Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into
Speaker 1: the Vitamin D Podcast, and I'm your host on day
Speaker 1: here to get too excited about your life. Now, if
Speaker 1: this is your first time tuning in, let me just
Speaker 1: say welcome. I'm glad to have you. In fact, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you're here on this journey with me um
Speaker 1: of getting excited about your life, of understanding that you
Speaker 1: are your greatest asset. Now, just so that we're clear,
Speaker 1: vitamin D is upun off my name. You know, my
Speaker 1: name is Dawn, and you get vitamin D from the sun.
Speaker 1: So I am here to shed light into your life.
Speaker 1: And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with
Speaker 1: celebrities and everyday people like you and me. And let
Speaker 1: me just be clear. While vitamin D is all about
Speaker 1: shed a light and we're all about positivity, we need
Speaker 1: to be clear that in order to be better, to
Speaker 1: do better, you gotta be able to see better. And
Speaker 1: so when that calls on shutting on the light, that's
Speaker 1: on the good and the bad. Okay, Now, if you've
Speaker 1: been following me on social media, you might have witnessed
Speaker 1: a bit of a transformation. Just like I talked about
Speaker 1: how you are your greatest asset. I've been putting myself
Speaker 1: to the test and I've been investing in my life
Speaker 1: bank account with working out, and I am so excited.
Speaker 1: It is my pleasure to have my personal trainer in
Speaker 1: the studio with me, and so let's eave with oh
Speaker 1: M training. UM, we're gonna talk about no comfort zones
Speaker 1: because that's where the magic happens. So, UM, without further ado,
Speaker 1: it's time for your dose a vitamin damin D right
Speaker 1: with me and get excited. Hi, laty, Hey, how's it going.
Speaker 1: That was an amazing intro. Um, You're really good at this.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thanks, happy to be here. I am so
Speaker 1: grateful that you're here. It means a lot, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: Vitamin D. I talked about how it's about getting excited
Speaker 1: about your life and you are actually assisting me with
Speaker 1: living my best life. UM. As far as when it
Speaker 1: comes down to my way, that's something I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: a struggle is just something that I have been in
Speaker 1: the midst of balancing. And you know, just when you
Speaker 1: talk about you know, your whole model is just no
Speaker 1: comfort zones because that's where the magic happens. I want
Speaker 1: people to really see that because you told me, like
Speaker 1: probably within the first week I was training with you,
Speaker 1: and you said you talked about how it's a mental
Speaker 1: thing and a physical thing and how you're only going
Speaker 1: to get out as much as you put in. So, um, Latife,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Vitamin D with Down Day podcast. How
Speaker 1: are you? I'm good. I'm good. How are you? I'm good?
Speaker 1: I love you. Yeah, we'll be out there, so y'all
Speaker 1: should see me working out. I'll be screaming like let's
Speaker 1: go Dawn day because I gotta push myself. So Latife,
Speaker 1: talk to me about oh M training, talk to me
Speaker 1: about you and your experience, Like, what is this whole
Speaker 1: personal training thing about? Okay, um, so oim training. Um,
Speaker 1: that's my brand. It's a a fitness and lifestyle brand
Speaker 1: that I created. Um August it became official. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it's a fitness and lifestyle brand. I offer personal training
Speaker 1: and fitness both in person and virtually. Also, I'm a
Speaker 1: playlist workout playlists. UM called on them tapes. Talk about
Speaker 1: that in a little while as well as merch um
Speaker 1: as you spoke a little bit about that, and I
Speaker 1: don't when I got my own training right now. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's the Black on Black training t the Owen
Speaker 1: Training te um from my first collection, the OEM collection.
Speaker 1: I have the No Comfort Zone t on right now
Speaker 1: from the collection as well. But yeah, I mean, fitness
Speaker 1: is something that I've been into professionally for a little
Speaker 1: bit over two years now. UM. I have a basketball background,
Speaker 1: so I was playing professional basketball before UM, and it
Speaker 1: was just something that, um, I won't say it was
Speaker 1: a natural transition because it was a tough transition out
Speaker 1: of basketball. That was something I was doing my entire life,
Speaker 1: but it was something I gravitated towards because it was
Speaker 1: something that was a part of basketball. So it was
Speaker 1: something that I already had, like you know, one ft
Speaker 1: in and just talking to a friend who was also
Speaker 1: a personal trainer made me want to like dive deeper
Speaker 1: into it. So I was working at a gym the
Speaker 1: previous year in two thousand nineteen, and obviously during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: gym shut down and stuff like that. And so I
Speaker 1: have friends telling me, you know, you need to you know,
Speaker 1: post your workouts more stuff like this, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and I started thinking like why not. We weren't doing
Speaker 1: anything at the time anyway, you know, most most of
Speaker 1: l A was shut down. We were cooped up in
Speaker 1: the in my apartment, so I started recording more. It's
Speaker 1: not even something that I was like, Oh, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start this brand like right now. It's like literally like
Speaker 1: matured on its own, like it was just so nik. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how it got to you know,
Speaker 1: where it is today. I just, you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: working every day, you know, just hearing that because I
Speaker 1: you know, I just put up a video on my
Speaker 1: own social media account just ingratitude of just how I
Speaker 1: started out with Vitamin D. I was underneath the comforter
Speaker 1: in New York with my Samsung USB Mike sweating in
Speaker 1: between breaths. And we're in a studio right now, Shermanos, California.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me that it's not possible. And so I guess,
Speaker 1: like a lot of people, I think you need to
Speaker 1: realize when we talk about like dreams and in the
Speaker 1: process of working towards it. But even in the working
Speaker 1: towards process, why are you doing this? Like, you know,
Speaker 1: was this something that hits you home because you felt
Speaker 1: like you had the stand shape. I know you did
Speaker 1: it with basketball, but oftentimes, like I went by myself
Speaker 1: because weight has always been something I've dealt with. Um,
Speaker 1: it's always been a means of losing weight. I've had
Speaker 1: some people to say that they work out to maintain weight.
Speaker 1: What is your Was it just mainly because you were
Speaker 1: playing basketball? Yeah? I mean after, My motivation during basketball
Speaker 1: was always to like try to be the best. So
Speaker 1: that's where you know, working out and staying in shape
Speaker 1: come from. So once that ended, it was like, where
Speaker 1: does that motivation come from? Um? Obviously people want to
Speaker 1: look good and stuff like that, and so that was
Speaker 1: the main thing. I just wanted to continue being healthy
Speaker 1: after because as a professional basketball player, you know, you're
Speaker 1: like an elite athlete. I didn't want to like fall
Speaker 1: too far from that, you know what I'm saying. I've
Speaker 1: come accustomed to look in a certain way, feeling a
Speaker 1: certain way, moving a certain way, and I didn't want
Speaker 1: to let that go. So that's where the I guess
Speaker 1: the drive and passionate motivation for continuing fitness and learning
Speaker 1: and within the within fitness came about because you played
Speaker 1: You played ball overseas, right, Yeah, So I played in
Speaker 1: a few different countries, started in column be a. Um
Speaker 1: played in Kazakhstan, Latvia, and most recently in two seventeen Turkey,
Speaker 1: I was in Istanbul. What was that like? Um, it
Speaker 1: was an amazing experience. Yeah. I lived there for uh
Speaker 1: like half seasons, full season stuff like that, so between
Speaker 1: you know, three to six months in each spot. It
Speaker 1: was a great experience. I learned a lot, was able
Speaker 1: to experience different cultures. I wasn't closed minded, but it
Speaker 1: definitely like open more. I look back on it and
Speaker 1: actually wished that I would have liked immersed myself more
Speaker 1: while I was there. I was so like one track
Speaker 1: minded at the time as far as like basketball, basketball, basketball,
Speaker 1: But um, it was a great experience. I definitely wanna
Speaker 1: continue traveling the world and learning. It's a huge world,
Speaker 1: a world out there when you just think about like
Speaker 1: how people think, how they dress, how they talk, and
Speaker 1: just life. Yeah, but it was something that's so interesting
Speaker 1: that stood out to me. What you just said is
Speaker 1: that fact of being open. And I think that's something
Speaker 1: that even in this about because I've always been one
Speaker 1: to be active, despite you know, whatever the scale has said,
Speaker 1: despite of what you see, I've always been an athletic
Speaker 1: individual and I find that you know, when pushing yourself
Speaker 1: in an athletic realm and you talk about being open,
Speaker 1: it's like being open to stretch yourself to a possibility
Speaker 1: that you didn't know. And that's why I love That's
Speaker 1: why I love about own training because it's all about
Speaker 1: no comfort zones, because you know, when you're comfortable, you
Speaker 1: get used to being the same thing. If you want
Speaker 1: to see results, if you want to see change, it
Speaker 1: comes from you doing more, being more, reaching furthermore. And
Speaker 1: you know, I want to make sure that we shine
Speaker 1: light about why it's important to perhaps invest in a
Speaker 1: personal trainer or just get on a regiment of working
Speaker 1: out because just like I said, like I'll be talking
Speaker 1: to myself or working out, you see me, let's code
Speaker 1: on day because it's a mental thing. And even like
Speaker 1: um along with being mental, like you got to calculate
Speaker 1: your numbers, You're you're focusing on your position, on your posture,
Speaker 1: and then you yield these awesome results. So how did
Speaker 1: you get the name? Oh I'm training? So oh I'm training.
Speaker 1: It's also a flip off my name. So obviously my
Speaker 1: first name is latif Um friends commitee, but my middle
Speaker 1: name is oh sorry, oh my last year. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: need a drune ball. That's so dramatic. Oh sorry, y'all
Speaker 1: go ahead. And that's funny like even saying it here,
Speaker 1: because I went like my entire life like just hardly
Speaker 1: telling anybody my middle name. I don't know, this might
Speaker 1: sound funny, but growing up it had sorry in it,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm not sorry, like like, so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't tell anybody that name. So I was like, oh, sorry,
Speaker 1: people don't make They are already like made fun of
Speaker 1: my first name called Queen Latifa and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, the you're gonna make fun of sorry,
Speaker 1: oh sorry, and stuff like that. So it was something
Speaker 1: I kept to myself. But again, my identity throughout my
Speaker 1: entire life was basketball. So after transition out of basketball
Speaker 1: and when I finally figured that I wanted to start
Speaker 1: a brand, I didn't want to force any names. It
Speaker 1: had to be organic. Um. I had already had like
Speaker 1: ideas of no comfort zones and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: it just made sense because that name made me feel
Speaker 1: uncomfortable for so many years, and it was kind of
Speaker 1: like I was just embracing me myself. Um, And so
Speaker 1: that's why I thought that, like, oh, I'm training was perfect.
Speaker 1: We sure so much. Okay, So if you didn't know
Speaker 1: I'm an Airys, yes, if you couldn't tell by the fire,
Speaker 1: the drive, the energy. Um latife is also an aries
Speaker 1: but energy. Hey, gang gang gang. But here's the thing
Speaker 1: that's so interesting though, what you said, just like how
Speaker 1: you had a moment of embracing your name like Day
Speaker 1: as part of my middle name, and for years, like
Speaker 1: growing up, I did not like it because my family
Speaker 1: being from down south, but hey, don't die, don't die.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was so embarrassing. But it's just
Speaker 1: amazing of how you put it, of how you said
Speaker 1: you took a name that made you so uncomfortable, and
Speaker 1: look you just established it's just now and look what's happening.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know how many interviews you've been on,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying the magic that's happening. And even
Speaker 1: with myself of for a while of just not wanting
Speaker 1: to embrace Day, how like my name chose me, like
Speaker 1: dawn being the break of day. It's a new dawn,
Speaker 1: it's a new name. I received that. But it's it's
Speaker 1: amazing of what could come of that when we go
Speaker 1: and embracing ourselves. And I guess I look at even
Speaker 1: my journey with you with working out oftentimes, Um, you
Speaker 1: will hear somebody wanted to make a change out of
Speaker 1: something that dislike, Like I want to change it because
Speaker 1: I don't like it. But what happened to that changeing?
Speaker 1: Because you love something like you lov and get so
Speaker 1: much that you're gonna curate. And it's something about when
Speaker 1: you love and you have passion for something like um,
Speaker 1: you pay attention, you hold it with care, um, you
Speaker 1: keep it near and dear, and so being in the
Speaker 1: situation of having something that maybe I didn't hold on too,
Speaker 1: being able to hold onto it, and then seeing how
Speaker 1: it's able to be applied in our lives, like, that's dope, amazing.
Speaker 1: Imagine if we if we all got to the point
Speaker 1: we just embraced ourselves. Right. It's been happening for myself,
Speaker 1: especially the past. I think I've grown a lot last year,
Speaker 1: I mean, especially being in the pandemic. It forced me
Speaker 1: to grow a lot. So I definitely uh relate to
Speaker 1: what you were just saying. So when you came out
Speaker 1: with the whole idea of no comfort zones, were you
Speaker 1: already because you also are employed by a major company.
Speaker 1: Were you with the company at first? And then you
Speaker 1: decided to branch y'all? Like, how how did you him
Speaker 1: training come to? Really, I was working at the gym
Speaker 1: um it shut down. So again I was at the apartment.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really much work going on at the time.
Speaker 1: It was at the time where people were you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't know what was going on with the with
Speaker 1: COVID and stuff like that. You know, he didn't even
Speaker 1: want to be near other people at the time. And
Speaker 1: so again it came down to like like what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? You're just gonna wait or you know,
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So yeah, again I have friends, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of close friends you know, telling me to
Speaker 1: you know, post more and stuff like that, and it
Speaker 1: really motivated me, like I said to do so and
Speaker 1: doing so. It just it just it matured on its own,
Speaker 1: started playing around with like different things as far as
Speaker 1: like social media and how I want to my brand
Speaker 1: to be and what I want direction I want to
Speaker 1: go in. Yeah, I decided that I was going to
Speaker 1: make it official, you know, get my LLC with it
Speaker 1: and and everything like that. And so after I got
Speaker 1: the LC, I was like, you know, this is my
Speaker 1: business now. So UM, I started taking it way more seriously,
Speaker 1: got you know, designs, lo goals, stuff like that. Um.
Speaker 1: And I've been blessed to like work with a close
Speaker 1: friend that helping me with like a lot of the
Speaker 1: designs and stuff like that. So it's just been a
Speaker 1: great process. I'm enjoying the journey. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: honestly don't know like where I wanna, Like, I don't
Speaker 1: have any like aspiration I want to be the biggest
Speaker 1: fitness brand and stuff like that. I just want to
Speaker 1: continue building on on what it is I'm doing. I
Speaker 1: don't have a ceiling on it. So if it wants
Speaker 1: to go to the moon, it can go to the moon.
Speaker 1: I'll go to the moon with it. Hey saying we're
Speaker 1: gonna take it to the moon, take it to the star. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But again, I have no expectations of it though, And
Speaker 1: I think that's healthy. Okay, So you know, being the basis,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, I can attest to it
Speaker 1: because if any abody's working out, if anybody's pushing themselves,
Speaker 1: if anybody's growing, as long as you're living, you've experienced
Speaker 1: some sort of non comfort zone. So talk to me
Speaker 1: about what it means to have no comfort zones as
Speaker 1: far as all I'm training, as far as latif, as
Speaker 1: far as like life. Yeah, well, no comfort zones and
Speaker 1: in all, in all aspects of life, like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like an uncomfortable you know, you're gonna be putting
Speaker 1: an uncomfortable position. It's an uncomfortable you know, metamorphosis that
Speaker 1: you know that must take place in order for us
Speaker 1: to grow. And that's in any situation. You know, it
Speaker 1: could be with working out, it could be job, life, relationships, whatever.
Speaker 1: In order to grow, you have to get out of
Speaker 1: your comfort zone. It's the only way. It's literally the
Speaker 1: only way. So with that being said, I was like, um,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a no brainer, Like I don't want
Speaker 1: to be in my comfort zone because I can't grow
Speaker 1: if I'm not if I'm in my comfort zone. So
Speaker 1: that's where that came about, and it's kind of just
Speaker 1: grown into like the mantra that I've been pushing. I
Speaker 1: just got a trademark is mine is mine? So um yeah,
Speaker 1: no comfort zone. It's easy. It's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of no comfort zone in the future, for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I love that because I feel like, um, if
Speaker 1: anybody's longing for greatness, if anybody's searching for more, chances
Speaker 1: are you probably are already uncomfortable and the only places
Speaker 1: to go is to within no comfort lines. Because that's
Speaker 1: when you know that's the role let's traveled like, that's
Speaker 1: when you know that you can create something from it.
Speaker 1: And it's just an amazing moment because you know, as
Speaker 1: we're working out and as my body is shaking, as
Speaker 1: I'm dripping of sweat, like the sweat is listen to me,
Speaker 1: okay when I tell you that the sweat is dripping,
Speaker 1: it's excreting, it's shooting out of my body. I'm doing
Speaker 1: a push up and it's ripping down. Is a very
Speaker 1: hard worker, by the way, guys, very hard work. Hello, somebody,
Speaker 1: thank you for seeing me. Um, you just realize of
Speaker 1: how much it does take. And you know I sent
Speaker 1: you the video. But I've been talking about this a
Speaker 1: lot on the podcast ever since. Brian, you know, he
Speaker 1: handles all the Magic Judge to the Vitamin D podcast
Speaker 1: with Earl Nightingale, and he talks about the strangest secret
Speaker 1: and it's all about how you think like your mindset,
Speaker 1: because just like with training with you, my body is
Speaker 1: saying no, maybe, oh, we don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: It's shaking, it's sweaty, even my mind where I have
Speaker 1: to verbally say it out loud like Dawn, let's go,
Speaker 1: because it's something about the trigger of the mind and
Speaker 1: it's you know, there's something that you also say on
Speaker 1: the website. So I'm hoping that you can talk about
Speaker 1: a little bit more of just talking about the benefits
Speaker 1: like mentally, physically and emotionally when it comes to working out. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the benefits of exercises in the um, whether
Speaker 1: that's you know, way control. It improves your mood, UM
Speaker 1: boost the energy. I know, UM, when I can, I
Speaker 1: try to work out at six in the morning. It
Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but after I'm like more alert and if
Speaker 1: I would have slept in until nine am, I'm energized,
Speaker 1: I'm active, I'm ready to go. So it definitely gives
Speaker 1: you a boost. It promotes better sleep, skin health. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it's endless. Um, there's no reason that it
Speaker 1: shouldn't be a part of everybody's routine, right. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's a necessity when you talk about success. Um,
Speaker 1: your physical, your emotional, you like your nutrition. Um, those
Speaker 1: are just areas that I feel like you're just a must,
Speaker 1: like a go to, just like water. Right, And I
Speaker 1: think I think that people are taking it more seriously,
Speaker 1: especially after last year just seeing you know, you know,
Speaker 1: health become became the center of attention. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the world was on on pause because of it. So
Speaker 1: I think definitely I've noticed people are actively trying to
Speaker 1: make your routine to either exercise, to get a personal trainer,
Speaker 1: to to eat better. People are definitely taking it more seriously.
Speaker 1: I've noticed, right, And you know, I'm just looking at
Speaker 1: myself and my journey like happening with you. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is just a problem moment, Like I couldn't even
Speaker 1: do one push up yo yo. Guys like yeah, don
Speaker 1: our first session for sure, Like I always tell her,
Speaker 1: like you can barely do you know someone so amount
Speaker 1: of push ups or you know, the reverse lines or
Speaker 1: whatever were doing. She's like moving. She's totally different than
Speaker 1: the first time when we met, you know, some months ago.
Speaker 1: So I'm happy to be along with you, along with
Speaker 1: you on your journey. I'm excited for your future. Um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be amazing. It's an amazing process. Yes, it is.
Speaker 1: So it is so like it's one thing to be
Speaker 1: in the moment of, oh my gosh, I'm sweating, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I feel like my life is over. Somebody
Speaker 1: helped me, and then ball when you step in that
Speaker 1: mirror and your body be like it's almost like hopefully
Speaker 1: people are at a job that they love. But going
Speaker 1: to your job like obviously, like you might not like
Speaker 1: it or do it all the time, but when you
Speaker 1: get that check, you like, right right, and it's like
Speaker 1: that's the payoff. That's the payoff of being uncomfortable. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's what I talk about about being your
Speaker 1: greatest asset, because it's all about what type of deposits
Speaker 1: are you putting in your life, Like what are you
Speaker 1: doing to add something to make you better, to do better,
Speaker 1: and just in the sense that's not going to only
Speaker 1: affecting you directly, but it indirectly affects everyone around you,
Speaker 1: Like you're in a better mood. So now that you've
Speaker 1: inspired me to want to go after all that, it's
Speaker 1: like a gift that truly keeps on giving. And you know,
Speaker 1: when I post up my stuff on social media, I'm
Speaker 1: posting you know something that you put up. It's so
Speaker 1: amazing to see so many people will be like, Dawn,
Speaker 1: you know, wow, you're inspired me or Dawn. It's possible
Speaker 1: because at the end of it's not easy to commit
Speaker 1: yourself to say I want to work out because guess
Speaker 1: what the only obstacle is you Like, it's like your
Speaker 1: greatest strength and your weaknesses are coming together. Right, who's
Speaker 1: gonna with right? And guess what, it's only our bad
Speaker 1: do you want it? And that's the thing that I
Speaker 1: try to tell people when it comes to their dreams,
Speaker 1: like literally, like you have to want your dreams as
Speaker 1: bad as you want to breathe. And when you get
Speaker 1: in a sense of just even training and working out
Speaker 1: with you, it's like, listen, how bad do you want it? Dawn?
Speaker 1: You are the determining factor as to whether you're going
Speaker 1: to achieve or whether you're going to quote unquote fail
Speaker 1: this moment. Totally agree. Why do you think about the
Speaker 1: people are afraid of personal trainers? Um, that's an interesting question. Um.
Speaker 1: I talked to a lot of people, UM that says
Speaker 1: that interested they you know, they want to train, and
Speaker 1: then they're like, oh, um, I'm gonna work out for
Speaker 1: a couple of months and like get in better shape,
Speaker 1: which is kind of like mind blowing to me because
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm here to like help you, you know,
Speaker 1: on that journey, on that path to get in shape.
Speaker 1: And I think people are sometimes maybe insecure, embarrassed at
Speaker 1: whatever level they are, but often like reassure people, like
Speaker 1: where you're at is where you need to start. Wherever
Speaker 1: you're at, it doesn't matter if you're beginner, you know, intermediate, expert, whatever,
Speaker 1: Just start, just start. You gotta start somewhere. The intimidation,
Speaker 1: I guess, I don't know, maybe most Finnish trainers look
Speaker 1: a certain way stuff like that. I don't know, um,
Speaker 1: but most things that I noticed is just insecurities stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But I think everybody should throw that out
Speaker 1: the window. Um, start where you are, wherever that is, UM,
Speaker 1: and if you can work with a pt a good
Speaker 1: pt UM, it's training training, It's gonna do nothing but
Speaker 1: be beneficial for you. You know. It's so interesting. I
Speaker 1: think one of the things that stands out to me
Speaker 1: is I think it's a level of shame I've been
Speaker 1: checking out recently, and I want you to check her
Speaker 1: out to her name is Burnet Brown, and she talks
Speaker 1: about the whole level of shame and vulnerability. And I
Speaker 1: think it's some type sort of shame because it's like, well,
Speaker 1: who are you trying to play yourself? Like you work
Speaker 1: out and it's like, oh, you clearly you don't work out,
Speaker 1: or you know, you get into this whole intimidation factor.
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't even know if your outfit is there together.
Speaker 1: But one thing that um and I sent you the
Speaker 1: video of Earl Nightingale talking about the Strangest Secret, is
Speaker 1: just like when you measure success, it's just about to
Speaker 1: having the idea of having your eye on a goal
Speaker 1: and then working towards the goal. So like for me,
Speaker 1: and I said this on a lot previous episode, I'm
Speaker 1: getting the whole victory of doing twelve push ups first
Speaker 1: to somebody else to be like, oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: can't do one, or somebody else is like I'm doing fifty.
Speaker 1: But it's my measurement. And I think it's that whole
Speaker 1: situation of your in your lane of your best life.
Speaker 1: And if I'm in my lane, I can't look at
Speaker 1: you and still be focused on my lane. Comparing comparing,
Speaker 1: it will we'll kill you, you know, whether that's you know,
Speaker 1: social media whatever, whether that's deterring you from you know,
Speaker 1: starting your Finnish fitness goals, finished journey with a PT
Speaker 1: or whatnot. But yeah, um, I would stay away from
Speaker 1: the comparisons. Yeah, like you said, stay in your own lane.
Speaker 1: Everybody's on their own journey on path and you know
Speaker 1: something else. I think that's also so like dope about
Speaker 1: just your service and when you offer us because you'll
Speaker 1: be working out and you got this ball playlist, so
Speaker 1: tell us about you know, because listen. Okay, so on tapes?
Speaker 1: Is that appropriate time? Tap tapes? Catch it on? I
Speaker 1: have it on Apple Music and Spotify. Okay, so exactly
Speaker 1: what you can get the Vitamin D podcasting more and
Speaker 1: I love it And I told you this when I
Speaker 1: was listening to it, I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: because like I want to miss the working out. And
Speaker 1: then you curate these play lists that work perfectly with
Speaker 1: the mindset of whatever you're doing, about being your best,
Speaker 1: doing your best. How you gotta be a j gotta
Speaker 1: be your guard store, you know, sometimes you need that
Speaker 1: extra push. And this soundtrack that you provide on your
Speaker 1: mixtapes are instrumental And I said before how Vitamin D
Speaker 1: started out with just I would use lyrics of popular music,
Speaker 1: like before it was like having dope people like you
Speaker 1: in the studio. I would use the lyrics of popular
Speaker 1: music and intertwining with the motivational message. So what made
Speaker 1: you get started with Owen tapes? So funny thing is
Speaker 1: I originally got the idea, like back in two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen when I was in Turkey and still playing basketball.
Speaker 1: It was like, originally gonna be like making playlists. It
Speaker 1: was gonna be about like basketball, like whether I was
Speaker 1: gonna make a playlist maybe maybe you're coming off injury
Speaker 1: or post game or pregame stuff like that. So I
Speaker 1: never did it, but it was always a thought, like
Speaker 1: I always love music like most people, and I just
Speaker 1: think music it takes you through like so many emotions, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like so many emotions. And how I curate the playlist
Speaker 1: is it's not like all like you know, heavy rap
Speaker 1: or R and B. I like to because your workout
Speaker 1: you're not doing well. Maybe you are on some certain instances,
Speaker 1: but in most cases you're not going a hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour the entire time. You don't you don't want
Speaker 1: to hear. Maybe on that part you want to hear
Speaker 1: like some rap something to get you going blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're like warming up and you want to ease
Speaker 1: into things, so you know, some chill music on there.
Speaker 1: I just want to take you through, like all the
Speaker 1: different emotions while you're working out, whether that's to make
Speaker 1: you dance, to make you go harder, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe think about your your girlfriend and boyfriend, UM, all that.
Speaker 1: Just I want you to go through all your emotions. UM,
Speaker 1: just like when you're when you're working out, anything that's
Speaker 1: like motivating or inspiring. Hey, that's now you see why
Speaker 1: I got Latife on the podcast. Now. I think that's
Speaker 1: so important because I think you know, no matter what
Speaker 1: medium you're in, Like I feel like we're all different
Speaker 1: types of storytellers, and it's basically to have a start
Speaker 1: and you're getting to a finish, whether that's with numbers,
Speaker 1: whether that's you behind you know, UM an operating table,
Speaker 1: or perhaps you're cooking up a recipe, or just perhaps
Speaker 1: me on a podcast and you training somebody. I think
Speaker 1: it's so important to have the ability to tell a
Speaker 1: story because that means it's a journey and having that
Speaker 1: journey meaning that's an experience, meaning that we have a start,
Speaker 1: we have a middle, and we're going. And I hold,
Speaker 1: I love the whole idea of training because it's not
Speaker 1: like you get to a finite moment. Like the whole
Speaker 1: training is like a becoming. It's whole evolutionary process. And
Speaker 1: I guess it resonates with me because you know, being
Speaker 1: on this journey, I have my upset, my downtime. You know,
Speaker 1: I have times that I'm doing well as far as
Speaker 1: you know, working out and completing the diet, and sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm not. Can you talk about that challenge and that,
Speaker 1: you know, is it okay to beat ourselves up? Like
Speaker 1: how do you stay in the game mentally? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think we're all human, so we're gonna go
Speaker 1: through those different emotions, those waves and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I think the most important thing is to know what
Speaker 1: your goal is, what you want to accomplish, and just
Speaker 1: keep striving, just keep pushing. It's gonna be down days.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be days that's harder than just like in anything,
Speaker 1: I think to just stay focused on first off, be
Speaker 1: aware enough to know that in terms of knowing that
Speaker 1: it's gonna be down days, it's gonna be updates. I
Speaker 1: don't think often tell like my close friends when they
Speaker 1: get like, you know, big winds, don't get too high,
Speaker 1: too low, Like I'm super proud of you. Definitely like
Speaker 1: pat yourself on the back, like you're doing your thing,
Speaker 1: but like let's keep it pushing though. Like just like
Speaker 1: you can get super high, you can get super low,
Speaker 1: and the the lows can be really really bad if
Speaker 1: you don't watch itself. So I just think being self
Speaker 1: aware of knowing that there's gonna be down days, just
Speaker 1: have your mind focused on the end result, the goal
Speaker 1: as well as you know the journey. It's just part
Speaker 1: of the journey. And I think it's just showing a
Speaker 1: lot of grace because I think oftentimes we can be
Speaker 1: so hard on ourselves, right, and it's just like you
Speaker 1: have to have a moment of forgiveness of just giving
Speaker 1: yourself a moment to just be to figure it out,
Speaker 1: to understand that you are further than what you started.
Speaker 1: The hardest step is just taking the first one, right
Speaker 1: that what you just said, um r P Nipsey, But
Speaker 1: I saw like a video him like last month on Instagram,
Speaker 1: and um, It was a younger video of him at
Speaker 1: a younger age. UM, but he was talking about like
Speaker 1: just just keep going, and he was like, you'll turn
Speaker 1: around and you'll see like you're closer to where you
Speaker 1: like are striving to get to them where you started.
Speaker 1: So if it ain't no reason to like stop and
Speaker 1: turn around because you already like closer to your goal,
Speaker 1: so by quit. Um. But yeah, that that what you
Speaker 1: just said. Definitely Like, uh, brought that to my my
Speaker 1: memory bank. Why do you think so many people quit?
Speaker 1: That's a tough one. It's tough just because I don't
Speaker 1: even know what that means. Um. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: life is hard. Life is hard. Um. If you don't
Speaker 1: have sometimes you need to support system. Those are important. Again,
Speaker 1: people quit for all types of different reasons. That failed
Speaker 1: relationship that can trigger something, finances that can trigger something,
Speaker 1: all type. I mean, my goal, My goal is just
Speaker 1: to inspire and motivate. UM. Hopefully the people that I
Speaker 1: crossed path with know that quit is not an option. Hey.
Speaker 1: That's why I always say, like, you can't fail if
Speaker 1: you don't quit, right, And I think oftentimes, like I
Speaker 1: think people come to the whole notion of quitting or
Speaker 1: ceasing or stopping or whatever because they lost focus of
Speaker 1: the vision. And whether that losing focus is just being
Speaker 1: concentrated on each step the way there. Then it's like
Speaker 1: you know how they say yard by yard life is hard,
Speaker 1: inch by inch last, And since you've got so busy
Speaker 1: in yourself with the particulars that you forgot the whole
Speaker 1: purpose of it. Because I don't mean interrupt, but also
Speaker 1: sometimes people um want the instant gratification and when they
Speaker 1: don't get it, it's like it don't work. But it's like,
Speaker 1: do it for some months, do it for some years. First,
Speaker 1: because it didn't just take you a couple of days
Speaker 1: or a couple of hours to get you even in
Speaker 1: the space of feeling the white you feel, So why
Speaker 1: would you think it's so quick to get out of?
Speaker 1: Exactly hence no comfort zones. Oh, it's something when you
Speaker 1: gotta cut the light on yourself and you gotta see
Speaker 1: the truth. So even with yourself, what kind of uncomfortable
Speaker 1: situations you find yourself out of, whether it be your
Speaker 1: career in basketball, like you know, evolutionizing as a trainer,
Speaker 1: like what what's funny is doing basketball? I had tons
Speaker 1: of uncomfortable situations you know, playing overseas is like tons
Speaker 1: tons of pressure you gotta especially you know Americans have
Speaker 1: to perform over there or you know they've seen you
Speaker 1: home with the quickness, so it's it's tons of pressure
Speaker 1: like every day. And I thought that was pressure until
Speaker 1: I transitioned out of basketball. Really, what's your way? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean it was just like again, that was my identity,
Speaker 1: that was all I know, all I knew. Transitioning out
Speaker 1: of basketball, It's like what now? Who am I? Now?
Speaker 1: What am I supposed to do now? It definitely wasn't
Speaker 1: an easy transition. How did you find yourself and who
Speaker 1: you are? UM? A lot of like try and fail,
Speaker 1: a lot of like trying and fail. Um. I attempted
Speaker 1: at a few different um, professor, and that didn't stick.
Speaker 1: That wasn't I realized soon that it wasn't a passion.
Speaker 1: And I know myself. I know when I'm not passionate
Speaker 1: about something or totally interested, I'm not gonna get my hunted.
Speaker 1: A lot of people always come to people like Dawn,
Speaker 1: how do you find your passion? So how or what
Speaker 1: was the determined factor that you were like? You know what?
Speaker 1: This is not at as far as like different jobs. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: how did you identify like this is not the passion
Speaker 1: and you knew you had to get out because I'm
Speaker 1: miserable doing during the shift or whatever whereever it is.
Speaker 1: I won't you know, say any names of the jobs,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I want to go home as soon as
Speaker 1: I get there. I mean that was an easy tale
Speaker 1: for me. But with fitness, um, for example, in basketball,
Speaker 1: just because I loved it so much, I would be
Speaker 1: on YouTube for hours just watching like highlights just because
Speaker 1: I was entertained. Also I wanted to learn. But like
Speaker 1: I loved basketball that much, I knew fitness was a
Speaker 1: passion when I found myself like scrolling on Instagram at
Speaker 1: like workout videos for like thirty minutes and like YouTube,
Speaker 1: Like I knew that it was a passion and something
Speaker 1: I was interested in because you didn't have to like
Speaker 1: pay me to like to do that, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like I was really interested. I really wanted
Speaker 1: to learn more. I really wanted to grow in it.
Speaker 1: So I think when you know when it's a passion,
Speaker 1: like you'll know you'll be totally interested in it and
Speaker 1: probably like you won't even necessarily need to get paid
Speaker 1: from it. At least at first. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: that's how much you're like interested in it. Um. I
Speaker 1: think people know, Wait, so is it too late to
Speaker 1: get some free sessions? Says you're so passionate about it?
Speaker 1: First session anything for you? Listen, you guys heard it
Speaker 1: right here on the Viti and T talk to podcast. Um,
Speaker 1: that's real. That's so real because I think we all
Speaker 1: get in this moment of feeling like having to have
Speaker 1: a job to get that money, but then there's still
Speaker 1: some sort of unfulfillment and it's like the thing that
Speaker 1: helps you breathe even when you don't even know you
Speaker 1: need oxygen. Um. I think that's kind of been like
Speaker 1: the fuel to keep like pushing because you know, nobody's
Speaker 1: when you're going after your dreams, nobody's gonna root further
Speaker 1: further you than yourself. Like you gotta want it, and
Speaker 1: if you try and establish a brand, you gotta be
Speaker 1: so excited about it that you enroll other people to
Speaker 1: get excited about it just because you're excited about it.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if a lot of people realize
Speaker 1: or are you realizing, like what your dream is and
Speaker 1: what it is that you want to do because you know,
Speaker 1: if you asked the TV, he says, great things don't
Speaker 1: come from comfort zones, and the first step in any
Speaker 1: journey is to get out of them, right, right, How
Speaker 1: do you get out of being uncomfortable doing something that's uncomfortable? Yeah, exactly. Um,
Speaker 1: it might be something that you have an itch that
Speaker 1: you want to try, or something like that, but maybe
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you're scared something like that. That probably
Speaker 1: means you need to do it. Mm hmmm, because you're
Speaker 1: gonna be uncomfortable and you're gonna be n grow from me.
Speaker 1: And you gotta know, because it's like, it has to
Speaker 1: be something that's driving you towards this, right, and you
Speaker 1: know that it's something that's challenging because it's not easy
Speaker 1: for you to get but it's still some sort of interest.
Speaker 1: So then you have to ask yourself as why not.
Speaker 1: I think oftentimes we look at a certain situations and
Speaker 1: things that happened to us, it's like, oh, why mean,
Speaker 1: why mean? But why not you? And in this instance,
Speaker 1: why won't you be great? Why won't you dedicate to
Speaker 1: loving yourself so much that you're not only like feel better,
Speaker 1: you physically look better emotionally like your skin, like like
Speaker 1: I feel like when you love on yourself, and in
Speaker 1: this instance that we're talking about, like working out, you
Speaker 1: get permission for other people to find some sort of
Speaker 1: love on themselves. And it's just like people feel it.
Speaker 1: It's an energy, right, yeah, people feel it. And it's
Speaker 1: like whether we're feeling out, we're working with you, whether
Speaker 1: it's because I'm listening to your own mix tapes, or
Speaker 1: whether I'm wearing your apparel, it's just the whole idea
Speaker 1: of getting out of the comfort zones. And I understand
Speaker 1: you just dropped another line of merch, right yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I had. Um, it's my second collection. It was
Speaker 1: collection you can you could understand who I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: talking to you? Okay, Lativa, Oh I'm trying. Okay. In
Speaker 1: case you wonder, I'm training dot co. Check out the website. Okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: I just had to let them know they work. Confused.
Speaker 1: Can you bean my hype man? Can you just walk
Speaker 1: around with me like on the day to day? Hey? Um,
Speaker 1: it's called the Magical Things Collection. So it's it's one shirt,
Speaker 1: two different color ways. Magical things, Uh, happening outside of
Speaker 1: the comfort zones. Um? So that was the push for
Speaker 1: this this one. It was just the another iteration of
Speaker 1: getting out of your comfort zone, letting people know that,
Speaker 1: you know, magical things happen outside coal we you create stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, just when you think that you know you're
Speaker 1: not unsure whether or not you can go after your dreams,
Speaker 1: or just when you think that you can't do something,
Speaker 1: you've been equipped biologically, like this should be the get go.
Speaker 1: Biologically your body was designed to create life. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing. If you get caught up on making life
Speaker 1: out of flesh and skin and bones, you forget the
Speaker 1: life that you create when it comes to just creating
Speaker 1: an opportunity, creating a different film, creating a different genre,
Speaker 1: just creating something new, and it's magical. And I feel
Speaker 1: like sometimes we go through this bout and I say
Speaker 1: about because we have these little bouts in life, but
Speaker 1: we forget our magic. Isn't that crazy? Like I guess
Speaker 1: it's mind blowing because I find myself in a slump
Speaker 1: at times when things go you know, disarray. But I
Speaker 1: think it's the same thing where I was talking about
Speaker 1: how you got to make sure that you have the vision.
Speaker 1: The vision is the vision. Now I want to go
Speaker 1: onto the vision. But since we're on the topic of
Speaker 1: the apparel, understanding that you're offering the sweet little deal
Speaker 1: vitamin D um hey, vitamin D fifteen. So you can
Speaker 1: check out the the shop on training dot co click
Speaker 1: the shop and um you can check it out at
Speaker 1: the checkout, type in Vitamin D fifteen, Vitamin D fifteen.
Speaker 1: So soon this this little this episode comes out, you
Speaker 1: gotta make sure that you're tuned in. Check out oh
Speaker 1: M training dot co dot c oh get your apparel
Speaker 1: so you can be flied. You're gonna see my picture
Speaker 1: on my shirt with my own training, you know what,
Speaker 1: I got my little fit on and he got his
Speaker 1: no comfort zones and then you're gonna see the magic
Speaker 1: line that's out there too. Make sure you type in
Speaker 1: vitamin D fifteen to get your discounting. Is it fifteen
Speaker 1: per sent right? Yeah, for sure? And um, just as
Speaker 1: long as they're on the website and there is a
Speaker 1: promo code when they check out. Yeah, so it'll be
Speaker 1: a little space that you can enter a promo code
Speaker 1: before checkout. Okay, now you did say um orlin you said, Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't have expectations, but I'm wondering, what's the vision
Speaker 1: for own training. Man, the vision is just to do
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, but at a higher level. Um. When
Speaker 1: that comes to me as a personal trainer, obviously, I
Speaker 1: want to be the best personal trainer I can be,
Speaker 1: so that that involves me learning, so continuous learning. As
Speaker 1: far as the brand in general, UM, we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: pushing the on tapes. I love curating the workout playlist.
Speaker 1: It's another passion of mine. Um, We're gonna keep on
Speaker 1: pushing no comfort zones, keep on uh making you know,
Speaker 1: fire merge and whatnot. That's also a passion of mine.
Speaker 1: I just wanna do any and everything that I'm passionate about.
Speaker 1: And I now I don't think that Um, I don't
Speaker 1: think that I have a ceiling. I don't think that
Speaker 1: the brand has a ceiling. So yeah, I can't put
Speaker 1: magic instode of a bottle stop. I like that. Um,
Speaker 1: I like that old idea of the vision about not
Speaker 1: having ceilings. Now, for somebody that's that's listening in and
Speaker 1: they're perhaps interested in a training session or or working
Speaker 1: out with you, what is the process? What can they
Speaker 1: expect from the training session? UM? So how you can
Speaker 1: contact me? I have the site, same site that you
Speaker 1: can find the merchant on so own training dot Co
Speaker 1: you can message me on their UM. Outside of that
Speaker 1: on Instagram as well, Own training dot Co on Instagram
Speaker 1: UM you can message me on there as well. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I offered in person or virtue virtual.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, yeah, also virtual UM. So if
Speaker 1: you even if you're listening to this out of town,
Speaker 1: if you want to right, you can be anywhere to
Speaker 1: glow South Africa, Germany, Australia and Arctica catch it right.
Speaker 1: Those are a few ways that you can contact me
Speaker 1: as far as uh, like a typical session. Um, that
Speaker 1: all depends on goals, so whatever that person's goal is.
Speaker 1: So yes, I mean it's hard for me to like say,
Speaker 1: like what exactly what happened? Again, it all depends on goals, um,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna strive to reach those goals for sure,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna be striving one. Because I'll tell you this,
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I was nine because I probably
Speaker 1: was already dead. And I said, I used that loosely
Speaker 1: because I was working muscles that I forgot what's happening.
Speaker 1: So it's like my body is still shaking and recovering.
Speaker 1: But it was beautiful because you know, if you just
Speaker 1: think of atoms inside of our body, the electrical lights,
Speaker 1: that's what call is in the move and for everything
Speaker 1: to just be moving, it's amazing. Now you could ask
Speaker 1: my body and my muscles. He felt that was a
Speaker 1: different story. But I think if I would say to
Speaker 1: somebody that's looking into training with Latifa is to expect greatness.
Speaker 1: And essentially one, if you're listening to this, I want
Speaker 1: to salute you in sec congratulations because that means that
Speaker 1: you're taking your life to the next level. It means
Speaker 1: that you've decided to live your life on purpose and
Speaker 1: for a purpose, and that you acknowledge and recognize that
Speaker 1: you are your greatest asset. So shout out to you
Speaker 1: for doing what to do. But then also you know,
Speaker 1: coming in the sense of just showing up to your
Speaker 1: b as God dag it because it's something when you
Speaker 1: show it to a job and you can make whatever
Speaker 1: excuse to somebody else. But what you're gonna say when
Speaker 1: you're looking in the mirror, because when you think you
Speaker 1: want to stop, the only person looking back is you.
Speaker 1: What what I am training and I'm working out? I'm
Speaker 1: not anybody but Dawn, So then I have to ask myself, Dawn,
Speaker 1: how bad do you want it? What it is like
Speaker 1: the ultimate strength? Because it's everything that you have and
Speaker 1: everything that pass you think that you don't. And they're
Speaker 1: approaching each other. Then it's like, Okay, there's a glass
Speaker 1: half full and half empty. What is your perspective? How
Speaker 1: do you want to view it? How bad do you
Speaker 1: want it? Because you can sit here all day and
Speaker 1: say that you want greatness for your life. You can
Speaker 1: sit here all day say you want to do and
Speaker 1: be in the best shape of your life. You can
Speaker 1: sit here and all day and scream out how bad
Speaker 1: do you want it? But when it's time to show
Speaker 1: up for the test, are you ready to learn the lesson?
Speaker 1: And the lesson is is that you are your greatest asset.
Speaker 1: What are you putting into your life bank account? And
Speaker 1: I gotta be passionate about that because we're down fifty
Speaker 1: pounds now. Listen, I'm tripping outbum and eating a lot
Speaker 1: of food. That's not that's not a little bit of pounds,
Speaker 1: right right, right, that's facts. But you know, it comes
Speaker 1: to point of that grace that we talked about before,
Speaker 1: of just that forgiveness but understanding This process is a journey,
Speaker 1: and I think that goes for anything that we're doing.
Speaker 1: It's always a journey until there is a period. There's
Speaker 1: not a period until you take your last breath. So
Speaker 1: keep going. If you fall off, get back up, right shoe.
Speaker 1: That's all I tell myself. With that one push up
Speaker 1: turned into twelve ball? What much? So much stronger, so
Speaker 1: much stronger. I can feel it, and it's amazing because
Speaker 1: I've lost weight before. But I'm approaching people now and
Speaker 1: they're like, Yo, this brother, know what he's doing? Like
Speaker 1: doing you up here? You know? Things are sculpting, things
Speaker 1: are coming into formation. And I think that's to what
Speaker 1: to be said. Um, and a testament when you decide
Speaker 1: to take your health seriously and to to invest in
Speaker 1: a trainer. The fact that you guys can see pinpoint
Speaker 1: and to create because you're an artist, you're scolding up.
Speaker 1: It's almost like putting a puzzle together, like program program design. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fun to me. It's fun to me. So what's
Speaker 1: next with all training? Um? What's next? Um? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: continue learning, growing, becoming a better training So it's only
Speaker 1: gonna get better. So I'm gonna get better as far
Speaker 1: as the brand. Um, like I said, we're gonna continue
Speaker 1: on tapes drops once a month, once a month. So
Speaker 1: we just dropped on tape six, So on tape seven
Speaker 1: will be next of course. Um, and it's just again
Speaker 1: on tapes is just it's just vibes. It's just again
Speaker 1: through your workout. I want to I want you to dance,
Speaker 1: I want you to be happy, I want you to
Speaker 1: be sad. I want you to be motivated and inspired,
Speaker 1: like throughout the entire workout. So that could be new songs,
Speaker 1: it could be old songs, it could be rapid, could
Speaker 1: be R and B, it could be any genre. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's uh, that's on tapes. Um, as far
Speaker 1: as uh merch. It'll be another collection coming before the
Speaker 1: end of the year. You know, if you need a
Speaker 1: Carvey girl on there, you know you got me. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'll put it out the yard. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: I'm listening. I'm gonna hold you to it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hold you to it. But yeah, it it'll be another collection,
Speaker 1: um before the end of the year. Also, it will
Speaker 1: be Um, it hasn't been. This is actually like my
Speaker 1: first time like telling this to people outside of the
Speaker 1: you know, my inner circle. But um, it's also gonna
Speaker 1: be a group a group class Um that's gonna be coming.
Speaker 1: It's called n CCU No Comfort Zone University, No Comfort
Speaker 1: Zone University. So that's uh coming soon. So um if
Speaker 1: you want to pull up for a session, if you're
Speaker 1: in the l A area, in the l A area,
Speaker 1: so that that would be coming um sometime this summer. Um.
Speaker 1: Outside of that, like I said, March collect another collection
Speaker 1: to the drop before the end of the year. Y'all
Speaker 1: heard it right here now, if you've been listening for
Speaker 1: a while, you know that I have life tattered on
Speaker 1: the bottom my lip. Did you know that? Did you
Speaker 1: know I'm a gangster gangster on the low loud? You
Speaker 1: really do. I have lives tatting on my lift. And
Speaker 1: I did this years ago. And it was because it
Speaker 1: was just for me and speaking life people. You better
Speaker 1: know it. That was the whole, the whole motive behind it.
Speaker 1: It was just because that's my AMMO in life, is
Speaker 1: to to shed some light, to be like yo. You
Speaker 1: can do it, like yo, It's possible. But I always
Speaker 1: find myself in this little crux of you know, I
Speaker 1: want to be the inspirational but I'm just a messenger.
Speaker 1: Don't give me mixed up with the message meaning I'm human.
Speaker 1: So I always try to you know, not trying always
Speaker 1: makes you want to make sure that it's clear that
Speaker 1: I'm here to inspire to motivate. But I'm just done
Speaker 1: like I'm going to make my mistakes. And I use
Speaker 1: that loosely as a mistake. I'm making my learning lessons right,
Speaker 1: So I do things that are not status quo. In
Speaker 1: the minute you try to put me in the box,
Speaker 1: I'm more than likely going to disappoint you. No mistakes
Speaker 1: or losses. It's only lessons. Hello, And every lesson is
Speaker 1: a blessing. Every lesson is a blessing. So I'm curious,
Speaker 1: you know. I ask all my guests when they come
Speaker 1: in is to leave us with a dose of vitamin D,
Speaker 1: and never Vitamin D could be a quote. It could
Speaker 1: be a lyric, It could be a scripture. It could
Speaker 1: be whatever it is that you feel, could be your
Speaker 1: dose of light that you can give to other people.
Speaker 1: What would you say, Mr Letty without him training? MM,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm so dramatic, man. Two quotes come to mind,
Speaker 1: Give us one of them. I don't know the exact quote.
Speaker 1: It's on my wall because I have it on a
Speaker 1: sticky note. But the first one definitely would be. You know,
Speaker 1: great things don't come from comfort zones. Um. So again,
Speaker 1: I urge people scratch that itch. If you got, if
Speaker 1: you gotta, If something is nudging you, is telling you
Speaker 1: that you need to try something, do something, to attempt something,
Speaker 1: just do it. Um. You only got one life to live,
Speaker 1: only one life to live. So again, if you if
Speaker 1: you're feeling uncomfortable in the situation or job, whatever, you're
Speaker 1: probably in the right place. You're probably doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: You're gonna learn a lot, You're gonna grow a lot. Dang.
Speaker 1: I want to say the other quote, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to be perfect and something is having a perfect because
Speaker 1: you imagine if I wanted to do a perfect push up,
Speaker 1: just give it, just give me a give something on
Speaker 1: the lines of like a last it's like this old
Speaker 1: old quote that I found. Um it's but anyway, the
Speaker 1: base of it is is that it's something about like
Speaker 1: dying with all your music in you, and it pretty
Speaker 1: much is stating like you don't want to like die
Speaker 1: with all that you know what's inside of you. Um,
Speaker 1: Like we all can We all can see, So you know,
Speaker 1: it's I wish I would have reminds me. It's just
Speaker 1: saying like, um, they said, like the richest place in
Speaker 1: the world is a cemetery of how many people have
Speaker 1: died with their dreams. So it's like, rather than dying
Speaker 1: with your music, with your song, let it outside was empty. Yes,
Speaker 1: live life to the fullest. Let's see, if I know,
Speaker 1: just looking at my life and just getting to this
Speaker 1: point in my thirty some years. Um, And that's why
Speaker 1: I brought up Burnet Brown. I didn't realize probably how
Speaker 1: oftentime as we allow shame to dictate our life about
Speaker 1: what we will do, about what we won't do, things,
Speaker 1: we will say, things that we will go after basically
Speaker 1: just feeling like we're inadequate, whether they're showing up with
Speaker 1: that vulnerability of not knowing you're just showing up just
Speaker 1: because my god, when you show up. And it's just
Speaker 1: so interesting that sometimes we find different things to find
Speaker 1: shame or hide behind in shame, whether it's like simply oh,
Speaker 1: I don't have an outfit to wear working out, or oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard this. People feel like paying for
Speaker 1: a trainers too much money. We're talking about your life.
Speaker 1: And I always tell people to like, as far as
Speaker 1: personal training goes, Lebron James arguably the greatest basketball player ever.
Speaker 1: He has a personal trainer. He has coaches holding him accountable,
Speaker 1: leading him anything you do in life, Like, if you
Speaker 1: can get a coach or somebody to hold you accountable,
Speaker 1: you need to do it. And and a personal trainer
Speaker 1: is only gone enhance your life. Like trst me. It's
Speaker 1: only going to enhance your life. Like if you're gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, take your health seriously and stuff like that, Like,
Speaker 1: definitely get a personal trainer. And you guys are people
Speaker 1: literally standing on the sidelines to be like, hey, choose
Speaker 1: me so that I can help you live your best life.
Speaker 1: Hey choose me so I can ensure that you're living
Speaker 1: your best life? What mean? Yeah? And the excuses that
Speaker 1: oftentimes I think people make as a reason not tune us,
Speaker 1: like why wouldn't you? Yeah, I mean I definitely understand,
Speaker 1: you know, finances and stuff like that. But so there's
Speaker 1: virtual there's video types, there's there's so many things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's options. Is definitely options um to
Speaker 1: make that happen for sure, And so you heard it.
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Speaker 1: this brother is out here literally signing up so that
Speaker 1: you you you and you can live your best life.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna show up or not, You're gonna be
Speaker 1: great or not. You're getting out of them comfort zones
Speaker 1: are not. I'm really gonna like you need to be
Speaker 1: my hymn. So let's see. I'm looking up here so
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Speaker 1: I would also like to thank you for having me
Speaker 1: on here. Um. It was amazing. You're amazing. I always
Speaker 1: love your energy, I love working with you. Definitely keep
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Speaker 1: I said, I hope that you got from this conversation
Speaker 1: what it truly means to be that you are your
Speaker 1: greatest ass ad, what it truly means to show up
Speaker 1: for your dreams, and what it truly means with being
Speaker 1: comfortable with me uncomfortable because the magic happens outside of
Speaker 1: the comfort zone. All right, So you know you can
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