Speaker 1: Get your vitamin D right with me and get excited
Speaker 1: about Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned
Speaker 1: into the Vitamin D Podcast and I'm your host on
Speaker 1: day here to get you excited about your life so
Speaker 1: that you can live life on purpose and for a purpose. Now,
Speaker 1: if this is your first time tuning in, welcome and
Speaker 1: thank you for deciding to invest in your greatest asset,
Speaker 1: which is you. See, that's what we talk about on
Speaker 1: Vitamin D Podcast. Vitamin D is a pun off of
Speaker 1: my name. You know how you get vitamin D from
Speaker 1: the sun, right, Well, my name is Dawn and I'm
Speaker 1: here to shed light in your life. Now, let me
Speaker 1: be clear. When it comes down to vitamin D and
Speaker 1: shedding light, that means it's going to go over and
Speaker 1: the good and the bad. Because when we talk about
Speaker 1: living our best lives, when we talk about being our
Speaker 1: best selves, we have to be able to see it.
Speaker 1: And that's going to be the things that are good
Speaker 1: and the things that are not so good. But guess what,
Speaker 1: they all make a part of who we are. And
Speaker 1: if you want to be better and you want to
Speaker 1: do better, you gotta be able to see better. They say,
Speaker 1: the greater the vision, the greater the reward. What is
Speaker 1: the vision that you have for your life? Vitamin D
Speaker 1: is to put all that in perspective, and I do
Speaker 1: that with lyrics from popular songs and inspirational conversations from
Speaker 1: some of your favorite celebrities and everyday people like you
Speaker 1: and me. Vitamin D is a dream of mine. I
Speaker 1: came to me what over a decade now and here
Speaker 1: we are. Here, we are on every podcast platform. Soon
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be on your TV screen. So when you
Speaker 1: go see me everywhere, well, I'm coming to you because
Speaker 1: today is my birthday. Happy Birthday, Dawn. Well, I'm actually
Speaker 1: um recording this Thursday. It's Thursday. It's three forty four
Speaker 1: a YM Pacific standard time. But by the time you
Speaker 1: hand it is it's my birthday. It's my birthday. Heavy birthday.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm getting so emotional because talking about Vitamin
Speaker 1: D and my birthday. You know, it's just been about
Speaker 1: a year, UM since I got the news that Vitamin
Speaker 1: D was gonna be on all of these audio platforms.
Speaker 1: It was around this time, a year ago, UM, that
Speaker 1: I found out I had opportunity to have a weekend
Speaker 1: segment on the Steve Harvey Morning Show, so you can
Speaker 1: catch me on Saturdays. I got a segment entitled what's
Speaker 1: happening Now? It happens in a nine o'clock hours, so
Speaker 1: you gotta just be tuned into the radio about nine twenty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get there, nine twenty. I think it might go on
Speaker 1: a nine when if I would get there and nine
Speaker 1: tause you need to be early because you came in
Speaker 1: said I got four minutes. Okay, four minutes that I
Speaker 1: probably spent a nineteen twenty years of my life for.
Speaker 1: But I guess I'm just getting emotional because you know,
Speaker 1: it's a as a birth of evolution around the sun,
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five days. You know a lot
Speaker 1: can be done in three hundred and sixty five days.
Speaker 1: And while we look for these dates that you know
Speaker 1: when we actually enter the earth, you gotta understand every
Speaker 1: day it's a new day, and every new dawn is
Speaker 1: a new day. Did you did what I did? There?
Speaker 1: And therefore every day should be celebrated because you're worthy.
Speaker 1: And if that's anything that I want people to get
Speaker 1: from this Vitamin dep podcast is that you're worthy. See
Speaker 1: Vitamin D is a gift for me, is a gift
Speaker 1: to my dreams. It's a gift of just me doing
Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to do. I'm supposed to inspire people.
Speaker 1: That's what I gotta do. It's my purpose, it's in me.
Speaker 1: It's what I do when I don't even know that
Speaker 1: I'm doing it, you know. And here's the thing that
Speaker 1: I found personally for myself, is that your dream and
Speaker 1: your gift that you have right, perhaps it's a gift
Speaker 1: because essentially you are to present it to other people. Well,
Speaker 1: my gift is my voice, My gift is my energy.
Speaker 1: My gift is my choice to inspire people. And the
Speaker 1: beautiful thing about gifts is that they keep on giving
Speaker 1: in show enough, they end up giving back to you.
Speaker 1: What hello somebody. Um. So that's what's so special about
Speaker 1: vitamin D because it's been a gift back to me.
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting here just reflecting on this year, what
Speaker 1: I've learned, what's to come this past year. I've learned
Speaker 1: so much about Dawn. You know. I've always prided myself
Speaker 1: and being a confident person and walking in my truth,
Speaker 1: walking in my light, being able to understand and it
Speaker 1: definally choose down. But you know, I'm human. We're all
Speaker 1: our spiritual beings having a human experience and not that
Speaker 1: is bad because I'm grateful for everything that I've experienced
Speaker 1: and abdored and um overcame. But you know, in this
Speaker 1: process and it's something that we should go throughout every
Speaker 1: day of just seeing self how um, certain people I
Speaker 1: had to let go, some people I didn't want to
Speaker 1: let go, but did um situations that probably didn't serve
Speaker 1: me because it's not for the betterment, even though I
Speaker 1: may enjoy it or I want to do it, it's
Speaker 1: just not for me. And I think that's one of
Speaker 1: the things of realizing as you get older, as you
Speaker 1: spend time on earth, about how precious time is. And
Speaker 1: really I meant to an understanding that if it doesn't
Speaker 1: serve you, what doesn't deserve you. I'm serving Dawn on
Speaker 1: a platter this year, Eat me up, Me me up.
Speaker 1: I'm just being more unapologetic about what I want because
Speaker 1: I know what I deserve for Dawn and dreams for Dawn,
Speaker 1: and it's what your dreams you have for you, um,
Speaker 1: and let that dream just about being happy and doing
Speaker 1: your purpose and saying yes to yourself. You know you've
Speaker 1: heard me saying before, but That's one of the things
Speaker 1: that I'm so grateful for about the ground links that
Speaker 1: the whole notion of instilling in me, and it goes
Speaker 1: along every improv school or case of study, so to
Speaker 1: speak of this whole yes and moment. I talked about
Speaker 1: it before, but just saying yes to yourself and having
Speaker 1: the ability to put an end for more and that's
Speaker 1: what it is. That's that's what that's what this birthday
Speaker 1: is for me. It's a more thing. It's about abundance.
Speaker 1: It's about yes, Dawn, what do you want for more?
Speaker 1: And I've celebrated down because I'm seeing down in a
Speaker 1: three sixty five you. And let me just say this.
Speaker 1: I mentioned about losing people. I should have said releasing,
Speaker 1: because oftentimes you you lose something to find um releasing
Speaker 1: and along with uh, just doing Dawn. Doing Dawn comes out.
Speaker 1: I lost over fifty pounds and probably even more because
Speaker 1: you know how like fat turns into muscle. But I'm
Speaker 1: looking good out here, if I may say so myself.
Speaker 1: Don't believe me, go check me out. You can um
Speaker 1: all of my social media acts Dawn day speaks, but
Speaker 1: you can get it real quick by checking out my
Speaker 1: Instagram account, I posted a picture of how it started
Speaker 1: and how it's going, and you can see some more
Speaker 1: pictures and videos. And it's because I said, Yester Dawn,
Speaker 1: uh huh. And that's just the physical benefit. I said,
Speaker 1: Yester Dawn, because if I don't say yes to me,
Speaker 1: who is gonna say yes to me? So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put the post that to you. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: start saying yes to yourself and not only waiting to
Speaker 1: the day of your birth to do that, because like
Speaker 1: I said, every day above ground is a new day,
Speaker 1: and if it's a new day, shoot, it should be
Speaker 1: a born day. You got new suns, you got a
Speaker 1: new outlook, a little of viewing things, and a shame
Speaker 1: on you if you keep looking back. You know, I
Speaker 1: posted something up on Steve Harvey FM, because you know,
Speaker 1: I run all the digital content and the website for
Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Morning Show, and I do this a
Speaker 1: daily post every day. I um, I post up a
Speaker 1: quote and it's traditionally inspirational. And I used the quote
Speaker 1: and then I find another quote inside of that. And
Speaker 1: just because we were talking about saying yes to self
Speaker 1: and what does that mean about advancing forward with life?
Speaker 1: Um and reminds me of something I put up, you know,
Speaker 1: last week, and it says, worry looks around, regrets look back,
Speaker 1: faith looks forward, and then the highlighting inside of that
Speaker 1: look forward. That's what the birth of celebration for me
Speaker 1: is about what's to come, My God, to see, I've
Speaker 1: already been who I was for the past I'm teen
Speaker 1: years of my life or arties, because you know I'm
Speaker 1: in the thirties now, I've already seen that. And so
Speaker 1: I'm only looking for exceedingly and abundantly, and I want
Speaker 1: that for you too, as you celebrate your life each
Speaker 1: and every day, understand exceedingly and abundantly, far more than
Speaker 1: you could ever imagine. That's what we gotta have. The vision,
Speaker 1: that's what you got to see in the scope for
Speaker 1: your life. And so that's what I've charged myself, which
Speaker 1: is seeing the scope of my life and what it
Speaker 1: is that I wanted, how I'm gonna get there all Oftentimes,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm so gonna hold my career because my
Speaker 1: career has pretty much kept my sanity. I say that
Speaker 1: because one of the most uh impactful things has had
Speaker 1: to my life this date, I was losing my mother
Speaker 1: my mother died from stage four breast cancer. It is
Speaker 1: the distraction of my dreams and being in love with
Speaker 1: somebody that didn't love me. That helped me keep my sanity.
Speaker 1: I don't regret any of it. Heck, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: right here. You wouldn't be talking to Don. You that
Speaker 1: you listen to right now? Are you talking to me?
Speaker 1: But I just can't hear you? But one day you're
Speaker 1: gonna be in my audience. What are you're gonna be
Speaker 1: an audience? Are you're gonna be listening to me? And
Speaker 1: I'm a reply because I'm I've been dream making. I'm
Speaker 1: in the business and making dreams come true. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm in don I'm gonna make these dreams come true.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I wouldn't be right here. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the only thing that we have to realize. I
Speaker 1: know sometimes we look back and maybe not so proud
Speaker 1: of the things that we've done and things that we said,
Speaker 1: but we realize is that when there's a new dawn,
Speaker 1: it's a new day, and all the sum of the
Speaker 1: culmination of everything that you were and everything who you
Speaker 1: are right now is because of everything that what was.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, what was. It's not for you
Speaker 1: to look back at what is for you to build upon,
Speaker 1: for you to you step in source so that you
Speaker 1: can reach new heights, so that you can reach new levels.
Speaker 1: And sometimes reaching new levels is actually going deeper within yourself.
Speaker 1: M We always think of elevation, I guess, of going higher, right,
Speaker 1: but how about we just think of it going deeper?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute. I felt that because it's at the core,
Speaker 1: right at the core, as the essence of our being.
Speaker 1: At the core, that's where identity lies. At the core,
Speaker 1: it's the fire, the energy that exudes and each and
Speaker 1: every one of us high. Sometimes we refer to it
Speaker 1: as an energy and a light, but it's no difference
Speaker 1: from the earth. Right at the core, it's fiery, but
Speaker 1: it's the energy source that makes it possible. So go
Speaker 1: down to the core this year. Huh. You know another
Speaker 1: reason I guess I got so emotional just thinking of
Speaker 1: my birthday is that so many people are dying, so
Speaker 1: many people. You know, um, Dante right, Just last week,
Speaker 1: the young lady name Jarren I believe her name is
Speaker 1: Jarn Taylor from the Baldwin Hills Show, thirty years old.
Speaker 1: Dante was twenty and I know people die each and
Speaker 1: every day, but I don't think everybody lives. And I
Speaker 1: think sometimes, you know, just living just means being able
Speaker 1: to feel something, giving yourself permission to be That's what
Speaker 1: we gotta do more. We need to give ourselves more
Speaker 1: permission to just be, to be great, to be amazing,
Speaker 1: to be happy, to be a sad, to be worth it,
Speaker 1: to be heard, to just be you. I said it
Speaker 1: before in another episode, that the goal is to be you,
Speaker 1: and that how you can't even spell you without saying you, why,
Speaker 1: oh you? You see. I don't even think it's some
Speaker 1: funny coincidence that it's a It's a like a looks
Speaker 1: like a horseshoe, come like a loop. It starts at
Speaker 1: one end to come right back around, to come right
Speaker 1: back up. I guess if you look at it, you
Speaker 1: start at one point in your life. You gotta go
Speaker 1: down deep to rise back up. And you know, looking
Speaker 1: at all these deaths, that's why I'm like, yo, whatever
Speaker 1: situation that you're in, know that you can rise back
Speaker 1: up from it. Whatever situation you're in, know that you're
Speaker 1: worth it to overcome it. You know, they say, like
Speaker 1: the richest place in the world is a cemetery. A
Speaker 1: lot of people die with their dreams, a lot of
Speaker 1: people die with aspiration, with love in their heart. A
Speaker 1: lot of people die with a voice that was never heard.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't always have to be career oriented. It's
Speaker 1: just about being rich and yourself. So many people die
Speaker 1: by not just being who there are. Yeah, we And
Speaker 1: it's so interesting because we celebrate this whole notion of
Speaker 1: a born day. Yet I think society and life in
Speaker 1: the world will train us to avoid everything about the
Speaker 1: thing that makes the special of being born exactly who
Speaker 1: we are. Imagine that. Imagine coming out in the world,
Speaker 1: being born, then existing all the way into your adult
Speaker 1: years of just loving who you are and edifying that.
Speaker 1: And then because you're being an example, you give other
Speaker 1: people permission to be who they are, and we just
Speaker 1: start edifying light. How amazing is that? Yes, these revelations
Speaker 1: that come about when I think of my birthday and
Speaker 1: in the celebration of that. Have you ever heard of, like, um,
Speaker 1: life path numbers? Are you into that? Horoscopes are an
Speaker 1: into that? Anything mystical around that realm? Are you into it?
Speaker 1: Let me just say I said it before I said again, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't subscribe to Christianity, but I believe in God,
Speaker 1: my God, who I believe in and who I've subscribed
Speaker 1: to embrace us all. You know, there's not one path
Speaker 1: to him her being, you know, there's many. Now I
Speaker 1: often will refer to God as he, but God is
Speaker 1: so much bigger than a sex. And I think it's
Speaker 1: just so interesting that I feel. And this is my
Speaker 1: qualm or quarrel I have with religion, but just my
Speaker 1: stance and how I view it is that religion is
Speaker 1: so bold and arrogant to me to think that you
Speaker 1: can define God. If I could sit down and talk
Speaker 1: to religion, I would say, who do you think that
Speaker 1: you are? And for me, religion has a lot of
Speaker 1: egoism behind it because man oed it simple as that.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate it because we can't lose um the idea.
Speaker 1: I guess of the conduct of the message, but we
Speaker 1: have to be mindful of the messenger, but never negate
Speaker 1: the message. And how we have to keep in mind
Speaker 1: that there are so many ways to interpret the message.
Speaker 1: But the essence, the essence that can go across many
Speaker 1: tongues in different books and different religious and different you know,
Speaker 1: just moments of religiousness and and beliefs and deities as
Speaker 1: the principality who God is, It's all the same, at
Speaker 1: least in my eyes. And I say that because it's
Speaker 1: all about just loving and having a deep sense of self.
Speaker 1: And we hear it oftentimes that God says, I reside
Speaker 1: in each of every one of us, and we're made
Speaker 1: in the image of likeness. So who how can we
Speaker 1: be denied who we are made of? Mm hmm. I
Speaker 1: think the only denial comes when you don't uh accept
Speaker 1: or embrace yourself. And that's why I just think that
Speaker 1: it's on time of just celebrating my birthday today because
Speaker 1: I'm learning more to embrace on and it's baby steps.
Speaker 1: I'm coming aways and it feels good and it's so scary.
Speaker 1: It's so scary. In fact, I posted of this video
Speaker 1: again last week on Steve Harvey FM. You can check
Speaker 1: it out on Facebook, um, Instagram, and Twitter. But I
Speaker 1: posted this man and it looks like he's on some
Speaker 1: type of rope bridge with wood planks. Now he has
Speaker 1: a harness on him, but he's trying to cross. And
Speaker 1: this man is you can tell he is scared for
Speaker 1: his life, like he is crouching down and that she's shaking.
Speaker 1: The bridge is shaking, and he's crawling on his knees
Speaker 1: and he's reaching in there as this gentleman there's about
Speaker 1: four or five planks for him to I guess, get
Speaker 1: on the other side. So we see this gentleman reach
Speaker 1: out to him and he grabs the gentleman's hand and
Speaker 1: he's grabbing the arms and he's literally crying. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the man is probably were crying, screaming UM for support
Speaker 1: to help get across. And Man, I guess I think
Speaker 1: of it like UM having the faith in God because
Speaker 1: it's it's it's no difference. You know, we use these
Speaker 1: this one day each year, and not everybody, but many
Speaker 1: people use it one day that they enter this physical
Speaker 1: realm to celebrate life and to honor who they are.
Speaker 1: And UM realizing that in this journey called life of
Speaker 1: these experience in these ebbs and flows, that comes upoint
Speaker 1: where you gotta trust God. And if God is made
Speaker 1: and we are made in the image and likeness of God,
Speaker 1: he resides in each and every one of us. That
Speaker 1: also means in trusting yourself, Hey, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: learn how to trust yourself some more. And that comes
Speaker 1: down to spending time with itself. See I talk about
Speaker 1: it all the time, how you are your greatest asset. Well,
Speaker 1: if you are your greatest asset, what do you do
Speaker 1: with things that you're usually value? You spend time with them.
Speaker 1: You treat them with care, You nurture them, um, you
Speaker 1: hold them dear and near and close to your heart
Speaker 1: because they need that much to you. So again I
Speaker 1: ask you, how much do you mean to yourself? Now?
Speaker 1: Oftentimes you know some people will go ahead and talk
Speaker 1: about their careers. They're excited about their family, a loved one,
Speaker 1: an opportunity, um, a car, house, a jewelry, some money.
Speaker 1: But like India already says, it's time to get to
Speaker 1: the heart of the matter, and that's you. And it's
Speaker 1: celebrating the God inside of you. It's celebrating the the
Speaker 1: notion of understanding to trust yourself and acknowledging that it's
Speaker 1: time if you aren't already to love yourself. If we
Speaker 1: talk about living our best life and we use this
Speaker 1: special day that we get only once a year to
Speaker 1: celebrate who we are, do you understand and why it's
Speaker 1: so important to love on yourself and truly, you know,
Speaker 1: think about what it means to love and in fact,
Speaker 1: I'm about to google it right now. Love. Hold on,
Speaker 1: give me a second love definition, because I think we
Speaker 1: use it so loosely at times without really understanding the
Speaker 1: context of its weight. And it says right here, the
Speaker 1: definition of love is an intense feeling of deep affection,
Speaker 1: a great interest and pleasure in something mm hmm, to
Speaker 1: like or enjoy very much. Oh yo. If anything you
Speaker 1: get from listening to this, if anything, is that you
Speaker 1: better love on yourself, I say it off. And how
Speaker 1: you do anything is how you do everything, So how
Speaker 1: you treat yourself heck, we're gonna say it in every
Speaker 1: aspect of your life physically with your body, mental link
Speaker 1: with how you treat your mind or treat your mind
Speaker 1: with yourself, and I understand there are certain situations that
Speaker 1: are certain circumstances that people are put in. But if
Speaker 1: you can't choose, choose to think holly of yourself, choose
Speaker 1: to think the best of your life. You know, it
Speaker 1: also is gonna depends on how you spend your time
Speaker 1: with your family, how you spend time with making your money,
Speaker 1: what you decide to put on your body, Huh. What
Speaker 1: is the reflection are you saying? Is it saying love?
Speaker 1: Is it like that a god they love? Are you
Speaker 1: familiar with the term of god? Peck Well, God is
Speaker 1: wide open. It's especially with surprise and wonder. It's so ginormous, yo,
Speaker 1: as how much you gotta love yourself. You gotta love
Speaker 1: yourself so much that they just illuminates to everybody and
Speaker 1: it gets so much to the point where, um, you
Speaker 1: inspire other people to love on themselves. That's all we
Speaker 1: celebrate birth right, That's how I'm celebrating Dawn. That's how
Speaker 1: I'm honoring Dawn. And I realized that the best way
Speaker 1: that I can honor and love on Dawn is to
Speaker 1: see Dawn. I truly see Dawn. Spend time with Dawn
Speaker 1: and say yes and to Dawn to the possibilities of
Speaker 1: what's possible. You know. I think sometimes it's so interesting
Speaker 1: how we can get caught up and saying yes to
Speaker 1: others and what essentially says no to ourselves rather than
Speaker 1: the reverse. Sometimes we need to allow our know the
Speaker 1: others to say yes to ourselves. Yes, I'm gonna spend
Speaker 1: some extra time with myself. Yes, I'm going to get
Speaker 1: up and work out. Yes, I'm gonna meditate, Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to counseling, Yes, gonna start this business. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my hair, Yes, come on to take
Speaker 1: a shower, Yes, yes, yes, and then yes some more.
Speaker 1: M m. That's what I'm doing in as we celebrate
Speaker 1: Dawn on this birthday, because I got dreams, dreams of
Speaker 1: my career, dreams of what my family dreams and what
Speaker 1: my physical self. Mm hmmm, I'm not done yet. It
Speaker 1: ain't over. It ain't over. That reminds me of that
Speaker 1: Kirk frequent track. Um, what was it? It wasn't a smile?
Speaker 1: Stump it ain't over and just stump stumping your greatness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing. And that's what I hope that
Speaker 1: you're doing. You know, I really hope that because you know,
Speaker 1: if you you think about it, we are going to
Speaker 1: die one day, as crazy as scary as it may see,
Speaker 1: you know, that's the fact that the matter. We're gonna die,
Speaker 1: God dog. And if you ain't loving on yourself and
Speaker 1: staying true to yourself, what are you're waiting for? You know?
Speaker 1: I guess I guess so emotional because I just want
Speaker 1: to be intentional with living my life, seizing every moment.
Speaker 1: I got emotional because it's so interesting that when you
Speaker 1: look at track right then on the field and they
Speaker 1: line up, I did track, I did um, I did
Speaker 1: shot put. In discuss be on that track field, you
Speaker 1: see these runners. They gotta finish line and they put
Speaker 1: they all into it. They get on their mark, they
Speaker 1: get ready and they go, ain't no halt, ain't no
Speaker 1: wait a second, ain't nonna give me five seconds. When
Speaker 1: it's time to go, they go it and they go
Speaker 1: full speed and they get to the footage line. Now
Speaker 1: here's the thing that's interesting. When they get to the
Speaker 1: finish line, they don't slow down and stop the you
Speaker 1: run straight through. I think it's something to be said
Speaker 1: about that, because, um, the finish line is no different
Speaker 1: from the day that has been assigned for us to
Speaker 1: exit this earth. I don't want you to be this
Speaker 1: person that stops holts ask where extra five minutes when
Speaker 1: it's time to get to your finish line, because whether
Speaker 1: or not you want to move consciously, you're moving towards
Speaker 1: your finish line. Now, what's going to be said about
Speaker 1: the time spent in the finish line? Because if you've noticed.
Speaker 1: That's something amazing too about the race. The race is
Speaker 1: nothing different from the journey of life. On your mark,
Speaker 1: get sacked, go what happens? You know, you can't always
Speaker 1: say that you're going to start in the beginning or
Speaker 1: be the first to lead the pack. You don't know
Speaker 1: what type of hurdle you're gonna have to jump over.
Speaker 1: You don't even know if you're gonna fall, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna slip. But all you know is that you're in
Speaker 1: this lane right and there's so many people on your
Speaker 1: left in your right that are running through and they're
Speaker 1: focused on theirs. You gotta be focused on every obstacle
Speaker 1: that can be coming in front of you and every opportunity,
Speaker 1: and to be sure that you're not just stopping right
Speaker 1: before you gotta run through it. I've seen even some
Speaker 1: runners they throw their neck out there, they jump and
Speaker 1: they throw their entire body, and it's that wind with
Speaker 1: a fingertip, with the nose, with the breast, with just
Speaker 1: the extension. What are you going to be extension to
Speaker 1: your best life? If you know that there is a
Speaker 1: finished line ahead of you, what are you doing to
Speaker 1: get there? And if you're not doing it? Why why
Speaker 1: Why don't you love yourself to know that you're worth it?
Speaker 1: Why don't you love your sense to know that you're
Speaker 1: worth taking a chance on? Why are you so comfortable
Speaker 1: with being uncomfortable and mediocrity? Because I want you to
Speaker 1: be comfortable with being uncomfortable, But there is something to
Speaker 1: be said about a comfort that's actually uncomfortable for who
Speaker 1: you are in your growth, that you are staying comfortable in.
Speaker 1: Because yes, I do want you to be comfortable with
Speaker 1: being uncomfortable, but not at the expense of you living
Speaker 1: your best life. Not at the expense of you making
Speaker 1: all your wildest dreams come true. Not at the expense
Speaker 1: that you can expire A young boy, a young girl
Speaker 1: he she They them home. Ever, however you identify to
Speaker 1: live their best life. Could you imagine if the sun
Speaker 1: was selfish with its purpose to shine light? If it
Speaker 1: was so selfish and said, I want to keep all
Speaker 1: my greatness, all my light to myself. Do you know
Speaker 1: that we wouldn't even be existing here because your day
Speaker 1: on show wouldn't have no vitamin D. Hey you see
Speaker 1: what I did there? But no, really, when we think
Speaker 1: about um, how the earth is energized by the sun.
Speaker 1: I mean down to the plants, the fertilization. The photo
Speaker 1: said this is Heck, we wouldn't even have oxygen. But
Speaker 1: I don't think the sun is ever concerned with um
Speaker 1: not having enough light, shutting too much light. Heck, it
Speaker 1: just exists because it knows what it's designing to do.
Speaker 1: And it's no different from what I'm asking for you
Speaker 1: and everyone else, is to shine in your light. Do
Speaker 1: what you are destined to do, and not because what
Speaker 1: somebody else told you what you should be doing. And
Speaker 1: you need to walk confidently in it because it came
Speaker 1: to you. You need to walk confidently in it because
Speaker 1: you love yourself. And if you don't know if you
Speaker 1: love yourself, just yet, what did I say? It time
Speaker 1: for you to go deeper because if if you think
Speaker 1: that you're gonna try to run, wait where you gonna go?
Speaker 1: Where you gonna go? Boo? Hey? You you know how
Speaker 1: they're like, who go check people? Well, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you what's gonna be you Because you're gonna keep running,
Speaker 1: You're gonna keep trying to escape, and you're gonna find
Speaker 1: yourself in the room with just you. Ain't no escaping
Speaker 1: this until you hit the finish line and when you
Speaker 1: hit the finished line is over. So why not do
Speaker 1: just do with the time that you got right now,
Speaker 1: focusing on your lane and shining your light and doing
Speaker 1: so that you can edify each other and other people.
Speaker 1: You think about it, guy says, you know, we're made
Speaker 1: in the image of likeness. We are a reflection of that, right,
Speaker 1: So think about it. In the aspect of the sun.
Speaker 1: What will happened if the light was shining on you
Speaker 1: and you put up a mirror. He you can direct
Speaker 1: that life to someone else. Huh, Well, I think you
Speaker 1: ought to do the same with yourself and every aspect
Speaker 1: of your life. Loving on you allows you to be
Speaker 1: reflection on your career, your dreams, your gifts, people in
Speaker 1: your life, your voice over that's me. Hey, Being on SNL,
Speaker 1: that's me. Hey, having a place off the beach, Hey,
Speaker 1: having a family, having children, that's me. Hey. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: what it could be. That's what I want for you,
Speaker 1: for me and everybody is to be free and loving
Speaker 1: who you are. Happy birthday, Dared. Now, it may not
Speaker 1: be your actual birthdate, but it's still your birthday because
Speaker 1: it's time for you to be born into a new person.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying there's anything wrong but to doing something new.
Speaker 1: They say joy comes in the morning and they say
Speaker 1: God is here to do a new thing, do a
Speaker 1: new thing with yourself by staying true to the old thing.
Speaker 1: That's you See, that's one of the gifts that you
Speaker 1: should treasure. Right. We have this thing like treasure because
Speaker 1: of how old it is, how sacred it is, and
Speaker 1: the rarity. Why can't you see the treasure and yourself?
Speaker 1: And if you are, congratulations, you got the key. As
Speaker 1: DJ Calab would say, another one. Listen, listen to me.
Speaker 1: That's the gift and the treasure that's inside of you. Now.
Speaker 1: I need you to be bold enough to share with
Speaker 1: the war. Share your light. I'm sharing mind. Heck, that's
Speaker 1: why you're here right. Thank you, Share your light and
Speaker 1: be a reflection. I know that it's enough for a
Speaker 1: ford to go around for everybody. We would be in
Speaker 1: a sad, sad state if the sun felt like it
Speaker 1: had to be selfish with itself. M hmm. Don't be
Speaker 1: selfish with your dreams and your gifts celebrated just like
Speaker 1: you celebrate your life and you want people around you.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's celebrating in yourself. I don't know exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna be doing by the time you listen
Speaker 1: to this on a Monday, but I hope it's amazing. Well,
Speaker 1: I know what's gonna be amazing. Oh, because that's what
Speaker 1: God promised me. He said in all that ways be true,
Speaker 1: and that's what I'm gonna do. And I'm gonna stand
Speaker 1: on the promise of expecting exceedingly and abundantly far more
Speaker 1: than I can ever imagine. I don't know what is
Speaker 1: up next for me and this year, but I'm telling
Speaker 1: you how I'm about to blow everybody's mind. He's about
Speaker 1: to be crazy because I'm claiming it. And if I
Speaker 1: can speak life over my life, you better watch that happened.
Speaker 1: I can't even tell you what about that happened just yet,
Speaker 1: but it's about to be crazy. Buck up. If you
Speaker 1: don't believe in yourself, that's all right, watch me believe
Speaker 1: in me. I'm in the dreams making true on a business.
Speaker 1: I serve it all time. God. I serve a God
Speaker 1: that's making knee impossible possible. And I do that by
Speaker 1: honoring myself. Hey, happy birthday, Dawn. Can you do me
Speaker 1: a favor as a gift to me. Can you look
Speaker 1: into marry and say I love you and then say
Speaker 1: you are worth it? And then right before you walk away,
Speaker 1: I want you to say, I make myself what I am.
Speaker 1: I learned that quote when I was in eighth grade.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my teacher, Miss and Net Karma. Miss Karma,
Speaker 1: she told us about that quote. She says, I make
Speaker 1: myself what I am, and for years I stood by
Speaker 1: that quote. That's why you hear me right now on
Speaker 1: the Vitamin D podcast available wherever you get your favorite podcast.
Speaker 1: That's why you hear me on the Steve Harvey Morning
Speaker 1: Show talking about what's happening? Can I tell you something
Speaker 1: about that right there? Don't you be afraid to dream?
Speaker 1: The Steve Harvey Mornings Show. It's on one hundred and
Speaker 1: plus markets. Prior to Dawn Day, Ben on the Steve
Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show weekend segment on Saturdays for What's Happening.
Speaker 1: I never been on the FM airways, but God, you
Speaker 1: see why I gotta have faith and why I take
Speaker 1: a chance on Dawn because consistently, over and over and
Speaker 1: over again, God has shown me that I'm possible. I
Speaker 1: had article written, was it? Uh? I had a two
Speaker 1: thousand twelve or twenty eleven with the New York Times
Speaker 1: and instead a voice for radio with Oprah's ambition. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be picketing Oprah and ever do it because I
Speaker 1: decided to do it, because I decided to make a choice,
Speaker 1: because I decided to love done, and because I realized
Speaker 1: that my location, it's not my destination. Because before this moment,
Speaker 1: I had never been on the FM airways. But God,
Speaker 1: I got a weekend segment, but God syndicated. I always
Speaker 1: tell somebody, don't believe me, you just watch. I have
Speaker 1: every intention, and let me make this clear. I have
Speaker 1: every intention of making every one of my dreams come true.
Speaker 1: Happy Birthday, Dawn, and I want that same for you.
Speaker 1: But I also realized to that. And if you live
Speaker 1: long enough, you can attest to this. You can't want
Speaker 1: nothing for somebody else more than they wanted for themselves.
Speaker 1: But I know you want more because that's why you
Speaker 1: tuned into the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast. You
Speaker 1: know that there's more in your life, not because that
Speaker 1: there's not enough, it's just that exceedingly and abundantly, like
Speaker 1: why can't we live in a yes and type of season. Huh.
Speaker 1: If this Detroit girl from eight Mile huh father died
Speaker 1: three months mother dad when I was twenty five, you
Speaker 1: can do it on a road you can't too. And listen.
Speaker 1: I ain't trying to say no pity party. I got
Speaker 1: got cousins, I got family that lost their parents way
Speaker 1: younger than me. But I can only be my testimony
Speaker 1: and tell you what has been insurmountable for me. And
Speaker 1: I hope that you can use it because you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm not Christian, but I do adhere
Speaker 1: to the stories, the parables and the Bible because it
Speaker 1: gives you a sense of what's possible and what faith
Speaker 1: can do. Now, one could have looked him like, oh,
Speaker 1: don you know, never been on the FM dial, and
Speaker 1: probably I'm like, oh my gosh. One needs to go
Speaker 1: through that stuff before being syndicated, and to be in
Speaker 1: the presence of those who have been twenty plus years,
Speaker 1: thirty forty fifty years in the business throwing days in
Speaker 1: the room. Amen. But I say all that to say
Speaker 1: about what can be done and what's possible. Don't believe me,
Speaker 1: just watch and it takes that undeniable faith it self
Speaker 1: to just keep going the same thing that I was
Speaker 1: talking about when I was saying running track, just knowing
Speaker 1: what the vision is on your path before you hit
Speaker 1: your finish line. You can't stop the fact that you're
Speaker 1: going to get there, but you can decide what you
Speaker 1: do on your way there. How you decide to get
Speaker 1: up if you fall, dust yourself off, how you decide
Speaker 1: to love yourself, how you decide to honor yourself again.
Speaker 1: Dahnt Day had never been on an FM. Dehighto. Dawn
Speaker 1: Day is on Saturday. Not to brag, but to show
Speaker 1: you that it's possible. That's the same Dawn Day that
Speaker 1: didn't get into Howard University when she first applied that
Speaker 1: because I was a smart of just didn't test right.
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know that it's possible because I
Speaker 1: graduated with honors and talked to my graduation. This is
Speaker 1: the same Dawnt Day that moved to New York with
Speaker 1: only a three my fellowship, an opportunity to work a
Speaker 1: w BLS, the number one station for urban they see
Speaker 1: in the country. That's the same Dawnt Day that moved
Speaker 1: to l A with no job, drove Oberjaw, lived the
Speaker 1: game shows, catered events, then whatever I had to do.
Speaker 1: When I had to do it, it ended up in
Speaker 1: a room with the Steve Harvey morning shows. So don't
Speaker 1: you tell me it ain't possible. It's only not possible
Speaker 1: if you don't believe. That's another thing. It's so interesting
Speaker 1: that it's almost like the day we are born, and
Speaker 1: as a child we kind of have it all figured
Speaker 1: out but don't because we're not afraid to dream, we're
Speaker 1: not afraid to believe. And it's interesting that as a
Speaker 1: child there's a lack of understanding of life because it's
Speaker 1: so new. But essentially it's just already knowing what it
Speaker 1: is because it's about being so present, it's about the
Speaker 1: right now. We see whether the child can get distracted
Speaker 1: in a second because they're so into the now that
Speaker 1: anything can happen, and they avert their attention it's the
Speaker 1: next thing that's going on, not because of not being present.
Speaker 1: It's just that they're so into the moment of now,
Speaker 1: or so much so they don't even pay attention to
Speaker 1: all what's going on because being so focused in the now.
Speaker 1: But it's the belief that they have, it's the courage
Speaker 1: that they have, it's the insight to just feeling to
Speaker 1: understand and to see without any lenses, these lenses that
Speaker 1: come on, these filters that come on every year. And
Speaker 1: while physically, oh wait wait, catch this, hold on, check
Speaker 1: this out. While physically every year we are taking a
Speaker 1: step away um from our child like four and a
Speaker 1: lot of the maturity is happening in the mind. But
Speaker 1: it's interesting that the journey of the life, the whole
Speaker 1: spiritual journey, is all about finding the way back to
Speaker 1: that of a child. Because guess what we're spending time
Speaker 1: to get out on ourselves. When we were a child,
Speaker 1: we knew what we liked, we didn't like, what we
Speaker 1: want to do right in that moment, right, and we
Speaker 1: expressed ourselves unapologetically, and we're allowed to dream how we
Speaker 1: wanted to dream. So then we get through life and
Speaker 1: we always trying to find back to get centered, to
Speaker 1: get that to that pettace of knowing, to get to
Speaker 1: that space of having a peace, to get to that
Speaker 1: space of loving and caring and just being. And that's
Speaker 1: what I hope for you. Hey, that's what I hope
Speaker 1: for me. That's what I'm waring And so I'm about
Speaker 1: to blaze through this and I want to thank you
Speaker 1: for being on this journey with me thus far. You know,
Speaker 1: if you know me for some years, you've seen where
Speaker 1: I come from. You know, Vitamin D started underneath a comforter.
Speaker 1: How a USB mic I think it was a Samson
Speaker 1: was this little silver mic to silver joint and had
Speaker 1: about three legs. Baby, I'd be in New York in
Speaker 1: my room under that comforter, crowded down, sweating today's though.
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Speaker 1: now Dawn Day coming through. Hey, it's doing day all day,
Speaker 1: every day. You know, it's just what I do. Sometimes Sin,
Speaker 1: I get excited, but that was my rant loving on
Speaker 1: you doing you, being an apologetically you. And happy birthday, Dawn.
Speaker 1: Thank you for celebrating this journey of life with me. Um,
Speaker 1: and you're doing that by supporting and listening in and Um,
Speaker 1: thank you for choosing to love on you. I know
Speaker 1: I said it before, but I can't thank you enough
Speaker 1: because when you give yourself permission to love and to
Speaker 1: live your best life. You give it to others as well,
Speaker 1: and my god, that is a beautiful girl. Thank you. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me get out of here because I can keep
Speaker 1: going on and on. It was basically to say, it's
Speaker 1: my birthday, Happy Birthday, Dawn, and every new Dawn there
Speaker 1: is a new day to be great. Okay. When I
Speaker 1: said for your doss Vitamin Day, Um, if you need
Speaker 1: advice or if you would like to be a guest,
Speaker 1: I want you to email me and Vitamin d at
Speaker 1: Dawn Day Speaks dot com. Okay. And in the meantime,
Speaker 1: when you are done listening to all the podcasts we
Speaker 1: have up, or you just want some more outside of
Speaker 1: the podcast, I want to implore you to follow me
Speaker 1: on all social media at Dawn Day Speaks. Also good news,
Speaker 1: new alert, um, my YouTube channel is up. So you've
Speaker 1: been listening to a lot of the interviews on the podcast,
Speaker 1: but now you can head over to YouTube at Dawn
Speaker 1: Day Speaks and watch them live. Yes, I'm populating all
Speaker 1: the content, so it's coming. It's coming. It's coming. It's
Speaker 1: not going to be a great it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: your MS in because it already they are so ms okay,
Speaker 1: So check it out and let me know what you think.
Speaker 1: Don't speaks Okay, I love you, I love you. Did
Speaker 1: I tell you? I love you? All right? Um, that's
Speaker 1: it for this though, Subodam, indeed, I want you to
Speaker 1: always remember that you are your greatest asset. I love you, ye,