WEBVTT - God Does Not Tease To Take Away 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:04.680 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.040 the Vitamin D with Dawn Day Podcast and I am 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:09.640 your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited about 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.640 your life so that you can live life on purpose 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:13.680 and for a purpose. And this is your first time 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.079 tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's upon of our name. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:19.280 My name is Dawn, and you get Vitamin D from 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.440 the sun. So I'm here to sad light into your life. 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.000 And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.080 celebrities and everyday people like you and me, because if 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.000 you want to be better and you want to do better, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.760 then you're going to have to be able to see better. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.760 So join me on this journey of living our best 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.680 lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:44.920 ass act Grace, Oh amazing Grace, How sweep the sound. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.800 Isn't it interesting that we don't give ourselves enough grace? 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.960 I wonder why? And I like to associate Grace Wood 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:58.160 simply space, and we need space as living beings. We 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.600 need to be able to move, and Grace acknowledges the 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:07.800 fact that we are spiritual beings having a human experience 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:13.440 so why don't we show more grace to ourselves? And 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:21.200 oftentimes grace looks like just taking a chance, having confidence, 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.880 realizing that if you fall down seven times to get 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:29.080 up eight, understanding that your location is not your destination, 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:35.880 realizing that you can't fail if you don't quit. See, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:44.640 with grace, you give yourself space to be human, to 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.199 be exactly who you are and what you are right now. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:59.440 Grace affords possibility, It grants opportunity that even bestows peace. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.840 It says it's okay not to be okay, but never 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.720 once does it say that you're not enough. In fact, 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:17.000 grace affords you the idea to realize that everything that 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.760 you all right now is enough because you are who 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.440 you are and understanding that you are a culmination of 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:29.359 everything that has happened to you, or we can say 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.639 for you right if you're a believer that everything happens 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.600 for your greater good, why wouldn't grace afford you that 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.440 possibility as well? So how about we acknowledge it more? 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:47.040 How about we acknowledge the fact that we are extraordinary 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:53.520 people who need to feel as all they are valued, 0:02:54.080 --> 0:03:00.760 they're seeing, they're heard, with mistakes and flaws at all right. 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.840 I think you're worthy because I know that I am, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.040 and I love that neighbor as I love myself. Why 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:13.799 would I want anything less for you? So yeah, that's 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:18.800 afford ourselves more grays. I don't know about you, but 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.200 that space sounds nice to me. Get your right, MNDY 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:30.239 right with me, and get excited about your lives. Check 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.520 and check and check in time. This is doing day 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:39.160 reporting from Los Angeles, California, here in mid city, standing 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.640 in my closet. No, it's not because I don't have 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:49.120 a studio to go to. It's just that today, this morning, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:55.040 I need to record in my closet. I'm coming with gratitude. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.360 You know. I always say, the more grateful you are, 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.000 the more things you have to be grateful for. I'm 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:06.480 grateful today the fact that I'm coming to you in 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:13.360 my closet and I have the option of not one, 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:19.120 but two studios and which I record from it is amazing. 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:25.800 I'm so grateful. I've been checking in talking about how 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.880 I know that greater is coming, how not even just 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:37.880 for or the word for my life rather is abundance, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.440 because I'm expecting it exceedingly and beyond. And when I 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:48.919 think about the fact that Vitamin D started underneath a 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:56.000 comforter in New York and now I record in a 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:01.400 studio in Sherman Oaks, California. And the result of being 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.440 faithful from the Vitamin D that has served me being 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:11.839 the light and may way for me to have my 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:19.039 own show on the heritage station Radio Free kJ l H. Yes, 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:23.800 that's one two point three kJ H in Inglewood, California, 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:31.880 owned and operated my living national treasure Stevie Wonder. Don't 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:38.719 tell me, oh my God has set up. We're talking 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:47.200 the same dram from Detroit who always dreamed being on 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:53.200 a radio, moved from New York to get an option 0:05:54.080 --> 0:06:01.440 to have a show on an online network Accelerated Radio. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:08.719 And guess who on that Cavin Nash? Why is that important? Well, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:15.000 since I moved here and what was that September? Sepmber. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.520 If I'm not mistaken, I need to look back. But 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:24.600 I feel like that might be it. Cavin Nash has 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:29.919 always done the Quiet Storm I guess if you will, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:35.359 for kJ LANE and he was using his dream for 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:40.839 his online station in school and which I had the 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.480 Vitamin D show there. Don't tell me, oh my God 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:49.359 to set up? What do you want. They say you 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:55.800 cannot fail if you don't quit. So in family, that 0:06:55.880 --> 0:07:00.679 means you chose to quit, because if you don't quit, 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.000 you cannot fail. So then the question, MA comes, how 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:09.320 bad do you want it? Hm? I understand things that 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.880 may not be working in your favor the way you 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.640 thought they should work or when you thought they should happen. 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.960 But if you fall down seven times, get up eight. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:28.040 If you can look up, you can get up. Your 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:36.160 location is not your destination. Remember without a vision that 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.920 people will perish, so would save you? I kept the vision. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.960 I stay faithful with God showed me. How do I know? 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.080 Because it's what I feel alive? You know? I had um. 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.119 I see young lady. Her name is Misha, young lady. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:58.040 We did the same age. She might be older than me. No, relax, okay, 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:04.760 relax anywhere Masha. I met her when I was working 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:09.000 with the Steve Harvey Morning Show. She was, I want 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.200 to say, the assistant right hand to Jay Anthony Brown 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:16.760 and also what's his co host on his show? So 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.840 we've kind of kind of we have been looking at 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.280 each other and been in this journey together side by 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.840 side because I started with them in seventeen so I 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:32.640 perhaps met her in team and even over the years 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:36.200 we were just spot check in and we ran into 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.760 each other again. I taste the soul because I started 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.280 working at kJ L, which I didn't even tell you 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.240 what the show is. My bad. Look, that's how organic 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.440 you know that this is. So let me back up. 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.680 I am the host of front Page, which is a 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.840 legendary show on King J. L Age. Now I'm on 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.679 from four thirty to six am Monday through Friday. Did 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.720 you hear what I said? Monday through Friday four thirty 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:12.200 am to six am Pacific Standard time. Because we're in California. Now, 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.400 you can listen on the go if you're not in 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:21.240 the state of California by downloading the free radio free 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:26.119 kJ l H app. So, if you have an Android, 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.680 go into the Google play Store and search one or 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.920 two point three catch l A. And if you have 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.680 an iPhone, go ahead and check out the app store 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.360 and search one or two point three kJ L H. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.280 And here's a plus. When you download the app, that 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.120 means no matter where you go, you can listen. And 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:50.680 then not only that, it shows you the music that 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.120 we play on top of the post we put on 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:58.720 Facebook on top of there's this open mic feature, so 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.840 if you have something you that to say to me, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.440 you could go ahead and click that and then, like 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.360 I played on the air, I know where I get in. 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.840 Wait wait wait wait. The thing that makes it bold 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.880 is that it has an on demand feature. So it's 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.480 over there on the right hand corner. When you click that, 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.960 it gives you a list of shows. Search for the 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.040 one who says front page with Dawn Day Yeah, and 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:28.480 then click view episodes. Bob boop, stop playing and wing. 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.080 It's right there. It's the way my God is set up. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.320 So anyway, doing you're so hype, I don't know. I 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.960 can't take it. I mean I can't. I live for more. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.760 What I'm trying to say is is that you can 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:43.160 check out all the past episodes. I know you were outside, 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.000 So anyway, you can't fail if you don't quit, I 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.720 say the chorus. Yo. If you've been listening, First of all, 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.280 you know how long I've been on this journey, and 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:56.920 you probably came in with the past two and a 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.040 half years we've been doing this. I see I'm in 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.320 the closet. Used in the closet, But usually I won't 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:05.719 be able to ask your mine. But I'm not in 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.559 the studio. I'm doing this from home. I don't even know, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:09.839 but I feel like it was two and a half 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.000 years and I'm just saying from the stent of being 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.640 on my heart in that platform because you know, this 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.600 started in New York underneath the comfort at twenty twel 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:25.400 you feel me? No, it was. The address is five 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.480 eighty two St. Nicholas. I have a new apartment five 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.200 to be right on the corner of one and sat next. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.320 That's how real it was underneath my comfort of baby 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.320 sweating with my USB microphone that my mentor skip dealer 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:43.160 got from me. Stop playing with me. I don't know 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:44.920 what you won't No, I don't know who I'm talking to, 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.840 but remember, you can't fail, like don't quit. So then 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.280 I gotta ask you how bad do you want it? 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.240 M hm? So yeah, you can check out the show. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:12:00.679 Four thirty to six. We outside And now this journey 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:06.719 has not been easy, but then I guess if it were, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:13.000 everybody would do it right. And the thing that makes 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.040 it so amazing, and what I'm saying, you can't feel 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:22.240 if you don't quit, essentially my Vitamin Ded podcast with 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.800 us what we do right here, it's basically the same side, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.080 uh that I have for the front page. I'm so 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.880 grateful that rom is being made. I'm so grateful that 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:34.880 I have the gumption to show up. I'm so grateful 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.000 for the sense that I'm telling you about that I 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.600 had to go through of taking the bus and talking 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.480 to the homeless people, sharing with you about just the 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:47.160 different trials and tribulations. Because what I realized is that 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.320 that opened the door of vulnerability and I was allowing 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.400 us to connect. It's allowing me to show up to 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.880 be seen. So when I say, hey, this is what 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.000 I'm about, this is what I believe, and you believe 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.040 because you said you know why I can feel Dawn, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.160 and it's the truth, and we know the truth by 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:10.640 the way that it feels. So because I have to insert, 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:14.280 that stage of my life had prepared me for what 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.840 I had to do with kJ Lange, because honestly, let's 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.280 really think about it, this is the number two market. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.520 As far as being on the FM dial, I went 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.559 from zero and by wait, don't try to play yourself, 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.400 hold on, let me back down. Seeing I do this 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.120 often where I have to check myself and I think 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.240 we have to hold ourselves accountable, right, I said, zero, No, Dawn, 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.679 You've been doing this. It's just that you didn't have 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.640 whatever the title, as somebody said, but the passion was 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.320 still there. And I want to remind you for whoever 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:53.880 is going after your dream to know, you don't have 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:59.240 to have that title bestow from somebody else to say 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.560 who it is that you are? Who do you say 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.520 that you are? And if you weren't, then why would 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:11.400 you say that you are? If you believe in scripture 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.680 and faith? I don't know I am. Who do you 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:19.840 say that you are? Walking like you're talking. If it 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.840 walked like a duck talk like a duck, then it 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.840 ought to be a duck. So if you're walking like 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.960 you say to who you are, and you're talking like 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:27.920 you say that you are, then I guess you are 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:29.920 who you say that you are. But my question to 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:34.000 you is who do you say that you are? So 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.040 with that being said, while I'm saying zero, no, baby, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.400 I was doing the podcast I said, I started underneath 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.840 the comfort, I said, I came into l A and 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:50.240 had my show there. I'm in the studio Shermanov's California. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.480 But even before that, like I said, having a moment 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:59.760 of just online and then they're like, hey, I don't 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.080 know came first, as they said this podcast first? Or 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.840 did y'all get my segment first? Probably my podcast because 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.640 that showed like, hey, she really got her a quick men, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.680 she's about doing what she's doing. So then I get 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.560 my weekend segment. What's happening on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:22.000 Stop playing with me. Don't tell me what my God 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:26.840 can do? He said exceedingly and abundantly, far more than 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:31.880 what you could ever imagine. Do you truly believe who 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.040 God says that they are? He? She, however you want 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.520 to put it, do you believe because God is be incomprehensible? 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.480 So when you try to put a gender on God, 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.320 I gotta ask you, who do you think that you are? 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.400 Because God said exceedingly and be on far more than 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.040 what you could ever imagine, so you can't even fathom 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.000 to imagine. But if we want to get religious wise, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:57.840 interesting that so many people try to put their definition 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:02.520 on who God is, like stop, look anyway, That's why 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.240 I always say, um, even how I started saying this's 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.600 on vitamin D, but I say this on front page, 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.040 we're making wrong we make room for research, We make 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.320 room for people to be who they are. We make 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.520 room for people to express because I can't say what 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.600 your experience are to define who you are, and based 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.200 on my experiences to tell you who you are? What 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:27.520 does that look like? Who do you think that you are? Anyway, 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.320 as I would saying a lot of the features that 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.000 I use with to Steve Harvey Morning Show from going 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:39.480 to the point of online and taking this a weekend, 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.720 I'm using from page even stuff from Vitamin D, which 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.720 is the basis of everything. What do I mean by that? Well, 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.200 from page you always have the same calling to conscious cut. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.920 That's Vitamin D or as you know it, quick dose, 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.720 where I use the lyrics of popular music and I 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:03.960 intertwined it into a motivational message. Hey, then I gotta 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.320 what's happening. If you've been following along for a while, 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.000 you know we do what's happening right here where I 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:15.000 give you the news in different ways to think about things. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:20.240 What's Happening was birthed from my weekend segment with the 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:25.760 Steve Harvey Morning Show. It was entitled was Happening And 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.200 you see how in life you gotta go through experiences 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.320 because just like legos or just like bricks or anything 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.880 that you built, you gotta build it stacks one thing 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.080 on top of the other. That's why you gotta call 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.400 before you walk, walk before your dog, dog, before you run. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:49.960 You feel me, catch it while it's hot, even catch it. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.480 I say it on front page. I started that right 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.040 here on Vittam. Indeed, find has been at the mid 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:02.960 callaway self, everybody this trade and you are listening to 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:10.359 l with Don Day and I'm getting fan mail? Do 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.239 you know that I got four pieces of fan mail 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.439 within a month? How do I know? It's exactly a 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:18.000 month when I started the show in October seventeen and 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.840 the most recent piece of fan mail that I got 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:31.119 was dated November. Somebody said, are these individuals? I touched 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:35.480 them so so much? They got papers, whether it be cards, 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.080 whether it be blank sheets. Uh and and wrote on 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:45.200 there even if drew illustrations affirming me seeing they love 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.920 my energy vulnerability. I watched to write a book of 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.200 recipes and inspire folks, and how I can promote it 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:59.840 on the show. What talking about how I'm inspiring? Then? 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:05.200 And one so much to go to the post office, 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:12.080 get stamps and mail it in Oh my god. You know, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.240 I don't know if you're on social media. I'm assuming 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.639 that you are because and we're connecting at some point, 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:18.960 I mean probably follow me or you just you know, 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.159 birds of feather fock together. I'm just saying anyway, you 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.600 know what they say, even about the algorithm, how a 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.520 lot of people will look at your stuff, let alone 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.800 white it, and then those who like it, how many 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.720 of them are actually commenting. That's engagement. So this is like, 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.680 oh school engagement literally because of the audience. But then 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:40.439 also I touched you like that that you was like, 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.120 let me right in that snail mail. That took time 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.720 to get here. Oftentimes the same time, it takes some 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.159 life for us to build to get to where we're going. 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.480 And I'm just grateful of the process of how I've 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:57.320 been building with one. I feel like, even with myself, 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.879 because I wasn't the same person and that I was 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:06.879 what last year when I initially apply for the position. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:11.240 I don't get into that, but it's timing I had 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:12.760 to get rid of. I had to get to the 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:14.280 point of me sharing how I'm taking the bus just 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.239 how I mean, no homeless people, how me being more 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.119 vulnerable with myself and my authenticity of who do I 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.639 say that I am embracing my sexuality or whatever that 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.560 looks like, just being open of being me and talking 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:33.359 so candidly. Catch it while it's hot. Already mentioned catch it. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.199 I started hearing how it's resonating there. Yeah, I know. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.800 Then people writing an emails and just just putting the 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:42.919 punt of my name and just how this is a 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.520 new beginning. I got past as calling me and talking 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:50.280 about some I'm inspiring them and and if you've been listening, 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:54.080 it's just me sharing my journey of me figuring it out. 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.960 That's what I'm calling forth. And I'm so grateful. Thank 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:00.920 you God, Thank you God, Thank you God. They say, 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:03.480 the more grateful you are, the more things you have 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:09.400 to be grateful for. What aren't you grateful for? Damn? 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.320 That was so good. I thought the podcast should have 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:14.200 ended the episode, but I got more to say, more 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:18.800 to say as far as like hard times don't last always, 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:24.600 but strong people do. And I don't even know was 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:27.720 it hard? Is it anything other than hard than the 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.320 process of what a diamond goes through? You know, this 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.399 is the quote. I've shared it for a while. I 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.560 learned this. It was either my junior or college year 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:42.320 and um junior college, my junior or senior year in 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.840 college at Howard where I read on this girl's Facebook post. 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.080 What allows a diamond to shine are the multitudes of 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:52.439 cuts that have been placed within it. And you know, 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:54.760 we said, we go through these hard times. Why is 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.560 it anything different than that piece of cold whatever. This 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.560 state that many people didn't consider had holding a lot 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:04.919 of value has so much pressure or these hard times 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:10.720 that it literally transformed its physical state, it's makeup and 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.240 chipping away at these things that what we didn't see 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:17.399 were well because what we may say pruning, pruning because 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:21.159 you know, some trauma that we experienced, I don't know, 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:25.080 a loss of a loved one, um a job, I 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:27.600 don't know, you gain weight or just depressure, whatever it is. 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:32.200 But still choosing to step forth, allowing the light to 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.480 shine on us, because we said that joy comes in 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.399 the morning, So we choose to speak light, and and 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:41.080 when we choose to step in the light, then the 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:47.000 light starts to ricochet off of what we considered these imperfections. 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:53.800 It comes in because we allowed, we opened up a 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:58.240 level of vulnerability and the light is just bouncing off 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:00.879 and it's red, it's blue, it's purple, it's green, it's 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:08.680 g listening so beautifully. Oh yeah, a diamond. And see 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:12.119 we can understand the value of the diamond. How is 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:15.600 it that we can miss the value within ourselves? M hm. 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:19.520 I'm not saying that we need to just look at 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:24.000 material things, but let's be honest. We are spiritual beings 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:29.800 having a human experience. With that being said, we cannot 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:34.239 negate the fact as a human material or things that 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:42.159 we can see, smell and touch stimulate us. Hello in 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:47.480 and y'all catch it while it's hot. So with that 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:53.119 being said, we have to ensure that we touch on 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:57.080 that level of sensory. If that's how that can make sense, 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:00.000 Let's not talk to a part of us that excess. 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:03.800 See that's why I really was good home about getting 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:07.040 rid of shame. And I said this recently to another 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:10.000 radio personality who I haven't really taken a liking too 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:13.199 at kjl A. Her name is a day Lamar, and 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:15.720 she's on with the Steve Harvey Morning Show ensuring that 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:18.560 we get all the local news and traffic that's going on. 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:22.840 And I share with her. I said, I don't like shame, 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:26.000 because shame makes you feel like you're hiding. And you're 0:24:26.000 --> 0:24:28.280 only hiding if you feel like you're doing something wrong, 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:31.040 and if you're opening up a space of truth, why 0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:35.000 am I hiding? And that's important to highlight because how 0:24:35.119 --> 0:24:38.520 you do anything is how you'll do everything. And I 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:43.440 am not one to do wrong. That's not who I am. 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:45.840 I choose to be right because I choose to step 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:50.679 into the light. And she said, oh, I like that. 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:53.600 I like that. So we only hind if something that 0:24:53.640 --> 0:24:57.840 we have to be shameful for. If you're shameful, why 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:01.600 are you doing something that's wrong. I don't know about you, 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:04.119 but it feels good to be and to do good. 0:25:04.880 --> 0:25:07.240 Look I've said it before and I'll say it again. 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:13.200 We are special offers, here for a limited time. Let's 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:20.240 make account. I've said it otherways. We're here for a 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:23.560 good time, not a long time. Let's make it count. 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:31.000 It's called the present for a reason. Allow it to 0:25:31.040 --> 0:25:38.359 be that gift. Let us shine. That's what I'm gonna be. 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:46.120 That's what I'm doing. So I'm grateful. I'm so grateful. 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:51.960 There's more I can definitely say, but this is where 0:25:51.960 --> 0:25:58.200 we are. Gratitude is everything. The more grateful you are, 0:25:59.000 --> 0:26:02.119 the more things you have to be grateful for. So 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:07.240 you're gonna check me out on the front page. You 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:09.280 know what, I diverted, I need to go back to 0:26:09.320 --> 0:26:11.520 my asia. So yeah, I went on the whole branch. 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:14.120 Was about to start hold another line, looking for all 0:26:14.160 --> 0:26:16.520 another tree, but I wanted to mention my Asia and 0:26:16.520 --> 0:26:19.480 I talked about how we came up into radio together, 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:24.720 or my step since I brought her up because she said, well, 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:28.080 what is it like? What does it feel? And I 0:26:28.160 --> 0:26:31.600 share with her. I said, I ain't never felt so 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:36.400 free in my life. I'm not afraid, and I don't 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:40.440 say that out of arrogance or cockiness. I just feel 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:43.639 like I've been preparing my entire life for this moment. 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:50.880 It is my confidence that speaking and confidence is nothing 0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:55.000 more than knowing. I know who it is that I 0:26:55.080 --> 0:26:57.639 say that I am. I know what it is that 0:26:57.680 --> 0:26:59.919 I said that I want. I know because I've been 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:03.679 doing it, so I don't have to second question it 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:06.680 or second guess it. And I know that because look, 0:27:06.800 --> 0:27:13.399 vitamin D is that and it feels good. And I 0:27:13.480 --> 0:27:17.160 even shared with her. I said, even if they said 0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:20.720 doing you don't have to do on amorrow. I can 0:27:20.800 --> 0:27:28.040