Building My Own Room

For a long time, my life was built around serving on a church stage.

That experience gave me a microphone, a room, a community, and years of learning how to stand in front of people without completely unraveling. I got to sing every week, lead rooms, tell stories, build community, make people laugh, and help create meaningful moments.

Honestly, a huge part of why I can do what I’m doing now is because I spent years honing my craft in that space.

But somewhere along the way, something shifted.

I realized the parts of me that felt most alive—the storytelling, the performing, the speaking, the comedy, the connection—were no longer limited to church walls. Eventually, I had to admit something to myself:

I don’t think I want to spend the rest of my life building someone else’s room. I want to build my own.

Which is exciting… and also deeply unsettling for a woman who enjoys stable paychecks and color-coded planning systems.

Right now, that looks like taking the leap into live storytelling and comedy through my show, Nothing to See Here. It’s a night of stories, humor, music, audience connection, church lady observations, over-functioning women, anxiety, marriage, leadership, and the deeply human habit of pretending everything is completely under control.

Basically: the official gathering for people carrying too much while insisting they’re “fine.”

I don’t fully know everything this will grow into yet. I just know every time I step into a room like this, something in me comes alive—so I’m following that.

Thank you for being here while I build this strange, wonderful new chapter in real time.

— Sheila

P.S. Nothing says “healthy risk tolerance” quite like leaving a stable job to pursue storytelling about emotionally exhausted women and church ladies.