The Unmuted Room

The Unmuted Room The Unmuted Room offers listening sessions designed to help you process, release and be fully heard.

I ask people about their day and watch them pause. Not because nothing happened. Because they’re deciding which version ...
08/20/2026

I ask people about their day and watch them pause. Not because nothing happened. Because they’re deciding which version I get.

Call it a mask if you want. Most people put theirs on before coffee and don’t take it off until they’re alone in the car.

54% of Americans say no one actually knows them. Not the version they perform. Them. Cigna found it, but you already knew. You’ve probably done the swap in the last hour without noticing.

We’re not short on people. We’re short on somewhere to set it down.

Nobody tells you that takes a specific kind of space. Not a friend who means well but flinches. Not a partner who loves you but gets uncomfortable. A space where the only job is to see what’s underneath.

That’s The Unmuted Room. No advice. No fix. Just a room where you don’t have to perform for an hour.

Set it down. Book your 1:1 confidential listening session. Link in bio.

Source: Cigna U.S. Loneliness Index, 2018

08/19/2026

People keep saying, “Oh, it’s like going to confession” when I describe what I do.

And I can see that. People are sharing real stuff, things they think are bad.

But when I think about confession (and I was raised Catholic), I see the box, the priest on the other side of the wall you can’t really see, the anxiety in waiting to see how bad your sin is and what kind of punishment you’ll get for it.

Like that’s the model? You tell someone your secret, and what you get back is punishment?

Like what the actual f**k?

No wonder nobody talked! That’s not confession, that’s a silence machine. It’s literally designed to keep people quiet. Keep kids quiet. Keep secrets buried so the institution stays protected instead of the person.

What kid, what person is going to tell the whole story, or even half of the story, if they know the end goal is to feel crappy about yourself and get punished for it? That’s going to be a hell no.

I’ll listen to your confession if that’s what you want to call it. But in this room the relief isn’t determined by the punishment. It’s determined by saying it out loud to someone who doesn’t think you’re a sinner as soon as you open the door.

Link in bio to book your free 10-minute consultation.

When I was 9, my friend’s father sexually assaulted me.Last fall I finally reported it. Officially. The officer who took...
08/17/2026

When I was 9, my friend’s father sexually assaulted me.

Last fall I finally reported it. Officially. The officer who took my statement was patient and kind. He said he believed me. And I believed him. For the first time in a very long time, I felt relief.

And then after months of advocating for myself with the prosecutor’s office, I learned that they weren’t going to charge him. Because he assaulted me with his fingers, not an object. They told me if he had used a gun or a broom it would have been a different outcome. But according to the law, a hand or a finger isn’t an “instrument.”

One word. One simple word created protection for my abuser, and took away any hope of justice for me.

Knowing exactly why the system failed me doesn’t make it hurt less.

I’ve spent my career in legal advocacy, and I’ve watched this pattern up close, over and over, in cases that weren’t mine. Systems built around technicalities and loopholes, rather than right and wrong, end up punishing the wrong people. Not just by letting the guilty walk. By making survivors relive the worst thing that ever happened to them, only to be told it doesn’t count because of how a law was worded, or when it was worded, or what body part was involved.

Do they think of these things when they make these laws? Does it matter what was used or what was touched? Or when? Shouldn’t it just be wrong to violate someone in this way, at any age?

What is wrong with our system that we are honestly having conversations about what is “okay” enough contact to prevent someone from being charged?

I will never get accountability from him. The system already decided that. And the law may protect his actions, but it does not dictate my silence. And neither does he.

If you’re holding something a system never resolved for you, I built The Unmuted Room so you’d have somewhere to say it, without being flinched at, judged, or redirected. You don’t need a conviction or a case number for your story to be true. You just need someone willing to hear it.

If that’s what you need, I’m here.

Nadine Hill Nadine Hill and Shannon Potter Birch Point Healthcare They’ve sponsored multiple sessions now, and I want to...
08/15/2026

Nadine Hill Nadine Hill and Shannon Potter Birch Point Healthcare

They’ve sponsored multiple sessions now, and I want to be clear about why, because it’s not what you’d assume.

Yes, there’s a business perk built in. Their name in front of my audience, on the site, in the newsletter, out across social. That’s real, and I don’t want to pretend it isn’t part of the deal.

But that’s not why they keep doing it.

They keep doing it because they actually believe people deserve somewhere to be heard, whether or not they can afford it. That’s the whole motivation. The exposure is just something that happens alongside it, not the reason they showed up.

What they’re funding is time. An hour where someone’s problems get to be the main event, not something to smooth over or solve before they’ve even finished talking. Just held. And they get that without having to worry what it’s going to cost them.

For some people, that’s a nice extra.

For others, it’s the one hour all week where someone is fully paying attention to them. And these two aren’t just aware of that, they’ve chosen to keep making it possible. Not once. Repeatedly.

That’s what tells me this isn’t a marketing move dressed up as generosity. It’s generosity that happens to come with marketing attached.

So Nadine, Shannon: thank you. Genuinely. I see what this actually is.

If your business wants to be part of this, the link’s in my bio. Not for the exposure. For the reason they’re actually doing it.

08/12/2026

Not because of a degree. Because for 17 years, my first instinct was to believe.

That’s rare. It shouldn’t be.

Every client I sat with taught me the same thing: “I believe you” shouldn’t be the exception. It should be the baseline.

That’s why this business exists.

If that’s you, this room is for you. Link in bio to book your confidential listening session.

08/07/2026

I guess giving him my card to improve on his listening skills was another option 😂🤷‍♀️

Link in my bio if you need a refresher course.

When I started this business two years ago, I thought people would share their deepest, darkest secrets with me. You kno...
08/06/2026

When I started this business two years ago, I thought people would share their deepest, darkest secrets with me. You know, the things that might bring us joy but other humans would totally hate us for, like having affairs, or saying you get out of work at 6 but you actually leave at 4 every day because you want two hours before you have to go home, or telling your vegetarian boyfriend that you’re also vegetarian but you secretly have a steak when you’re not together.

And I do get some of that, people do spill the tea here. But mostly it’s about the everyday stuff. The stuff we think isn’t important enough to seek out therapy for. The stuff we don’t call a friend about because maybe it’s not that big of a deal. But also the stuff we can’t seem to let go of, even though it’s totally “fine.”

So while I may hold a secret or two, it’s not really what I do.

What I hold is the everyday. The stuff that is actually important, but you tell yourself it isn’t.

I’m glad I get to be the keeper of that.

If any of this sounds familiar, you know where to find me.

08/05/2026

You know exactly who I’m talking about. We all have one.

Every time you hang out, it’s the same thing, their partner, their boss, their kid’s teacher, the state of the world. By the time you leave you’re more wrung out than they are. You never even get asked how you’re doing.

You love this friend. You’re not going anywhere. You’d just like to go a whole hangout without being the only place they put everything down. Get drinks and actually talk about something else for once. See a movie without a debrief on their boss beforehand. Just exist together without it turning into a session.

The Unmuted Room is a confidential space where they can unload everything, the partner stuff, the work stuff, all of it, somewhere that isn’t you. No judgment, no interruptions, nobody who has to sit across from them at your next dinner out.

They get somewhere to put it all. You get a little more room to just enjoy them.

Book a free 10-minute consult and see if it’s a fit, link in bio.

I didn’t grow up thinking I would become a professional listener. I got here the long way, through courtrooms, custody b...
08/05/2026

I didn’t grow up thinking I would become a professional listener.

I got here the long way, through courtrooms, custody battles, and cases where getting it wrong wasn’t an option.

Turns out that’s exactly the training ground for holding space without judgment.

Swipe to see why that matters for you. Link in bio.

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