Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into
Speaker 1: the Vitamin D Podcast and I'm your host, Dawn Day,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get too excited about your lives. So
Speaker 1: on this episode, we're taking it back to the origination
Speaker 1: of Vitamin D. Well I would use the lyrics of
Speaker 1: popular music and and destwine them into a motivational message,
Speaker 1: you know, in a sense of using what we listen
Speaker 1: to in our background to feed in our everyday lives. Right,
Speaker 1: and so I want this episode to be dedicated to
Speaker 1: something very special, the essence of who we are and
Speaker 1: why we believe we are who we are, which stems
Speaker 1: what we do and why we do what we do. So,
Speaker 1: without further ado, it's time now for your dose of
Speaker 1: Vitamin damin D. Right with me and get excited about
Speaker 1: your lives. Today's La Vitamin D is dedicated to believing
Speaker 1: in yourself. We're in strange times right now. We're in
Speaker 1: a time where life is showing you that nothing is guaranteed,
Speaker 1: nothing is promised, And guess what, You're starting to realize
Speaker 1: that you're going to have to take certain chances, that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to lean on things that maybe seeming uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: But it's going to take the whole essence of you
Speaker 1: to do what it is to either one get you
Speaker 1: fulfillment or be provide you with the means of living
Speaker 1: your best life and the life that's adequate enough for
Speaker 1: you to take care of yourself, your family, and your
Speaker 1: loved ones. So I wanted to talk to you about
Speaker 1: what it means to believe in yourself. Believe in yourself.
Speaker 1: It takes courage, it takes a sense of truth, it
Speaker 1: takes patience. It's a concoction of all these things that
Speaker 1: necessarily don't necessarily come in a role war in a
Speaker 1: certain formation, but their essential peace is of what makes
Speaker 1: your essence you're being. But get this in order to
Speaker 1: ignite all of them so that you can be your
Speaker 1: best self. You realize is that you gotta take some
Speaker 1: things off, you know. I talked about it on the
Speaker 1: previous episode of Vitamin D with the advice letters, and
Speaker 1: I talked about this young lady. She was carrying so
Speaker 1: much shame, so many bags. Reminded me of Erica Badou.
Speaker 1: Bag lady. You're gonna hurt you all your back dragging
Speaker 1: all them bags like that. The same with you, whether
Speaker 1: you're hurting your back, hurting your dream, just slowing yourself down.
Speaker 1: And when we talk about belief and self, you have
Speaker 1: to have a sense of what the belief is. Well,
Speaker 1: if you have so many distractions and you're unable to
Speaker 1: see who it is that you are, what stems on
Speaker 1: the foundation. So when I say take it off, I
Speaker 1: mean every word of it. I mean it's time for
Speaker 1: you to get naked. It's time for you to wipe
Speaker 1: the shame off your face. It's time for you to
Speaker 1: strip yourself of all the guards and walk with your
Speaker 1: arms wide open. I get it. It is easy to
Speaker 1: attend that we are perfect, that everything's together, everything's in place.
Speaker 1: That's not real. You know how many chemicals and concoctions
Speaker 1: it takes to be fake. You know, the opposite of real.
Speaker 1: And then when you you realize it, you you you say,
Speaker 1: have a sense of how it's the breakdown is so brutal.
Speaker 1: You know oftentimes there's different smells. You realize that it
Speaker 1: basically offers no good. So when we talk about necessarily
Speaker 1: taking it off, I want you to relieve yourself of
Speaker 1: that and just learn to just be you and understanding
Speaker 1: that nobody can beat you with your own truth. I
Speaker 1: learned that from Red Table Talk. Jade's mom said that,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was profound because that's when you
Speaker 1: realize that regardless of any situation that you in face with,
Speaker 1: you understand that you can only be authentic for you
Speaker 1: and it's all They're gonna do one or two things.
Speaker 1: You're either gonna break down or you're gonna break through.
Speaker 1: But remember when we talk about carrying those things and
Speaker 1: taking things off, something has got to change because there's
Speaker 1: a fluidity when it comes to being who you are,
Speaker 1: the belief in who you are and standing in who
Speaker 1: you are. Here's the thing. When you talk about that breakdown,
Speaker 1: you talk about that breakthrough, you know when you realize
Speaker 1: that you may not be able to see it, you
Speaker 1: do understand that there's a way that you can't envision it.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to think of it like a
Speaker 1: beautifully wrapped present on a special occasion. It's amazing to
Speaker 1: look at, right, I mean stecked out, it's folded, it
Speaker 1: has a bowl um, but you truly realize the reason
Speaker 1: why it's so beautiful, the reason why there's worth to
Speaker 1: it is because there's a gift inside you. Hear what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you know that whole idea of we're putting
Speaker 1: on layers and we're trying to go and fit like
Speaker 1: a perfect immagry. You're realizing that the essence and the
Speaker 1: importance of who you are is what resides within and
Speaker 1: what kind of pieces that. That's when we're talking about
Speaker 1: believing itself. You gotta know yourself. And you know this
Speaker 1: R and B singer Labyrinth, he has a song it's
Speaker 1: called um beneath Your Beautiful and he asked, He says,
Speaker 1: I would like to know if I could see beneath
Speaker 1: your beautiful? But I say a better yet? And you
Speaker 1: are you willing to do that to live out your dreams?
Speaker 1: Are you willing to live out your best life? It's
Speaker 1: all the choice. And guess what, you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about anybody else passioning you because it only affects you.
Speaker 1: And you realize that either it can push you forward,
Speaker 1: it can hold you back. Either it can cause you
Speaker 1: piece or calls you tragedy. Perhaps that's the same thing
Speaker 1: when Meek Mills said you wanted you gotta see it
Speaker 1: with a clear eyed view. He said that in dreams
Speaker 1: of nightmares, because sometimes your dream can be your nightmares
Speaker 1: if it's what you want to fear. But when you
Speaker 1: realize that you do the work and you take time
Speaker 1: to see who you are on the inside because you've
Speaker 1: taken those layers off, you realize that you're happening until
Speaker 1: your true potential and there is when you find that
Speaker 1: you align yourself with your purpose. Okay, but even in
Speaker 1: that moment, you gotta get out your way. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta get out of your own way when you have
Speaker 1: belief in yourself, because it's not always understanding, it's entrusting
Speaker 1: that the next step is taking you to the next step.
Speaker 1: We're just taking you to the next step. And that
Speaker 1: makes me thinking of Eminem You know, in this track
Speaker 1: he talks about lose yourself because sometimes you can get
Speaker 1: so caught up in your head stop playing with me.
Speaker 1: How many times have you sat there playing a situation
Speaker 1: over and over again about how something could have gone,
Speaker 1: how how you should have done it this way? And
Speaker 1: if you have one more opportunity you would make it differently,
Speaker 1: only to look up that nothing's changed. Or wait, wait,
Speaker 1: get this one. You're sitting there in anxiety thinking like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what's to come? You've sat there and
Speaker 1: planned out every situation and every outcome to every possible strange, abnormal,
Speaker 1: minute situation. That can cause you to go in circles
Speaker 1: and circles about what's something could be. That's not fair,
Speaker 1: that's not believing in yourself. See, when you're believe in yourself,
Speaker 1: you have a moment which you trust it is right now. See,
Speaker 1: you rid yourself of all those ideals of what it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be and what will be, you start to
Speaker 1: discover your sense of purpose and and and your your
Speaker 1: your vision starts to be constructed in the way that
Speaker 1: so that obstacles are no longer rolled blocks, but rather
Speaker 1: stepping stones. Did you hear what I'm saying? Obstacles are
Speaker 1: no longer rolled blocks, but they're stepping stones because you
Speaker 1: realize there are muscles that are being stretched. Whether it
Speaker 1: comes down to having the faith within yourself, whether it
Speaker 1: comes down to realizing who do you have the outsource
Speaker 1: for information, where it comes down to realizing that you
Speaker 1: have to be the one man band man putting every
Speaker 1: single piece of your puzzle together. It's entrusting that you
Speaker 1: have everything that you need right now and to get
Speaker 1: out of your head. That's why he says, you better
Speaker 1: lose yourself the moment you own it. You better never
Speaker 1: let it go. Because here's the thing. If you get
Speaker 1: so caught up and trying to hold everything, you don't
Speaker 1: allow piece is to fall apart so they can be
Speaker 1: put back together. That's another thing I talked about on
Speaker 1: the advice letters. I talked about how sometimes that your
Speaker 1: life has to fall apart so that it can be
Speaker 1: put back together, just like a mosaic, because you weren't
Speaker 1: making a beautiful picture of all the experiences, of all
Speaker 1: the challenges, of all the ways that you've chosen to
Speaker 1: overcome things in your life. That's what you're putting together.
Speaker 1: That's the belief and the things not seeing the belief
Speaker 1: about being who you are. So that's why you gotta
Speaker 1: take time enough to see who are you? Who do
Speaker 1: you want to be? What are the aspirations? Because you've
Speaker 1: gotta have something that you're going after. There has to
Speaker 1: be something that you're making alignment to. And rather than
Speaker 1: making a comparison to somebody else, thinking about what you
Speaker 1: should have did or could have done based on a
Speaker 1: person who is no longer you, because now you've taken
Speaker 1: time to mature, because you lived a little longer because
Speaker 1: you've seen a little more, And because you experienced a
Speaker 1: little bit more, then not your vision is now more keen.
Speaker 1: Now for whatever you thought that you were losing, these
Speaker 1: leaves that steadily call off in the fall, for every
Speaker 1: tree you realize in the spring a new thing comes forth.
Speaker 1: And understanding that in your life a new thing is coming,
Speaker 1: that's the belief. Because your steps in order and you're
Speaker 1: walking in it, because you've taken time to know yourself. Right,
Speaker 1: then we got this next thing, And I love this.
Speaker 1: I love this so so very much because it's a
Speaker 1: thing where how we put value in things and sometimes
Speaker 1: and it may not always seem like a quote unquote
Speaker 1: good thing of how we can see how things can
Speaker 1: have more value rather than seeing how ourselves. But I
Speaker 1: think it's a beautiful thing when you can make a
Speaker 1: parallel and you can start to see things a little
Speaker 1: bit more fairly. What do I mean by that? Rihanna?
Speaker 1: She said in her song that diamonds, She said, you're
Speaker 1: shooting star seeing a vision of ecstasy. You and I
Speaker 1: we're like diamonds in the sky. Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: When we talk about value and placing value on things,
Speaker 1: and and and it realizes and value ourselves is that
Speaker 1: when you take a look at a diamond, you realize
Speaker 1: that the value that's placed on it, it's an ability
Speaker 1: to shine. But see, there's a quote that I learned
Speaker 1: in college and that's stuck with me throughout the years,
Speaker 1: and it says, what allows a diamond to shine or
Speaker 1: the multitudes of cuts that have been placed within it? Well,
Speaker 1: let's think about it. If we're talking about belief in self, right,
Speaker 1: it's about getting to know so and understanding that when
Speaker 1: we decided to get naked, we've taken off all these
Speaker 1: coverings and then all these labels and all these imageries
Speaker 1: and things that we thought things were supposed to be like,
Speaker 1: we realized that those are the imperfections are just like
Speaker 1: a diamonds cuts. That's guilt, This cuts, a shame, that's cuts.
Speaker 1: That's a broken heart, that's cuts. A failed job opportunity,
Speaker 1: that's cuts. Cuts. But guess what when you realize when
Speaker 1: that pressure comes around you and all those cuts, they
Speaker 1: may not represent necessarily the happiest times in your lives,
Speaker 1: but there are testimonials for who you are. They remind
Speaker 1: you of where you came from. But they don't define
Speaker 1: where you are right now, and you know what it
Speaker 1: is your due diligence to remain in that positive light,
Speaker 1: a light that will allow you to shine for the
Speaker 1: whole world to see. Do you understand what I'm saying
Speaker 1: when you decide to come forth in your truth and
Speaker 1: the belief, what it is that you were designed to
Speaker 1: do despite what is around you, despite your felt attempts,
Speaker 1: despite your felt relationships, despite your your failed finances, you
Speaker 1: show up, and when you show up for yourself, you
Speaker 1: get rewarded for that. You show up in truth. You
Speaker 1: show up because you want to see the way, and
Speaker 1: therefore you step into your life. And when you step
Speaker 1: into your life, you reflect everything that you've been through.
Speaker 1: You reflect the truth, you reflect the realness, you reflect opportunity,
Speaker 1: you reflect your dreams. That's what makes it powerful. Of
Speaker 1: what is allowing a diamond to sign? Are you ready
Speaker 1: to sign? That's what I want to know from you.
Speaker 1: You gotta want it as bad as you want to breathe.
Speaker 1: You gotta know that it's inside of you. You gotta
Speaker 1: realize that you're worth it. You gotta understand that everything
Speaker 1: you've been through is a culmination of who you are,
Speaker 1: and my god, you're beautiful. You realize how many ways
Speaker 1: you learned how to not to do something. You realize
Speaker 1: how you're not gonna waste your time anymore. You realize
Speaker 1: how you're more keen on what your value. You realize
Speaker 1: that you're stepping in more truth of yourself. That's what
Speaker 1: this pandemic is doing. Also, it's allowing us to have
Speaker 1: the realization of what we're existing in right now. It
Speaker 1: truly is sharpening the vision. When I ask you, are
Speaker 1: you ready to believe in yourself? I'm truly asking you,
Speaker 1: are you ready to see yourself? Are you because there
Speaker 1: aren't any more distractions and the time is now, Tomorrow
Speaker 1: isn't promised, nothing is guaranteed, So what are you gonna
Speaker 1: do with it? Are you going to be the shooting star?
Speaker 1: Are you going to be that vision of ecstasy? I
Speaker 1: think you deserve the shune, So you need to show
Speaker 1: him bright like a diamond, and you realize that when
Speaker 1: you step in your truth and who you are, you
Speaker 1: kind of that reflect the characteristics of a sun. You
Speaker 1: don't like vitamin D because the sun doesn't ask permission
Speaker 1: to shine, so not that should you when you walk
Speaker 1: in your whole hearted truth of who you are. You
Speaker 1: realize that you can't just give a piece of yourself.
Speaker 1: What do I mean by that? It goes back to
Speaker 1: the whole notion of why you gotta get naked. You
Speaker 1: gotta stop covering up of what made you who you
Speaker 1: are right now because if you're so busy trying to
Speaker 1: hide who it is that you were, what you've been through,
Speaker 1: what of experience, then you'd lose the pathway that gotten
Speaker 1: you right here. And it was those steps, that pathway
Speaker 1: that's gonna lead other people to their destiny, into their
Speaker 1: life because that's who you are. So I ask you,
Speaker 1: are you ready to give all of you? Because that's
Speaker 1: where the truth lies. And remember, nobody can beat you
Speaker 1: with your own truth. Do you believe in yourself? Do
Speaker 1: you You know John Legend? You know he has a
Speaker 1: song all of me right and he's singing out to
Speaker 1: his core. He's belting and he's just like, in order
Speaker 1: for you to be your most authentic self, you have
Speaker 1: to give to yourself. Do you understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I didn't say give a peace. I didn't say give
Speaker 1: that special part that's grateful on the day that you
Speaker 1: got the job. I'm talking about giving the piece of
Speaker 1: yourself that you didn't lose sanity on the day that
Speaker 1: you watch your mother take your last breath. Did you
Speaker 1: hear what I said, I'm not talking about the time
Speaker 1: when you got the promotion. I'm maybe talking about when
Speaker 1: you got laid off during the pandemic because you still
Speaker 1: got your peace of mind. You're realizing all those things
Speaker 1: are in the culmination of who you are right now.
Speaker 1: So when I ask you, are you ready to give
Speaker 1: all of yourself? You understand that if you're stepping into greatness,
Speaker 1: if you're stepping in the moment of being like a
Speaker 1: diamond and ready to shine, I need all your pieces.
Speaker 1: I need those lights to reflect off of one another.
Speaker 1: I need somebody to see that that was a turn.
Speaker 1: I need somebody to see that that was a twist.
Speaker 1: Because of all these things that may have led you
Speaker 1: in these circles that went round and round and round,
Speaker 1: the light just kept shining. And guess what, you start
Speaker 1: to reflect that diamond. It's time for you to understand
Speaker 1: that when you decide and sign up to believe in
Speaker 1: yourself and give yourself all of yourself, you start giving
Speaker 1: yourself the life that you deserve and you should not
Speaker 1: shine from the very best. So if that means taking
Speaker 1: time with yourself, that's belief and understanding that you need
Speaker 1: to love yourself. If that's even taking time with meditation
Speaker 1: in the morning, that's even belief that you know that
Speaker 1: you need to know yourself. I don't care who you are,
Speaker 1: I don't care what you have done or what you
Speaker 1: haven't done. I want to let you know that you
Speaker 1: are worth it. Your dreams are worth it. Your relationships
Speaker 1: to your family, your career, and whatever else means anything
Speaker 1: to you is worth it. So given up is not
Speaker 1: an option. And and here's the thing I said it
Speaker 1: before I say it again. I know sometimes throws a
Speaker 1: few curveballs and it gets a little wacky, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you give up. Because remember we talk about
Speaker 1: the belief itself. And so if you have this vision
Speaker 1: for this life that you want, and you've been on
Speaker 1: this journey of getting to know who you are, going
Speaker 1: through various trials and tribulations, staying up at night because
Speaker 1: you know that something inside of you is telling you
Speaker 1: that you are who you are. You understand that there's greatness,
Speaker 1: this greatness inside of you that has to be unleashed.
Speaker 1: Do you have any idea of how much greatness you
Speaker 1: have inside of you, how smart, how beautiful, how talented
Speaker 1: and amazing you are. How dare you even entertain the
Speaker 1: emotion of giving up? It's too dope for that. And
Speaker 1: and it just makes me feel like we listen to
Speaker 1: these songs and I'm not sure we necessarily hear them all.
Speaker 1: But it's just like mc hammer said, you gotta be
Speaker 1: too legit to quit. When you go to the store
Speaker 1: and say, if you had your your cash, and you
Speaker 1: know sometimes with the twenties, the fifties and a hundreds
Speaker 1: that will take a marker and and just slide it
Speaker 1: across the bill. Best believe it's gonna be legit in
Speaker 1: order for you to make sure that you cash out
Speaker 1: on your purpose. So if you're talking about cashing out
Speaker 1: on your dreams, you have to be too legit to quit.
Speaker 1: And with that that has to take an uncontrollable, unfathomable,
Speaker 1: unconceivable type of belief in yourself belief, and you possess
Speaker 1: everything that you will possibly need to be all it
Speaker 1: is that you want to be, so whatever it is
Speaker 1: that you want her life, that's when you realize that
Speaker 1: you gotta have wanted as bad as you want to breathe,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have those instances as you decide to
Speaker 1: walk in your authentic self that's gonna take your breath
Speaker 1: away because you're gonna be growing in different ways because
Speaker 1: remember you've had different trials and tribulations. Remember you've had
Speaker 1: different losses. Remember you've had different challenges. All those things
Speaker 1: have been going on, but you're here now. And because
Speaker 1: you didn't decide to take a little bitty piece, you
Speaker 1: had to take all of you from your history of
Speaker 1: what you learned for the destiny of the future that
Speaker 1: you are going towards. It's encompassing everything around, So that
Speaker 1: belief in yourself has to be settled in with this solf.
Speaker 1: It's something that you have to want as bad as
Speaker 1: you want to breathe. You wake up every day and
Speaker 1: you have to realize that you have eighty six thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred chances to live your best life because there
Speaker 1: are eighty six thousand, four hundred seconds and every day
Speaker 1: and when you wake up walking and living and breathing
Speaker 1: and seeing the opportunity that you have for your life,
Speaker 1: tell me, what is it that you cannot do, but
Speaker 1: more importantly, tell me what is it that you want
Speaker 1: to do. You know, often times we sit there all
Speaker 1: day talking about what we can't do, what we should do,
Speaker 1: what we couldn't do. But I'm interested in knowing what
Speaker 1: you want to do because that's the belief in yourself,
Speaker 1: regardless of whatever situation, regardless of anything that's going on
Speaker 1: around you. And I want you to understand that you
Speaker 1: gotta make it. You gotta know that you're making it,
Speaker 1: and you know you how you gotta get it, how
Speaker 1: you live it. But it's an understanding of seeing who
Speaker 1: you are. So I want to make sure that you
Speaker 1: see that. I want you to understand the value of yourself.
Speaker 1: But I want you to understand too that you gotta
Speaker 1: be ready to see yourself. And I hope that's what
Speaker 1: gives to you. Because we've been in a situation for
Speaker 1: probably quite too long, of all these filters and all
Speaker 1: these cover ups, all these photoshops and Madrid, all these
Speaker 1: smoking mirrors. But because the dust the starting to settle,
Speaker 1: because all the confusion has stopped, we're starting to see
Speaker 1: each other. So I hope and I pray that you
Speaker 1: start to see yourself and walk into your authentic self.
Speaker 1: You've asked for this moment, sees it. You've asked for
Speaker 1: a moment where everything can stop and paul so that
Speaker 1: you can see, So that you can be a creator
Speaker 1: right from your home, that you can be a dreamer
Speaker 1: across the world. That you can be in a season
Speaker 1: of manifestation, that you can be in a season of vision.
Speaker 1: And that's what this is right now. So believe in yourself.
Speaker 1: Take a chance on yourself. It's time for you to
Speaker 1: believe and be everything that you can be. And I
Speaker 1: hope that you you learn to love on yourself to
Speaker 1: the fullest. That's the key. If you're gonna believe in yourself,
Speaker 1: you have to learn to love on yourself because when
Speaker 1: you love, you realize you treat those things with care.
Speaker 1: You're particular about what comes around? Did your particular about
Speaker 1: how you nurtured it? You really understand its value for
Speaker 1: it's not on the clearance rights, it's behind the glass
Speaker 1: where the value both are. Not everybody can place their
Speaker 1: hands on it. It isn't exposed to all types of elements. Hello,
Speaker 1: who are you exposing yourself to? Hello? What kind of
Speaker 1: situations are you placing yourself in I just want to know.
Speaker 1: But you've got greatness inside of you, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: be all right because there's an undeniable belief in yourself
Speaker 1: that has gotten you where you are right now. I
Speaker 1: just ask that you decide to see yourself, put on
Speaker 1: a vision, see yourself so that you can believe in yourself. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's it for this DELF Vitamin D. Believe in yourself.
Speaker 1: That's what it's all about, right. I hope this helps
Speaker 1: you really put in perspective of what it means to
Speaker 1: have belief, what it means to have sight on what
Speaker 1: it is that you want, and how it's understanding that
Speaker 1: everything that has gotten you to where you are in
Speaker 1: this moment is what makes you beautiful. It's what lies
Speaker 1: beneath your beautiful It's what allows you to shine right
Speaker 1: like the diamond that you are. It's time understanding that
Speaker 1: you're to legit to quick realizing that you have to
Speaker 1: lose yourself. I want that for you. I want that
Speaker 1: for all of you, and literally all of you, every piece,
Speaker 1: every nook, every cranny. I hope that you put all
Speaker 1: those pieces together because you're great and if you want
Speaker 1: to continue to feel greater perhaps you need some advice,
Speaker 1: maybe you need some inquiries. Whatever it is, just give
Speaker 1: us a holler, shoot us an email at Vitamin D
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