fit everywhere except it was flat. And the little and the sales lady said, Oh, I've got these things for you. And she pulls out these pads, and I'm like, falsies. I am not wearing falsies, and she said, They're small, put it in, you'll see. And yeah, it looked good. So, so anyway, we go on and I win this posture contest. So I feel that I'm really beautiful, and we lived in Minneapolis, and there's a lot of lakes, and so in the summer you go to the lakes, and we went to the lake, and I, you know, I was kind of strutting around because I was and I I I go to the water, and um, I know how to swim because swimming was mandatory in our schools, and I dive in and the little pads pop out, and I'm trying to grab them, and it's like, oh no, mortified, right? So as I'm getting out of the water, though, this little voice said, It's okay. This is just a moment that is beautiful, it really is. And she's been with me the whole time, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I I just want to see like how freeing in that moment, right? Where these kind of like your facade drops off, and it's like literally, but right, yeah, but I but I don't need that because it is all okay and how beautiful that is.
SPEAKER_04Yes, 100%.
SPEAKER_00So, what is is it that voice that then took you to this very public platform that you're in today doing the work that you do in all areas and all over the world? I mean, yeah, you are out there open.
SPEAKER_04Listen, if you read my book, you'd think this girl can't make a choice because I I was over here doing this and I was over there doing that. And um, I was an actress and I, you know, and I was a singer on, I mean, I was doing all of these different things. And that that voice was the the really the ultimate thing that led me to therapy to deal with some of the stuff I
Reinvention Through Therapy And Study
SPEAKER_04was going through. It was the voice that led me to spiritual communities because I grew up in church, African Methodist Episcopal, but that whole original sin and I was like, this does not fit, and I I'd get in trouble because I'd go, how come that God is so mad? You know, I mean, it was like so so that little voice led me, and it and and um it was really interesting. I was a really successful actress, and I was the first Lexi on Days of Our Lives, I was doing movies, I was opening for Jay Leno and different people at Harris. I mean, it was and all of a sudden, doors started closing. And I'm like, what is happening here? Yeah, right. And and I I'm a single mother, I'm doing and I'm and I'm like, okay. And this voice basically told me to go. Uh I was already a practitioner, told me to go back to school. So I I I entered a spiritual psychology program. Uh it was a master's program. And and I'm thinking, I don't even know why I'm here. But I started counseling people using those strategies, and the emotional integration that I teach today was birthed there. And then I, you know, then I got this uh voice again in my meditation go to ministerial school. And I'm like, no, ministers do not have fun. I am not doing that. And and it wouldn't leave me alone. Wow. So I go to ministerial school, and what I realized is the performing part of me, there was a point while I was in school, I was in corporate communications in a media management firm. All of these things led me to be who I am today. And uh I couldn't have thought it myself because I don't think I had the confidence or the self-worth to know that I was capable of doing all those things.
SPEAKER_00And how do you think it is that you've found that confidence and that self-worth? Was it through the therapy? Was it through showing up? Was it through coming back to truth again and again? What uh what what do you what do you account for there?
SPEAKER_04Well, you know, I think it's a lot of things. Relationships have been a path of discovery for me. And I and so I either dated or slept with or married the same person in a different body because I because I hadn't learned the lesson. Part of it was also the therapy. I had a great therapist who really helped me get in touch with some of the stuff. Some of the stuff that had happened to me, I didn't even remember. It just started coming. Yeah. But the other part was I've always been a seeker and I've always wanted to support people. Even when I was in high school, people would come to me and tell me their problems. They would come and tell me their stuff. And so I think the universe all along the way was saying, you know, you are destined to be a servant leader. That that's why we're here.
SPEAKER_01Right. I I'm curious because you know, you talked about this little voice, whether it's the angel, whether it's your own soul, your spirit, uh that guided you along the way. I'm wondering who on earth might have been or is an inspiration or a mentor for you.
Mentors Who Saw Her Light
SPEAKER_04So um, Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith is one. I when I first met him, he was a practitioner and he was he was teaching in a in a spiritual community called Guidance. And I kind of followed him through, you know, um becoming a minister and starting agape, and that's where I studied to be a practitioner and a minister. Um, and he always saw me when I didn't even see myself. I remember one time I was coming out of a class and um religious science was in the middle of a big transition. There was RSI and there was United, and they were gonna come together to try and become one organization. And he walked up to me and he said, Hi, he said, Um, I I've just recommended you to become the Vision Core Coordinator for the the organization transition, and you're gonna be the leader. And I'm like, No, I'm not. He goes, Yes, you are. Yeah, you can't say no. So, I mean, always had that confidence in me. And yeah, even as you know, I've grown and done other stuff, he always invites me back to speak to his community or to teach a class or whatever. And so he was one. And the other one was um uh I will I will say Roger Teal. Roger Teal um was a senior minister at Mile High, and he was the person who invited me to Denver to be an associate minister there. And I remember I had sung at Mile High before I had graduated, and he had invited me to come, and and the board had accepted me, but the congregation didn't know yet. So they were having a big fundraising dinner, and I was the music, and I'm in this bright orange, velvety thing, and I look out, and everybody in the room's in black, except except for me. So I went up to him and I said, Oh, are you sure that this is the right place for me? And he said, Why are you saying that? I said, Look at me and look at the rest of the room. And he said, You're what we need.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, oh yeah. I love that. Yeah, I'm just this ray of light in the middle of all the darkness. I that's how I envisioned it. So amazing.
SPEAKER_00I think I'm envisioning you in your standing in the light um album, the cover. I think you're wearing a gold, velvety. I can I can envision it.
SPEAKER_03Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the truth of who you are coming through and shining out. Yeah. So it's been um clearly a challenge journey, clearly a fire in you that kept alive and bright and shone forward. How did you find hope yourself through the darkness, through the challenges, and through that, the insecurity that you know you're saying that you you had along
Hope After Public Heartbreak
SPEAKER_00the way? How did you, how did you, how did you keep going? How did you find that hope?
SPEAKER_04Well, you know, there's a there's always valleys and peaks. Sure. But at one point I was married to Louis Gossett Jr., the Academy Award winner, and we lived a very public life. And he had an addiction issue, and that addiction issue blew up everything. And so um I'm it was such uh an awakening because it it was I had been in relationships before, and I had thought that this was gonna be the one, and and and and but I'm but it devastated me. And so I am staying with my girlfriend, trying to figure out how I'm gonna move next, because it's public and it's in the rags and all that. And I I'm crying and I go to sleep, and when I wake up, a voice says, get up. And it starts, I hear the song Everything Must Change, you know, everything must change, nothing stays the same, right? And it said, You have always reinvented yourself. Get up. And it was it was so loud and so powerful, and I thought, well, I have done that. I so this is not the end of my life. What's next? And how do I nurture my children? I mean, how do I do that? Right. And so it was such that's when I went deeper into spiritual practice, deeper into classes, uh, deeper into therapy, because I said I'm the common denominator of all of these things that have been happening in my life that that have have been pain points. So, how do I change me?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. So, you know, you you shared kind of early life and and how difficult that was in middle school. I'm curious what if you can think back to yourself in those days, what would that girl say to you today or say about you today?
SPEAKER_04Okay, well, there's two of me. Remember, I told you.
SPEAKER_01That's right.
SPEAKER_04Yep, yep. Okay. So Cind Cindy is the is the kid, and she's she's the one that would hide and then get in trouble, and hide and get in trouble. But there was always this Cynthia. Yeah, and she was the one that could that could be poised. She was the one that could be open, she could, she's the one that could be available, and she was the one that I would create out of nothing. Yeah. And so I think I floated between the two. When I was in the master's program, they had us do um self-counselings and they had us um do writing. For um, you know, non-dominant hand and dominant hand writing. And my non-dominant was the Cynthia who was always saying, I want more, you know, and then Cindy was the one, no, you better be quiet because you're gonna get in trouble. And so I had to nurture Cynthia into full expression.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. And so today, if she, if Cynthia were talking to you today, what what do you think she would say about where you are, what you're doing?
SPEAKER_04I think she would say, I am so proud of you for your tenacity, for your willingness to grow and heal, and for your love of self and others.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Amen to all of that. And and may I say, and and you don't need my commentary, but I felt to say like the the life, the love, the joy, the presence, it just exudes from you. We're on a screen here and I feel that it is palpable. It's palpable, and I want to just sit in your warmth for sure. And I'm sure that is a big reason why you have the success and the presence that you do, because you clearly lead with that and welcome others into that embrace. It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. So thank thank you for sharing it with us.
SPEAKER_01And I think, you know, you said kind of that seeker of truth, but also what's so important to you is integrity. And it it feels like in in these, you know, first, I don't know, 20 minutes we've been spending together, that that's how you lead your life, is from a place of integrity. And so um, people that come into contact with you, whether it's in the acting and the singing and the spiritual world as a leader, that's what they're seeing is is the integrity.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Um, authenticity and integrity are my and and honesty are my top values.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_04You know, and and we can all tell when people aren't authentic, right, or or integrous. Now we may decide to go along with the okie doke, but we can tell. And I and I feel like I I want every moment to be a moment of of integrity where people can see it and feel it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Because that's how you build trust.
SPEAKER_00Correct. Yeah. Absolutely. So if we so taking that in in holding on to this idea of truth, as we are very aware in the greater world that we're in right now, there is often a big disconnect from truth and authenticity and some very heavy things going on.
Staying Centered In A Noisy World
SPEAKER_00Um how how how how do we stay centered in truth when that there's that disparity and those deceptions and that I don't know if my sentence my questioning is being clear. I'm trying not to get too deep in the weeds, but I think you understand what it I'm getting at. How do how do we hold to that truth in light of this ugliness?
SPEAKER_04Well, I think the first thing is to be completely dedicated to your own connection to the divine, whatever that looks like for you. I I personally have a non-negotiable spiritual practice every morning. People know don't call her before this because I can answer. Um and when I feel especially disconnected or or disappointed or or upset, go a little deeper. I remember hearing the Dalai Lama talk about that. I mean, you know, Dalai Lama meditates like four or five hours a day. And when he's going through something, he adds another hour or two, you know. So it's like it's like spiritual practice. But the other thing is surround yourself with like-minded people that are truth seekers. And, you know, um, what I we're looking at this division in the world right this moment, right? Because this section of people looks at this media, and this section of people looks at this media, and and just taking what they hear as the truth. But what if you did your own research? When you're in school, you do research on paper. What if you did your own research to find out what what what was true and what felt authentic?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Because I cannot believe that there's a universe that's saying, listen, what you all should be doing is killing each other.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_01Not at all.
SPEAKER_04You know, or or what you should be doing is there should be this section of people that are rich and everybody else should be poor. Right, right, right. Right. Yeah. So I I I think like-minded people, and I think you know, everybody from my point of view has an essence. They came here with uh an extraordinary spiritual essence, whatever you call it. And so I feel like our job is to be in touch with that and to do unto others what what we want done to us. And I think people forget that, you know. Um I say something unkind to you, whether you know it, whether I know it or not, I'm bombing you with my thoughts and my words.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's a powerful phrase right there. I'm bombing you with my thoughts and my words. That's potent.
SPEAKER_01How do you I I guess how do you get the confidence to do all the things you do? Because it's one thing to know your truth. It's another to bomb people with that truth, right? And and and you you did that posture contest, which is you know very surprising. You've written books, you've acted, you go on a stage and sing, you travel around the world in leadership positions, presenting to you know, hundreds and hundreds of people.
Confidence And Performing Through The Heart
SPEAKER_01Um how do you find that confidence?
SPEAKER_04You know, um okay So Christian Sorensen, I I you know, I I was singing at his communities, you know, I th we were talking the other day, and I think I'd been at three or four of his communities, right? And at one of his communities, I was doing my one woman show, and I was very nervous. And I was standing behind the stage, and I I you know I was I was concerned that I I wasn't gonna deliver. And this little voice in me said, It isn't you. You are to sing and perform through your heart. And I thought, is that is that real? So I just did an exercise of breathing in my heart, and I went out there, and now the performer in me, you know, we're always looking for, oh, that didn't work so well. And I, you know, yeah, but the audience gave me this standing ovation, and I realized, oh, they weren't responding to this note I did or didn't hit, or this word I did or didn't say. They were feeling the heart, the uh performance. And so for me, that's where that's what happens before I go on and do anything. And I have this exercise called the field of power, and it's like we all have a field of energetic power that is beyond this physical body, right? Yeah, right. So, how do I activate that before I step into a class or on a stage or into a recording studio?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Wow. I everything you just said had so much resonance for me. I want you to know. And the performing through the heart, I'm gonna I'm gonna hold on to that one. That's um that really says something. Thank you for that. Thank you. That's that's a big one. That's a big one. So I could just talk to you for hours, but I want to be wanna honor your time and be mindful of the time. But what a rich and varied life you've led. And I think we could spend an hour on any segment of them. But this um this this is this is lovely. This is lovely talking with you. So should we jump into the next round, sis?
SPEAKER_01I I was just gonna say that I would love to like let's talk about books for a while that you've written because I'd love to hear that. I was a huge days of our livespan, and you took me right back to my high school and college years, and I could I can see your scenes right now. And I'm like, my best friends and I did not take classes at noon because we had to be in the dorm watching this. And I will tell you, by the end of the first semester, we had 20 guys watching with us because they were addicted. So absolutely amazing. Your music is phenomenal. I would love to come and hear you speak one of these days. And so, you know, hopefully I'll be in that circle. But yes, I think it is time, Donna, for our you know, so-called rapid fire, however rapid we want to make it.
SPEAKER_00But isn't it funny? Ironically, just before um joining or jumping on for this podcast recording, I was talking to our other sister, Debbie, who had just heard you, Cynthia, speak just at the conference. Um, so and it that was just happenstance. She called me and I said, yeah, talk to Cynthia too in an hour. So lucky all of us, lucky F sisters. Yes,
Rapid Fire On Hope And Life
SPEAKER_00okay. We're gonna jump into rapid fire with you and just see what you have to say. No pressure. What is your walk-in song? Do you have a walk-in song, or what would it be if you did?
SPEAKER_04Uh new attitude.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I like that. That's a great one.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's very upbeat. What what book changed you?
SPEAKER_04This thing called you by Ernest Holmes.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah, that that's a good one. What movie lives rent-free in your brain?
SPEAKER_04Oh. Well, there's there's a couple. One is the notebook.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04Be because of the love story, and the other one is the first Wicked movie. Oh I cried for a lot of reasons, but to see an African American be alphabet and to stand up for truth, it had a deep core meaning for me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, absolutely. And uh and just the the sheer power and presence of Cynthia Revo also. I happened to uh be in New York when Color Purple and she was, and so I was there. Somebody had my work had actually sent me to see Hamilton. So I saw original, and then Color Purple was next door, and I'm like, I'm gonna go see, I'm gonna check it out. I have never had such a transformational experience in a theatrical production. The way I describe it is she reached out, grabbed my heart, my heart laid open on that stage with her throughout that entire performance. I was changed. I was changed through her magnificent presence and the truth of her storytelling, her singing.
SPEAKER_04She changed me. She's she's one of those radiant beings that came here to express. I mean, it's an extraordinary thing to witness it.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely. Oh, and just to talking about Wicked, and especially that first one. Oh, I can I feel that. And I um thank you. Thank you for that. Anyway, I don't need to keep talking about me here. Okay, we're back to you.
SPEAKER_01What did you love doing as a kid that you still love doing today?
SPEAKER_04Dancing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Keep moving.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. What is lighting you up right now?
SPEAKER_04The the freedom of the life that I've created. I love, I only accept invitations that feel right to me. And and uh I did a lot of my life working for others and building their kingdoms, and now to just have the freedom to create the life and live the life I love is golden for me.
SPEAKER_01It's beautiful.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you deserve that, not like preach. I'm feeling everything you're saying. What color is hope?
SPEAKER_03Gold.
SPEAKER_00What does hope sound like?
SPEAKER_03What does hope sound like? You are so beautiful to me.
SPEAKER_01I love that. That's beautiful. I wish I could sing like that. I I sing like that in my head, but if somebody has to listen to it, it's not quite the same. So yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um, the meaning of life is what being 100% present and authentically you.
SPEAKER_00What in the world is giving you hope right now?
SPEAKER_04I see people in different walks of life who are a stand for truth and peace and harmony. And sometimes the other voices are louder, but we are watching the emergence of those voices, and for me, a lot of them are women.
SPEAKER_00Yes, yeah, yes, and yes.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh my goodness, this is um there are others who are going to hear this and be moved and changed and empowered. I want you to know uh you've really done something for me in this little hour that we've spent together. This so many beautiful nuggets and uh exactly what I needed at this minute. And I'm very grateful. Very grateful for for these moments.
Where To Find Cynthia And Closing
SPEAKER_00So, Reverend Cynthia James, how can people find you should they, you know, but want to know more? What should they know? Where should they go?
SPEAKER_04Cynthia James.net is my website. Um, my podcast called Women Awakening uh is on all the platforms and it's on YouTube video, and Amazon has all of my books.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Wonderful. Yeah. And I know your uh music also exists out there and the website. On the website, go get that. Yeah. And um boy, you have got a finger in so many different areas, but they all do speak to this um this authentic, creative uh presence and and truth in the world. What a gift, what a blessing. So um we thank you so much for spending your time with us this morning. I know you just got back from travels too. So for you to get up this morning and do this with us is a real blessing.
SPEAKER_04Well, it's my honor. And ladies, let me just tell you, bravo for what you're doing.
SPEAKER_01Thank you. Thank you.
SPEAKER_04Because you know, the more of our voices get out there and remind people of how incredible they are, the better. My honor to be with you.
SPEAKER_00Oh, thank you so much, Cynthia. It's beautiful. Thank you, truly. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Everyone, um, please find and follow Reverend Cynthia James. You um, if you don't already know her, and you probably do, but if you don't already know her, you will be glad that you did. So please do check out her podcast, her books, her music, um companies and organizations. Here's somebody you want to talk to for sure to help make those changes. Thank you, everybody. Like, follow, and share. We appreciate you. And uh let us know what's your hope through world. We want to know more.
SPEAKER_01Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, Cynthia. Thanks for joining us today on Soul Sistries.
SPEAKER_00And thanks for sharing stories with us. We'd love to hear your stories as well and keep the conversation going, absolutely keeping the hope going. So we're really hopeful that you'll connect with our guests as well who have great stories to share. Go ahead and follow them in various social media platforms or live venues, wherever it is that they're performing and uh sharing what they do.
SPEAKER_01We would love to have you follow us on all of our social media platforms, subscribe and rate, as that will help us get our message of hope out to others.
SPEAKER_00Thanks for listening to Soul Sisteries.
