May 13, 2025 • 18 mins
Are you missing the signs your life is sending you? In this episode of The Hearts Hello Show, host Keona Talana breaks down how to recognize the gentle whispers of your life, before they turn into breakdowns, burnout, or regret. If you've been feeling disconnected, uncertain, or stuck in survival mode, this episode offers practical and spiritual tools to help you pause, reflect, and realign.
Learn how to:
- Identify emotional and spiritual red flags early
- Create space to hear your intuition and inner voice
- Stop ignoring what your heart already knows
- Tune into God's guidance in the stillness
This is your invitation to stop pushing through the noise and start honoring the truth that’s been whispering all along.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, so just thank you all for joining in to listen
to this show each and everyweek.
I truly appreciate it and I donot take it lightly that you
take time out of your day tolisten to me, sometimes preach,
sometimes get silly, sometimestell on myself, but it lets me
know that you are gettingsomething out of these episodes
(00:25):
and I truly appreciate you.
And so this week we're going totalk about something that so
many of us ignore until itscreams.
It's going to be the whisper ofyour life.
So this episode is going to befor you.
If you've been getting quietnudges, if there's these little
(00:46):
tugs in your spirit, but youkeep brushing them off because
life is loud and theexpectations are heavy and
clarity feels far away, I'm hereto let you know that your life
has been talking.
You just stopped listening whenit wasn't loud.
So today I want to help youtune back in.
(01:08):
It's interesting because overthese past weeks I've had these
weeds that I've seen growing inmy yard all in the flower bed,
and the young guy who comes tocut the grass is supposed to
(01:28):
pull the weeds.
Well, his schedule hasn'tpermitted him to be able to pull
the weeds, because it takesjust a little more time than him
, kind of riding on thelawnmower.
And so he's come a couple oftimes, cut the grass and the
weeds are just overtaking Right,and so I'll look out of my
(01:49):
window and I'll see the weeds.
And sometimes, you know, once Ileave the house, depending on
which direction I may go, I willsee that the weeds and the
flowers and the bushes are allthe same height flowers and the
bushes are all the same height,right?
(02:09):
So on Mother's Day I decidedthat he wasn't going to come.
Saturday.
Something came up and I saidyou know what, let me go outside
.
So Sunday rolls around,mother's Day is here and I'm
trying to talk myself into goingoutside to pull these weeds.
Now, for those of you all whodon't know, I like being outside
(02:33):
but I don't like bugs.
So for me to go outside andhave to pull weeds is now going
to require me to have to put ona full hazmat suit.
That's right.
I have on my sweatpants, I haveon my socks that are pulled
over the bottom of thesweatpants, I have on my rain
(02:55):
boots, I have on a long sleeveshirt and then I have a sweater
on over top of that, in additionto my gloves.
Oh, I'm sorry, forgot that.
I tied my hair up, then put ahat on over top of the scarves
that I had on, and sunglasses,y'all.
I'm outside, looking absolutelycrazy.
(03:18):
My neighbors are walking downthe street.
Now we're in the latter part ofspring, getting ready to go
into summer, so it's a nice day.
They have on shorts, they haveon flip-flops as they're walking
down the street here.
I am in this full get up becauseI don't like bugs, but I'm
(03:43):
obedient to the nudge that issaying you know what?
Get outside and assess what'sgoing on in your yard.
So I go out, I'm looking at theweeds and from inside the house
it doesn't look that bad.
Until I get into the flower bedand I'm like, wow, there are
(04:11):
weeds everywhere.
My rosebush, there are weedsdown underneath the rosebush.
It's all of the flowers thatare outside are being choked by
the weeds.
And in that moment, as I'mpulling weeds, god is like this
is what happens when you'restill a beautiful flower and
(04:37):
weeds can also be growing at thesame time.
So you're growing, but are yougrowing to the extent that you
need?
And what would happen if theseweeds are removed?
Will you grow faster?
And I'm pulling the weeds andI'm getting emotional at the
(04:59):
same time, because I'm like Godyou will still allow this
beautiful rose bush to grow,even though there are weeds all
around it, weeds that are beingchoked out at the root of it,
weeds just everywhere.
And so I say all of that to saythat what if I just waited for
(05:24):
the young guy to come and do theyard work, I would not have had
the opportunity to realize that, yes, there is beauty that
transpires all around us, andsome of us show up as these
beautiful flowers.
And yet there are still thingsthat are choking us at the root,
(05:48):
and we have to be able to getto those root issues, because
when we're talking aboutignoring the nudges, ignoring
those things that our body istelling us is not right, we
don't hear the louds, and sothat causes us to miss the
(06:09):
whisper.
So let me ask you this questionhave you ever had moments where
you felt like something is offbut you couldn't explain it?
Or when you kept getting thenudges to slow down, to change
directions, to say no or to letsomething go go?
(06:36):
Those are the whispers.
See, it's subtle, it's sacred,it's strategic.
It's going to sound like youdon't belong here anymore.
This doesn't feel like peace.
You're not being honest withyourself.
It's time to let go.
And here's the truth.
The whisper often shows upbefore the burnout, before the
breakdown, before the betrayal,before the breakdown that
(06:58):
becomes your breakthrough.
But we don't hear it becausewe've normalized the chaos and
called it strength.
So I need to ask you why do weand I say we because I am not
oblivious to the fact that Ihave ignored the whispers too.
It's just like when I've hadconversations with my best
(07:23):
friend and she'll say girl, wemay have ignored those red flags
, yes, we did.
Same thing applies.
Why do we ignore the whispers?
And so let's just be real aboutit.
We ignore the whispers becausewe don't want to disappoint
people.
We don't trust our gut overwhat's practical.
(07:45):
We're waiting for a bigger signand we're afraid of what
listening might cost us.
But what, if not?
Listening is costing you more.
It's costing you your peace,it's costing you your purpose.
It's costing you alignment.
So you don't need more signs,you don't need more stillness,
(08:09):
you need more courage to obeywhat you already know.
I'm going to let that breathefor a second, because some of
you all know for sure what youneed to be doing and you know
(08:29):
exactly when you were given theinstructions.
But it's okay, because I'mgoing to give you four ways for
you to start listening again.
And this is how we will beginlistening when life is
whispering.
So the first thing you're goingto do is create space.
(08:51):
See, life can't whisper throughnoise.
That means putting the phonedown, turning the music off,
putting things on silence.
Your clarity is not hiding,it's just being buried under
your busyness.
Number two write it out.
(09:12):
Start asking yourself the hardquestions in your journal what
have I been pretending not toknow?
Where do I feel off?
What am I craving that I keepignoring?
Number three pay attention tothe patterns.
(09:32):
Y'all can I say that if youreally take a look over your
life, if you begin to do just alittle bit of self-assessment,
you will begin to see thepatterns and the habits that
show up time and time again.
(09:52):
But the key to that is, whenyou recognize the pattern,
figure out how you responded toit the last time you did it.
See when I've said before thatyou will keep taking the same
test over and over again untilyou pass.
The same thing applies to thepatterns and the habits in our
(10:14):
lives.
It's no lie when they say thatyou will keep dating the same
person over and over again.
Why?
Because you have not changedwhat you said that you want is
not in alignment with how youbegin to show up.
So I need you to pay attentionto the patterns, because if it
(10:39):
keeps coming up, it is not acoincidence.
It's a call.
It's a call for you to put itdown.
It's a call for you to payattention to your purpose.
It's a call for you to realizethat this is the direction that
you need to be going, but youkeep going in the opposite
direction.
Why and I'm talking to myselftoo, because I can recognize the
(11:03):
patterns in my life, but do Ialways go in the direction that
I need to go?
No, why?
Because going in the oppositedirection is easier.
See, we have taught ourselvesto do what's easy, and doing
what's easy is going to keep uscomfortable.
(11:24):
Doing what's easy is going tokeep us from growing.
Doing what's easy is going tokeep us from going in the right
direction, which is where weneed to be going in order to
show up and be the authenticversion of ourselves.
Each and every day, we need toassess how we show up in spaces,
(11:45):
how we present ourselves, howwe present ourselves, but then
also, am I just doing this outof a habit?
Is this a pattern?
Is this what I typically do,and what is the outcome of this?
Have I seen this before?
(12:06):
If I go down this path, howwill it end?
See, some of you all are askingfor direction and clarity from
God, when he has already givenyou the instructions, but you
choose not to go in the way thathe has instructed you.
So you'll keep praying God.
(12:32):
I need you to go before me andmake my crooked path straight.
Give me a plan.
I don't know what I should bedoing, and for some of us, that
is indeed true, and for others,it's going back to the last set
of instructions that he gave you.
What are you ignoring that?
(12:52):
You choose to go in theopposite direction of Number
four.
Stop asking for confirmationfrom people who aren't living
your calling.
I'll say that again Stop askingfor confirmation from people
who aren't living your calling.
(13:14):
Sometimes it's just you and God,and you're going to have to
trust the whisper.
See, it was no coincidence thatthe young guy each and every
week, when he would show up tocut the grass that he couldn't
(13:39):
pull the weeds.
Because God needed to show mesomething.
I needed to put my eyes on it.
I needed to pull the weeds outof the ground.
I needed to see how this isaffecting my life, how it may be
affecting your life, because wewill still show up and do the
best that we can.
(14:00):
But what if we removed all ofthe weeds?
What if we got to the rootcause of why we feel stunted?
So you're going to have totrust the whisper.
I know it's hard, it's not easyall the time, and in trusting
(14:31):
the whisper, sometimes it'sagain it's just you and God.
So that means you trying toshare this with someone else.
They will not understand.
You're trying to get buy-infrom other people on the calling
and assignment that God hasplaced on your life.
They can't instruct you on that, because they did not create
you, they didn't give you thepurpose.
See, when you're on a purpose,on purpose, you're on assignment
(14:56):
.
So trust the whisper, trust thewhisper.
And so just a word for the onewho's scared to listen.
Maybe you're scared thatlistening will wreck the plans
(15:19):
that you've already built.
But what if those plans werenever yours to carry long term?
What if what you're scared tolose was only meant to teach you
not to keep you.
Listening is not a weakness,listening is wisdom.
So when your life whispers,it's giving you a chance to
(15:43):
course correct before theconsequences.
You don't have to fall apart toget clarity, you just have to
be willing to pause.
So, y'all, I'm hoping that youheard my heart in this message.
I'm hoping that you got whatyou needed this week, because I
(16:07):
want you to sit in a quiet space, even if it's just 10 minutes,
and ask your life what are youtrying to tell me right now?
And then actually listen soyou'll hear it, not through the
(16:29):
noise, not through fear, butthrough truth.
Thank you for being here today.
I just thank you for being heretoday.
I just thank you.
And if this episode spoke tosomething in your spirit, share
it with someone who's beenignoring their whisper.
(16:50):
And until next time, rememberyour heart already knows your
job is to get quiet enough tohear it.
I love you, I see you and I'lltalk to you soon.
Hey, so just thank you all for joining in to listen
to this show each and everyweek.
I truly appreciate it and I donot take it lightly that you
take time out of your day tolisten to me, sometimes preach,
sometimes get silly, sometimestell on myself, but it lets me
know that you are gettingsomething out of these episodes
(00:25):
and I truly appreciate you.
And so this week we're going totalk about something that so
many of us ignore until itscreams.
It's going to be the whisper ofyour life.
So this episode is going to befor you.
If you've been getting quietnudges, if there's these little
(00:46):
tugs in your spirit, but youkeep brushing them off because
life is loud and theexpectations are heavy and
clarity feels far away, I'm hereto let you know that your life
has been talking.
You just stopped listening whenit wasn't loud.
So today I want to help youtune back in.
(01:08):
It's interesting because overthese past weeks I've had these
weeds that I've seen growing inmy yard all in the flower bed,
and the young guy who comes tocut the grass is supposed to
(01:28):
pull the weeds.
Well, his schedule hasn'tpermitted him to be able to pull
the weeds, because it takesjust a little more time than him
, kind of riding on thelawnmower.
And so he's come a couple oftimes, cut the grass and the
weeds are just overtaking Right,and so I'll look out of my
(01:49):
window and I'll see the weeds.
And sometimes, you know, once Ileave the house, depending on
which direction I may go, I willsee that the weeds and the
flowers and the bushes are allthe same height flowers and the
bushes are all the same height,right?
(02:09):
So on Mother's Day I decidedthat he wasn't going to come.
Saturday.
Something came up and I saidyou know what, let me go outside
.
So Sunday rolls around,mother's Day is here and I'm
trying to talk myself into goingoutside to pull these weeds.
Now, for those of you all whodon't know, I like being outside
(02:33):
but I don't like bugs.
So for me to go outside andhave to pull weeds is now going
to require me to have to put ona full hazmat suit.
That's right.
I have on my sweatpants, I haveon my socks that are pulled
over the bottom of thesweatpants, I have on my rain
(02:55):
boots, I have on a long sleeveshirt and then I have a sweater
on over top of that, in additionto my gloves.
Oh, I'm sorry, forgot that.
I tied my hair up, then put ahat on over top of the scarves
that I had on, and sunglasses,y'all.
I'm outside, looking absolutelycrazy.
(03:18):
My neighbors are walking downthe street.
Now we're in the latter part ofspring, getting ready to go
into summer, so it's a nice day.
They have on shorts, they haveon flip-flops as they're walking
down the street here.
I am in this full get up becauseI don't like bugs, but I'm
(03:43):
obedient to the nudge that issaying you know what?
Get outside and assess what'sgoing on in your yard.
So I go out, I'm looking at theweeds and from inside the house
it doesn't look that bad.
Until I get into the flower bedand I'm like, wow, there are
(04:11):
weeds everywhere.
My rosebush, there are weedsdown underneath the rosebush.
It's all of the flowers thatare outside are being choked by
the weeds.
And in that moment, as I'mpulling weeds, god is like this
is what happens when you'restill a beautiful flower and
(04:37):
weeds can also be growing at thesame time.
So you're growing, but are yougrowing to the extent that you
need?
And what would happen if theseweeds are removed?
Will you grow faster?
And I'm pulling the weeds andI'm getting emotional at the
(04:59):
same time, because I'm like Godyou will still allow this
beautiful rose bush to grow,even though there are weeds all
around it, weeds that are beingchoked out at the root of it,
weeds just everywhere.
And so I say all of that to saythat what if I just waited for
(05:24):
the young guy to come and do theyard work, I would not have had
the opportunity to realize that, yes, there is beauty that
transpires all around us, andsome of us show up as these
beautiful flowers.
And yet there are still thingsthat are choking us at the root,
(05:48):
and we have to be able to getto those root issues, because
when we're talking aboutignoring the nudges, ignoring
those things that our body istelling us is not right, we
don't hear the louds, and sothat causes us to miss the
(06:09):
whisper.
So let me ask you this questionhave you ever had moments where
you felt like something is offbut you couldn't explain it?
Or when you kept getting thenudges to slow down, to change
directions, to say no or to letsomething go go?
(06:36):
Those are the whispers.
See, it's subtle, it's sacred,it's strategic.
It's going to sound like youdon't belong here anymore.
This doesn't feel like peace.
You're not being honest withyourself.
It's time to let go.
And here's the truth.
The whisper often shows upbefore the burnout, before the
breakdown, before the betrayal,before the breakdown that
(06:58):
becomes your breakthrough.
But we don't hear it becausewe've normalized the chaos and
called it strength.
So I need to ask you why do weand I say we because I am not
oblivious to the fact that Ihave ignored the whispers too.
It's just like when I've hadconversations with my best
(07:23):
friend and she'll say girl, wemay have ignored those red flags
, yes, we did.
Same thing applies.
Why do we ignore the whispers?
And so let's just be real aboutit.
We ignore the whispers becausewe don't want to disappoint
people.
We don't trust our gut overwhat's practical.
(07:45):
We're waiting for a bigger signand we're afraid of what
listening might cost us.
But what, if not?
Listening is costing you more.
It's costing you your peace,it's costing you your purpose.
It's costing you alignment.
So you don't need more signs,you don't need more stillness,
(08:09):
you need more courage to obeywhat you already know.
I'm going to let that breathefor a second, because some of
you all know for sure what youneed to be doing and you know
(08:29):
exactly when you were given theinstructions.
But it's okay, because I'mgoing to give you four ways for
you to start listening again.
And this is how we will beginlistening when life is
whispering.
So the first thing you're goingto do is create space.
(08:51):
See, life can't whisper throughnoise.
That means putting the phonedown, turning the music off,
putting things on silence.
Your clarity is not hiding,it's just being buried under
your busyness.
Number two write it out.
(09:12):
Start asking yourself the hardquestions in your journal what
have I been pretending not toknow?
Where do I feel off?
What am I craving that I keepignoring?
Number three pay attention tothe patterns.
(09:32):
Y'all can I say that if youreally take a look over your
life, if you begin to do just alittle bit of self-assessment,
you will begin to see thepatterns and the habits that
show up time and time again.
(09:52):
But the key to that is, whenyou recognize the pattern,
figure out how you responded toit the last time you did it.
See when I've said before thatyou will keep taking the same
test over and over again untilyou pass.
The same thing applies to thepatterns and the habits in our
(10:14):
lives.
It's no lie when they say thatyou will keep dating the same
person over and over again.
Why?
Because you have not changedwhat you said that you want is
not in alignment with how youbegin to show up.
So I need you to pay attentionto the patterns, because if it
(10:39):
keeps coming up, it is not acoincidence.
It's a call.
It's a call for you to put itdown.
It's a call for you to payattention to your purpose.
It's a call for you to realizethat this is the direction that
you need to be going, but youkeep going in the opposite
direction.
Why and I'm talking to myselftoo, because I can recognize the
(11:03):
patterns in my life, but do Ialways go in the direction that
I need to go?
No, why?
Because going in the oppositedirection is easier.
See, we have taught ourselvesto do what's easy, and doing
what's easy is going to keep uscomfortable.
(11:24):
Doing what's easy is going tokeep us from growing.
Doing what's easy is going tokeep us from going in the right
direction, which is where weneed to be going in order to
show up and be the authenticversion of ourselves.
Each and every day, we need toassess how we show up in spaces,
(11:45):
how we present ourselves, howwe present ourselves, but then
also, am I just doing this outof a habit?
Is this a pattern?
Is this what I typically do,and what is the outcome of this?
Have I seen this before?
(12:06):
If I go down this path, howwill it end?
See, some of you all are askingfor direction and clarity from
God, when he has already givenyou the instructions, but you
choose not to go in the way thathe has instructed you.
So you'll keep praying God.
(12:32):
I need you to go before me andmake my crooked path straight.
Give me a plan.
I don't know what I should bedoing, and for some of us, that
is indeed true, and for others,it's going back to the last set
of instructions that he gave you.
What are you ignoring that?
(12:52):
You choose to go in theopposite direction of Number
four.
Stop asking for confirmationfrom people who aren't living
your calling.
I'll say that again Stop askingfor confirmation from people
who aren't living your calling.
(13:14):
Sometimes it's just you and God,and you're going to have to
trust the whisper.
See, it was no coincidence thatthe young guy each and every
week, when he would show up tocut the grass that he couldn't
(13:39):
pull the weeds.
Because God needed to show mesomething.
I needed to put my eyes on it.
I needed to pull the weeds outof the ground.
I needed to see how this isaffecting my life, how it may be
affecting your life, because wewill still show up and do the
best that we can.
(14:00):
But what if we removed all ofthe weeds?
What if we got to the rootcause of why we feel stunted?
So you're going to have totrust the whisper.
I know it's hard, it's not easyall the time, and in trusting
(14:31):
the whisper, sometimes it'sagain it's just you and God.
So that means you trying toshare this with someone else.
They will not understand.
You're trying to get buy-infrom other people on the calling
and assignment that God hasplaced on your life.
They can't instruct you on that, because they did not create
you, they didn't give you thepurpose.
See, when you're on a purpose,on purpose, you're on assignment
(14:56):
.
So trust the whisper, trust thewhisper.
And so just a word for the onewho's scared to listen.
Maybe you're scared thatlistening will wreck the plans
(15:19):
that you've already built.
But what if those plans werenever yours to carry long term?
What if what you're scared tolose was only meant to teach you
not to keep you.
Listening is not a weakness,listening is wisdom.
So when your life whispers,it's giving you a chance to
(15:43):
course correct before theconsequences.
You don't have to fall apart toget clarity, you just have to
be willing to pause.
So, y'all, I'm hoping that youheard my heart in this message.
I'm hoping that you got whatyou needed this week, because I
(16:07):
want you to sit in a quiet space, even if it's just 10 minutes,
and ask your life what are youtrying to tell me right now?
And then actually listen soyou'll hear it, not through the
(16:29):
noise, not through fear, butthrough truth.
Thank you for being here today.
I just thank you for being heretoday.
I just thank you.
And if this episode spoke tosomething in your spirit, share
it with someone who's beenignoring their whisper.
(16:50):
And until next time, rememberyour heart already knows your
job is to get quiet enough tohear it.
I love you, I see you and I'lltalk to you soon.
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