Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in
Speaker 1: to the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I
Speaker 1: am your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited
Speaker 1: about your life so that you can live life on
Speaker 1: purpose and for a purpose. If this is your first
Speaker 1: time tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's a pun
Speaker 1: of my name. My name is Dawn, and you get
Speaker 1: Vitamin D from the sun. So I'm here shed light
Speaker 1: into your life. And I do this with inspirational insights
Speaker 1: and conversations with celebrities and everyday people like you and me,
Speaker 1: Because if you want to be better and you want
Speaker 1: to do better, then you're going to have to be
Speaker 1: able to see better. So join me on this journey
Speaker 1: of living our best lives and understanding and realizing how
Speaker 1: you are your greatest ass at Get your vit M
Speaker 1: and D right with me and get excited about your life.
Speaker 1: Keep going, don't stop, put one foot in front of
Speaker 1: the other. And I get it. You probably want to stop.
Speaker 1: You probably just wild ap pleas a pause or a
Speaker 1: reset or even pressed with wind. But guess what your
Speaker 1: past is behind you and you don't live there anymore.
Speaker 1: At what point are you going to decide to live.
Speaker 1: At what point are you going to decide to take
Speaker 1: a chance on yourself? At what point do you realize
Speaker 1: and you recognize that you are not and you're worthy
Speaker 1: of it, that dream, that relationship, whatever it is that
Speaker 1: your heart desires. Because we're here for a good time,
Speaker 1: not a long time. So we got to make a count,
Speaker 1: and we make a count by living our lives on
Speaker 1: purpose and for a purpose. There's a reason why they
Speaker 1: say the cemetery is one of the wealthiest places on
Speaker 1: earth because it's the place that so many people die
Speaker 1: with their dreams, die with their aspirations, die with their
Speaker 1: should have could or what us? So how come you
Speaker 1: won't do it? How come you won't go after it?
Speaker 1: How come you're waiting for somebody else to give you
Speaker 1: permission to live out your greatest life? Why are you
Speaker 1: trying to be comfortable? You said you wanted to grow right.
Speaker 1: It makes me think about Harvey yet, Steve Harvey, And
Speaker 1: if you check on YouTube, he has this animated series
Speaker 1: video and it's talking about an acorn. And if you
Speaker 1: realize in life, we're all like this acorn, and this
Speaker 1: acorn can be placed in soil, it can be thrown
Speaker 1: on cement, or perhaps just discarded. Now, let's take a look.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes we're going after something and perhaps we're not ready.
Speaker 1: It's like throwing our acorn on the sidewalk, on the cement.
Speaker 1: It gets fried by the heat. There is no shelter,
Speaker 1: there is no comfort, nothing happens to it. Right, But
Speaker 1: guess what it's seen. Now, imagine if somebody were to
Speaker 1: just gobble it up, an animal, fear, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: just simply got stripped away from you. Then there's the
Speaker 1: third option. When you put that bad boy. Now, I
Speaker 1: get it. At first glance, it's gonna seem dark, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be cold, you might even have some fertilizer thrown
Speaker 1: on you. But you realize with time you scart to
Speaker 1: go deeper, You start to go deeper, and then you
Speaker 1: start to stretch out to go wider. The next thing
Speaker 1: you know, you're pushing upward. And sometimes that's gonna require
Speaker 1: you to get a little dirt on you. You know,
Speaker 1: that fall, that scrape, that uncomfortableness, and then you sprinkle
Speaker 1: some water on it, and it comes in the form
Speaker 1: of tears or as we like to say, sweat equity.
Speaker 1: But man, oh man, when that right season comes, not
Speaker 1: when you want to force it because you decide that
Speaker 1: you want to be impatient, but when you steadfast and
Speaker 1: you stay ten toes down and you realize you can't
Speaker 1: fail if you don't quit, when that season comes, when
Speaker 1: your time comes, when that evolution comes, my gosh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have no choice but to go up. And then
Speaker 1: you are going to be in awe of your beauty
Speaker 1: and you're gonna realize how much of a covering you
Speaker 1: have been to other people, other things, providing shelter, providing nutrients,
Speaker 1: providing shade, proviting. But guess what, you have to go
Speaker 1: through some things. And I get it. You want it
Speaker 1: to be easy. But if it were easy, would it
Speaker 1: be worth it. If it weren't easy, it would be
Speaker 1: easy to lose. But when you gotta work for something,
Speaker 1: when you gotta go through things and make you just
Speaker 1: want to hold on. So I say hold on. And see,
Speaker 1: you gonna have people coming around you, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: be laughing. They're gonna be scoffing talking about something. Oh
Speaker 1: he got this dream, I don't see it anywhere. Or
Speaker 1: they sure are stinky, or they sure are dirty. They're
Speaker 1: grinding because you're on your bike because you ain't got
Speaker 1: no car, because you in between jobs, because you're building
Speaker 1: up your confidence, because you are afraid to step into
Speaker 1: the light of my God. When you decide to take root,
Speaker 1: when you decide to take a chance, will you decide
Speaker 1: to exercise your muscles? Oh my gosh, still standing all
Speaker 1: and you know what, sometimes it looks like. It made
Speaker 1: me think about two people this week, both in which
Speaker 1: I consider to be good friends. They were talking about
Speaker 1: respective people that they work with in their respective industries.
Speaker 1: We had one person say, okay, this is a person
Speaker 1: that's kind of like in the sales field, and they
Speaker 1: were like, don you should see them what they be wearing?
Speaker 1: Now she knows she ain't got no business wearing that.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, what's going on what she wearing? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, she's kind of heavy set, and she'd just
Speaker 1: be standing in front of the crowd doing what she
Speaker 1: gotta do. I said, well, what's wrong with that? Then
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks come by, this same individual is
Speaker 1: still speaking about the said individual and says, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I got it up my game. This person has made
Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars in one month and I had to
Speaker 1: add my friend. I said, well, wait a minute, is
Speaker 1: this the same woman that you were talking about that
Speaker 1: need to take a seat sometimes, or you talk about
Speaker 1: she ain't got no business wearing the clothes that she's wearing.
Speaker 1: And they said yes, And I said, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: See what happens is is when people can beat them,
Speaker 1: they decide to join them. So that's why you got
Speaker 1: to keep doing you, because doing you is what works
Speaker 1: for you. In fact, everything that your heart desires requires
Speaker 1: you to show up, all that you can pee. It
Speaker 1: came to you for a reason. In no way, it
Speaker 1: didn't get the wrong address. And that's why I'm steal
Speaker 1: the burning desires in your heart. That's why you find
Speaker 1: yourself in every other situation. And it still isn't enough
Speaker 1: because it's going to require you. Can I give you
Speaker 1: the second example. So another friend in a different industry,
Speaker 1: let's just go. This said industry is promoted on social media.
Speaker 1: And this individual had a rhyme to their name. You
Speaker 1: know how, sometimes I'd be like dawn, like the break
Speaker 1: of day, what I have to say, Let's say something
Speaker 1: rhyming or catchy like that. And this friend said, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, John somebody need to tell them about rhyming
Speaker 1: about whatever they were rhyming about. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with that? I thought it was kind of catchy.
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of cute. I thought it
Speaker 1: was quite clever. Do you know, next thing come out
Speaker 1: their mouth? They were up there trying to rhyme something
Speaker 1: with their name. Now, I'm not saying that either individual
Speaker 1: is a bad person, because we're human. But the message
Speaker 1: I have for you is that's why you got to
Speaker 1: keep doing you. You realize that their conversation was reverse admiration, right,
Speaker 1: because if you can't beat them, then doin them. How
Speaker 1: many times have you had somebody ridicule what it is
Speaker 1: that you're doing, place in some type of judgment, telling
Speaker 1: you how you could have did it better, or perhaps
Speaker 1: how they would not have done it at all? And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I've been guilty of it. How sometimes
Speaker 1: I decided to step back, How sometimes I decided to wait.
Speaker 1: How sometimes I decided I was doing too much? But no,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that I was doing just enough. And
Speaker 1: that makes me circle back with you. You are doing
Speaker 1: you just enough. Stop trying to put on a different cloak,
Speaker 1: reflect a different image and being something that you're not. No,
Speaker 1: these dreams and aspirations came to you for a reason.
Speaker 1: Get out the whole idea of what it looks like.
Speaker 1: How about we get back to what it feels like.
Speaker 1: Does it feel authentic to you? Because what you're asking
Speaker 1: for is going to require all of you, not only
Speaker 1: some of you that looks good in makeup, Not that
Speaker 1: part of you that looks good in the best of lights,
Speaker 1: not that part of you that's in that perfect frame.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about all three sixty of you. You. It's
Speaker 1: going to require you to show up. So I want
Speaker 1: you to show up for your dreams, show up for
Speaker 1: your life, show up simply because you are you, and
Speaker 1: take a chance on yourself. Get uncomfortable. Stop waiting for
Speaker 1: the moment for it to be right, because next thing
Speaker 1: you know, you're gonna be dead. And I get it.
Speaker 1: I say that often, and people look at me and disturbed, like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, why did you say it like that?
Speaker 1: Because it is like that, and I don't understand how
Speaker 1: much time you are going to be waiting for the
Speaker 1: perfect moment. I say that to you as I say
Speaker 1: that to me, whether it comes from me releasing weight
Speaker 1: or losing it and finding it back, whether it comes
Speaker 1: from me. In preparation for this podcast, you gotta put
Speaker 1: one foot in front of the other and move. You know,
Speaker 1: if you stop moving, you'd be dead. Or if you
Speaker 1: keep moving in the same direction, wondering why things aren't changing,
Speaker 1: you realize you're just functioning. Baha. When you choose to live,
Speaker 1: you realize that you grow. And when you grow, it's
Speaker 1: going to require stretching. It's going to require you to
Speaker 1: get uncomfortable. It's going to require some sweat equity that
Speaker 1: may come in the form of tears. But guess what,
Speaker 1: You're still growing. Therefore you're still going. So keep doing you,
Speaker 1: and keep showing up for yourself, and keep taking a
Speaker 1: chance on yourself because you are worth it. Perhaps every
Speaker 1: person that you're looking at that you admire, you realize
Speaker 1: that they took a chance on themselves. You realize that
Speaker 1: they dare to be different. You realize that they found
Speaker 1: that the perfect timing is right now, right now, today,
Speaker 1: at this moment. So wipe them tears and figure it out.
Speaker 1: You getting tired of trying to figure out why you
Speaker 1: can't find the right job for you, because perhaps it's
Speaker 1: time for you to sit down and create that job.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you are the juice, whether you're seeking out the juice,
Speaker 1: So why don't you go ahead and make it? Do
Speaker 1: what it do? I mean, damn? How long are you
Speaker 1: going to wait? I mean damn? How many excuses are
Speaker 1: you going to find? I mean damn? At what point
Speaker 1: do you say? Wake up? Wake up, wake up. It's
Speaker 1: time for you to dare to be great, and it's
Speaker 1: going to require you to be there to be different. Okay,
Speaker 1: I say that to you as I say that to me,
Speaker 1: and give yourself some grace. And what do I say grace?
Speaker 1: Ain't nothing but space to stretch out, to turn around,
Speaker 1: to flip it over, and to start it again. You
Speaker 1: might as well use the time while you got it right,
Speaker 1: whether they're just sitting there in the dark, whether they're
Speaker 1: just sitting there rocking back and forth, rather than just
Speaker 1: lying allowing your brain to go in circles, you got
Speaker 1: biggle in in circles. Boom boom boom, around and around
Speaker 1: and done go. You didn't expect for all that. I
Speaker 1: didn't either. Shoot, I didn't know. I just opened up
Speaker 1: this mic and started talking. Why Because I was up
Speaker 1: here figuring out what's going on as to watch video
Speaker 1: isn't showing up, And I said, you know what, done
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we need to get
Speaker 1: this conversation out. We need to get there because somebody
Speaker 1: just might be you may hear this and get inspired. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I have printed out some resources and information to
Speaker 1: get informations, information to get started with you today. And
Speaker 1: next thing I know, I look up and it's late
Speaker 1: at night, and I said, you know what, I still
Speaker 1: got to leave something because I promised myself that I
Speaker 1: will say one Thursday, you probably won't get a new episode. Heck,
Speaker 1: if you're listening to this, this is probably Wednesday, but
Speaker 1: right now it's Tuesday. But by the time you listen
Speaker 1: to it, it'll be Wednesday. And when you come back
Speaker 1: and expecting a new episode on Thursday, chances are they
Speaker 1: may not be. Or I may actually recorded from home
Speaker 1: because I will be attending a meeting for Black Men's
Speaker 1: Wellness Day. If you've been following you for a bent,
Speaker 1: even from the FM dial and even on Vitamin D
Speaker 1: with Dawndee, you know that I had a conversation with
Speaker 1: the LA coordinator for the African American Male Wellness Agency
Speaker 1: and the Los Angeles Chapter Department Sector basically the chair
Speaker 1: for Los Angeles. His name is Jade Barnes. And so
Speaker 1: now they brought me upon the team to support with
Speaker 1: social media. You know that's not my thing. You know
Speaker 1: I like to say content is king. Well consider me
Speaker 1: the Queen. Just cite the game of Chess, who run
Speaker 1: at the Queen Dante. Hey. I say all that to say,
Speaker 1: we have a committee meeting that's happening on Thursday, the
Speaker 1: time that I'll be in the studio, and I want
Speaker 1: to be sure to stick with the schedule to ensure
Speaker 1: that not only am I posting up new episodes every
Speaker 1: Tuesdays and Thursdays, but I also intend to be going.
Speaker 1: But we're constantly figuring things out in the studio. But
Speaker 1: guess what, I'm in the studio, baby, hay. So I
Speaker 1: say all that to say just to give you the
Speaker 1: four to the one one. That's what's going on. And
Speaker 1: I got the message on my spirits to keep going,
Speaker 1: to try it out, and to take a chance, because
Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing, and I want you to do
Speaker 1: the same for yourself too, because at some point you're
Speaker 1: gonna figure it out. At some point you're gonna find
Speaker 1: your way. Heck, if some point you'll know where you're
Speaker 1: going because you know where you are. I talked about
Speaker 1: this on the last episode when I said about how
Speaker 1: your location is not your destination, but you always have
Speaker 1: to have a starting point because wherever it is that
Speaker 1: you're intended to go basically somewhere different than you are.
Speaker 1: Right now, you realize you got to have a starting point. Well,
Speaker 1: the key word is to start. They say you don't
Speaker 1: have to be great to get started, but you have
Speaker 1: to start in order to be great. And I want
Speaker 1: you to start today. I want you to to start
Speaker 1: writing the vision and making it plain. I want you
Speaker 1: to start speaking it over your life. I want you
Speaker 1: to wipe them tears and get up and get moving. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Because when I tell you when it's time
Speaker 1: for me to show up in the light that I'm
Speaker 1: showing up, I want you to play back these episodes.
Speaker 1: I want you to hear how every time I thought
Speaker 1: I was at a peak, I realized I was at
Speaker 1: a valley of another mountain, of another hel of another
Speaker 1: part of my journey. But they always say there's dusk
Speaker 1: before that's gone, and joy comes in the morning. Hey,
Speaker 1: lunching out for faul, but just checking in and wanted
Speaker 1: to remind you to keep going. Okay. I hope this
Speaker 1: message has inspired you, and if it has, can you
Speaker 1: share with somebody else and can you make sure to
Speaker 1: leave a review? Okay. That's how we're gonna spread the word,
Speaker 1: and that's how we're gonna keep going and doing what
Speaker 1: we do. Now, another thing I want to share with you.
Speaker 1: If you need some advice on relationship on your career,
Speaker 1: or perhaps you want to just speak to me and
Speaker 1: share some resources or information, I want to encourage you
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Speaker 1: I would love to talk to you. I would just
Speaker 1: love to have some sort of interaction with you and
Speaker 1: perhaps share some information that you have for me so
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Speaker 1: on me. Let me hear from you. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: because I'm here and you here, so we might as
Speaker 1: well be here together. All right, all right, what else
Speaker 1: I got? I think that's it. Follow me there, Let
Speaker 1: me hear from you, and let me go ahead and
Speaker 1: get out of this studio, baby, because I need to
Speaker 1: go to sleep. Get up, do it all over again,
Speaker 1: and plus tomorrow Wednesday whenever you hear this Wednesday, August
Speaker 1: twenty eighth. If you're in a lab, have you seen
Speaker 1: those way more cars that's been driving around. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: going to meet up with Jen. What's Jin's last? Jen Lashly?
Speaker 1: She is the founder and CEO of Solo Robotics. Yes,
Speaker 1: she is teaching our young people how to get in
Speaker 1: the robotics in field. You know, all this technology that's
Speaker 1: in fancy. Well, she sent up me an email and
Speaker 1: she said, Doom, how would you like to ride, even
Speaker 1: if it's for ten minutes, ride for some time, and
Speaker 1: a self driving vehicle. I said, I'm gonna see you
Speaker 1: tomorrow one o'clock. So yeah, I'm gonna be in that vehicle.
Speaker 1: Pull off on me. I may post something on social
Speaker 1: media one pm Pacific Standard time. Don't be trying to
Speaker 1: check nothing before that, because you ain't gonna see nothing.
Speaker 1: But after that you may actually see something. I don't
Speaker 1: see these cars on the road, but I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: in there, all right. Let me get out of here.
Speaker 1: I told you I was leaving a while ago, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, always saying I'm in the business of making
Speaker 1: dreams come true, and I damn show ain't gonna forget
Speaker 1: about mine. So until next time, family, always remember you
Speaker 1: are your greatest oats sat get your right in Indy
Speaker 1: right here with me, and get excited about your life.