Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in
Speaker 1: to the Vitamin D with Dawntey Podcast and I am
Speaker 1: your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited about
Speaker 1: your life so that you can live life on purpose
Speaker 1: and for a purpose. If this is your first time
Speaker 1: tuning in, weolcome Vitamin D. It's upon of my name.
Speaker 1: My name is Dawn and you get Vitamin D from
Speaker 1: the sun. So I'm here a shed light into your life.
Speaker 1: And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with
Speaker 1: celebrities and everyday people like you and me, Because if
Speaker 1: you want to be better and you want to do better,
Speaker 1: then you're going to have to be able to see better.
Speaker 1: So join me on this journey of living our best
Speaker 1: lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest
Speaker 1: ass at.
Speaker 2: Get your vite in Mandy right with me, I get
Speaker 2: excited about your life.
Speaker 1: Did I ever share with you how I fell in
Speaker 1: love with radio as a kid growing up in Detroit,
Speaker 1: wheredy was that business, especially in the summertime. For me,
Speaker 1: it was either Hot one on two seven or FM
Speaker 1: ninety eight WJLB, and I'd be listening to Reggie Rich
Speaker 1: Coco and Foolish in the morning, ready to pull up,
Speaker 1: even Bushman. We'd go downtown what was at the Heart Plaza,
Speaker 1: Northland Skating Ring right over eight Mile and wherever the
Speaker 1: favorite concerts were, and then the personalities would be there,
Speaker 1: the same people that you would hear on the radio
Speaker 1: talking about all the events in the city, about the community,
Speaker 1: and then they were giving stuff away. Then they were
Speaker 1: hosting these events with your favorite artists, and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I want to be a part of that. On top
Speaker 1: of the fact I've shared with you my passion for speaking,
Speaker 1: speaking in front of people, just talking in general on
Speaker 1: the microphone. I would be in the car and I
Speaker 1: still do it to this day, saying FM ninety eight
Speaker 1: w j LB. And every time that I'd go to
Speaker 1: these and I mean my favorite personalities, I'm like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is like a gift that keeps on giving. So
Speaker 1: now fast forward fifteen years of my life, listen, fall back.
Speaker 1: I am so grateful that now I can be in
Speaker 1: that position to offer that same opportunity for someone else.
Speaker 1: And it goes along the lines that I always say,
Speaker 1: we here for a good time, not a long time,
Speaker 1: so let's make it count and we make it count
Speaker 1: by living our lives on purpose and for purpose. We
Speaker 1: make it count by leaning into our vulnerability. I talk
Speaker 1: about this quite often about Brenane Brown and how she
Speaker 1: talks about there's power and vulnerability because it allows us
Speaker 1: to connect. And although I only have five months on
Speaker 1: that FM dial, my God, I was able to connect
Speaker 1: with so many people, so many beautiful people. And I'm
Speaker 1: a firm believer. Ask and you shall receive, Seek and
Speaker 1: ye shall find. Knock and the door will be open
Speaker 1: to you. Nothing beats failure but to try. And you
Speaker 1: gotta be bold. You gotta be audacious because if you
Speaker 1: want to do, if you want to be and experience
Speaker 1: the things that you've never experienced, well, honey, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to start to do the things that these people
Speaker 1: do do experience these things better. Yet, here's the quote.
Speaker 1: If you want to be great, you gotta do things
Speaker 1: that great people do, and great people do things that
Speaker 1: every day people don't do. That's if you want to
Speaker 1: be great in any area of your life. What that
Speaker 1: looks like, what that means is is that you gotta
Speaker 1: be bold enough to step outside of your comfort zone.
Speaker 1: This past Saturday, I had a listener who stepped outside
Speaker 1: of her copfort zone and reached out to me. I've
Speaker 1: been talking about this show on Apple tv Plus and
Speaker 1: titled The Big Door Prize. I shared how immediately I
Speaker 1: stepped in and leaned into this show because I saw
Speaker 1: my girl, Gabrielle Dennis was storing in it. I came
Speaker 1: across Gabrielle a few years back when I was still
Speaker 1: working with the Steve Harvey Morning Show and I was
Speaker 1: on the red carpet for the naacp Immage Awards luncheon,
Speaker 1: and she was doing a press run as she was
Speaker 1: starring in Bobby Brown's biopic as Whitney Houston, and I
Speaker 1: was in love. I mean her cadence, her personality, her
Speaker 1: dry I said, who is this girl a woman? And
Speaker 1: now to see her in another light, branching outside doing
Speaker 1: her thing on The Big Door Prize, I was like,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. On top of the fact, the show
Speaker 1: was right on target. When we talk about vitamin D,
Speaker 1: when we talk about shed and light, when we talk
Speaker 1: about you are your greatest asset? Why Because this show
Speaker 1: is all about talking about potential. The show is about
Speaker 1: a machine that appears in a small town in Deerfield,
Speaker 1: Middle America, and people are going to this machine and
Speaker 1: it's telling them their potential. Yeah, so it's giving people
Speaker 1: a reason to step out and take a chance. Also,
Speaker 1: on the adverse side, you have individuals who have reached
Speaker 1: their potential and some of them find themselves in a funk.
Speaker 1: But depending on how you look at it, that doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be the end all be all. We should
Speaker 1: look at it in the sense of there's more to do,
Speaker 1: there's more to see, there is more. I say all
Speaker 1: that to say in my passion of talking about this show,
Speaker 1: a listener from the FM DI reached out to me
Speaker 1: with an opportunity HM. I received the email a few
Speaker 1: days ago from Crystal Michelle. Do you want to hear
Speaker 1: the letter? I should share the letter with you. It
Speaker 1: was heartwarming. Okay, this is what we're gonna do. Let
Speaker 1: me take a quick break. When I come back, I
Speaker 1: am going to share a letter from a listener who
Speaker 1: first followed me on the FM dial then crossed on
Speaker 1: over to the Vitamin D with Doing Day podcast. Took
Speaker 1: a chance reached out to me in hopes of meeting
Speaker 1: me because I always tell people pull up on me. Well,
Speaker 1: she challenged me to pull up on her, and I
Speaker 1: did just that. So hold tight. I'm gonna be back
Speaker 1: in a few and then I'm gonna tell you and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read to you this letter that I received
Speaker 1: from Crystal Michelle and tell you what happened after that.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, one, it's Spider, Me and Diva doing
Speaker 1: Day all day every day. Ew Hey, what's up. It's
Speaker 1: Andy Alton and you're listening to Day. Okay, So I'm back.
Speaker 1: I told you I was coming back to share a
Speaker 1: letter from a listener Crystal Michelle, who reached out to
Speaker 1: me via email to meet up. Why well, let me
Speaker 1: tell you that. So here's a letter from Crystal Michelle.
Speaker 1: She sent this on May twelfth, around eleven thirty Pacific time, subject,
Speaker 1: Hey ya, trying to pull up on you testing one
Speaker 1: two three, So can you pull up too? Hey Dawn,
Speaker 1: I know we never met, but I actually tried reaching
Speaker 1: out months back when you were still on the FM dial. Honestly,
Speaker 1: after your departure, I'll stop tuning in so dang early,
Speaker 1: and thank you for your beautiful words and positive community
Speaker 1: services during those times. But somebody at KJLH must have
Speaker 1: bumped their head thinking it was a great idea to
Speaker 1: let you go Oh mg, eye roll. At any rate,
Speaker 1: what's a little hill to a stepper. We keep on stepping, Dawn.
Speaker 1: Like I mentioned, I tried to connect with you before,
Speaker 1: but maybe the email was not working, or I had
Speaker 1: it wrong, or the timing was not as good, etc.
Speaker 1: I'm even hoping you can get this email too. Lol.
Speaker 1: Funny thing is I told myself I was going to
Speaker 1: step out on faith and try to meet a network
Speaker 1: with people who are purpose oriented people, people living for
Speaker 1: a greater purpose. When I started to chime into the
Speaker 1: discussions about everything everywhere all at once, I said to myself,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what I know the spirit? This is
Speaker 1: so familiar and what a wonderful feeling. I can't describe
Speaker 1: your awesome syst. Moreover, I knew and pray that we
Speaker 1: could one day meet up and talk about everything yopsis.
Speaker 1: I had fabroids too, find benefit and we two love
Speaker 1: to work out getting fine too, skin care all that too, etc.
Speaker 1: I mean, all of your topics are always right on point. Hey,
Speaker 1: catch it hot? Hello? Al what's that you ask? What
Speaker 1: do I want from you? Well? I have nothing big
Speaker 1: to truly offer you other than to let you know
Speaker 1: that you are the bomb, doing super great things out
Speaker 1: here in these tricky LA streets, and I'm so grateful
Speaker 1: to have a great possible space to reach out on
Speaker 1: faith and maybe connect with you. So get to the point, Crystal, Well, okay, Dawn,
Speaker 1: I know on one of your incredible past topics you
Speaker 1: got into the Big Door Prize show. I honestly personally
Speaker 1: never really seen or heard of the show before until
Speaker 1: you mentioned it. Ha ha. Anyway, I'm an LA member of
Speaker 1: the TV Academy, etc. And I was recently invited plus
Speaker 1: guest to attend tomorrow's upcoming PM evening screening the Big
Speaker 1: Door Prize New Episode event and have one extra ticket.
Speaker 1: I told myself, this is doing day's ticket, so pull
Speaker 1: up on me, says Ha. I mean, if you're free,
Speaker 1: interested and or are available. Of course, overall, I hope
Speaker 1: you at minimum can get this email, and if not,
Speaker 1: then maybe someday soon. Hugs, Please follow a action We're
Speaker 1: on Insta and love and support you can send to aw.
Speaker 1: Safety is appreciated, and gratitude. Blessings Crystal Michelle action we'ar
Speaker 1: ink she put an asterisk kind of last minute, I know,
Speaker 1: but it's always worth a shot. Amen, let's go. Can
Speaker 1: you believe this? You know? I pulled up on her
Speaker 1: ask and you shall receive seeking, you shall find knock
Speaker 1: and the door will be opened unto you. Hmm. You
Speaker 1: ready to hear about it? So I go ahead and
Speaker 1: I took a chance. I sent a Crystal a text.
Speaker 1: She left her number in the email, and I'm smiling
Speaker 1: ear to ear because it is truly. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: it's truly a joy to be able to give an
Speaker 1: opportunity to space to create whatever this is. It is
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to be a part of it, because
Speaker 1: I know what it's like to be on the other end.
Speaker 1: So after that email and she put her number, I
Speaker 1: sent her a text. I said, happy Friday, Crystal, this
Speaker 1: is Dawn Day. She said, oh mg, what Blessing's done? Wow? Okay,
Speaker 1: you just made my day, Dai. So I reached out
Speaker 1: to her and I said, listen, I'm definitely interested in going.
Speaker 1: Send me over the email and I'll be there. So
Speaker 1: I decided to pull up. We met down at Goya
Speaker 1: Studios over in Hollywood, and I got there before she did.
Speaker 1: She was pulling up and when we met, it was organic.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. I was so enamored with the fact
Speaker 1: that one the reach and what we're doing with this
Speaker 1: podcast fighting and daw was shedding light. I was reaching people.
Speaker 1: So we hugged, we got in, we sat down, we
Speaker 1: took our seats, and she's like, okay, so tell me
Speaker 1: all about you. I said, I'm telling her this. She's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember you talking about this on the episode. I said, well, girl,
Speaker 1: you already know me. I said, tell me about you.
Speaker 1: I began to thank her so much for reaching out
Speaker 1: because it means a lot. You know, behind a microphone,
Speaker 1: whether I'm in my closet or I'm in the studio,
Speaker 1: I don't get a chance to see you and feel you,
Speaker 1: to really embrace you. But when I get these responses,
Speaker 1: that's what it feels like. Any type of email, any
Speaker 1: type of messaging, and perhaps those who asked for me
Speaker 1: to pull up. So we're sitting there talking and she's
Speaker 1: telling me about herself. She's phenomenal. She's a stunted woman,
Speaker 1: and she was in Black Panther in several movies that
Speaker 1: you've seen. And when I tell you, if you've ever
Speaker 1: seen Black Panther, oh you saw her now. I can't
Speaker 1: give out too many details because I'm sure you know confidential.
Speaker 1: But when I say that you saw her, oh she
Speaker 1: was outside. But she began to talk about her life,
Speaker 1: and I just think back of how I have really
Speaker 1: been talking about vulnerability and both showing up as me
Speaker 1: and being authentically mean and understanding how that power and
Speaker 1: vulnerability works because it's truly allowing me to connect with people.
Speaker 1: So we sat down and we talked about life with Kiki.
Speaker 1: I had met this other couple next to me. I
Speaker 1: stopped this gentleman and told MS Zipper was down and
Speaker 1: then his girlfriend. You know, that created a bond of us,
Speaker 1: and she's like, thank you we Kiki, honey, this a
Speaker 1: young woman. Come to find out she's talking about. Oh,
Speaker 1: she didn't have a crush on me. It was it
Speaker 1: was hilarious and flattering. But let's get back to Crystal.
Speaker 1: So Christl and I we enjoyed the episode. Now, thank goodness,
Speaker 1: the episode that they did share was just the first episode,
Speaker 1: so I'm probably about four or five, which I will
Speaker 1: be recapping for you shortly, and we all walked away
Speaker 1: while then it was after we got done with the reception,
Speaker 1: we began to talk and Chrystal was just continue to
Speaker 1: tell me how much she appreciated the time on the show,
Speaker 1: and I just sat back and I was just like,
Speaker 1: thank you God that we can be a part of this,
Speaker 1: or that I can be a part of this, that
Speaker 1: you allow me the space to show up and to
Speaker 1: be me, and because I am me, I'm able to
Speaker 1: connect with so many people. Furthermore, another thing that I
Speaker 1: want to highlight about all this situation. I talk about
Speaker 1: all the time, how you got to take a chance,
Speaker 1: how you got to step outside of your comfort zone.
Speaker 1: And you're even looking at Crystal. She's so used to
Speaker 1: being a stuntman behind the scenes, not being seen, and
Speaker 1: here she is. She took a chance, she took a chance,
Speaker 1: and I hope that that is an example about you
Speaker 1: taking a chance. And I'm not saying I'm all in
Speaker 1: the bagg of chips, but I am all in the
Speaker 1: baggag chips, and so are you. So what I mean
Speaker 1: is is that I've got greatness inside of you. And
Speaker 1: if you just step out into your potential, if you
Speaker 1: just take a chance, if you just step out of
Speaker 1: your comfort zone, magical things could happen. And the fact
Speaker 1: that I was able to give Crystal the moment was
Speaker 1: she said, Dawn, I can relate to you. I've had
Speaker 1: these viber brands doing so much, so it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I would love an opportunity that you can bring this
Speaker 1: discussion on the show, and I would love to share
Speaker 1: my story doing I'm all about skincare, doing I'm all
Speaker 1: about cannabis, some things that I actually felt so nervous
Speaker 1: to shure because I was like, oh my gosh, are
Speaker 1: people gonna judge me, They're not gonna work with me.
Speaker 1: But it's like here's the thing that I'm realizing, Like
Speaker 1: this is me. All these pieces make up me, and
Speaker 1: I can't hide part of me. So even what some
Speaker 1: may deem as false or idiosyncrencies or things that are
Speaker 1: not right, these are the pieces that make up me.
Speaker 1: So if you gonna want me, you gotta have all
Speaker 1: of me, not just a little bit, not on just
Speaker 1: this someday, this part. This is all of me, the
Speaker 1: good and the bad. Just like when we talk about
Speaker 1: vitamin D, it's about shedding light own a good and
Speaker 1: a bad. Because if you want to be better, you
Speaker 1: want to do better. You guys to be able to
Speaker 1: see better. So I can't be walking around being half
Speaker 1: of me or part of me. I gotta be all
Speaker 1: of me. And being all of me allows somebody that said, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't like to be seen, Hey, I'm not that
Speaker 1: really all going to reach out to me. And the
Speaker 1: thing that's so interesting family people always say when they
Speaker 1: mean me, I'm so shy, I'm so introverted, and I'm
Speaker 1: the most allowed, outgoing, big personality person that is. But
Speaker 1: thank you God for allowing ability to connect. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: So after the screening, they let us out in the
Speaker 1: public area and we had a chance to chit chat,
Speaker 1: and then of course I caught up with Baboo, my
Speaker 1: eighty year old boo. I'm just joking out, really my boob,
Speaker 1: but my boo who said she had a crush on me,
Speaker 1: And we sat down, we ate and we talked about
Speaker 1: life and we enjoyed things. And then guess what, I
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to connect with Gabrielle Denaz. Hey. She
Speaker 1: gave me her agent's information and we're gonna work on
Speaker 1: her coming on vitamin D with DOINGTA. How does that sound?
Speaker 1: H I think it's amazing. But going back to Crystal,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for her and I'm grateful for you, and
Speaker 1: I hope this shes light on the possibility that greater
Speaker 1: is coming for those who believe, for those who are
Speaker 1: willing and ready to perceive it. You gotta get uncomfortable
Speaker 1: for your dreams, whatever it looks like. And I say
Speaker 1: this because how you do anything, it's how you'll do everything.
Speaker 1: Don't sound may be bold in this area, but not
Speaker 1: in this area because it becomes a pattern. So with Crystal, yeah,
Speaker 1: she could have just stood back and not reached out.
Speaker 1: What she did and then I was able to pull
Speaker 1: up and we were able to bond. She even gave
Speaker 1: me a friendship bracelet. And you gotta check out her brand,
Speaker 1: Action where axt I own. It's where she makes knee
Speaker 1: pass another patty for people of color, not just people
Speaker 1: of color, for people of the whole spectrum. It's all inclusive.
Speaker 1: And she's doing it in the film industry. Why because
Speaker 1: people that do the job that she does needs this
Speaker 1: talk about. It's So please check out Action Wear and
Speaker 1: tell her that Dante sent you. We made plans to
Speaker 1: link up in the future and to connect, and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to share that with you. I just want
Speaker 1: to share, just to check in and say, take a chance,
Speaker 1: step outside of your comfort zone. You never know what
Speaker 1: could happen. And I can't even imagine like being on
Speaker 1: the other side and reaching out to Reggie Ridge or
Speaker 1: Coco or a bush Man and them getting back to
Speaker 1: me and saying like link up, thank you God. I
Speaker 1: could be this gift. Now. I really don't know what
Speaker 1: this is going to look like, you know, in the future,
Speaker 1: but we got to be in the president. And what
Speaker 1: I mean by the future is that, you know, I
Speaker 1: unapologetically say that I'm going to be bigger than Oprah.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be syndicated on everybody's radio, household, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because you know, even as I think
Speaker 1: back in radio, how much has changed. And although I
Speaker 1: only got five months on the FM dial, the impact
Speaker 1: and now because radio has changed so much, and especially
Speaker 1: with the pandemic, not everybody or we aren't going to
Speaker 1: these events where the radio stations are doing and we're
Speaker 1: pulling up how we used to pull up. And that's
Speaker 1: why I say gratitude is everything, because the more grateful
Speaker 1: we are, the more things we have to be grateful for.
Speaker 1: So while I only got them five months, I didn't
Speaker 1: even get out in the streets to meet everybody. But
Speaker 1: I'm still doing it. And let that be a testament
Speaker 1: for you. You know, we have these dreams and we
Speaker 1: have these ambitions, and we have it how we vision
Speaker 1: it to look like. So in a perfect world, I
Speaker 1: imagine myself to be with this FM dial, any FM dial,
Speaker 1: and being out there with the street team. But I'm
Speaker 1: creating it myself. People reaching out and I'm pulling up,
Speaker 1: whether it's Kevin Ross going to his mom's funeral, whether
Speaker 1: it's I want to visit Miss Maryland and mister Meredith
Speaker 1: at the hospital, and perhaps even look at linking up
Speaker 1: with Crystal Michelle, just to say that I'm here because
Speaker 1: I appreciate each and every person that has stood up
Speaker 1: with me to show it for me. You pulled up
Speaker 1: on me, so I'm gonna pull up on you, and
Speaker 1: I'll remind the Crystal like to continue to step outside
Speaker 1: of your comfort zone, continue to take a chance, and
Speaker 1: that she's talking about wanting to connect with like minded people,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is how you do it. This
Speaker 1: is how we do man. I tried it. Always remind y'all,
Speaker 1: I am here to speak, not to sing. But I
Speaker 1: do feel as though with the little lessons, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying a little with a few lessons, not a few,
Speaker 1: with some with singing lessons. I think I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: some things because you know, I'm gonna be an egod,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have my Emmy, my Grammy, my Oscar and
Speaker 1: my Tony. I'm putting it out there. God said, dream big.
Speaker 1: So why not? Hey, if all you got to do
Speaker 1: is ask and you shall receive, what are you asking for?
Speaker 1: And if you're not? Why not? Why aren't you taking
Speaker 1: a chance on yourself? You know, I say it casually.
Speaker 1: How we're here for a good time, not a long time.
Speaker 1: Let's make it count. I even reminded you how Miss
Speaker 1: Maryland said herself, we're here on loan though none of
Speaker 1: us belong to us, Mina, you can't have none of
Speaker 1: this forever. So why aren't you taking a chance? Why
Speaker 1: aren't you going after those experiences? Why aren't you living
Speaker 1: your life? And that was another thing that Crystal said
Speaker 1: that really made me smile. She said, you talked about
Speaker 1: taking a chance and stepping out through the comfort zone,
Speaker 1: and I want to do that because if somebody has
Speaker 1: been a stunt person of being by the scenes being
Speaker 1: I want to say timid, but I wouldn't say timid
Speaker 1: basically being quiet or being comfortable, not saying. She says,
Speaker 1: I got to put myself more out there, and I'm
Speaker 1: like you, I'm thinking to myself, well, you know you
Speaker 1: were the right person. Uh, But I want to share
Speaker 1: that with you and to say that if there's something
Speaker 1: that you want to take a chance on, if you
Speaker 1: want to ask, just go ahead and do it. You
Speaker 1: never know what could happen. Nothing beats failure but a try.
Speaker 1: So what are you trying with? Are you ready? Do
Speaker 1: you feel like you're worth it? Because magical things happen
Speaker 1: outside of your comfort zone. But you're going to have
Speaker 1: to get uncomfortable. And what you're going to have to
Speaker 1: realize is that being uncomfortable feels just like that uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: But just like ET says, how bad do you want it?
Speaker 1: Et says, you have to want your dreams as bad
Speaker 1: as you want to breathe. You gonna have to fight
Speaker 1: so much where you may not even feel like you
Speaker 1: got to fight, but your body's reaction is just to
Speaker 1: fight for just like somebody trying to cut off your oxygen.
Speaker 1: I don't care if God forgive me. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to make this sound on the negative connotation, but whether
Speaker 1: somebody's oxygen is being restricted by their own doing or
Speaker 1: from other outside elements, your body is going to jerk
Speaker 1: and react. And that's how you gotta be. It got
Speaker 1: to be a full long reaction for your dreams or
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you want out of life, because
Speaker 1: what we do know is that you can ask and
Speaker 1: you shall receive seeking, you shall find knock and the
Speaker 1: door will be open to you. And I was able
Speaker 1: to do that. In fact, go ahead and check out
Speaker 1: my Facebook page at doing Daispects and you'll see some
Speaker 1: pictures of Crystal and I and some of the events.
Speaker 1: Also a snippet of the email that she sent of
Speaker 1: asking me to go to this premiere. And So when
Speaker 1: you live out your dreams, when you live it unapologetically,
Speaker 1: you create space and permission for others to do the same,
Speaker 1: and it ends up being a gift for you. So
Speaker 1: just me being vulnerable and sharing who I am now,
Speaker 1: of course I do have pieces that I keep to myself,
Speaker 1: because that's just like anything, you know. You know, I
Speaker 1: use the restroom, but I'm not bustling it open, using
Speaker 1: the restroom. You know, I have sex, but I'm not
Speaker 1: out on the streets everywhere. I mean, no shade. I
Speaker 1: am adventurous. Oh, probably should have kept that to myself.
Speaker 1: Hey we're connected. Hey, Hey, don't think I'm in a
Speaker 1: gym getting this fine just to get fine. I'm a
Speaker 1: free spirit. Whatever that means. Just catch it and decorate it.
Speaker 1: But nevertheless, when we walk in our authenticity and we
Speaker 1: allow ourselves to be a gift, we realize that that
Speaker 1: gift can turn around and be a gift to us.
Speaker 1: Me leaning into my vulnerability, showing you who I am,
Speaker 1: telling you who I am, what I'm going through, when
Speaker 1: I'm going through, how I'm going through it at the
Speaker 1: moment I'm going through, it allowed me to reach out
Speaker 1: and connect with someone else to say, hey, John, you
Speaker 1: were talking about this show, which I love the show, honey,
Speaker 1: and then the opportunity to me Gaprillelle again. Come on,
Speaker 1: So if this is just the big door prize with
Speaker 1: this show, imagine whatever it could be with your life
Speaker 1: and your dreams. Are you going to be bold? Because
Speaker 1: remember I wouldn't even have the opportunity to connect with
Speaker 1: Krystal had I stayed at the Steve Harvey Morning Shaw.
Speaker 1: Had I been too afraid to jump out all my dreams?
Speaker 1: Now I shared this with you before. I told Jennifer Limegrouper,
Speaker 1: who was the executive vice president of Premier Networks, and
Speaker 1: she asked me, she said, Dawn, are you sure you
Speaker 1: want to resign? Is just a good idea? I said yes,
Speaker 1: because at the time, we're right in the beginning the middle.
Speaker 1: It was probably at the beginning of the pandemic of
Speaker 1: what was going to happen. And I said, hey, Jennifer,
Speaker 1: it's no different from Moses and the red scene. He
Speaker 1: had what these army are, all these people behind him?
Speaker 1: And he looked before it and it was a seed.
Speaker 1: Do you understand how deep a sea is? The creatures
Speaker 1: that below wells whose eyeball is probably as big as
Speaker 1: your entire body. God made away. You got to be
Speaker 1: so convicted with your dream that you too can split
Speaker 1: this water. The waters will part, a wave will be made.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know why, I've always felt
Speaker 1: like I've had to do this clearance when it comes
Speaker 1: down to religion or talking about God, you know, because
Speaker 1: I say I'm not religious, I'm not a Christian, Do
Speaker 1: I believe in God. Yes. Will you hear me talk
Speaker 1: about Jesus, Yes, because the story and the imagery of
Speaker 1: what Jesus represents. We all could use a little love.
Speaker 1: But I've always been an apprehensive of faith. You can
Speaker 1: even listen to past episodes while I'm always giving a
Speaker 1: clearance because I feel like there's so many rules and
Speaker 1: people want to put you in a box whenever you're
Speaker 1: talking about religion. But what I want to highlight is
Speaker 1: what it means to have faith and taking a chance
Speaker 1: and using these stories that we make it from the Bible,
Speaker 1: whatever you are getting your outside inspiration from, as a
Speaker 1: way that it can happen for you too. And had
Speaker 1: I not taken the chance to part my Red Sea,
Speaker 1: I would have never had the opportunity, or it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been presented in that way, because I would have
Speaker 1: been so focused on that to be going up to
Speaker 1: iHeart to do my podcast. I'm not done yet. Had
Speaker 1: I given up when so many transitional things happened with
Speaker 1: the car, me figuring out my way, taking three buses
Speaker 1: to get up there, I could have gave up. Had
Speaker 1: it gave up, I would not have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: sharpen my skills for the FM dial. Mind as you
Speaker 1: the FM dial, that's the number two market in the country,
Speaker 1: and I think about it sometimes. I talked to this guy, Chris,
Speaker 1: we were together at RMC, and he was like, he
Speaker 1: ran the boards for the video A lot of things
Speaker 1: that we are implementing with Vitamin D. I did this
Speaker 1: years ago, and I never really thought about it till
Speaker 1: he brought it to my attention. He said, you made
Speaker 1: it to the NBA your radio. What I mean is
Speaker 1: is that everybody does he get the opportunity, and you know,
Speaker 1: we can't keep walking in fear and shame and hiding
Speaker 1: because we'll never know the potential we can reach. And
Speaker 1: stopped feeling like you got to hide because God knew
Speaker 1: you before you were formed, and these dreams and aspirations.
Speaker 1: God put that on all your heart that was designed
Speaker 1: for you, and you can't keep looking whatever you quote
Speaker 1: unquote call these shortcomings about what you want to do
Speaker 1: with your life because you grew up having a mother,
Speaker 1: not having a father of vice, versa being unhoused, getting
Speaker 1: in an abusive relationship, getting caught on drugs, getting locked
Speaker 1: up in prison. It ain't over because if you fall
Speaker 1: down seven times get up eight. If you can look up,
Speaker 1: you can get up. You can't fail if you don't quit.
Speaker 1: Your location is not your destination. I could have looked
Speaker 1: at my circumstance and been here where even my assistant
Speaker 1: would be plucking me up from the metro being embarrassed
Speaker 1: because there was a time I was him and my
Speaker 1: mentor boss at the time, she was the radio personality
Speaker 1: in New York, had her owned houses, her car, and
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking like, wow, this is me. Your location
Speaker 1: is not your destination. So my ego and pride could
Speaker 1: have pushed all these dreams aside that we're not even
Speaker 1: allowed me to connect with Crystal. My shame would have
Speaker 1: held me back from sharing this, but I ain't let it.
Speaker 1: I just put one foot in front of the other,
Speaker 1: because that's Cynthia Mainweather say, a heel ain't nothing to
Speaker 1: a stepper. So we gonna walk it out, staying consistent,
Speaker 1: staying diligent, stepping out of my comfort zone because I'm
Speaker 1: not walking in shame. The opportunity came for the FM
Speaker 1: dial only there for five months, but my god, the
Speaker 1: impact that I was able to do it. See oftentimes
Speaker 1: we got this vision or what we think is supposed
Speaker 1: to be like thinking that that's the only way. But
Speaker 1: we know the truth by the way that it feels.
Speaker 1: And if we stay true the way we feel and
Speaker 1: our passion, our desires and truly lead into these uncomforta
Speaker 1: spaces zones, we realize we gotta make room for what
Speaker 1: God can do. And when I was talking to Miss
Speaker 1: Maryland last week, as you know how I had linked
Speaker 1: up with them, I was telling her, I was like,
Speaker 1: it's so interesting because life be lifing, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you really got to try God to know God. And
Speaker 1: trying God ain't no joke because when you try God,
Speaker 1: the things that you thought that you could lean on
Speaker 1: her that you had to rely on, those things, they
Speaker 1: ain't there because you got to have God. So everything
Speaker 1: that you are used to seeing experiencing talking about a
Speaker 1: God thing and see God says exceedingly and abundantly, far
Speaker 1: more than what you could ever imagine. So well, we
Speaker 1: talk about potential when we talk about being great, you
Speaker 1: can't let what you see make you forget what God said.
Speaker 1: There's power in this name, there's power in the word,
Speaker 1: there's power in you, but you gotta tap into it.
Speaker 1: That's probably why they say peace, be still. You truly
Speaker 1: gotta let go and not go and control. You gotta flow.
Speaker 1: So in my flow, I didn't get caught up on
Speaker 1: what I don't have, in the embarrassment of what's going on.
Speaker 1: I just thought about the vision and what God promised
Speaker 1: me when God placed on my heart. There would have
Speaker 1: been more anxiety and nerves to allow myself to recite
Speaker 1: in shame because I knew that there was more and
Speaker 1: the fact that I would be the person, the obstacle,
Speaker 1: the block in my way of doing it. If I
Speaker 1: just simply did not get uncomfortable to step into the unknown,
Speaker 1: to step into the abyss, to step into the realm
Speaker 1: of possibility. But in that moment evolved with what I
Speaker 1: thought was embarrassing. Is where I had to bear it
Speaker 1: all to you and to connect with you getting comfortable.
Speaker 1: So then the FM DOT comes. I am who I
Speaker 1: am because I say I am, because you see me
Speaker 1: for who I am, and because of that we're able
Speaker 1: to connect. I was able to connect with so many
Speaker 1: people because I am me, and I'm still figuring it out.
Speaker 1: I'm being honest about it. I'm figuring it out. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you what I'm nervous about I'm telling you what
Speaker 1: I may be ashamed about, and of course I may
Speaker 1: keep some things to myself, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: you got me. And that's the thing that's so interesting.
Speaker 1: When I meet so many and my FM listeners turn
Speaker 1: into family members, I'm just like, Wow, I'm about to
Speaker 1: tell your stuff about me, and it's like, you already
Speaker 1: know me, so now it's an opportunity for me to
Speaker 1: get to know you. But I couldn't do that had
Speaker 1: I not stay true to me. So then it becomes like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: so what are you going to do? So what are
Speaker 1: you going to do with your life? You cannot just
Speaker 1: sit there and hear me talk about all these amazing
Speaker 1: things that I'm doing because I'm taking a chance, because
Speaker 1: I'm getting outside of my comfort zone. And when I
Speaker 1: say amazing, the abundance and the money, the opportunity, it's
Speaker 1: unraveling but I don't have it right now. But I
Speaker 1: still count it a joy because it's happening. But it
Speaker 1: wouldn't happen if I don't take a chance, if I
Speaker 1: don't get uncomfortable. I said no that I'm able to
Speaker 1: show you who I am and have somebody Crystal get uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: She said it was when she started listening back in
Speaker 1: November and she had manifested her just put it out
Speaker 1: there that I want the more, I want to do more,
Speaker 1: I want to experience more. And she says she heard
Speaker 1: me on that dial and she said, wow. And what
Speaker 1: you realized too is was for you will never miss you.
Speaker 1: So I could have got distraught and thinking on FM
Speaker 1: down like damn, I ain't getting chance to meet none
Speaker 1: of my listeners, bro, But they still coming around. They
Speaker 1: ain't even leave me. And see, that's why I gotta
Speaker 1: remind you stop getting so fixated on what you think.
Speaker 1: So I'm supposed to look like what it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be like and just go by the way that it feels.
Speaker 1: I'm really understanding this concept of truly going with the flowing,
Speaker 1: letting things go. I could have got caught up and like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't believe this. But I'm just thinking,
Speaker 1: like nobody gets stopped what God is doing. And like
Speaker 1: I said before, my love of radio started being able
Speaker 1: to connect with my personalities the people that are heard
Speaker 1: on the radio, and they were passing all these gifts
Speaker 1: and I just look at the crowd, even myself, and
Speaker 1: I just be so excited to joy, like oh wow,
Speaker 1: you see me And now I'm in an opportunity, in
Speaker 1: a position where I can see others. But the reason
Speaker 1: why because I allow myself to be seen. So I
Speaker 1: want to challenge you to allow yourself to be seen.
Speaker 1: Step outside of your comfort zone. Please take a chance,
Speaker 1: because we're going to die. We're going to die. You
Speaker 1: are going to die. I ain't gonna die. We are
Speaker 1: going to die. And yes it sounds morbid, but if
Speaker 1: you're listening to me, we're still here. We are still
Speaker 1: doing aren't they. So why not tap in or open
Speaker 1: the door to your big door prize? Why not open
Speaker 1: your big door prize? Get what you deserve, take a chance.
Speaker 1: Magical things that can happen. So I'm excited to what's
Speaker 1: the comp with my newfound friend and Crystal uh and
Speaker 1: what she's doing. So yeah, that's what I got, That's
Speaker 1: what I got. We got some good things on the horizon.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know why I've begin
Speaker 1: some emotional all the time, like girl, oh girl, it
Speaker 1: must be like a family thing because my sister is
Speaker 1: the same way too. We will bust out in teeears
Speaker 1: at the drop of a dime. In fact, I was
Speaker 1: talking to my nephew. Wait a minute, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: my baby's birthday today. Today is Monday, May fifteenth, and
Speaker 1: LJ is turning sixteen years old. Happy birthday, LJ. Auntie
Speaker 1: loves you. I love you so much and I'm so
Speaker 1: proud of you. What child. I don't know. I thought
Speaker 1: of my LJ because I would talk to him on
Speaker 1: the phone like, I don't know why your auntie is
Speaker 1: so dramatic, And he was like, I know, Auntie, because
Speaker 1: you know I'll bust out a tear alive and I
Speaker 1: can go through the full spectrum of all emotions within
Speaker 1: ten minutes. I'm not kidding. I'm not making this up.
Speaker 1: People like doing You're so dramatic, I am, but it's
Speaker 1: not like a forest. But nevertheless, I say all that
Speaker 1: to say, open your big door prize and take a
Speaker 1: chance on yourself. Get outside of your comfort zone and
Speaker 1: step into the realm of possibility. Hmm. You can't fail
Speaker 1: if you don't quit, and don't let you see make
Speaker 1: you forget what God said. If it's on your heart,
Speaker 1: pursue it. Take a chance. What's the worst that you're
Speaker 1: gonna happen. You're gonna die. Well, after you die, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna know anymore. But are you gonna want to
Speaker 1: live with a life of regret of saying that you
Speaker 1: wanted to do something and you simply didn't? Why didn't you?
Speaker 1: Cause you don't how the resources? Well, you you see me,
Speaker 1: you hear my story. I'm very transparent, So you ready
Speaker 1: to show up and show out? The time is now
Speaker 1: because we live in our life on purpose and for
Speaker 1: a damn purpose. So I'm excited to see what's to
Speaker 1: come and to continue this flourished relationship with a lot
Speaker 1: of my FM listeners and to show that anything's possible.
Speaker 1: And if anything you gonna get from this. I always
Speaker 1: ask you to pull up on me. Well, if you
Speaker 1: reached out, I just might pull up on you. Hey,
Speaker 1: catch it cause it's hot baby. All right, y'all, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you for tuning in, and I want to ask you,
Speaker 1: I implored you rather, can you tell somebody to tell
Speaker 1: somebody else that Dawn Day got a podcast. It's entitled
Speaker 1: Vitamin D with Dawn Day, and it's available wherever you
Speaker 1: get your favorite podcasts. In fact, go ahead and ready
Speaker 1: give us some stars. Leave a comment because you still listen,
Speaker 1: and that means you enjoyed it. So that we can
Speaker 1: shed some light to others. And if you like to
Speaker 1: be like Crystal or anybody else, mister Lee's grandson, send
Speaker 1: over an email Vitamin D at dawn day Speaks dot com.
Speaker 1: I would simply love to hear from you. And if
Speaker 1: you need some advice, you know I have my Vitamin
Speaker 1: D advice letters, and I want to be clear to
Speaker 1: remind you that when we talk about these Vitamin D
Speaker 1: advice letters, Vitamin D is all about shedding a light
Speaker 1: on the good and the bad. Because what do I say,
Speaker 1: If you want to be better and you want to
Speaker 1: do better, you have to be able to see better.
Speaker 1: That means no shadows or at least recognizing those shadows.
Speaker 1: So that means I'm gonna keep a g with you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it word with you. I made something
Speaker 1: say some things that may seem uncomfortable, may require you
Speaker 1: to squiggle in your seat. Bang, we all say we
Speaker 1: want to be better, right, and take what I say
Speaker 1: for grain of salt. That's just my perspective from a
Speaker 1: limited time of knowing you. Whether I know you in
Speaker 1: person or meeting you for those few lines on that page,
Speaker 1: but just write me Vitamin D at dawn days Speaks
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Speaker 1: on purpose and for purpose. And as I always say,
Speaker 1: if you want some original source of vitamin D, that'd
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Speaker 1: But when I tell you, we guests and stuff on
Speaker 1: the eyes. And because you can't fail if you don't quit,
Speaker 1: dreams work when you do, you gotta want to make okay,
Speaker 1: let me stop because we got to get out of
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Speaker 1: if you want the original source of vitamins E baby,
Speaker 1: that be me, follow me on all social media at
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Speaker 1: always say I'm in the business of making dreams come true,
Speaker 1: and I damn show I'm gonna forget about mine. So
Speaker 1: until next time, always remember you are your greatest ass
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