Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into
Speaker 1: the Vitamin D with down Day Podcasts, and I am
Speaker 1: your host, Dawn Day, here to get too excited about
Speaker 1: your life so that you can live life on purpose
Speaker 1: and for a purpose. And this is your first time
Speaker 1: tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's upon of my name.
Speaker 1: My name is Dawn, and you get Vitamin D from
Speaker 1: the sun. So I'm here to sad light into your life.
Speaker 1: And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with
Speaker 1: celebrities and everyday people like you and me, because if
Speaker 1: you want to be better and you want to do better,
Speaker 1: then you're going to have to be able to see better.
Speaker 1: So join me on this journey of living our best
Speaker 1: lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest
Speaker 1: stat sad. Sometimes I'm wondering, Dawn, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Like I'm literally figuring out as I go. But I
Speaker 1: realized I gotta just keep going. You know. Every week
Speaker 1: I'm coming to the studio and I record my podcast,
Speaker 1: and I recorded in such a way that I know
Speaker 1: and one day this is gonna be something big. I
Speaker 1: can't explain. How do I know? I just know what
Speaker 1: I know that I know, and that's how I feel
Speaker 1: like you gotta be about your dreams. There's no rooms
Speaker 1: for no butts, maybees if it doesn't work out, because
Speaker 1: you just gotta know. You gotta know that you know
Speaker 1: that you know, and that's the truth, and you know
Speaker 1: the truth by the way that it feels. And I
Speaker 1: guess I just want to encourage you with that, with
Speaker 1: anything that you want. Sometimes people like were doing how
Speaker 1: did you know you were gonna make it? Or doing
Speaker 1: how did you know you're gonna do it? Or basically
Speaker 1: doing how did you do it? I was just doing it.
Speaker 1: I don't think I had everything figured out. I just
Speaker 1: put one ft in front of the other and I
Speaker 1: decided to keep moving. And I want to encourage you
Speaker 1: to keep moving, keep going after it. It It gets you
Speaker 1: excited for a reason. You're passionate about it for a reason,
Speaker 1: it intrigues you for a reason. Entertain it just for
Speaker 1: that reason. Feed yourself something, take it to you ins
Speaker 1: on yourself. Can you please do that for yourself? Please?
Speaker 1: I want that for you because I want that for me.
Speaker 1: Go out, think your dreams, Go ahead and take a chance.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have it all figure out, just
Speaker 1: one step at a time, Okay, one step at a time,
Speaker 1: and it's okay if you don't have it all figured out.
Speaker 1: It's okay if you make a mistake, because you're learning.
Speaker 1: And when you're learning, that means you're growing. When you're growing,
Speaker 1: that means you're stretching. When you're stretching, that means you're expanding.
Speaker 1: When you're expanding, that means you're experiencing new things. And
Speaker 1: when you're experiencing new things, that means you're living. I'll
Speaker 1: go out there and live, get your iteminy right with me,
Speaker 1: and get excited about your lives. What is happening, What
Speaker 1: is going on? I feel like it's been for ever
Speaker 1: since I came in the studio. I had to go
Speaker 1: out of town. Um had a death in the family,
Speaker 1: so went out to Detroit to see the fan band
Speaker 1: and show support. And yeah, and I'm gonna say you know,
Speaker 1: I was going for about a week, so I've been
Speaker 1: off my regimen. And with that being said, I noticed
Speaker 1: I was scuffling down anthy and everything. Honey, this is
Speaker 1: the point I'm showing out to the minute, I said, Dawn,
Speaker 1: have we lost sight of the vision? Did we forget
Speaker 1: where we're going and what we're trying to do, which
Speaker 1: leads me to what I want to talk to you
Speaker 1: today about. And that's the I n G in life,
Speaker 1: the ing. It's the part of the words that makes
Speaker 1: the verb award in action. You know, like you can drive,
Speaker 1: but you can be driving, you can live and you
Speaker 1: can be living. You can be dead or you could
Speaker 1: be dying. You feel me. And the reason why that
Speaker 1: that came top of mind is because you know, we
Speaker 1: have our social media page, Vitamin D Dawn Day, and
Speaker 1: primarily Jeremiah manages that, but I definitely peek in and
Speaker 1: make sure you know, just to see what's going on,
Speaker 1: what you guys are talking about. So I have somebody
Speaker 1: that made a comment under a recent video. The title
Speaker 1: of it is growing It's Dawn, be who you are
Speaker 1: so I can see you. And basically in the video,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about how we place expectations on people and
Speaker 1: how that's not fair. And what happens with those expectations
Speaker 1: is is that we need to whether than having signing
Speaker 1: somebody up for something, we need to make room for
Speaker 1: them to show up as they are and then for
Speaker 1: that person who's deciding to show up, be who you are,
Speaker 1: so I can see who you are or whomever, and
Speaker 1: then it can be a decision whether or not you
Speaker 1: want to sign up. But half the time I feel
Speaker 1: like we aren't being truthful with ourselves. So when we
Speaker 1: step into different situations and relationships, it's hard to not
Speaker 1: the gate because we aren't even being authentic to who
Speaker 1: we are. So how can any situation or any person
Speaker 1: know how to react or to be active in that situation?
Speaker 1: You feel me? So I had somebody to make a comment,
Speaker 1: I guess as I was explaining my process of understanding
Speaker 1: of how I want to make room for Dawn and
Speaker 1: make room for other people to show up as they are.
Speaker 1: Her name is Elizabeth Honay. Now I say Honay because
Speaker 1: it's like three wise um in her name. Mom, just
Speaker 1: say Elizabeth. She made a comment, she says, I want
Speaker 1: to hear your story and how you got to this
Speaker 1: sense of healing your journey and what made such a
Speaker 1: profound change. And I think when I first got it,
Speaker 1: I was flattered. I was like, wow, you know I've arrived.
Speaker 1: I got to this point where somebody is seeing me
Speaker 1: and they're like yes, Dawn, Yes, And I know as
Speaker 1: I've been saying on previous episodes, I'm like, I'm working
Speaker 1: on this level of vulnerability. I want to show up.
Speaker 1: I want to make room. I also want to make
Speaker 1: it so that I can relate to you. So when
Speaker 1: I'm telling you about a product, if I'm telling you
Speaker 1: about an idea, you know me. You know what I like,
Speaker 1: you know what I get into. So if I'm telling
Speaker 1: you what's popping, you know that it's popping. So as
Speaker 1: I'm evaluating, I'm thinking, like, wow, I got to this moment,
Speaker 1: the sense of the state of somebody saying while you're there,
Speaker 1: And I had to humble myself a bed. I had
Speaker 1: to humble myself because I am reminded of the eye
Speaker 1: in g in life, the whole thing, and realizing when
Speaker 1: we think about arriving to a sense or place or destination,
Speaker 1: to me, that says it's over, it's done. But in life,
Speaker 1: you're living. Do you understand it's not like you just
Speaker 1: live no or lived. If you're still have breath in
Speaker 1: your body, you're living. You only lived past tense once
Speaker 1: you're no longer here. So I guess with this process
Speaker 1: and what's spawn about the fact that I'm talking about
Speaker 1: you know, derailing and just engulfing and anything is that,
Speaker 1: whether it's me working out, whether it's me changing my
Speaker 1: my fitness, whether you're dating in a relationship, you don't
Speaker 1: just do something and stop. So when people say, or
Speaker 1: when somebody can say, how did you get the sense
Speaker 1: of there? How did you arrive to that point? Well,
Speaker 1: I like to change the narrative and say that I'm
Speaker 1: constantly arriving. And I guess what's helping is that is
Speaker 1: that I've been making space for Dawn, making room for doing.
Speaker 1: And if I'm making room for Dawn, I know how
Speaker 1: to teach and treat myself. Now I can teach and
Speaker 1: treat somebody else the right way, right because now we're
Speaker 1: operating a space of movement, of ability to move. And
Speaker 1: I realized of how I'm at this space of healing.
Speaker 1: Is that grace is so important. A friend recently said
Speaker 1: to me that grace is giving space catch it. Grace
Speaker 1: is giving space to move, to breathe, to exist. And
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering how often do we give our own
Speaker 1: self space? Even for example, if you look at a
Speaker 1: plant that's in a pot, after so long, there comes
Speaker 1: to a point that the plant needs to be repotted,
Speaker 1: to get into a different space, for more space. Because
Speaker 1: the roots have now extended, the roots have grown, the
Speaker 1: roots are needing to expand the same and such as life.
Speaker 1: That's why I think it's so important not to move
Speaker 1: around me so arrogant about stuff. I feel like you
Speaker 1: know it all that you've been there, done that, you
Speaker 1: know you sent it on the way back. Because each day,
Speaker 1: each moment is a process of learning, is a process
Speaker 1: of healing. And that's why I think it's so important
Speaker 1: that whatever you engage into, whether it be a job
Speaker 1: and whether it be a relationship, let it be something
Speaker 1: that you enjoy, so that you can be in the
Speaker 1: doing of it, not looking at a point of saying
Speaker 1: when it's done and it's a check mark. And now
Speaker 1: that I'm over it, I realized with myself, I'm not
Speaker 1: over me. So when you say, hey, Dawn, how did
Speaker 1: you get to this sense of healing, It's because I'm
Speaker 1: allowing myself space. And with this space, I'm allowing myself grace.
Speaker 1: And with this grace, I'm allowing moments of just being existing,
Speaker 1: whatever I'm feeling in the moment, allow myself to feel.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, see myself. See that's another thing that's
Speaker 1: so amazing about space. Space not only gives you the
Speaker 1: ability to move, but now you can see things from
Speaker 1: different angles, from different points of view. There's a different lighting,
Speaker 1: there's a different elevation, there's a different clarity, there's a
Speaker 1: different everything. Now, as far as learning my story, which
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to stay here for a long time
Speaker 1: because true, I can go on father out the video
Speaker 1: over three decades now. But as you subscribe to Vitamin
Speaker 1: D with Dawn Day, which is of a born, every
Speaker 1: platform that you may listen to your favorite podcasts, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get pieces of me. And what I realized is
Speaker 1: what these pieces. Let let's let's be clear what these
Speaker 1: pieces just as the same with you. There are different
Speaker 1: shapes and sizes, they're different colors, they're different huges. You
Speaker 1: put them in different life, different things happen. But when
Speaker 1: you put them together, that create this mosaic that is me.
Speaker 1: That's not something that you can put in a box.
Speaker 1: That's not something that subscribes to a certain area of
Speaker 1: certain times on. It's just a dawn thing. And I
Speaker 1: realized that when I'm allonging space, I don't have to
Speaker 1: associate it to being something that is other than me.
Speaker 1: It's just me, point blank period. And when I'm as
Speaker 1: I'm arriving to this sense because I'm not done yet.
Speaker 1: There's so much more that I'm going to uncover that
Speaker 1: I'm going to discover. I'm realizing that it's the journey
Speaker 1: that is important. And you've heard me say this before
Speaker 1: about my previous bar Berta Louis t Pow. The Arnie
Speaker 1: is the experience, and the experience is the journey. So
Speaker 1: when we talk about this whole notion of healing, let's
Speaker 1: just focus on the eye and gee, I bet if
Speaker 1: we just look in our life and in all areas
Speaker 1: and see where are we doing the ing in it?
Speaker 1: Are we loving? Are we enjoying? Are we breathing? Are
Speaker 1: we being? Are we seeing? Are we believing? Contemplate, team, surviving, thriving.
Speaker 1: I want to know what's your I n G for life?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? If you find yourself in a
Speaker 1: space that you're not doing anything? I just want to
Speaker 1: ask you why, Not to judge, but just why. Because
Speaker 1: this time that we're here on this earth is limited.
Speaker 1: That's why we're all special offers. We're only here for
Speaker 1: a limited time only, and I think oftentimes, probably the
Speaker 1: moment we got out of the womb, we've been in
Speaker 1: this race, you know, this race to a destination, this
Speaker 1: race to grow up, trying to get to the next thing,
Speaker 1: to be the next thing, to see the next thing,
Speaker 1: to achieve the next thing, rather than just being the
Speaker 1: thing and the only thing that I say about that.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of the movement. I love the
Speaker 1: idea of keep moving forward. But it's something about when
Speaker 1: you see that destination that you think it's a moment
Speaker 1: of stopping. And I think that that's what you get
Speaker 1: caught up at because as I'm saying, or as I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, and I'm saying, my journey as far as
Speaker 1: eating right or eating for my body that is nourishing
Speaker 1: my body and working out, you know, oftentimes we think
Speaker 1: we're going to get to a destination that it stops, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna release this amount of weight, I'm gonna get fit,
Speaker 1: and that's it. I'm not gonna eat healthy anymore and
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna work out. But that's not how it works.
Speaker 1: You got to maintain that. No more difference than if
Speaker 1: you're in a relationship you're courting the person that you're interesting,
Speaker 1: you're dating them, you're treating them nice, you're loving them.
Speaker 1: You don't just get them and get in a relationship
Speaker 1: and then you just stop. No, you decide to play
Speaker 1: a professional sport. You don't just train one day and
Speaker 1: then you decide to stop training. No, you continue to
Speaker 1: train and understand how important it is to train every day,
Speaker 1: hence the training sessions. So why do we look at
Speaker 1: it any different when it comes to our lives? Why
Speaker 1: do we look at it when we finally get to
Speaker 1: this place? And perhaps that's even why gratitude is so important,
Speaker 1: because what do I say, The more grateful you are,
Speaker 1: the more things you have to be grateful for. Hey,
Speaker 1: this is your girl's girly strawberry. How are you doing? Hi? Everybody,
Speaker 1: this is jad member coming to you from the viting. Indeed,
Speaker 1: life keep shining down, keep shining. Oftentimes, as we're speeding
Speaker 1: to the next thing in life, we forget the moment
Speaker 1: of the now. We lose focus of the moment of
Speaker 1: the now because we'll get so caught up by trying
Speaker 1: to catch the next thing that we can't even understand
Speaker 1: the gratitude of this thing. To appreciate what we are now.
Speaker 1: So what we get depressed? We we we have anxiety,
Speaker 1: there's anger, there's resentment, all the things that don't serve us,
Speaker 1: let alone, that don't even deserve us. But not realizing
Speaker 1: that it was a choice, a choice of whether or
Speaker 1: not we decided to show this type of gratitude, because
Speaker 1: gratitude to have your slowed down a bit, Gratitude to
Speaker 1: have you look around a bit, Gratitude to have you
Speaker 1: just breathe a bit because you're realized that you're living
Speaker 1: the days that you want prayed for. You kind of
Speaker 1: get a different evaluation of where you're going, but more importantly,
Speaker 1: you get a more of appreciation of where you're being.
Speaker 1: So where are you in your life right now? Is
Speaker 1: it someplace that you can be proud of? I'm sure
Speaker 1: if you decided to put an e D on it
Speaker 1: or a period, I can't imagine how exciting that is.
Speaker 1: Because once you stop, it's done. What joy comes from that? Yes,
Speaker 1: the faint memory of being loved, but imagine to be loving,
Speaker 1: to be in the process, to be living, to be
Speaker 1: being That's beautiful. And I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: that you stay in the eye in g and your life.
Speaker 1: Don't put too much pressure on where you gotta be.
Speaker 1: Just know where you're going, understand where you're being, but
Speaker 1: reside in the now in a allow it to be
Speaker 1: the gift. That's where the magic is, that's where the
Speaker 1: power is, that's where the light is. More importantly, that's
Speaker 1: where you are. So in this space of growing and healing,
Speaker 1: you realize there's a sense of peace because there's no
Speaker 1: anxiety or anxiousness that you have about where you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be at. There are no regretsive where you've been.
Speaker 1: There's just the appreciation of right now because you know
Speaker 1: you can doubt them all right, it can be over
Speaker 1: right now. And if that were the case, can you
Speaker 1: say that you lift? Are you living? Wow? I guess
Speaker 1: they just worked up some emotions of just coming back
Speaker 1: from Detroit and being at a funeral and it's just
Speaker 1: my god. Can you be in there now? And can
Speaker 1: you live? Huh? Can you take your pieces together and
Speaker 1: make your peace? Can you grasp the idea that you're
Speaker 1: here for a limited time, So therefore you are a
Speaker 1: special offer, not meant for discounts, more so for appreciation
Speaker 1: and value, value enough to give space. So therefore you
Speaker 1: lend yourself grace. Can you get it in the now?
Speaker 1: Are you living in the now? That's the eye in
Speaker 1: g So, Elizabeth, you said, how did you get to
Speaker 1: this sense of healing? I guess because I'm just staying
Speaker 1: with doing it. I never thought about what it looks like,
Speaker 1: because I guess, just like with anything, you kind of
Speaker 1: want to get better, you want to get further. I
Speaker 1: can just tell you right now, I'm just gonna continue
Speaker 1: to to work on expanding my space for me, my
Speaker 1: space for other people, and then allowing myself to decide
Speaker 1: whether or not I'm going to choose to sign up
Speaker 1: for it, because it's something about that space that allows
Speaker 1: you to have your own standing, your own power. That's
Speaker 1: what that space allows you. It allows you to see
Speaker 1: things from various angles. It allows you to take your time,
Speaker 1: it allows you to breathe. That's what the space permits
Speaker 1: for you. And so that's what I'm giving to myself,
Speaker 1: And that's how I guess I'm arriving to the sense
Speaker 1: of healing. I'm allowing it to be a process. I'm
Speaker 1: showing it grace and and realizing I'm figuring it out
Speaker 1: as I go and I'm also realizing with this level
Speaker 1: of grace, there's a sense of love. And to me,
Speaker 1: what love means to me is that you don't give
Speaker 1: up on love. Now, there may be a different ways
Speaker 1: that you handle it, but you don't give up on love,
Speaker 1: especially not loving on yourself. And with that being said,
Speaker 1: of giving yourself grace and knowing that you change, knowing
Speaker 1: that different things interest you, knowing that things not everyone,
Speaker 1: and everything deserves to be in your life, but allowing
Speaker 1: the space for it to move, that's a different kind
Speaker 1: of love. And I think it's a beautiful thing. And
Speaker 1: we can all get to that space literally and enjoy
Speaker 1: that space of love. We can all see that, we
Speaker 1: can all be that, we can all feel that. But
Speaker 1: that's the I energy of life. I don't want to
Speaker 1: wait to a finite destination because when it's time for
Speaker 1: that destination and I'm going and I'm not here, but
Speaker 1: as I'm still living, I still want my I n G.
Speaker 1: I still want to do everything. I still want to
Speaker 1: be experiencing as if it's a new thing, right. I
Speaker 1: don't want it to be mendane. I wanted to be
Speaker 1: feeling refreshed. I wanted to excite me. I wanted to
Speaker 1: give me joy and allow me that piece. And I
Speaker 1: guess I want that for you too. Now, I guess
Speaker 1: I know I do. That's why I'm sharing it with you.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm doing what it is that I do
Speaker 1: because I want that for everyone. And I guess you said, well,
Speaker 1: how did you get to this sense of healing? A
Speaker 1: major thing that I have to contribute it to. It's vulnerability.
Speaker 1: If I hadn't been vulnerable enough to share that, perhaps
Speaker 1: there was a time that I placed the expectation on people,
Speaker 1: whether than giving them space and room to show up
Speaker 1: as they are, you would not have been able to connect.
Speaker 1: Vulnerability is everything, Vulnerability is power. Vulnerability is your source
Speaker 1: of power, your source of connection. I guess we gotta
Speaker 1: ask ourselves if we want to be vulnerable. That's another
Speaker 1: thing that I'm showing up as I say, Wait, abundance,
Speaker 1: that's for a lifetime. Have vulnerability and gratitude. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: gratitude allows me to realize. As I was even pulling
Speaker 1: up today, I just had to remind myself, I said,
Speaker 1: doing God, dog A, you're walking up in the studio
Speaker 1: Vitamin D and Studio E in Sherman Oaks, California. I
Speaker 1: pray for days like this, and I'm still dreaming, and
Speaker 1: I'm still going on, and I'm still going to the gratitude,
Speaker 1: and I'm still making room, and I'm still doing vulnerability,
Speaker 1: and I'm still opening up so that you can connect
Speaker 1: with me. And I'm gonna be here for a long time.
Speaker 1: So you say, Darling, I wanted to get to know
Speaker 1: your story. Well, here you go. Tell somebody to tell
Speaker 1: somebody else, to tell somebody else, to tell somebody else
Speaker 1: that Dawn Day got a podcast. It's called Vitamin dep
Speaker 1: with Dawn Day and it's available wherever you get your
Speaker 1: favorite podcast. Vitamin D is all about shutting the light
Speaker 1: on the good and the bad because if you want
Speaker 1: to be better and you want to do better, you
Speaker 1: gotta be able to see better. It's time to shine, Bryant.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get out of here. That's my check
Speaker 1: in the eye energy of life. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: always say I'm in the business of making dreams come true,
Speaker 1: and I damn show ain't gonna forget about mine. So
Speaker 1: until next time always, but you are your greatest dassa.
Speaker 1: Get your item in right here with me and get
Speaker 1: excited about your live