Speaker 1: Get your vitamin right with me and get excited about
Speaker 1: good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you may be.
Speaker 1: You are tuned into the Vitamin D with Dawn Day
Speaker 1: podcast and I'm your host, Dawn Day, here to get
Speaker 1: you excited about your life so that you can live
Speaker 1: life on purpose and for a purpose. Is this your
Speaker 1: first time tuning in? Um? Welcome, thank you, I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: I seek you. UM. Let me tell you this, Vitamin
Speaker 1: D is a pun off my name. You know my
Speaker 1: name is Dawn. Hello, um, which means the sun, and
Speaker 1: you know how you get vitamin D from the sun. Right,
Speaker 1: So Hello, I'm here understood, light into your life and
Speaker 1: I do that or we do that my team, because
Speaker 1: I I couldn't do this by myself. Um, we do that.
Speaker 1: We're bringing forth inspirational insights with inspirational conversations with celebrities
Speaker 1: and everyday people like you and me. And I want
Speaker 1: to be clear, like you come to this show because
Speaker 1: you're saying, hey, I want to be inspired, I want
Speaker 1: to be motivated. But I said that Vitamin D is
Speaker 1: all about shedding light. And when we shed light, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be on the good and the bad because in
Speaker 1: order to be better and to do better, we have
Speaker 1: to what have the ability to see better. We gotta
Speaker 1: have a three sixty of you of our life, not
Speaker 1: like this just paper cut or this one dimensional. That's
Speaker 1: not how life is. It's not fair. That's what I
Speaker 1: want to make sure, and I want to be clear
Speaker 1: about this. You know, people like oh, love and Light.
Speaker 1: Actually Shirley Strawberry from the Steve Harday Morning, so she
Speaker 1: coined me with that name. But you know, even calling
Speaker 1: me love and life, I am about loving life, you know,
Speaker 1: loving on you, sheding light and inspiration. But also I'm
Speaker 1: an aries. I don't know if it has to deal
Speaker 1: with being aries or just a Dawn trait, but that
Speaker 1: light can light show behind up to or light your
Speaker 1: ass up. Meaning I'm human, meaning I'm a person, meaning
Speaker 1: I keep it real. So please don't put me in
Speaker 1: a box, because the moment you put me in a
Speaker 1: box to fixate, I promise you I'm going to disappoint you. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right. Also, let me tell you this Vitamin D
Speaker 1: with Dawn Day the episodes, you can watch them on
Speaker 1: the YouTube channels. On Dawing Day speaks, why am I
Speaker 1: saying dwing like that like I lived in New York,
Speaker 1: but jeez, one Hayes. Want my name's Dawn, Yes, Dawn. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me remind myself anywhere Dawn day speaks on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of the videos, uh, of the
Speaker 1: conversations that I've had with all of my guests, most
Speaker 1: of my guests, and now that we have a studio space, Hello,
Speaker 1: dreams come true if you believe and take the action necessary.
Speaker 1: So I'm so excited for the what's more to come?
Speaker 1: You know, I said it even before we got here,
Speaker 1: even when I was in celebration about the podcast. What
Speaker 1: was this it probably was going into and you can
Speaker 1: even check it out. I said, this is a yes
Speaker 1: and type of season, and I was talking about how
Speaker 1: um I adopted, It's instilled. I have acculturated whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it, assimilated to the term of yes.
Speaker 1: And because I'm all about an abundance kind of lifestyle, say,
Speaker 1: I want to receive and then I want to add
Speaker 1: on to it because just like all we're talking about
Speaker 1: seeing better, this whole Yes is receiving what life is now.
Speaker 1: That end is that pivot that go over whatever you
Speaker 1: have to do to build and it's to keep going
Speaker 1: aspect for me, and so my hands and my build
Speaker 1: has just what's been going on blossoming with Vitamin D.
Speaker 1: And I will say this right now, I am so
Speaker 1: grateful for Jeremiah. Jeremiah has been a godsend and I
Speaker 1: know I've given him his life right now. But you
Speaker 1: know I will give praises what praises I do. Jeremiah,
Speaker 1: we met when I first moved out to l A
Speaker 1: get in. When I moved from New York to follow
Speaker 1: my dreams with radio and my podcast in my speaking.
Speaker 1: I started out with this online station because it was
Speaker 1: the only station that I saw on UM that was
Speaker 1: out there where I could pursue my craft. Because being
Speaker 1: in New York, you know w B alass out there,
Speaker 1: but that's the number one market. You know, that's like
Speaker 1: a goldfish in an ocean. Yeah, I know it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense, but I'm saying all that to say is
Speaker 1: I had to get into uh some water where I
Speaker 1: could swim. And so I saw this opportunity online and
Speaker 1: guess what, Jeremiah was front of my board. He was
Speaker 1: in turning there. How amazing is that fast board. Almost
Speaker 1: a decade um has passed known like seven years, so dramatic. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we found our way back and so far
Speaker 1: he has been very instrumental in support and I want
Speaker 1: to give just do with um l who has very
Speaker 1: been very supportive of helping with the guests. And also
Speaker 1: Ian who when I had taken the Vitamin D to
Speaker 1: the podcast level of moving it over to my heart,
Speaker 1: really helped me established and built it forward. And then
Speaker 1: hello the man with the plan if you want to
Speaker 1: want so making it do what it do. Brian Freeland.
Speaker 1: We went to college together. I went on the whole
Speaker 1: tangent Oh because I talked about it yes and kind
Speaker 1: of season and then I had to bring in everybody
Speaker 1: else that was amazing and just has have helped me
Speaker 1: get to this point. Wow. And it's only gonna be more.
Speaker 1: And um, I want to definitely thank Jennifer, Lion Grover
Speaker 1: and Bill May because it's it's about to be greater,
Speaker 1: it's about to be more. Yeah, So anywhere I'm coming
Speaker 1: in because you know, this is what I love to do,
Speaker 1: my check in to let you know what's going on,
Speaker 1: see what's up um, And it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: piggyback offer of two videos, one video which I've been
Speaker 1: speaking about a lot, and I've been talking about Earl
Speaker 1: nine Gale and he talks about in this video as
Speaker 1: a man thinking and basically it's it's a thirty minute
Speaker 1: video and it requests that each person should perhaps watch
Speaker 1: it every day, not each person if you know about
Speaker 1: the video, watched the day on video every day. Um.
Speaker 1: It's called the Strangest Secret, and it's basically how you think,
Speaker 1: how you process the difference between people that are uber successful.
Speaker 1: So as I told you this, yes and season and
Speaker 1: how I'm elevanting got you know, things are going well
Speaker 1: with the groundlings as far as I'm just getting so naked, um,
Speaker 1: but as far as like the vulnerability because I'm growing,
Speaker 1: which is what I said, the yes and of asking.
Speaker 1: But you know, I had a spectral news moment. I
Speaker 1: was just on a game show day coming through. Um
Speaker 1: but Earl Nightingale. And then the other video is called
Speaker 1: It's from Burnet Brown and the topic it's a ted
Speaker 1: X talk and she's talking about vulnerability. Good god, good god. Um.
Speaker 1: I just recently put up a video on my Instagram
Speaker 1: at Dante speaks and there's this gentleman. He is crossing
Speaker 1: a wooden bridge. God knows how high in the air,
Speaker 1: but it looks like he could be Uh, he's in
Speaker 1: some country because there's a lot of treaties out there, Okay.
Speaker 1: And he is shaking, screaming, and he has on um,
Speaker 1: he has on a vest and in the vest you
Speaker 1: ever seen like a bungee crib jump cords. So he's like, basically,
Speaker 1: he ain't gonna go anywhere if he falls because he's
Speaker 1: strapped on. But he is shaking and he is I mean,
Speaker 1: he is crying and going through it. Please check it out. Um.
Speaker 1: I posted it up a few days ago. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: say all that to say we're talking about Burnee Brown
Speaker 1: is that she's talking about this whole idea of vulnerability
Speaker 1: and just like how this gentleman is up on his
Speaker 1: bridge or trying to cross this bridge is kind of
Speaker 1: like how we're crossing into the next, you know, stage
Speaker 1: of our lives, going to the other side. And I
Speaker 1: don't know about you, but in this yes and season
Speaker 1: for my life, I asked God that I said I
Speaker 1: want to go higher and to to reveal to me
Speaker 1: ways and so that I can see um. And it's scary. Um.
Speaker 1: Only you, because when you asked to go higher. You
Speaker 1: gotta understand that that's further connection to the ground. You know,
Speaker 1: the whole thing that makes you feel stable, that you're
Speaker 1: in control, that you know how you're moving. But when
Speaker 1: you ask God to go higher, you know there's a
Speaker 1: more distance that the gravitational pull is a little less.
Speaker 1: You don't have anything holding, so things bump and things
Speaker 1: are so shaky, just like this gentleman. He's going across
Speaker 1: this bridge because his leg is shaking. His whole foundation
Speaker 1: is shaking. Get in, Oh, get in, catch it. I
Speaker 1: caught it. I called it as I said it. His
Speaker 1: whole foundation is shaking because he is shaking. That's kind
Speaker 1: of like, you know, peace be still resting in my
Speaker 1: father saying Scott, hello, um, when we become shaky, our
Speaker 1: movement and becomes shaky. But here's the thing. When we
Speaker 1: asked to be elevated, the winds blow a little different
Speaker 1: than but we gotta get to the other side. But
Speaker 1: we asked God to go higher. So that's going to
Speaker 1: require you to have a detachment of what kind of
Speaker 1: like is known. So that's kind of like the same
Speaker 1: thing that I feel like or what resonated with me
Speaker 1: with what burnet Brown was talking about because you know,
Speaker 1: I have always been very boldly as far as my
Speaker 1: dreams and going after it. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can say I have been as vulnerable as just
Speaker 1: Dawn Um and I think I don't think. I'm still
Speaker 1: figuring this out. Remember I said earlier, please do not
Speaker 1: put me in box that put me in a pedal stal.
Speaker 1: Just know that I'm done and God gave me the
Speaker 1: gift to speak. Words are my thing. I admire words.
Speaker 1: I had my voices, so that is where my gift lies.
Speaker 1: And I just want to be a conduit. I just
Speaker 1: want to be an instrument for the message and hopefully
Speaker 1: you receive something as I share, because I'm living life
Speaker 1: too and I'm figuring it out as I go. But
Speaker 1: I say all that to say is that she talks
Speaker 1: about this whole level of vulnerable, being vulnerable, and what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is even vulnerable with self, because she explains,
Speaker 1: like vulnerability is like that whole idea of connection, like
Speaker 1: the connection you have and also not only with yourself,
Speaker 1: but that way of connection that has you, you know,
Speaker 1: connect with other people. And the thing that's on the
Speaker 1: opposite of this whole thing vulnerability is she's talking about.
Speaker 1: Is this whole idea of shame and fear? Oh my God.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. The more you entertain shame and fear,
Speaker 1: the more you acknowledge that you are not vulnerable. Therefore,
Speaker 1: the more connection you lack. Where is the thing? You know?
Speaker 1: As I ask God to take me higher, I gotta
Speaker 1: realize there are a lot of things that I ain't
Speaker 1: got to be vulnerable with. One with my dreams, with
Speaker 1: my aspirations of just growing, of just being so bold
Speaker 1: and saying I'm so dope, I'm going to do this,
Speaker 1: and having the faith and believing without having a confirmation
Speaker 1: from anyone else. Because remember I said, it's about connection,
Speaker 1: and my vulnerability is about connection with me, like it's
Speaker 1: a very naked state because I ask God to be
Speaker 1: greater to know things of what I'm not doing, and
Speaker 1: and um, I'm starting to see them. And when you
Speaker 1: start to see yourself, because you know it's on one
Speaker 1: end to always talk about being spied, be motivated, don't
Speaker 1: later hurt you. But we live life and you feel it.
Speaker 1: But I guess the reason why we can talk about
Speaker 1: it is because once you get to the other side,
Speaker 1: just like this gentleman. I'm sure the gentleman I'm telling
Speaker 1: you about carossing the bridge once he got to the
Speaker 1: other side, can tell you like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: so worriful I made it. But in that moment it
Speaker 1: felt like death. And it's like, hey, if you ever
Speaker 1: get to that point in your life, you can't get
Speaker 1: to the other side. But like I was saying, she
Speaker 1: talks about this whole thing of just you know, shame
Speaker 1: and fear. And I've just realized, even with my own
Speaker 1: life and living of probably how much shame and fear
Speaker 1: that I've had or have, you know, things that I
Speaker 1: feel like didn't fit the status quo. And I think
Speaker 1: the whole idea of just being greater and to be
Speaker 1: better and who you are is to have that connection
Speaker 1: with yourself. And I don't mean like you gotta, you know,
Speaker 1: go on on megaphone and start screaming, but just give
Speaker 1: yourself an opportunity, the courage and do it with compassion.
Speaker 1: She also talks about that. She talks about the word
Speaker 1: courage and how it stands from the Latin wrote word
Speaker 1: of curve, which means to tell it with your heart,
Speaker 1: and that compassion is just like having that grace. I
Speaker 1: was just telling a friend. I was like, Tim Snell,
Speaker 1: He's coming on the show. Yeah, ask Curby Style with
Speaker 1: Timothy Snell. We were on. I was on his show.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I was just talking about the whole idea
Speaker 1: of having like compassion and why that is so important
Speaker 1: for that compassion, because it's in that compassion that you
Speaker 1: allow yourself to have grace. It's like you said, you
Speaker 1: say to yourself to treat yourself. Okay, but it's interesting
Speaker 1: we don't give ourselves grace because it's like we shame
Speaker 1: ourselves and we do something that's different, our opposed to
Speaker 1: what everybody else feels is right, and it just goes
Speaker 1: online of just Pride Month, it just goes in line
Speaker 1: with Naomi Osaka, like standing in your truth or what
Speaker 1: speaks to you and having your own voice. It's just
Speaker 1: like we can choose to live our life trying to
Speaker 1: subscribe to what somebody else's expectations. But the fact that
Speaker 1: the matter is the only thing that we were so
Speaker 1: designed to do is to if our life, trust our voice,
Speaker 1: sing our song. Can't nobody. E'll sing your song and
Speaker 1: do what you do. Do you understand what I'm saying
Speaker 1: what you have to say matters. What you have to
Speaker 1: say with your clothes, your sexuality, your art, your vision,
Speaker 1: your hands, shoe. And I try to think, because it's like,
Speaker 1: at what point did we get to the point that
Speaker 1: we have all this shame and fear that we gotta
Speaker 1: cover up, that we gotta hide, that we gotta color
Speaker 1: quote unquote inside the lines because it's the right thing.
Speaker 1: It gets so caught up that we try to put
Speaker 1: ourselves in a box. Let me just go back, even
Speaker 1: when I was talking about the gentleman that was going
Speaker 1: over the bridge and asking God to be taken higher. Right,
Speaker 1: you know, when we put ourselves in a box, when
Speaker 1: we subscribe to shame and we allow fear to cripple us,
Speaker 1: it's like a bird afraid to fly. It's like bird,
Speaker 1: that's what you're meant to do. It's like human, you person,
Speaker 1: donn whomever, You're meant to live your life like that
Speaker 1: was the only requirement. And see, when we have this
Speaker 1: shame and this whole idea of fear on us, it's
Speaker 1: like a lock. And so I was saying, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: at what point did we get to the point that
Speaker 1: we have to be shameful of who we are, or
Speaker 1: have a fear of not to do something because as
Speaker 1: a child, you know, you do things boldly and courageously,
Speaker 1: even making yourself full effect. You don't even know if
Speaker 1: you're making yourself before. You're just doing it with passion. Okay, pause,
Speaker 1: because I was sitting there thinking, I was just thinking
Speaker 1: about the world come passion Like it's like it's it's
Speaker 1: combined with passion, like yourself with a passion. But it's
Speaker 1: like it's as a child, like the minute become our
Speaker 1: mother's womb. You know, this is the best thing is
Speaker 1: to have that skin to skin contact, no clothes on.
Speaker 1: But right after that we're covered up. Then next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, we told what we should say and what
Speaker 1: we should do, how we should act, stand in line
Speaker 1: other than just expressing your creativity, your genius, yo, whatever
Speaker 1: is you. And I guess I'm realizing that I'm doing
Speaker 1: that on the way and I'm figuring it out and
Speaker 1: I'm taking my time. But I guess that's what the
Speaker 1: check in because my God, God is working and I
Speaker 1: see it, and I guess I just don't want to
Speaker 1: miss it. I don't want to miss it. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been able to really acquire success with my dreams.
Speaker 1: And I say that not as a defense, but of
Speaker 1: course I told you I'm a big, bigger than Oprah.
Speaker 1: So right now we're on the podcast what is going
Speaker 1: to be exceedingly inabundantly. But I'm saying my success now
Speaker 1: because as Earl Nightingale was saying in the video, I
Speaker 1: was telling you about this thirty minutes called the Strangest Secret,
Speaker 1: is that true success is having a goal and taking
Speaker 1: steps towards it. Well, one thing I've realized, and that's
Speaker 1: why I bought up Burnet Brown with vulnerability, is that
Speaker 1: I've always been successful at going after the dream, going
Speaker 1: after you know what it is that I want. But
Speaker 1: when it comes down to vulnerability of dawn, of self,
Speaker 1: of letting people in um and that could be in
Speaker 1: an intimate way as well, maybe not so much. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a sense of using work as
Speaker 1: a distraction, because you know, love is a beautiful thing,
Speaker 1: you know, but it comes from an open space. So
Speaker 1: when things are open, things can get cold, things can
Speaker 1: get wet, things can get injured, things and get all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. But I guess really open myself and
Speaker 1: to take time to really hear, really to listen. Um.
Speaker 1: I want to really work on that level of vulnerability
Speaker 1: with myself, understanding my relationship, my connections with not only
Speaker 1: with other people, my relationship with food, my relationship with
Speaker 1: working out my relationship with Dawn, and and working on
Speaker 1: not holding myself so strangent because one of the pressures
Speaker 1: that I have, and I'm gonna be honest with you,
Speaker 1: with being somebody that's inspirational and and always inspiring other people,
Speaker 1: just like, can I clut? Curse? Damn? I just did it? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, can I drink? Can I smoke? And it's
Speaker 1: like I'm asking because these are the questions I had
Speaker 1: to ask myself because for some reason, I felt as
Speaker 1: if I'm being someone that's inspirational, I have to be
Speaker 1: in a box. But I don't want to be that.
Speaker 1: I can't be that because you won't get this, Dawn.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because as I'm uncovering, I'm figuring this
Speaker 1: out right now, I just caught on the mic because
Speaker 1: I started talking. You know, it took a minute for
Speaker 1: me to even figure out what I was gonna say
Speaker 1: because I was so caught up in how I was
Speaker 1: gonna say it, but I said, you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't kind of just I'm just gonna getting tough talk.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. That's what I do. So I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, just getting this whole vulnerability with
Speaker 1: Dawn and seeing Dawn kind of lost my train of thought.
Speaker 1: But that's what I am seeking because I gotta go higher.
Speaker 1: And I think that when we ask to go higher
Speaker 1: and love and life and career, it causes us to
Speaker 1: have to strip down a bit. Oh found it back.
Speaker 1: Don't put me in a box because everything that I
Speaker 1: do and everything that I involved and makes me who
Speaker 1: I am. And that's why I said, please don't mistake
Speaker 1: the message. Because of the messenger and vice versa. Some
Speaker 1: of the most beautiful places endure some of the most
Speaker 1: intense storms. You know, there's this quote that you know,
Speaker 1: I came across when I was at Coward University, I
Speaker 1: was in college. It goes, what allows a diamond to
Speaker 1: shine are the multitudes of cuts that have been placed
Speaker 1: within it. I love it because just like life, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, we can't really dictate when we can't
Speaker 1: really we don't dictate the hand where we're dealt. Right
Speaker 1: even from this mineral of coal and putting on this
Speaker 1: even minse pressure forms a stone, one of the hardest
Speaker 1: minerals in the world. And these cuts, these cuts that
Speaker 1: may be depressing these customer anxiety, over eating, obesity, judgment um,
Speaker 1: failed relationship, death, regret. It's like these cuts, you know,
Speaker 1: because it kind of it left a mark on us
Speaker 1: high catch it. And you know, even like with this diamond,
Speaker 1: like when you put the diamond in a light, because
Speaker 1: of the cuts it shines. What allows a diamond to
Speaker 1: shine all the multitudes of cuts that have been placed
Speaker 1: within it. Well, while we can see the value in
Speaker 1: the diamond, right, how is it that we don't see
Speaker 1: the value within ourselves, within the imperfection of ourselves. Huh?
Speaker 1: A diamond isn't less valuable because of the way the
Speaker 1: cuts are made. I don't know about shore, but probably
Speaker 1: the way the cut is dictates how much of the
Speaker 1: light shines and balances it reflects within it. And just
Speaker 1: like when all these people are just relating to the diamond,
Speaker 1: all these people get together, all of us get together
Speaker 1: and can be so vulnerable and transparent of who we are,
Speaker 1: of just being, of just being who that is, unapologetically
Speaker 1: of who you are unapologetically whatever that means, and stepping
Speaker 1: into the light. Imagine if everybody did that, with all
Speaker 1: those imperfections of how you just illuminate. And that's what
Speaker 1: they mean to say, that light off of you, bounce
Speaker 1: off of this person, that bounces off of this person,
Speaker 1: and we just all glistening and edifying each other, and
Speaker 1: then we just realize how we radiate that light, just
Speaker 1: like that diamond. But I think sometimes even with myself,
Speaker 1: you know, you get caught up in the the what
Speaker 1: you should do and what you shouldn't do, whether then
Speaker 1: all you need to do is be you. I mean, dang,
Speaker 1: you think about how many snowflakes in the world. Right,
Speaker 1: that's just the same difference of our fingerprints. Not one
Speaker 1: person on this earth has the same prayer print and
Speaker 1: somebody else. So why must we try to compare or
Speaker 1: group ourselves together as if we are the same. Man,
Speaker 1: We just gotta go out here and live dreams and
Speaker 1: live life and create life and life with art, life
Speaker 1: with humans, life, whatever it may be. And I think
Speaker 1: it's also talking about just being able to take time
Speaker 1: with yourself to figure it out. And and also, just
Speaker 1: like I was talking about that bird, imagine if that
Speaker 1: bird was never gonna fly because it was afraid and
Speaker 1: not being able to be free. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but I want to be free in love with Dawn.
Speaker 1: I want to go with the next level. I'm going
Speaker 1: that's gonna require me to pack life because I gotta sore.
Speaker 1: And it's like when you when you get locked up,
Speaker 1: because that's what lives, you know. I feel like shame
Speaker 1: if they're just locked up because you cast you away.
Speaker 1: It's like going into something dark because nothing give me
Speaker 1: let in. Hence that's why it's a lack of connection.
Speaker 1: You kind of lose the ability to exist, like, for example,
Speaker 1: a shame or or fear that I have for a while.
Speaker 1: And I think I expressed this on one of the episodes.
Speaker 1: Priories even down to growing logs because almost like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, it's not gonna be acceptable. We're gonna look
Speaker 1: at me different. I've had even people that working with
Speaker 1: me on my team to say, hey, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. I don't think that works with
Speaker 1: a brand. Look at Dawn. I'm still doing a dang
Speaker 1: a thing, still doing my appearances on television, but it
Speaker 1: takes that whole level of vulnerability. It takes for you
Speaker 1: not to hide away in shame. It takes for you
Speaker 1: to be fearless and to do you because my whole
Speaker 1: I am is not dictated what's on my hand? And
Speaker 1: how can I operate in the true dawn if I'm
Speaker 1: concerned about what somebody else is thinking, what's on my head?
Speaker 1: Now I can say that so freely. But of course,
Speaker 1: another thing that I found a lot of shame and
Speaker 1: fear is my weight I even think about now. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said before, I've always been able to be
Speaker 1: daring and going after my dreams. But you know, when
Speaker 1: I was younger, sometimes I wouldn't even go out to
Speaker 1: a club. I'll go out to a lounge in New
Speaker 1: York because I was embarrassed about my weight because I
Speaker 1: didn't know if it was gonna look like we're right,
Speaker 1: what I was gonna wear. And you know, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a it's a horrible thing to you know, I
Speaker 1: want to go to a store and you can't find
Speaker 1: anything nowhere. Now I'm birthing up a new dawn. And
Speaker 1: that's why I just keep saying, unlocking my potential. You know,
Speaker 1: That's why I had Latieth on there talking about no
Speaker 1: comfort zones. That's why I gotta be transparent enough to
Speaker 1: know that I gotta understand this relationship. I have a
Speaker 1: food because let's not get a twist. I'm always gonna
Speaker 1: love food. Well, I was gonna eat food, but just
Speaker 1: in that relationship so I can co exist happily with it.
Speaker 1: And I say that because I know when I have
Speaker 1: control of my life and what that means is is
Speaker 1: getting tapped in with Dawn that yes, Andy, like yes, don't.
Speaker 1: I know that's what you want, but and this is
Speaker 1: what you need to do this or and this is
Speaker 1: what you need to do in the right now moment.
Speaker 1: Because I don't want to get back to the point
Speaker 1: of that. But I've had a lot of stressful situations.
Speaker 1: I talked about it before, like, you know, while there's
Speaker 1: so many blessings of coming with the job, you know,
Speaker 1: I've had things with my health and finances are changing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out, you know, how things are
Speaker 1: working with my dreams, how to go after the next thing.
Speaker 1: I'm just but I know that God didn't take me
Speaker 1: this far to leave me. God doesn't appoint to disappoint.
Speaker 1: I remind myself of the promises. But in order to
Speaker 1: fulfill the promise, I have to step into dawn. I
Speaker 1: have to be more transparent. I have to be more
Speaker 1: vulnerable because that gives me the freedom to move. You know.
Speaker 1: I think when we hold onto like fear and we
Speaker 1: hold onto shame, it's almost like a cramp, right or
Speaker 1: you know how sometimes when your leg goes to stick,
Speaker 1: you kind of gotta hit it. You gotta hit it
Speaker 1: to wake it up, because it's just been sitting there.
Speaker 1: It's been locked in. But it's like when we talk
Speaker 1: about really being fluid and what we're meant to do
Speaker 1: being fluid and what our passion is, it's going to
Speaker 1: require us to be free in ourselves without any type
Speaker 1: of restriction or constriction ladies, but on a far a spank,
Speaker 1: you know what that's like? Fellas your dress, shoes, your
Speaker 1: sneakers and a shirt that might be too tight. You
Speaker 1: can't breathe can't sit now, I gotta put in your pants.
Speaker 1: You can't really be who you want to be and
Speaker 1: exist that the way that you want to exist or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And like I said before, or it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be something that's broadcasts everywhere I'm saying
Speaker 1: that it's just tapping into that vitamin D moment and
Speaker 1: checking in so that you can see it. As I
Speaker 1: said before, there are going to be plenty of things
Speaker 1: more to reveal, but that's what I'm understanding right now,
Speaker 1: this level of vulnerability and another thing let me sell
Speaker 1: you and this whole season and when I think maybe
Speaker 1: I mentioned it yes and and and doing better and
Speaker 1: being better to across the sea better, is that I've
Speaker 1: asked God to show me who the people are around me,
Speaker 1: and it is a it is a going after my
Speaker 1: dreams right now, so many friends or people. Maybe I
Speaker 1: thought where my friends um are dissolving and maybe he
Speaker 1: could be a transition. But I'm starting to get that
Speaker 1: moment what I can feel it and when I see it.
Speaker 1: And my thing is is that I'm working on this.
Speaker 1: When I ask God to see I have to make
Speaker 1: sure that my eyes are open because I think that
Speaker 1: sometimes we can have our eyes wide shut, eyes wide shut,
Speaker 1: because you can see it and you can feel it.
Speaker 1: But again, as we're talking about holding this yes and season,
Speaker 1: just I talked about this level of vulnerability, at this
Speaker 1: level of being free, this level of a yes, and
Speaker 1: that I'm going higher, some things we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: fall off. And I guess maybe before I felt like
Speaker 1: I had to hold on. But if it isn't working
Speaker 1: with me, why am I trying to keep onto it?
Speaker 1: Why am I literally trying to reach back to pull
Speaker 1: something for it with me? I only wanted if it's
Speaker 1: a vibe, if it's a rhythm, if it's a beat,
Speaker 1: if it's melodic. And I say it's a beat because
Speaker 1: it's kind of like it's kind of like your heart.
Speaker 1: It beats, and that purpose beats purpose, and every day
Speaker 1: you have forty eight thousand, six hundred seconds to make
Speaker 1: a difference in your life, and every day you got
Speaker 1: forty eight thousand, six hundred chances because there are forty
Speaker 1: eight thousand, six hundred seconds and each and every day
Speaker 1: to live your life to pick yourself up again. And
Speaker 1: just like I was talking about, with the whole level
Speaker 1: or the whole realm of being vulnerable, understanding that like
Speaker 1: it's going to take the whole courage. And I may
Speaker 1: have said this before, I'm not sure, but you know,
Speaker 1: courage stems from the Latin word of curb, which means
Speaker 1: to tell her with your heart. Learning from Brunet Brown
Speaker 1: as well, and she also talks about the whole level
Speaker 1: of compassion. Yeah, I said this about treating yourself kindly
Speaker 1: with that, because um, that's how we're gonna have the connection.
Speaker 1: And if one if we're not relating to ourselves, how
Speaker 1: it can relate to someone else. And if you think
Speaker 1: about it, we're meant to connect. And you know that
Speaker 1: because no matter where you go to across the globe,
Speaker 1: when somebody smiles, you know what that means. When somebody cries,
Speaker 1: you know what that means. When somebody hugs, you know
Speaker 1: what that means. When somebody's life is going, you know
Speaker 1: what that means. So stop getting in the way talking
Speaker 1: about connect thinking what was me putting yourself in the
Speaker 1: islands to think that it's only you and it only
Speaker 1: happens to you. You're not alone. That's what I feel like.
Speaker 1: Shame and fear will do to you. Shame will feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: your addiction to porn is why you should be by yourself.
Speaker 1: Shame will do to you that because your house is junkie,
Speaker 1: that you the only run by yourself. Shame will do
Speaker 1: to you that you are addicted to alcohol, that you
Speaker 1: are by yourself shame would do to you that if
Speaker 1: you are addicted to work and now you are by yourself,
Speaker 1: shame will do to you that you are convicted of
Speaker 1: feeling like you are in the homosexual behavior, That's what
Speaker 1: it would do to you. Don't be shamed where you
Speaker 1: are because you're worthy. That's another thing they said. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of people that carry a lot of shame.
Speaker 1: It's because a lack of worth. And perhaps that's why
Speaker 1: I had to remind us, even myself of what I
Speaker 1: talked about what allows a diamon to shine, because you know,
Speaker 1: when you feel that you are worthy and you have
Speaker 1: a sense of worth, you have a strong sense that
Speaker 1: you are worthy for love and belonging. Because if I'm
Speaker 1: talking about shame, if you remember we talked about that's
Speaker 1: a whole isolation moment, right, But when you know that
Speaker 1: you're worthy, you know that there's a sense that you
Speaker 1: deserve it. And that's what I'm talking about with vitamin
Speaker 1: D and how you are your greatest asset. You have
Speaker 1: to know that. You have to know that you are
Speaker 1: living life on purpose and for a purpose. And when
Speaker 1: you have that value on your life, there's things that
Speaker 1: you take temperature check, because sometimes we gotta take a
Speaker 1: temperature check, just like like we're here all the time.
Speaker 1: It can be like a roller coaster ride. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have those ups and you're gonna have those downs. And
Speaker 1: that's what I'm telling myself, Like right now, it's like
Speaker 1: the the I shouldn't even say good in the bad.
Speaker 1: But it's the end, and they ain't happening right now.
Speaker 1: It's the pressures of work. Got this cold, and I
Speaker 1: see the formation of this diamond. Two sides are working.
Speaker 1: The pressure is working, my God, but the magic is
Speaker 1: happening because every day I'm just looking on a prayer
Speaker 1: for everything is working out, and I know it is.
Speaker 1: I know it will. This ain't the first time. And
Speaker 1: I'm not speaking out of fair I'm just saying the
Speaker 1: things that have to remind myself. Now. There are some
Speaker 1: health things going on, things that are top of mind,
Speaker 1: but key on moving. Don't stop to the brank Under
Speaker 1: party people. Who's Okay, I messed that up, but you
Speaker 1: know that song, right, but you gotta keep going. And
Speaker 1: it just reminds me of go app a lie. I'm
Speaker 1: getting close up to my dreams. And you know, I
Speaker 1: always talk a lot about career. But like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: looking at my wall right now. And Uh, I used
Speaker 1: to support with Lisa Nichols. She's one of the authors
Speaker 1: from The Secret and her company was motivating the masses.
Speaker 1: But a gentleman sing with Sean. I can't think of
Speaker 1: Sean's last thing, shame on me. But he had to
Speaker 1: do this exercise and he was playing. He was playing eminem, Uh,
Speaker 1: lose yourself in the moment, you own it, you met her,
Speaker 1: never let it go, lose yourself. Messed up the lyrics.
Speaker 1: But if you know the song, you know the song,
Speaker 1: you don't eminem lose it. But we had a block
Speaker 1: of wood. On one side, we had to write our fears.
Speaker 1: On the other side we had to write the vision.
Speaker 1: And of course I had a list of the fears. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe I should take a moment and be
Speaker 1: transparent what those fears are. I mean, it is vulnerability. Now.
Speaker 1: One thing I do regret that I didn't do on
Speaker 1: here as far as I didn't put the date. Usually
Speaker 1: I put the date. But anyway, we made this. UH
Speaker 1: made this block. So on one side I had to
Speaker 1: say my blocks from my fears. And since we're talking
Speaker 1: about vulnerability because I tell you I'm going to higher
Speaker 1: so I gotta release things you can't attact me with
Speaker 1: my true learn that from um gammy red table talk.
Speaker 1: So anyway, on the back of this piece of wood,
Speaker 1: I have resources, lack of weight, need to lose, uncertainty
Speaker 1: and decisiveness, not having the money to create products, procrastination,
Speaker 1: not creating products, not reaching out to schools organizations. Because
Speaker 1: one of the things that you know, all my dreams
Speaker 1: worldwide inspirational speaker clearly by them and d hey um,
Speaker 1: not being bold to stand someplace and just speak, because
Speaker 1: I used when I was in New York case to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I was gonna be like the people that be on
Speaker 1: the subway down there, sing ay hard, I should just
Speaker 1: go in the corner and just speak. Get a megaphone.
Speaker 1: I have a megaphone now, and so maybe I should
Speaker 1: do that one day, um my phrase. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know what I think. I still do say that
Speaker 1: a lot. Uh. This whole feeling not wanted, that was
Speaker 1: probably when I told you we're filling with my weight
Speaker 1: and just they're not deserving, not feeling like even the
Speaker 1: stories didn't want me. He's I can even find anything
Speaker 1: to where um, not having enough I don't know, probably finances, uh,
Speaker 1: concerning myself or what others received of me. Yes, I
Speaker 1: remember at the time that people like done, you're so bold,
Speaker 1: or done you ask so many questions, are done uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: But if that were the case, why do people want
Speaker 1: to still be attractive or be around me. That's another
Speaker 1: thing that was a fear or a shame that I
Speaker 1: would carry, that, Oh I'm doing too much. And it's
Speaker 1: like I realized that I do think that if you're
Speaker 1: in the wrong for something, have people that are gonna
Speaker 1: check you. But don't be in a situation. Don't place
Speaker 1: yourself in a situation where somebody's always trying to dictate
Speaker 1: and tell you who you are, because then you lock
Speaker 1: yourself and you can't freely move because it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: am I being perceived the wrong way. I've had a
Speaker 1: couple of people trying to tell me that, and I say,
Speaker 1: a couple maybe too, and we're listening. It really took
Speaker 1: the heart and I start changing. I don't move, I
Speaker 1: couldn't even be done hey, And then the last one
Speaker 1: just stayed a fear, so I sat. I just say
Speaker 1: because I said, I've always been very bold when it
Speaker 1: came down to my career. But you know, just that
Speaker 1: whole vulnerability so that I can expand more because how
Speaker 1: you do anything, that's how you'll do everything. Now on
Speaker 1: this other side of the block, it says my vision
Speaker 1: and it hasn't just a circle to him because at
Speaker 1: the time, you know, I was bald, before I had
Speaker 1: my lives, I was bald and blond, honey giving it
Speaker 1: to you, you know, Um, it says my vision. So
Speaker 1: I'm standing there with a megaphone has in parentheses motivated
Speaker 1: and then the bottom says inspiring their people and I'm
Speaker 1: doing this through radio, TV and a heart. And then
Speaker 1: they have these lines that's showing that it's connecting to
Speaker 1: a globe and so I'm doing all around the world
Speaker 1: and right, um, that's in connection with this vision. And
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't talk about enough, but I'm calling
Speaker 1: this into my life as my family and I see
Speaker 1: my kids in my house, in my car, and then
Speaker 1: I got the history books and I got my health
Speaker 1: or exercise and then working out. But yeah, that that
Speaker 1: was in Um. So I hold a lot of shame
Speaker 1: with that true story. I used to smoke cigarettes. I
Speaker 1: stop that that that carried a lot of shame when
Speaker 1: I was in a college and I'm not proud of
Speaker 1: what people do that. And it's just like when you
Speaker 1: get to the point where things are crippling. I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll find out more, we'll talk about more. But the
Speaker 1: whole point about it is is that one I want
Speaker 1: to do it check in, tell you what's going on,
Speaker 1: to really talk about this whole thing of vulnerability and
Speaker 1: shame and fear and not letting it because we have
Speaker 1: to remember that were worthy and I want you to
Speaker 1: know that and to always remind yourself of that, that
Speaker 1: you should have permission. You give yourself permission with that
Speaker 1: compassion to speak and be authentically who you are because
Speaker 1: you know, this fear of not feeling worthy of love
Speaker 1: and connection it's suffocating. You can't live like that, not
Speaker 1: because what you thought you should be and who you
Speaker 1: are not. You know that's not a connection. I think
Speaker 1: it's time to say I love you. Like looking the
Speaker 1: marry and say I love you, and do it because
Speaker 1: you mean it. Because what makes us vulnerable, not only
Speaker 1: to ourselves, was into other people. It's the same thing
Speaker 1: that makes us beautiful. And I guess we'll know what
Speaker 1: vulnerable because we're not comfortable, it's not steady grounds. We
Speaker 1: don't know, and that's what we call life. It's so interesting.
Speaker 1: We try to predict everything, and we really can't even
Speaker 1: predict life. We can, you know, vacant vision of what
Speaker 1: we want, but we can't predict every day. But we
Speaker 1: still gotta live it. So let's give ourselves permission to
Speaker 1: live with all means so stringent on every little thing.
Speaker 1: Living out there and waking up to say, I don't
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen. It's almost like not living in
Speaker 1: the moment, kind of like improv how low groundling sing yes,
Speaker 1: and not living in the moment. It's like being averted
Speaker 1: to leave at your house because just because I'm in
Speaker 1: the car and I feel like I'm in control, I
Speaker 1: don't know who's going across the street. I don't know
Speaker 1: if somebody is having a bad day and decided they
Speaker 1: want to run a red light. I don't know. You're
Speaker 1: hearing about people will grow rage. So I guess that's
Speaker 1: the sense of taking care of yourself and knowing that
Speaker 1: you're worthy. And that's why I mentioned naomial soccer earlier
Speaker 1: on because you know, or if I did. Maybe I
Speaker 1: thought about it, but I mentioned her. Now. I just
Speaker 1: think that it's so amazing with this young lady, is
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna said that she's the highest female athlete,
Speaker 1: highest paid. I slee fifty million um as. She had
Speaker 1: to step away from the French Open because for her sanity,
Speaker 1: because she said, I'm worthy, I'm worthy of my protection
Speaker 1: of myself and because I love myself that I gotta
Speaker 1: step away. And you know what it took for her.
Speaker 1: It took for her to see her condiction to say
Speaker 1: I see you, I see you, Naomi. So you gotta
Speaker 1: tell yourself, say say self, I see you, Dawn, I
Speaker 1: see you. I told you I'm going higher. And if
Speaker 1: I can't see myself hot in the heck, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: see where I'm going. Mm hmm, shoot manute. And you
Speaker 1: don't see yourself, ain't gonna know where fairs. And I
Speaker 1: ain't got somene for that. I know my guy doesn't
Speaker 1: appoint to disappoint. So that's why I'm on this notion.
Speaker 1: And so I'm just saying that, you know, just be
Speaker 1: more vulnerable. And I'm saying that I just said that
Speaker 1: to Dawn. I said it to you, but I'm saying
Speaker 1: that to me because my dreams are at stake, and
Speaker 1: my dreams of my best life of love, relationships, of
Speaker 1: wealth and all of that, m because you will not
Speaker 1: be me with my own true Tony. Also, um, I
Speaker 1: want to be the best me. I'm gonna give me authentically.
Speaker 1: So I'm learning so much about myself and putting myself
Speaker 1: in situations, and I'm also understanding how the thing everything
Speaker 1: is happening in this perfect timing. I'm even saying, have
Speaker 1: all these skill sets from these other jobs are working
Speaker 1: with myself, just all this good stuff. If you made
Speaker 1: it this long, I appreciate you. You are for real
Speaker 1: Vitamin D with up though. Hey, um, so, like I
Speaker 1: said before, that's what's going on. Also, I've mentioned this
Speaker 1: on previous episodes. You know I released my job for this,
Speaker 1: so I need your support. I gotta get my subscribers up.
Speaker 1: So if you enjoy listening to me the conversations, um,
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Speaker 1: also check out the conversations on YouTube. It's about to
Speaker 1: get bigger. It's about to get better, It's about to
Speaker 1: get greater. Oh oh, it's about to be crazy. Um,
Speaker 1: we got a studio space. You know what I should do? Um?
Speaker 1: I came across some old episodes of me, uh, when
Speaker 1: I was like an accelerated radio, like what five six
Speaker 1: years ago? Thing on here? Seven? It will be interesting
Speaker 1: to just play some stuff with you guys and talk
Speaker 1: about it, maybe on check ins or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just came up with it. But anyway, if you're
Speaker 1: enjoying this, make sure you tell somebody PLEASESE because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be big in Oprah, and I love for you
Speaker 1: to start with me from the beginning. And so if
Speaker 1: we ever meet, we can talk about it. Like Dawn,
Speaker 1: I used to listen to you when you had this
Speaker 1: going on and when you did this and when this
Speaker 1: happened in your life, and it's like it, let's roll together.
Speaker 1: Or you tell me something that you heard me say
Speaker 1: that got you through something. In fact, you can do
Speaker 1: that right now, because I mean, it's about to be
Speaker 1: a year next month in July. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, we're gonna be celebrating a year. Um,
Speaker 1: I want to encourage you to email me at Vitamin
Speaker 1: D at Dawn Day Speaks dot com. So that's Vitamin
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Speaker 1: share and you know we always do advice letters. So
Speaker 1: if you need some advice on something, relationships, love, work, whatever, life, anything, UM,
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Speaker 1: I told you about the YouTube page. You know to
Speaker 1: follow me on all social media at Dawn Day Speaks. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm implementing on my social media posting up quick doses.
Speaker 1: You know you get those on and staying Friday, two
Speaker 1: days a week. They're used like a minute or two.
Speaker 1: But now I'm implementing the video version content. Yes, you know,
Speaker 1: you know if they said content is king, I'm the queen.
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm just saying, all right, let me get
Speaker 1: out of here. I just want to say that I
Speaker 1: love you, thank you for joining me on my dreams.
Speaker 1: You know we're gonna keep going. What else I got
Speaker 1: to say? Let's be vulnerable, Let's be true, Let's be you, me, you,
Speaker 1: everybody else do what it do? UM, And I said,
Speaker 1: all right, y'all well, be amazing. Always know that you're
Speaker 1: worth it, You're worthy, and until next time, always remember
Speaker 1: you are your greatest ass at