E17: The Power of Telling Your Truth: Writing as a Tool for Healing and Freedom w/ Nicole Breit

What if writing your story could become a tool for healing—and a path to reclaiming your voice? In this episode of Your Business: Untethered, I'm joined by Nicole Gulotta to talk about the raw, liberating magic of creative nonfiction. We dive deep into how personal storytelling can become a powerful tool for transformation—especially for those of us holding trauma, navigating identity, and craving authenticity. This isn't about being a perfect writer. It's about telling the truth. Writing to understand yourself. And using your narrative as a way to come home to who you really are. Inside this episode, we cover: ✨ Why creative nonfiction is a tool for deep healing and personal growth ✨ How trauma can shape our stories—and how writing can help us process it ✨ What it really means to write authentically and publish courageously ✨ The difference between performance and presence in storytelling ✨ The messy, beautiful, empowering journey of engaging with your own narrative Nicole also shares the story behind Bloom Letters—her latest collection—and invites you into your own creative practice through short-form writing and reflective storytelling. This episode isn't just for writers. It's for anyone who's been through something, held it close for too long, and is finally ready to make meaning, not just noise. 🎧 Hit play and let your story start working for you—not against you. Use promocode "PODCAST" to get 10% off the masterclass that will help you let go of who you were told to be, and become the bad-ass business owner you were meant to be, (Un)Becoming.  DON'T BE A STRANGER: 📲 Instagram📲 Threads DOWNLOAD FOR FREE: 🔥 Grab my 7-day guide with the no-BS action plan to go from stuck in your job to running your own business. Download now. 🔥 Take the Freedom Audit Quiz to find out where your business is stealing your time, income, and freedom—and how to fix it. Take quiz now.  GET GUIDANCE: 🚀 Work with me🚀 9-5 to Freedom Biz🚀 Join Freedom Seekers Community MEET NICOLE:Nicole Breit is a queer, award-winning essayist and creative development coach based on Canada's Sunshine Coast. Her writing has been widely published in journals and anthologies including Brevity, Hippocampus, Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories, Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces and Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction. Nicole's essay about first love and loss, "An Atmospheric Pressure", was selected as a Notable by the editors of Best American Essays 2017. With Claire Sicherman she co-authored the epistolary memoir, Bloom: Letters on Girlhood and is at work on a book that explores neurodivergence, attachment theory, queerness, polyamory and kink through the lifespan of an online relationship. When she isn't writing, Nicole helps growth-oriented entrepreneurs uncover their core stories and share them with the world through her Spark Your Story programs. Visit her at nicolebreit.com. Follow Her Substack - Naked: Writing Intimate Creative Nonfiction Get full access to Way of the Founder at wayofthefounder.substack.com/subscribe