WEBVTT - Happy Birthday Dawn: You're Worthy 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:04.559 Get your vitamin D right with me and get excited 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:12.000 about Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.200 into the Vitamin D Podcast and I'm your host on 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.440 day here to get you excited about your life so 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.520 that you can live life on purpose and for a purpose. Now, 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.200 if this is your first time tuning in, welcome and 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.840 thank you for deciding to invest in your greatest asset, 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.600 which is you. See, that's what we talk about on 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.320 Vitamin D Podcast. Vitamin D is a pun off of 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.400 my name. You know how you get vitamin D from 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.080 the sun, right, Well, my name is Dawn and I'm 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.360 here to shed light in your life. Now, let me 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.080 be clear. When it comes down to vitamin D and 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.680 shedding light, that means it's going to go over and 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.520 the good and the bad. Because when we talk about 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.720 living our best lives, when we talk about being our 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:58.840 best selves, we have to be able to see it. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.080 And that's going to be the things that are good 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:02.960 and the things that are not so good. But guess what, 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.080 they all make a part of who we are. And 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:08.760 if you want to be better and you want to 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.520 do better, you gotta be able to see better. They say, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.600 the greater the vision, the greater the reward. What is 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.200 the vision that you have for your life? Vitamin D 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.240 is to put all that in perspective, and I do 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:23.040 that with lyrics from popular songs and inspirational conversations from 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.240 some of your favorite celebrities and everyday people like you 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.920 and me. Vitamin D is a dream of mine. I 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:36.440 came to me what over a decade now and here 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.920 we are. Here, we are on every podcast platform. Soon 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:45.640 I'm gonna be on your TV screen. So when you 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:50.279 go see me everywhere, well, I'm coming to you because 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:55.040 today is my birthday. Happy Birthday, Dawn. Well, I'm actually 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.800 um recording this Thursday. It's Thursday. It's three forty four 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.640 a YM Pacific standard time. But by the time you 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:08.120 hand it is it's my birthday. It's my birthday. Heavy birthday. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.800 I guess I'm getting so emotional because talking about Vitamin 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.640 D and my birthday. You know, it's just been about 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:22.320 a year, UM since I got the news that Vitamin 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:26.080 D was gonna be on all of these audio platforms. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.280 It was around this time, a year ago, UM, that 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.440 I found out I had opportunity to have a weekend 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.359 segment on the Steve Harvey Morning Show, so you can 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.960 catch me on Saturdays. I got a segment entitled what's 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.880 happening Now? It happens in a nine o'clock hours, so 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:50.360 you gotta just be tuned into the radio about nine twenty. Yeah, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:51.880 get there, nine twenty. I think it might go on 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.359 a nine when if I would get there and nine 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.280 tause you need to be early because you came in 0:02:55.360 --> 0:03:00.400 said I got four minutes. Okay, four minutes that I 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.760 probably spent a nineteen twenty years of my life for. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.720 But I guess I'm just getting emotional because you know, 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.560 it's a as a birth of evolution around the sun, 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.000 three hundred and sixty five days. You know a lot 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.240 can be done in three hundred and sixty five days. 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.280 And while we look for these dates that you know 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.440 when we actually enter the earth, you gotta understand every 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.600 day it's a new day, and every new dawn is 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.600 a new day. Did you did what I did? There? 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:39.320 And therefore every day should be celebrated because you're worthy. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.720 And if that's anything that I want people to get 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:47.840 from this Vitamin dep podcast is that you're worthy. See 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.320 Vitamin D is a gift for me, is a gift 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.600 to my dreams. It's a gift of just me doing 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:58.120 what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to inspire people. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:06.920 That's what I gotta do. It's my purpose, it's in me. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.760 It's what I do when I don't even know that 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:13.080 I'm doing it, you know. And here's the thing that 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:19.279 I found personally for myself, is that your dream and 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.359 your gift that you have right, perhaps it's a gift 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:27.320 because essentially you are to present it to other people. Well, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.400 my gift is my voice, My gift is my energy. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:36.919 My gift is my choice to inspire people. And the 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.480 beautiful thing about gifts is that they keep on giving 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:44.080 in show enough, they end up giving back to you. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:49.240 What hello somebody. Um. So that's what's so special about 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.000 vitamin D because it's been a gift back to me. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:56.080 I'm just sitting here just reflecting on this year, what 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:02.520 I've learned, what's to come this past year. I've learned 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:07.200 so much about Dawn. You know. I've always prided myself 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:12.359 and being a confident person and walking in my truth, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.480 walking in my light, being able to understand and it 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.200 definally choose down. But you know, I'm human. We're all 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.760 our spiritual beings having a human experience and not that 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.240 is bad because I'm grateful for everything that I've experienced 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:30.239 and abdored and um overcame. But you know, in this 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.080 process and it's something that we should go throughout every 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.880 day of just seeing self how um, certain people I 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.440 had to let go, some people I didn't want to 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:43.239 let go, but did um situations that probably didn't serve 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.360 me because it's not for the betterment, even though I 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.159 may enjoy it or I want to do it, it's 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.720 just not for me. And I think that's one of 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.280 the things of realizing as you get older, as you 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:59.440 spend time on earth, about how precious time is. And 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.839 really I meant to an understanding that if it doesn't 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:07.200 serve you, what doesn't deserve you. I'm serving Dawn on 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:12.680 a platter this year, Eat me up, Me me up. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:22.119 I'm just being more unapologetic about what I want because 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:26.440 I know what I deserve for Dawn and dreams for Dawn, 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:32.360 and it's what your dreams you have for you, um, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:36.160 and let that dream just about being happy and doing 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.560 your purpose and saying yes to yourself. You know you've 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.080 heard me saying before, but That's one of the things 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.280 that I'm so grateful for about the ground links that 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.120 the whole notion of instilling in me, and it goes 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:51.080 along every improv school or case of study, so to 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:55.479 speak of this whole yes and moment. I talked about 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.840 it before, but just saying yes to yourself and having 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.479 the ability to put an end for more and that's 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.640 what it is. That's that's what that's what this birthday 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.800 is for me. It's a more thing. It's about abundance. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.320 It's about yes, Dawn, what do you want for more? 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.480 And I've celebrated down because I'm seeing down in a 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.480 three sixty five you. And let me just say this. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.680 I mentioned about losing people. I should have said releasing, 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.560 because oftentimes you you lose something to find um releasing 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.640 and along with uh, just doing Dawn. Doing Dawn comes out. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.640 I lost over fifty pounds and probably even more because 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.400 you know how like fat turns into muscle. But I'm 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.600 looking good out here, if I may say so myself. 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.640 Don't believe me, go check me out. You can um 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.360 all of my social media acts Dawn day speaks, but 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:44.880 you can get it real quick by checking out my 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.640 Instagram account, I posted a picture of how it started 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.480 and how it's going, and you can see some more 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.480 pictures and videos. And it's because I said, Yester Dawn, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:59.280 uh huh. And that's just the physical benefit. I said, 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.720 Yester Dawn, because if I don't say yes to me, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.280 who is gonna say yes to me? So I'm gonna 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.200 put the post that to you. You're gonna have to 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.800 start saying yes to yourself and not only waiting to 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.240 the day of your birth to do that, because like 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.600 I said, every day above ground is a new day, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.520 and if it's a new day, shoot, it should be 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.720 a born day. You got new suns, you got a 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.800 new outlook, a little of viewing things, and a shame 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.680 on you if you keep looking back. You know, I 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.080 posted something up on Steve Harvey FM, because you know, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.640 I run all the digital content and the website for 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.320 the Steve Harvey Morning Show, and I do this a 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.920 daily post every day. I um, I post up a 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.600 quote and it's traditionally inspirational. And I used the quote 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.320 and then I find another quote inside of that. And 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.839 just because we were talking about saying yes to self 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.400 and what does that mean about advancing forward with life? 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.520 Um and reminds me of something I put up, you know, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:54.000 last week, and it says, worry looks around, regrets look back, 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.160 faith looks forward, and then the highlighting inside of that 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:03.240 look forward. That's what the birth of celebration for me 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.000 is about what's to come, My God, to see, I've 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.560 already been who I was for the past I'm teen 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.600 years of my life or arties, because you know I'm 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.400 in the thirties now, I've already seen that. And so 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.680 I'm only looking for exceedingly and abundantly, and I want 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.920 that for you too, as you celebrate your life each 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:26.520 and every day, understand exceedingly and abundantly, far more than 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.520 you could ever imagine. That's what we gotta have. The vision, 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:32.520 that's what you got to see in the scope for 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.120 your life. And so that's what I've charged myself, which 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.640 is seeing the scope of my life and what it 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.280 is that I wanted, how I'm gonna get there all Oftentimes, 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:45.520 you know, I'm so gonna hold my career because my 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.719 career has pretty much kept my sanity. I say that 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.120 because one of the most uh impactful things has had 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.280 to my life this date, I was losing my mother 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:00.079 my mother died from stage four breast cancer. It is 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.000 the distraction of my dreams and being in love with 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.199 somebody that didn't love me. That helped me keep my sanity. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.640 I don't regret any of it. Heck, I wouldn't be 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.640 right here. You wouldn't be talking to Don. You that 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.200 you listen to right now? Are you talking to me? 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.199 But I just can't hear you? But one day you're 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.960 gonna be in my audience. What are you're gonna be 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.040 an audience? Are you're gonna be listening to me? And 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:26.520 I'm a reply because I'm I've been dream making. I'm 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.520 in the business and making dreams come true. That's what 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.520 I'm in don I'm gonna make these dreams come true. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.560 But yeah, I wouldn't be right here. And I think 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.440 that's the only thing that we have to realize. I 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.360 know sometimes we look back and maybe not so proud 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.560 of the things that we've done and things that we said, 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.560 but we realize is that when there's a new dawn, 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.760 it's a new day, and all the sum of the 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.120 culmination of everything that you were and everything who you 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.240 are right now is because of everything that what was. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:58.960 But here's the thing, what was. It's not for you 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.520 to look back at what is for you to build upon, 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.320 for you to you step in source so that you 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.880 can reach new heights, so that you can reach new levels. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.280 And sometimes reaching new levels is actually going deeper within yourself. 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.160 M We always think of elevation, I guess, of going higher, right, 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.040 but how about we just think of it going deeper? 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:23.080 Wait a minute. I felt that because it's at the core, 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.920 right at the core, as the essence of our being. 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:33.959 At the core, that's where identity lies. At the core, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:41.320 it's the fire, the energy that exudes and each and 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.360 every one of us high. Sometimes we refer to it 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:49.440 as an energy and a light, but it's no difference 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.720 from the earth. Right at the core, it's fiery, but 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.199 it's the energy source that makes it possible. So go 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:02.200 down to the core this year. Huh. You know another 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.360 reason I guess I got so emotional just thinking of 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:10.520 my birthday is that so many people are dying, so 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:16.679 many people. You know, um, Dante right, Just last week, 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.520 the young lady name Jarren I believe her name is 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:28.840 Jarn Taylor from the Baldwin Hills Show, thirty years old. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:35.400 Dante was twenty and I know people die each and 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:41.640 every day, but I don't think everybody lives. And I 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.360 think sometimes, you know, just living just means being able 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:49.520 to feel something, giving yourself permission to be That's what 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.559 we gotta do more. We need to give ourselves more 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:59.600 permission to just be, to be great, to be amazing, 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.440 to be happy, to be a sad, to be worth it, 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.839 to be heard, to just be you. I said it 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:10.600 before in another episode, that the goal is to be you, 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.840 and that how you can't even spell you without saying you, why, 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.199 oh you? You see. I don't even think it's some 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.839 funny coincidence that it's a It's a like a looks 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.840 like a horseshoe, come like a loop. It starts at 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.839 one end to come right back around, to come right 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.280 back up. I guess if you look at it, you 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.840 start at one point in your life. You gotta go 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:39.000 down deep to rise back up. And you know, looking 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.800 at all these deaths, that's why I'm like, yo, whatever 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.240 situation that you're in, know that you can rise back 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.040 up from it. Whatever situation you're in, know that you're 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.160 worth it to overcome it. You know, they say, like 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:55.120 the richest place in the world is a cemetery. A 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.320 lot of people die with their dreams, a lot of 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.120 people die with aspiration, with love in their heart. A 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.480 lot of people die with a voice that was never heard. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.520 And it doesn't always have to be career oriented. It's 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:11.440 just about being rich and yourself. So many people die 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.040 by not just being who there are. Yeah, we And 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.720 it's so interesting because we celebrate this whole notion of 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:22.360 a born day. Yet I think society and life in 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:26.880 the world will train us to avoid everything about the 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.360 thing that makes the special of being born exactly who 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:34.120 we are. Imagine that. Imagine coming out in the world, 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.040 being born, then existing all the way into your adult 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.080 years of just loving who you are and edifying that. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.040 And then because you're being an example, you give other 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.080 people permission to be who they are, and we just 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:52.480 start edifying light. How amazing is that? Yes, these revelations 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.040 that come about when I think of my birthday and 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.600 in the celebration of that. Have you ever heard of, like, um, 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.920 life path numbers? Are you into that? Horoscopes are an 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:07.120 into that? Anything mystical around that realm? Are you into it? 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.080 Let me just say I said it before I said again, Um, 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.520 I don't subscribe to Christianity, but I believe in God, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.360 my God, who I believe in and who I've subscribed 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.080 to embrace us all. You know, there's not one path 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.520 to him her being, you know, there's many. Now I 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.120 often will refer to God as he, but God is 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.120 so much bigger than a sex. And I think it's 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.160 just so interesting that I feel. And this is my 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.920 qualm or quarrel I have with religion, but just my 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.440 stance and how I view it is that religion is 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.680 so bold and arrogant to me to think that you 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.840 can define God. If I could sit down and talk 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.320 to religion, I would say, who do you think that 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.440 you are? And for me, religion has a lot of 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.680 egoism behind it because man oed it simple as that. 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:09.360 But I appreciate it because we can't lose um the idea. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.240 I guess of the conduct of the message, but we 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.320 have to be mindful of the messenger, but never negate 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.560 the message. And how we have to keep in mind 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:18.800 that there are so many ways to interpret the message. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.800 But the essence, the essence that can go across many 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.720 tongues in different books and different religious and different you know, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:29.080 just moments of religiousness and and beliefs and deities as 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:33.000 the principality who God is, It's all the same, at 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.680 least in my eyes. And I say that because it's 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.320 all about just loving and having a deep sense of self. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.120 And we hear it oftentimes that God says, I reside 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.280 in each of every one of us, and we're made 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.640 in the image of likeness. So who how can we 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:53.480 be denied who we are made of? Mm hmm. I 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.080 think the only denial comes when you don't uh accept 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:01.480 or embrace yourself. And that's why I just think that 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.040 it's on time of just celebrating my birthday today because 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.080 I'm learning more to embrace on and it's baby steps. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.960 I'm coming aways and it feels good and it's so scary. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.920 It's so scary. In fact, I posted of this video 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.640 again last week on Steve Harvey FM. You can check 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.520 it out on Facebook, um, Instagram, and Twitter. But I 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.639 posted this man and it looks like he's on some 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:32.800 type of rope bridge with wood planks. Now he has 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.760 a harness on him, but he's trying to cross. And 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.119 this man is you can tell he is scared for 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.720 his life, like he is crouching down and that she's shaking. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.040 The bridge is shaking, and he's crawling on his knees 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.920 and he's reaching in there as this gentleman there's about 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.480 four or five planks for him to I guess, get 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.440 on the other side. So we see this gentleman reach 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.520 out to him and he grabs the gentleman's hand and 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:59.080 he's grabbing the arms and he's literally crying. I mean, look, 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:03.440 the man is probably were crying, screaming UM for support 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.720 to help get across. And Man, I guess I think 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:11.040 of it like UM having the faith in God because 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.680 it's it's it's no difference. You know, we use these 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.200 this one day each year, and not everybody, but many 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.240 people use it one day that they enter this physical 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.320 realm to celebrate life and to honor who they are. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:29.560 And UM realizing that in this journey called life of 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.160 these experience in these ebbs and flows, that comes upoint 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.560 where you gotta trust God. And if God is made 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.160 and we are made in the image and likeness of God, 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.960 he resides in each and every one of us. That 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.920 also means in trusting yourself, Hey, you're gonna have to 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.480 learn how to trust yourself some more. And that comes 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.600 down to spending time with itself. See I talk about 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.480 it all the time, how you are your greatest asset. Well, 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.960 if you are your greatest asset, what do you do 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.160 with things that you're usually value? You spend time with them. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.040 You treat them with care, You nurture them, um, you 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.280 hold them dear and near and close to your heart 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.679 because they need that much to you. So again I 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.639 ask you, how much do you mean to yourself? Now? 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.800 Oftentimes you know some people will go ahead and talk 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.400 about their careers. They're excited about their family, a loved one, 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:28.840 an opportunity, um, a car, house, a jewelry, some money. 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.679 But like India already says, it's time to get to 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.720 the heart of the matter, and that's you. And it's 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.760 celebrating the God inside of you. It's celebrating the the 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.720 notion of understanding to trust yourself and acknowledging that it's 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:49.840 time if you aren't already to love yourself. If we 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:54.200 talk about living our best life and we use this 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.399 special day that we get only once a year to 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:00.479 celebrate who we are, do you understand and why it's 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.359 so important to love on yourself and truly, you know, 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.000 think about what it means to love and in fact, 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.800 I'm about to google it right now. Love. Hold on, 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.920 give me a second love definition, because I think we 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.760 use it so loosely at times without really understanding the 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:21.000 context of its weight. And it says right here, the 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.440 definition of love is an intense feeling of deep affection, 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.240 a great interest and pleasure in something mm hmm, to 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:37.840 like or enjoy very much. Oh yo. If anything you 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:42.119 get from listening to this, if anything, is that you 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:46.120 better love on yourself, I say it off. And how 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.320 you do anything is how you do everything, So how 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:54.000 you treat yourself heck, we're gonna say it in every 0:20:54.000 --> 0:21:00.320 aspect of your life physically with your body, mental link 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.040 with how you treat your mind or treat your mind 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.240 with yourself, and I understand there are certain situations that 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:12.760 are certain circumstances that people are put in. But if 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:19.639 you can't choose, choose to think holly of yourself, choose 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.159 to think the best of your life. You know, it 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.120 also is gonna depends on how you spend your time 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.359 with your family, how you spend time with making your money, 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:31.280 what you decide to put on your body, Huh. What 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.560 is the reflection are you saying? Is it saying love? 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:39.560 Is it like that a god they love? Are you 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:44.119 familiar with the term of god? Peck Well, God is 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:51.040 wide open. It's especially with surprise and wonder. It's so ginormous, yo, 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:54.160 as how much you gotta love yourself. You gotta love 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:58.240 yourself so much that they just illuminates to everybody and 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:00.919 it gets so much to the point where, um, you 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:05.320 inspire other people to love on themselves. That's all we 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.080 celebrate birth right, That's how I'm celebrating Dawn. That's how 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:11.480 I'm honoring Dawn. And I realized that the best way 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.720 that I can honor and love on Dawn is to 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:19.520 see Dawn. I truly see Dawn. Spend time with Dawn 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.840 and say yes and to Dawn to the possibilities of 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:28.400 what's possible. You know. I think sometimes it's so interesting 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:30.480 how we can get caught up and saying yes to 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:35.320 others and what essentially says no to ourselves rather than 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:37.760 the reverse. Sometimes we need to allow our know the 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:41.080 others to say yes to ourselves. Yes, I'm gonna spend 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:43.160 some extra time with myself. Yes, I'm going to get 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:45.920 up and work out. Yes, I'm gonna meditate, Yes, I'm 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.960 gonna go to counseling, Yes, gonna start this business. Yes, 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:51.080 I'm gonna do my hair, Yes, come on to take 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:55.200 a shower, Yes, yes, yes, and then yes some more. 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:59.920 M m. That's what I'm doing in as we celebrate 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:04.639 Dawn on this birthday, because I got dreams, dreams of 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.119 my career, dreams of what my family dreams and what 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:12.040 my physical self. Mm hmmm, I'm not done yet. It 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:16.119 ain't over. It ain't over. That reminds me of that 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:22.040 Kirk frequent track. Um, what was it? It wasn't a smile? 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:28.560 Stump it ain't over and just stump stumping your greatness. Yeah, 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:30.879 that's what I'm doing. And that's what I hope that 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:36.080 you're doing. You know, I really hope that because you know, 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:39.160 if you you think about it, we are going to 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:45.400 die one day, as crazy as scary as it may see, 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:49.920 you know, that's the fact that the matter. We're gonna die, 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:58.240 God dog. And if you ain't loving on yourself and 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:03.119 staying true to yourself, what are you're waiting for? You know? 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.400 I guess I guess so emotional because I just want 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:13.679 to be intentional with living my life, seizing every moment. 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:19.000 I got emotional because it's so interesting that when you 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:22.200 look at track right then on the field and they 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:24.680 line up, I did track, I did um, I did 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:27.720 shot put. In discuss be on that track field, you 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:32.360 see these runners. They gotta finish line and they put 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:36.560 they all into it. They get on their mark, they 0:24:36.600 --> 0:24:41.920 get ready and they go, ain't no halt, ain't no 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:46.080 wait a second, ain't nonna give me five seconds. When 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:48.399