WEBVTT - Unapologetically Vulnerable 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:05.359 Get your vitamin right with me and get excited about 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:13.320 good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you may be. 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.880 You are tuned into the Vitamin D with Dawn Day 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.800 podcast and I'm your host, Dawn Day, here to get 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.320 you excited about your life so that you can live 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.640 life on purpose and for a purpose. Is this your 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.960 first time tuning in? Um? Welcome, thank you, I appreciate you, 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.960 I seek you. UM. Let me tell you this, Vitamin 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:36.800 D is a pun off my name. You know my 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.400 name is Dawn. Hello, um, which means the sun, and 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.360 you know how you get vitamin D from the sun. Right, 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.400 So Hello, I'm here understood, light into your life and 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.080 I do that or we do that my team, because 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.519 I I couldn't do this by myself. Um, we do that. 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:57.120 We're bringing forth inspirational insights with inspirational conversations with celebrities 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.640 and everyday people like you and me. And I want 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.640 to be clear, like you come to this show because 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.520 you're saying, hey, I want to be inspired, I want 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.720 to be motivated. But I said that Vitamin D is 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.000 all about shedding light. And when we shed light, that's 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.600 gonna be on the good and the bad because in 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:16.760 order to be better and to do better, we have 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.360 to what have the ability to see better. We gotta 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.120 have a three sixty of you of our life, not 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.800 like this just paper cut or this one dimensional. That's 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.399 not how life is. It's not fair. That's what I 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.600 want to make sure, and I want to be clear 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.640 about this. You know, people like oh, love and Light. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.560 Actually Shirley Strawberry from the Steve Harday Morning, so she 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.000 coined me with that name. But you know, even calling 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.319 me love and life, I am about loving life, you know, 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.800 loving on you, sheding light and inspiration. But also I'm 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.399 an aries. I don't know if it has to deal 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.480 with being aries or just a Dawn trait, but that 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.320 light can light show behind up to or light your 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:57.560 ass up. Meaning I'm human, meaning I'm a person, meaning 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.520 I keep it real. So please don't put me in 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.080 a box, because the moment you put me in a 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:07.120 box to fixate, I promise you I'm going to disappoint you. Okay, 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.600 all right. Also, let me tell you this Vitamin D 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.960 with Dawn Day the episodes, you can watch them on 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.000 the YouTube channels. On Dawing Day speaks, why am I 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.960 saying dwing like that like I lived in New York, 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:24.880 but jeez, one Hayes. Want my name's Dawn, Yes, Dawn. Okay, 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:29.399 let me remind myself anywhere Dawn day speaks on YouTube. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.200 I have a lot of the videos, uh, of the 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.080 conversations that I've had with all of my guests, most 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.880 of my guests, and now that we have a studio space, Hello, 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:46.840 dreams come true if you believe and take the action necessary. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:51.200 So I'm so excited for the what's more to come? 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.560 You know, I said it even before we got here, 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.440 even when I was in celebration about the podcast. What 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.960 was this it probably was going into and you can 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.600 even check it out. I said, this is a yes 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.400 and type of season, and I was talking about how 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:10.959 um I adopted, It's instilled. I have acculturated whatever you 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.440 want to call it, assimilated to the term of yes. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.359 And because I'm all about an abundance kind of lifestyle, say, 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:18.840 I want to receive and then I want to add 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.359 on to it because just like all we're talking about 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.639 seeing better, this whole Yes is receiving what life is now. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.160 That end is that pivot that go over whatever you 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.920 have to do to build and it's to keep going 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.680 aspect for me, and so my hands and my build 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.800 has just what's been going on blossoming with Vitamin D. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:38.680 And I will say this right now, I am so 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:43.520 grateful for Jeremiah. Jeremiah has been a godsend and I 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.480 know I've given him his life right now. But you 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.680 know I will give praises what praises I do. Jeremiah, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.520 we met when I first moved out to l A 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.840 get in. When I moved from New York to follow 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.040 my dreams with radio and my podcast in my speaking. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.120 I started out with this online station because it was 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.920 the only station that I saw on UM that was 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.600 out there where I could pursue my craft. Because being 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.920 in New York, you know w B alass out there, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.680 but that's the number one market. You know, that's like 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.680 a goldfish in an ocean. Yeah, I know it doesn't 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.719 make sense, but I'm saying all that to say is 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.800 I had to get into uh some water where I 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.760 could swim. And so I saw this opportunity online and 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.400 guess what, Jeremiah was front of my board. He was 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.440 in turning there. How amazing is that fast board. Almost 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:38.520 a decade um has passed known like seven years, so dramatic. Um, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.600 you know, we found our way back and so far 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.120 he has been very instrumental in support and I want 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:48.080 to give just do with um l who has very 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:52.120 been very supportive of helping with the guests. And also 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.200 Ian who when I had taken the Vitamin D to 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.720 the podcast level of moving it over to my heart, 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.240 really helped me established and built it forward. And then 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.839 hello the man with the plan if you want to 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.159 want so making it do what it do. Brian Freeland. 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.600 We went to college together. I went on the whole 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.880 tangent Oh because I talked about it yes and kind 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.080 of season and then I had to bring in everybody 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.479 else that was amazing and just has have helped me 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.400 get to this point. Wow. And it's only gonna be more. 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.160 And um, I want to definitely thank Jennifer, Lion Grover 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.559 and Bill May because it's it's about to be greater, 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.880 it's about to be more. Yeah, So anywhere I'm coming 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.960 in because you know, this is what I love to do, 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.000 my check in to let you know what's going on, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.320 see what's up um, And it's kind of like a 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.240 piggyback offer of two videos, one video which I've been 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.080 speaking about a lot, and I've been talking about Earl 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.400 nine Gale and he talks about in this video as 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.279 a man thinking and basically it's it's a thirty minute 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:01.080 video and it requests that each person should perhaps watch 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.720 it every day, not each person if you know about 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.240 the video, watched the day on video every day. Um. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.640 It's called the Strangest Secret, and it's basically how you think, 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.000 how you process the difference between people that are uber successful. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.880 So as I told you this, yes and season and 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.600 how I'm elevanting got you know, things are going well 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:23.720 with the groundlings as far as I'm just getting so naked, um, 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.279 but as far as like the vulnerability because I'm growing, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:28.960 which is what I said, the yes and of asking. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.560 But you know, I had a spectral news moment. I 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:36.799 was just on a game show day coming through. Um 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.479 but Earl Nightingale. And then the other video is called 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.360 It's from Burnet Brown and the topic it's a ted 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:51.480 X talk and she's talking about vulnerability. Good god, good god. Um. 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.600 I just recently put up a video on my Instagram 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:58.560 at Dante speaks and there's this gentleman. He is crossing 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.000 a wooden bridge. God knows how high in the air, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.720 but it looks like he could be Uh, he's in 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.760 some country because there's a lot of treaties out there, Okay. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.800 And he is shaking, screaming, and he has on um, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.600 he has on a vest and in the vest you 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.720 ever seen like a bungee crib jump cords. So he's like, basically, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.880 he ain't gonna go anywhere if he falls because he's 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.040 strapped on. But he is shaking and he is I mean, 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:29.720 he is crying and going through it. Please check it out. Um. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.400 I posted it up a few days ago. Anyway, I 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.280 say all that to say we're talking about Burnee Brown 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.560 is that she's talking about this whole idea of vulnerability 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.720 and just like how this gentleman is up on his 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:40.800 bridge or trying to cross this bridge is kind of 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.320 like how we're crossing into the next, you know, stage 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.160 of our lives, going to the other side. And I 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.600 don't know about you, but in this yes and season 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.360 for my life, I asked God that I said I 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.920 want to go higher and to to reveal to me 0:07:55.000 --> 0:08:00.000 ways and so that I can see um. And it's scary. Um. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.480 Only you, because when you asked to go higher. You 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:08.280 gotta understand that that's further connection to the ground. You know, 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.160 the whole thing that makes you feel stable, that you're 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.480 in control, that you know how you're moving. But when 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.440 you ask God to go higher, you know there's a 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.120 more distance that the gravitational pull is a little less. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.040 You don't have anything holding, so things bump and things 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.480 are so shaky, just like this gentleman. He's going across 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.040 this bridge because his leg is shaking. His whole foundation 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.160 is shaking. Get in, Oh, get in, catch it. I 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.680 caught it. I called it as I said it. His 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.079 whole foundation is shaking because he is shaking. That's kind 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:36.800 of like, you know, peace be still resting in my 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:41.079 father saying Scott, hello, um, when we become shaky, our 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.000 movement and becomes shaky. But here's the thing. When we 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.040 asked to be elevated, the winds blow a little different 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:47.880 than but we gotta get to the other side. But 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.800 we asked God to go higher. So that's going to 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.640 require you to have a detachment of what kind of 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.360 like is known. So that's kind of like the same 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.600 thing that I feel like or what resonated with me 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.240 with what burnet Brown was talking about because you know, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.680 I have always been very boldly as far as my 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.600 dreams and going after it. But I don't know if 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.040 I can say I have been as vulnerable as just 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.800 Dawn Um and I think I don't think. I'm still 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.840 figuring this out. Remember I said earlier, please do not 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.520 put me in box that put me in a pedal stal. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.800 Just know that I'm done and God gave me the 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.720 gift to speak. Words are my thing. I admire words. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.600 I had my voices, so that is where my gift lies. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.160 And I just want to be a conduit. I just 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.680 want to be an instrument for the message and hopefully 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.800 you receive something as I share, because I'm living life 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.800 too and I'm figuring it out as I go. But 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.400 I say all that to say is that she talks 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.960 about this whole level of vulnerable, being vulnerable, and what 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.920 I'm saying is even vulnerable with self, because she explains, 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.120 like vulnerability is like that whole idea of connection, like 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:51.320 the connection you have and also not only with yourself, 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.880 but that way of connection that has you, you know, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.120 connect with other people. And the thing that's on the 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.680 opposite of this whole thing vulnerability is she's talking about. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.280 Is this whole idea of shame and fear? Oh my God. 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:11.160 And here's the thing. The more you entertain shame and fear, 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.120 the more you acknowledge that you are not vulnerable. Therefore, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:20.720 the more connection you lack. Where is the thing? You know? 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.600 As I ask God to take me higher, I gotta 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.840 realize there are a lot of things that I ain't 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.360 got to be vulnerable with. One with my dreams, with 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.920 my aspirations of just growing, of just being so bold 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.400 and saying I'm so dope, I'm going to do this, 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.240 and having the faith and believing without having a confirmation 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.520 from anyone else. Because remember I said, it's about connection, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.440 and my vulnerability is about connection with me, like it's 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.320 a very naked state because I ask God to be 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.439 greater to know things of what I'm not doing, and 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.400 and um, I'm starting to see them. And when you 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.199 start to see yourself, because you know it's on one 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:02.000 end to always talk about being spied, be motivated, don't 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.440 later hurt you. But we live life and you feel it. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.480 But I guess the reason why we can talk about 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.200 it is because once you get to the other side, 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.680 just like this gentleman. I'm sure the gentleman I'm telling 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.439 you about carossing the bridge once he got to the 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.040 other side, can tell you like, oh my god, I'm 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.960 so worriful I made it. But in that moment it 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.600 felt like death. And it's like, hey, if you ever 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.160 get to that point in your life, you can't get 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.280 to the other side. But like I was saying, she 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.560 talks about this whole thing of just you know, shame 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.000 and fear. And I've just realized, even with my own 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.520 life and living of probably how much shame and fear 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.760 that I've had or have, you know, things that I 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.320 feel like didn't fit the status quo. And I think 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.200 the whole idea of just being greater and to be 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.680 better and who you are is to have that connection 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.920 with yourself. And I don't mean like you gotta, you know, 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.520 go on on megaphone and start screaming, but just give 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.440 yourself an opportunity, the courage and do it with compassion. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:57.960 She also talks about that. She talks about the word 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.760 courage and how it stands from the Latin wrote word 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.000 of curve, which means to tell it with your heart, 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.520 and that compassion is just like having that grace. I 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.840 was just telling a friend. I was like, Tim Snell, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:09.679 He's coming on the show. Yeah, ask Curby Style with 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:11.560 Timothy Snell. We were on. I was on his show. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.360 But anyway, I was just talking about the whole idea 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.839 of having like compassion and why that is so important 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.600 for that compassion, because it's in that compassion that you 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.880 allow yourself to have grace. It's like you said, you 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:29.000 say to yourself to treat yourself. Okay, but it's interesting 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.160 we don't give ourselves grace because it's like we shame 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.079 ourselves and we do something that's different, our opposed to 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.160 what everybody else feels is right, and it just goes 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.560 online of just Pride Month, it just goes in line 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.360 with Naomi Osaka, like standing in your truth or what 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.559 speaks to you and having your own voice. It's just 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:51.000 like we can choose to live our life trying to 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:55.880 subscribe to what somebody else's expectations. But the fact that 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.520 the matter is the only thing that we were so 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.080 designed to do is to if our life, trust our voice, 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.559 sing our song. Can't nobody. E'll sing your song and 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.240 do what you do. Do you understand what I'm saying 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.520 what you have to say matters. What you have to 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:17.400 say with your clothes, your sexuality, your art, your vision, 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:23.640 your hands, shoe. And I try to think, because it's like, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.679 at what point did we get to the point that 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.680 we have all this shame and fear that we gotta 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.760 cover up, that we gotta hide, that we gotta color 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.440 quote unquote inside the lines because it's the right thing. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:36.880 It gets so caught up that we try to put 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.080 ourselves in a box. Let me just go back, even 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.880 when I was talking about the gentleman that was going 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.840 over the bridge and asking God to be taken higher. Right, 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.600 you know, when we put ourselves in a box, when 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.640 we subscribe to shame and we allow fear to cripple us, 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.839 it's like a bird afraid to fly. It's like bird, 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.240 that's what you're meant to do. It's like human, you person, 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:04.360 donn whomever, You're meant to live your life like that 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.280 was the only requirement. And see, when we have this 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.320 shame and this whole idea of fear on us, it's 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.320 like a lock. And so I was saying, like, Okay, 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.840 at what point did we get to the point that 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.000 we have to be shameful of who we are, or 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.280 have a fear of not to do something because as 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.480 a child, you know, you do things boldly and courageously, 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.640 even making yourself full effect. You don't even know if 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:32.240 you're making yourself before. You're just doing it with passion. Okay, pause, 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:33.960 because I was sitting there thinking, I was just thinking 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.120 about the world come passion Like it's like it's it's 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:42.080 combined with passion, like yourself with a passion. But it's 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.080 like it's as a child, like the minute become our 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.840 mother's womb. You know, this is the best thing is 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.640 to have that skin to skin contact, no clothes on. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:54.360 But right after that we're covered up. Then next thing, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.080 you know, we told what we should say and what 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.520 we should do, how we should act, stand in line 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:06.480 other than just expressing your creativity, your genius, yo, whatever 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.400 is you. And I guess I'm realizing that I'm doing 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:10.840 that on the way and I'm figuring it out and 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.120 I'm taking my time. But I guess that's what the 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.800 check in because my God, God is working and I 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.440 see it, and I guess I just don't want to 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.880 miss it. I don't want to miss it. You know, 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:29.080 I've been able to really acquire success with my dreams. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.760 And I say that not as a defense, but of 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.120 course I told you I'm a big, bigger than Oprah. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.280 So right now we're on the podcast what is going 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.040 to be exceedingly inabundantly. But I'm saying my success now 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.760 because as Earl Nightingale was saying in the video, I 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.480 was telling you about this thirty minutes called the Strangest Secret, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.640 is that true success is having a goal and taking 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.960 steps towards it. Well, one thing I've realized, and that's 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.440 why I bought up Burnet Brown with vulnerability, is that 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:01.280 I've always been successful at going after the dream, going 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.600 after you know what it is that I want. But 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.800 when it comes down to vulnerability of dawn, of self, 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:12.080 of letting people in um and that could be in 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.080 an intimate way as well, maybe not so much. I 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:16.880 don't know if it's a sense of using work as 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.320 a distraction, because you know, love is a beautiful thing, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.120 you know, but it comes from an open space. So 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.240 when things are open, things can get cold, things can 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.200 get wet, things can get injured, things and get all 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.400 kinds of stuff. But I guess really open myself and 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:36.160 to take time to really hear, really to listen. Um. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.200 I want to really work on that level of vulnerability 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.960 with myself, understanding my relationship, my connections with not only 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.760 with other people, my relationship with food, my relationship with 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:50.200 working out my relationship with Dawn, and and working on 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.680 not holding myself so strangent because one of the pressures 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:55.520 that I have, and I'm gonna be honest with you, 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:01.080 with being somebody that's inspirational and and always inspiring other people, 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.879 just like, can I clut? Curse? Damn? I just did it? Um, 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.240 you know, can I drink? Can I smoke? And it's 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.119 like I'm asking because these are the questions I had 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.800 to ask myself because for some reason, I felt as 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.399 if I'm being someone that's inspirational, I have to be 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.359 in a box. But I don't want to be that. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.639 I can't be that because you won't get this, Dawn. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.639 And it's interesting because as I'm uncovering, I'm figuring this 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.480 out right now, I just caught on the mic because 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.480 I started talking. You know, it took a minute for 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.560 me to even figure out what I was gonna say 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:34.800 because I was so caught up in how I was 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.080 gonna say it, but I said, you know what, I 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.360 don't kind of just I'm just gonna getting tough talk. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.879 That's what I do. That's what I do. So I 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.000 was like, you know, just getting this whole vulnerability with 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:51.640 Dawn and seeing Dawn kind of lost my train of thought. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:56.879 But that's what I am seeking because I gotta go higher. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:02.119 And I think that when we ask to go higher 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:06.760 and love and life and career, it causes us to 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.920 have to strip down a bit. Oh found it back. 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:16.520 Don't put me in a box because everything that I 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.920 do and everything that I involved and makes me who 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.879 I am. And that's why I said, please don't mistake 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:28.159 the message. Because of the messenger and vice versa. Some 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.560 of the most beautiful places endure some of the most 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:35.639 intense storms. You know, there's this quote that you know, 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.560 I came across when I was at Coward University, I 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.320 was in college. It goes, what allows a diamond to 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.040 shine are the multitudes of cuts that have been placed 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.800 within it. I love it because just like life, you know, 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.720 sometimes you know, we can't really dictate when we can't 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.280 really we don't dictate the hand where we're dealt. Right 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.560 even from this mineral of coal and putting on this 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:04.919 even minse pressure forms a stone, one of the hardest 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:09.000 minerals in the world. And these cuts, these cuts that 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:14.040 may be depressing these customer anxiety, over eating, obesity, judgment um, 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:20.879 failed relationship, death, regret. It's like these cuts, you know, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:22.600 because it kind of it left a mark on us 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.560 high catch it. And you know, even like with this diamond, 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.399 like when you put the diamond in a light, because 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.399 of the cuts it shines. What allows a diamond to 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.679 shine all the multitudes of cuts that have been placed 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.840 within it. Well, while we can see the value in 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.440 the diamond, right, how is it that we don't see 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:43.880 the value within ourselves, within the imperfection of ourselves. Huh? 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.600 A diamond isn't less valuable because of the way the 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.720 cuts are made. I don't know about shore, but probably 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.639 the way the cut is dictates how much of the 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:59.600 light shines and balances it reflects within it. And just 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.280 like when all these people are just relating to the diamond, 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.200 all these people get together, all of us get together 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.520 and can be so vulnerable and transparent of who we are, 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.640 of just being, of just being who that is, unapologetically 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:16.159 of who you are unapologetically whatever that means, and stepping 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.199 into the light. Imagine if everybody did that, with all 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.040 those imperfections of how you just illuminate. And that's what 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.119 they mean to say, that light off of you, bounce 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:25.840 off of this person, that bounces off of this person, 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.919 and we just all glistening and edifying each other, and 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:32.399 then we just realize how we radiate that light, just 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.600 like that diamond. But I think sometimes even with myself, 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.919 you know, you get caught up in the the what 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:40.760 you should do and what you shouldn't do, whether then 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.240 all you need to do is be you. I mean, dang, 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:45.720 you think about how many snowflakes in the world. Right, 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.480 that's just the same difference of our fingerprints. Not one 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.480 person on this earth has the same prayer print and 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.040 somebody else. So why must we try to compare or 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:58.120 group ourselves together as if we are the same. Man, 0:20:58.160 --> 0:20:59.760 We just gotta go out here and live dreams and 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:02.400 live life and create life and life with art, life 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.640 with humans, life, whatever it may be. And I think 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.280 it's also talking about just being able to take time 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:12.119 with yourself to figure it out. And and also, just 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.639 like I was talking about that bird, imagine if that 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.680 bird was never gonna fly because it was afraid and 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.040 not being able to be free. I don't know about you, 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.200 but I want to be free in love with Dawn. 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.280 I want to go with the next level. I'm going 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:28.920 that's gonna require me to pack life because I gotta sore. 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.280