WEBVTT - If You Build It They Will Come 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:04.440 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.720 to the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.280 am your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.039 about your life so that you can live life on 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.399 purpose and for a purpose. If this is your first 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.960 time tuning in, welcome Vitamin D. It's upon of my name. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.160 My name is Dawn and you get Vitamin D from 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.360 the sun. So I'm here a shed light into your life. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.840 And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.920 celebrities and everyday people like you and me, Because if 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:29.880 you want to be better and you want to do better, 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:32.640 then you're going to have to be able to see better. 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.640 So join me on this journey of living our best 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.600 lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:40.720 ass at get. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:45.720 Your vite Indy right with me, and get excited about 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:46.720 your life. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.919 They say, if you build it, they will come. And 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.280 in order to be something you've never been, well, you're 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:57.800 going to have to do some things that you've never done. 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.760 I have every intention to be bigger than Oprah with 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:06.319 the impact of Michael Jackson and for the longest and 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.760 for the most part, I've been in the habit of 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.679 doing a lot of prep work behind the scenes, but 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.880 I realized that I can't do this by myself. And 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.640 in the age where we're understanding and we're realizing how 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.160 vulnerability is everything our connection, I want you to see me. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:24.920 I want you to see the empire that I am 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:29.040 building with Vitamin DVADNDE. So that has resulted, that has yielded, 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.240 that has led me to go on Facebook Live. If 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.240 you haven't been privy just yet, make sure you check 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.559 me out at dawn Dai speaks Vitamin D going Live. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.679 I'm in front of all of my listeners from the 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.080 fandal and of course family and friends who have been 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:51.120 following me throughout the years, catching me live and doing 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:56.440 my thing on dawn Dai speaks. I don't know exactly 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.760 how the exact formula, but I know that I'm going 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.480 and I want to remind you that you can't fail 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.800 if you don't quit, and a heal ain't nothing to 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:06.760 a step of because all you have to do is 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.560 put one foot in front of the other. And I'm 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.280 grateful because I'm still able to be in contact with 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.720 the community, the people that have spoke life over me 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.639 the people that affirm me that the things that I'm 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.720 doing right now are the things that are serving them, 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:26.519 and I'm just like, thank you God. I feel sometimes 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.200 that when we are going after our dreams and different aspirations, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:30.960 we get in this whole idea we have to have 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.840 everything planned out to a tee and I've been mentioning 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.480 her on a few past episodes Mary and Williamson. She says, 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.280 our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:47.000 deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure That's 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.639 what we call potential. And we look at potential, you 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.639 realize that you can't measure it. So I feel this 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.240 though oftentimes people have a hard time tapping into it 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.080 because there is a measurement that they are trying to see. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.720 How we can adhere to that measure make it look like, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.120 what do you feel like you need? That measurement can 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:04.800 look like as far as you're not feeling like you 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.680 have all the contents, that measurement looks like you trying 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.440 to measure yourself up to something that is not of you. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.880 And when we realize that when we put one foot 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.200 in front of the other, we are further and we 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.720 are moving past where we have been. Again, if you 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.040 want to be something that you have never been, it 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:23.920 will require you to do some things that you have 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.840 never done, and it's uncomfortable. Hence that's why we call 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:33.160 the growth figuring it out as we go. So grateful 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.520 because so many listeners have called in or assume they 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.840 will be calling in, but timing in via the chat, 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.280 just saying like thank you, Dawn, and we're getting these 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.920 ideas of how we're going to build it together. And 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.040 I'm realizing, I'm understanding, and I'm so grateful that the 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.360 community is growing and the community is building. Can I 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.680 share something else with you? What I realize is that 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.040 if I'm gonna build this with the family you that 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.400 is listening and those who are watching on Facebook Live, 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.400 I need your input. And at first I thought it 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.040 was so tacky, I'm not gonna even hold you. I 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.360 don't know if it was because of my thought process 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.240 or perhaps what society will tell you to do in 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.840 regards to putting the cash app on there, clothes mouths 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:19.960 don't get fed. The amount of money that I've received 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.839 by simply giving my cash app dollar signed on DAI 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:29.279 has been astounding. It also gives a sense of power 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.760 of what we can have when we have the courage 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.440 to step out on our dreams. So I'm gonna keep 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.640 pressing in and I'm talking to the family. I'm saying, Okay, well, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:39.800 what do you want to see? What do you want 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.120 me to do? What kind of guests do you want 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.039 me to have? Because I want to hear from you? 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.440 And you know what else is giving fuel to this fire, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.000 putting gas in my tank. That's requiring me to think, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:52.800 I know, catch it because it's hot. Baby. If you 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:58.120 thought I wasn't gonna get that? Ali oop oh? Is that? 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.200 Even despite what is it? Now? Going on the fifth 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.120 week of being off the FM dial, my family still 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.039 there checking off with me. They still laying eyes on me. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:17.080 I got so emotional last week I got an email. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.640 I have mentioned this gentleman several times, mister Lee. He 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.760 has this storefront. It's called Green Farm Nutrition. I'm not 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.599 sure if I've been candid on the podcast, but I 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.400 feel like I have. Or I shared my experience with 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:37.039 fibroids and how for so long I had not experienced 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.320 anything and when I went to the doctor, and I 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.840 went to my obgyn and they did some tests with 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.640 the tissues, of course, to check it and see if 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.120 there were cancers. Shortly after that, I had been having 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:51.120 cramps or pain so intense that I could not move, 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.080 like I could not get into bed so much. So 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.800 my mind went back to my mom and when she 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:02.040 was battling stage for a breast cancer, when she yelled 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.640 out for her mother, I said, oh, my gosh, here 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.160 I am laying in the bed and I'm thinking, oh, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.520 this is just in my ovary region. My mother was 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.000 feeling this outside of her body, and I said, oh 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.960 my god, what kind of pain could she have felt? 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.680 I mean, it has restricted me from even going out 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.840 to dinner once for a friend's birthday. And I don't 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.520 know how. I found myself on the corner of Librea 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.720 and Pico and looked up and saw this store of 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.159 Green Fire Nutrition. And I walked in there and I 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:34.240 met mister Lee Winston Leeah is his name, And I said, hey, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.680 do you have anything that can support with fibroids? He 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.719 said yes. In fact, he pulled out this notebook, almost 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:47.560 like a pamphlet, of supplements and herbs to take. I 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.080 took them, and do you know, to this day, I 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.000 don't feel anything when it comes down to my ministration. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.839 There are no cramps, no pain, no nothing. I am saying, 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.599 to a point where it was crippling. Now, you know, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.200 just like any type of prescription, you are to take 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.599 the formula or whatever it is to the time and 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.400 exercise all the way out. I didn't even do that, 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.840 and I will folt that to my own ignorance. I 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.120 don't know why. Oftentimes we find ourselves in situations when 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.119 we have to complete the course and we fall short 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.840 because we feel like it's enough, or we're too tired, 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.880 or we feel like it should be done. No go 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.360 through the due process. So I will be jumping back 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.120 on to that. But I say all that to say 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.960 in my mention and my testimony from my truth and 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.320 my vulnerability of being able to share when I was 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.080 on the FM dial and even what I'm continuing to 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.160 do with vitamin dibatonte. Hey, do you know that his grandson, 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:44.600 his grandson from Virginia send me an email to simply 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:50.840 thank me for the support for shouting out his grandfather. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:56.280 And I was astounded because I said, Oh, this is 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.800 just me living my truth. And what we realize is 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.720 that when we have the courage to live our truth 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:08.920 in the light. We shed light for others, We create 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:15.040 a path for others, We open up a realm, a possibility. 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.280 Oh that it is possible right? Why? Because we know 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.680 that greater is coming. We wouldn't have these ideas on 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.160 our life. But unless we have the courage to put 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.440 one foot in front of the other and to keep 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:32.760 it going, how will it work? So with that being said, 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.480 I stalled on that whole little momie because I'm up 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.280 here trying to find an email. I hope I didn't 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.280 delete it. We'll go back to it. But I did 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.440 share it with my mentor because I was just so 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:47.760 taken aback of when you live in truth and you 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.840 walk with vulnerability to share your truth, that it not 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.080 only supports you, but so many others. So here it is, 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.720 dear miss dad. My name is Sigmund Hoon. Part of me, 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.319 I'm miss pronouncedinee. I am a seventeen year old high 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.079 school student from Lorton, Virginia and grandson of Winston Lee, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.480 the owner of Green Farms Nutrition. I heard you have 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.959 been giving Green Farms a shoutout on your radio station 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.480 one O two point three KJLH In fact, today a 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.720 new customer came to the store having heard your shout 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.600 out and bought some of our products. I have a 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.800 passion and vision to help my grandparents minority owned business 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.680 to stay afloat and eventually become a thriving retail business 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.679 in the future. My grandfather opened this business as a 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.720 first generation Korean immigrant over forty years ago, while working 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:40.239 tirelessly and raising four daughters with English as his second language. 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.520 His loyal customer base is what keeps Green Farms running 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.640 despite the Amazons and Walmarts of the world. It's been 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.960 a struggle gaining a new customer base as a brick 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.960 and mortar store because this time where e commerce is 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.839 a new way to shop. But what has separated Green 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:59.440 Farms from etailors is his personalized wellness advice Taylor to 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:04.720 each in every customer. I appreciate you visiting his store 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.520 and adhering to his advice as Nature's nutrition expert, and 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.080 amplifying his expertise on your show. I would love the 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.760 opportunity to visit you with my grandfather when I'm in 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.680 La this summer, regardless of whether we can meet in 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:23.960 person or not. I sincerely appreciate how you've already impacted 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:31.200 his business and helped new customers live a healthier lifestyle. Hey, 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.120 this was in to me April seventeenth. I'm going to 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:40.240 reply soon. I don't know why I still give me 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:53.960 emotional thank you God. I'm just digesting these emotions that 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:59.160 I am feeling. It's because you know, I was in 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.720 his space or way part of me because I'm gonna 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.880 come back, because I'm thinking, as I'm saying, where I'm 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.240 looking at this opportunity on this FM island. I was 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:16.600 able to impact and touch so many people simply by 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:23.560 living my truth and speaking my truth and sharing the 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:27.480 help that I've received to help someone else. And here 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.760 this young man is all the way across the country 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.000 where mister Lee, we already know that English is the 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:38.800 second language for him, has said, hey, there's this woman 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.320 out here on this radio station that perhaps he would 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.680 have never heard, even listened to, or heard of. And 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.520 I'm able to supply. And the reason why I had 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.160 to catch myself is that thing oftentimes that we limit 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.400 our own potential because at first, you know, my feelings 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:58.880 want to be hurt because I'm like, oh my gosh, 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.160 I'm not on this FMD. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:09.160 Whatever this reach is providing to this dream to inspire, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.800 to inform and entertain the masses. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.400 But see, what I realized is that I was made 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.480 by a creator I meant to create. I can create 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.959 whatever I want. I can build whatever I want. And 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.760 if you build it, they will come. Don't believe me. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:33.480 Just watch and I want to encourage you. Don't let 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.840 other people. Don't let the situations, don't let other things, 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.720 don't let the circumstances put a boundary, put a ceiling 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.200 on what you can do. Because we are powerful beyond measure. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.400 You can't look on the reliance and do a comparing 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.800 contrast or when you should be. You just keep going. 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.520 As Cynthia Mayweather said, a hell ain't nothing to a 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.760 step of So baby, let's walk it out. And I'm 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.760 so grateful because when I think about the vision of 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.720 what I'm gonna do with vitamin D with Dawn Day, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.520 and how we gonna take it to the next level, 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:10.720 perhaps we'll have Saying and Miss the Leon together talking 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:14.320 about the wonders because we're all we God, and we're 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.280 all we need. Half the time, were always trying to 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.760 tap into an outside source for what it is that 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.800 we can do. Now, I'm not saying that things can't 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.120 be an extension and things can't amplify, but what I'm 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.880 saying is make sure you have the belief in yourself 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.200 and do what you can do, because greater is he 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.160 who is in me than he was in the world, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.600 and the same goals for you, because we're all made 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.360 in the image of likeness, and oftentimes we get dis made. 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.560 And that's why I say, don't let what you see 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:45.520 make you forget what God's it. God spoke abundance over 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:50.760 your life exceedingly for more than what you could ever imagine, 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.520 and that's why I and I implore you to live 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.760 a yes and kind of lifestyle because I feel this 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:01.880 though oftentimes that a disappointment comes because we're trying to 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:07.200 force ourselves in situations and predicaments that perhaps don't serve us. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.800 And I'm not saying never, but perhaps in that moment, 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.640 in that season, and oftentimes it causes a blocking and 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.680 requires us to stop or it yields a stop. But 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.240 you can't fail if you don't quit. If you fall 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.040 down seven times, get up eight If you can look up, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.440 you can get up your location. It's not your destination, 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.400 and I can get dismade right now and see, Oh 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:32.200 my gosh, I'm in the closet. I'm standing in my closet. 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.040 But don't let what you say don make you forget 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.720 what God said exceedingly, ineputently, for more than what you 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.600 could ever imagine. Because there will be a day that 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.360 I will be on my yacht. I will come off 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.080 the deck. They will call me and say, Dawn, I 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:47.800 need you to do some work now, whether it's me 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.400 recording Vitamin D or whatever show on my podcast or network. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.040 I'm gonna go in there and make some six seven 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.040 figures and then I'm gonna come back out and live 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.200 my life. It's the this and it's so grand, it's 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.160 so amazing that it's like what But I know God 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.000 says try, and so I'm here to try. And I 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.640 want to implore you to try to keep going, keep fasting, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:13.080 keep standing. Just don't quit, because you can't feel if 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:17.960 you don't quit. Also, you remember I may have spoken 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.560 to you about miss Maryland and Meredith way back when 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.880 when I first started on the FM dow. They came 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.240 up to the station and surprised me, spoke life over me, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.240 saying I just want to see you and brought me gifts, 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.560 talked about how I had inspired the lives, came up 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.720 again and brought me some gumbo, brought me some prayer hands, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:40.600 and immediately Miss Marylyn and her husband Meredith were the 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.520 two individuals that I thought about when I was no 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.240 longer on that FM dot. I said, how are they 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.160 going to get in contact with me? Do they know 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.560 where I've been? Because Miss Maryland have shared how I 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.480 have inspired and changed her life, even down when she 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.760 was discussing how her grandchild transitioned as a result from 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.080 a car accident, and we prayed on there. In fact, 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.600 if you check out my Instagram at Dawn Dai Speaks, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.920 I have the video of the call in which I'm 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.480 talking to Miss Maryland and I'm saying a prayer, a 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.560 prayer that listeners had said they had to pull over 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:18.880 to receive it because it was that powerful. I even 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.560 have the video of the first time she came on 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.520 there and just saying wow. So it was hurt. But 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.760 on my birthday, and because the way my God is 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.560 set up, do you know that Miss Maryland called me, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:32.760 I didn't have her number. I was panicking. I was 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.080 like Oh my gosh. All I had was the card 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.240 and had the address, and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.520 get to going out to the mailbox and send it out. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.320 But I hadn't gotten there yet. I'll wake up in 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.120 the morning. I get a call from Miss Maryland. I said, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:46.400 oh my god. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.320 She said, oh, I've been looking for you, DoD, I've 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:51.200 been looking for you. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:52.120 Happy birthday. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.280 I said, Oh my gosh, Miss Maryland, you remember it's 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:55.960 my birthday. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.400 I said here. I told her. I said, you know, 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:02.040 I'm no longer on nash And now. And she was like, 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.840 I have been wondering. I had been looking everywhere for you, 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.320 and I said, I'm here. I told her. I said, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.159 I was going to try to email you, but I 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:13.679 hadn't got around to it. Not emailed send her an email, 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.960 and I said, well, how you doing. What's going on 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.720 with you? She began to share with me about a 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.640 recent incident that happened. You know, them doing the work 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.480 for the Lord and helping those who are in the 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.399 unhoused are part of the unhoused community. She says she 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.680 was at a dollar tree over in Eastern in Florence. 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.640 She said they were walking up there in the Meredith, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.359 you know, he has heart issues, what's having trouble bringing 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.399 So she said, baby, go ahead and sit on the bench. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.000 She goes ahead and pivot to go inside the entryway 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.359 to the dollar tree, and then realize there's a gunman. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.520 You heard me, a gunman. Next thing she knows and 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.560 part of me, if I am misconstraining this, is that 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.119 she had turned around and she said there was a 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.280 gunman facing or pointing a gun in the direction of 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.760 her husband is and she realized that there was another 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.760 individual behind her husband on the bench. She says, the 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.679 guy that was in front of her immediately or not 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.640 email imediately at some point, because you can imagine everything 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.119 everywhere all at once, happening this fast when you're in 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.080 a moment of panic, shot the gun and she said, 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.600 oh my god, they shot my husband. And immediately, she said, 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.639 she tried to go for a leap, but somebody tackled 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.520 her down and said there's nothing that you can do. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:20.360 And she later realized that the bullet did not hit Meredith, 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.200 but went right by his ear, and the individual behind 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:24.879 him was kind of using him as a shield to 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.439 do whatever. Now she described to me as Mexican, as 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.560 she said from her words, and that's all the information 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.760 that she knew. Well, thank god, nothing happened. I think. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:35.199 I don't know if she said she had passed out 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:36.760 or what happened, but she said she had had an 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.400 asthma attack and Meredith had an heart attack. Thank god 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.280 they're okay. She said, I had been looking for you 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.080 at the station because ding I could have used some 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.359 of your prayers. I needed some of your inspiration. Again. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.320 That pulled on my heartstrings because now I'm looking and 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.679 I want to use this loosely, and so pardon me. 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:54.760 I'm just saying the box or what I felt was 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:56.919 contained of just being the FM dial, but if you 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.639 build it, they would come powerful beyond measure. And she 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.280 was like, I tried to reach out to you. I 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.160 couldn't get to you. I didn't know what to do. 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:06.879 Fast forward, I guess a couple days later because this 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.840 happened in the last week of March. Now we're here 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.360 at my birthday. Meridor says, today's Dante's birthday. You got 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.280 a caller and she said, oh, I remember, I got 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.320 her number and I gave her my number because when 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.040 I was on the f and I. We were talking 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.160 about different things happening in the church, and I wanted 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.360 to create a space that if you felt that you've 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.600 been mistreated, if you felt you have been misused or abused, 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.080 have a community of somebody that you can talk to, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.119 because I find oftentimes in the African American community we 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:40.080 have trouble communicating. And it's so interesting or bizarre rather 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.480 because when you think about us as a people, in 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.960 our education and our language, everything started with song. In fact, 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.520 that's how we got our freedom from communicating. And here 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:52.240 we are in a point in our lives where we 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.760 have somehow forgot how to communicate, how to do what 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:57.639 it is that we do. I say all that to 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:02.720 say I gave her my She said she remembers having 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:04.600 the number on my paper and said I got it 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.400 and called me and shared this information. And I said, 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.920 my God, thank you God. It just brought me into 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.640 tears about what is possible and the impact I can have. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.199 Not easily. I can go on my corner easily, I 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.560 can sit on my bed easily, I can lay and 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.080 just coddle with myself and say, oh God, why me? 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:25.480 But why not me? Because if you want to be 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.840 something that has never been well done. You're going to 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.240 have to do some things that you have never done. 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.680 I can't stop because people need the light, people need 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:37.080 the vitamin D, people need the inspiration. So here I am. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.880 If you build it, they will come. I get all 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.320 my cards on the table. I done told the family. 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.320 I said, usually I would do this behind the scenes, 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.639 but now you get to see everything in real time 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.800 as it is unfolding. And guess what, you can have 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.679 a say because this is for us, by us, and 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:58.479 we're gonna do it with us. You catching it. I 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.679 got something, and I want you to remind yourself that 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.639 you got something too. And don't you ever forget that. 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.200 Don't let what you see make you forget what God said, 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:12.439 because God promised exceedingly and abundantly, far more than what 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:20.320 we could ever imagine. So I'm moving unashamed. I'm moving 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.399 while I'm putting my pride aside, and I'm tapping into 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:28.640 the family because they believe in me, and they say, 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:30.600 all you need is the faith the size of a 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:34.200 mustard seed, just the love love. So my seed look 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:37.200 like you know, the Internet may be disconnecting as we're talking, 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:39.639 but guess what that employer mis wanted to tell me 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:43.720