Speaker 1: Get your right right with me. I get excited about
Speaker 1: good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into
Speaker 1: the Vitamin D Podcast and you know I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Dawn Day, here to get you excited about your life
Speaker 1: here so that we can all live life on purpose
Speaker 1: and for a purpose here because you know, it's my
Speaker 1: dream honestly, and I'm glad that you're here, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad for this journey. And I guess that's something I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about, just about the journey
Speaker 1: of life. And you know I I do ever, so
Speaker 1: now then I do like a check in, just like
Speaker 1: a tapping, because I think oftentimes we need to check
Speaker 1: in ourselves what we're going, how we're doing. And as
Speaker 1: I'm on this journey of how my dreams and talking
Speaker 1: about how vitamin is the dream and how I got
Speaker 1: to expand with the dream, it just causes me to
Speaker 1: do some self reflection. You know, isn't it so interesting
Speaker 1: that um our eyes there on our front of our heads,
Speaker 1: our face, right, and it's so easy for to see
Speaker 1: everything in front of us except for our own reflection.
Speaker 1: And oftentimes, or I shouldn't say often, but sometimes we
Speaker 1: find ourselves running from the very thing that's right in
Speaker 1: front of us. And the thing is that we can
Speaker 1: keep on running, not realizing that we're not going anywhere fast.
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes it gets in the way of
Speaker 1: our dreams. I think sometimes it gets in the way
Speaker 1: of our careers. Um love anything that is an extension
Speaker 1: of us. And basically because we didn't choose to see it,
Speaker 1: we didn't choose to acknowledge it, but more importantly, we
Speaker 1: didn't choose to receive it. And I say that because
Speaker 1: when you look think about it, looking at yourself in
Speaker 1: the reflection, you have to stand there to receive what
Speaker 1: you see. But if you can't receive what you see,
Speaker 1: how can you be the gift that you were meant
Speaker 1: to be. Hence, that's why we're here in the present,
Speaker 1: right they say, no better time now than the present.
Speaker 1: They say, the gift is in the present. We understand
Speaker 1: all of these energies, these forces when we're forced to
Speaker 1: be in the presence. However, oftentimes it's hard for us
Speaker 1: to be in the presence of ourselves. So then I
Speaker 1: have to ask you, what do you really want? What
Speaker 1: do you want? Because if we are in a situation
Speaker 1: to see ourselves, how do we know what we need?
Speaker 1: How can you know what you do not see? Therefore,
Speaker 1: how can you be? And if you really think about it,
Speaker 1: that's the only assignment that we have right now is
Speaker 1: just to be. I'm talking to my assistant Jeremiah and
Speaker 1: talking about my plant in my home and he said,
Speaker 1: don you did you name me yet? I was like no.
Speaker 1: He was like, you should just make up a name,
Speaker 1: maybe like a Latin or Spanish name. And right now
Speaker 1: I'm all in this mode with this fragrance by East St. Laurent.
Speaker 1: It's called Libra and it's like free freedom. And I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, this goes along perfect with it, because
Speaker 1: when I first got the plant, um, it was bind
Speaker 1: it together for strings, these strings, so that it could
Speaker 1: look like it's standing straight up, right? Isn't that kind
Speaker 1: of like us? We put on these clothes, we put
Speaker 1: on these personalities, put on his hat, these glasses so
Speaker 1: we can have this look of who we are. And
Speaker 1: you know, Um, I had taken off the string a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks before that, So when he when we
Speaker 1: were talking about I was like, oh, that's perfect cause
Speaker 1: I was like here, I was so caught up and
Speaker 1: in this plant looking straight up, and I said, aren't
Speaker 1: we just supposed to be free? Free to be? Isn't
Speaker 1: that the beauty of looking at the reflection of how
Speaker 1: you just let it be and then receive it? And
Speaker 1: so I look at the beauty of my plan. Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm at home and I'm like, she's just free. So
Speaker 1: maybe her name is Leeve, right, but as just checking
Speaker 1: um and looking at my reflection, it's just time to
Speaker 1: really see who Dawn is. You're not scary, right because,
Speaker 1: like I said, your eyes are in front of you,
Speaker 1: so it's so easy to dictate and to see everything else.
Speaker 1: But what happens what you have to look at the
Speaker 1: person who looks like you. There's no denying it because
Speaker 1: it is what it is. And so that's why I
Speaker 1: ask you, what do you really want? Who do you
Speaker 1: want to be? Because you can't be what you cannot see.
Speaker 1: And if you're standing in front of yourself and you
Speaker 1: can't even see who you are, what is to say
Speaker 1: about those dreams that you had? What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Because you can say all day that this is you
Speaker 1: want to achieve, But if you are doing the proper
Speaker 1: check in of the self reflection to see where you've
Speaker 1: been where you're going, how you're doing, how do you
Speaker 1: know where you are? Where is the measurement. I did
Speaker 1: not say to look at what everyone else is doing,
Speaker 1: but more importantly, what are you doing? So I say, Dawn,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Because I talked about this before
Speaker 1: in a previous episode of Yes, and this is the
Speaker 1: Yes and season of Dawn is as I continue to
Speaker 1: build on the dream, I gotta check in with myself.
Speaker 1: I have to see myself the good and the bad.
Speaker 1: Remember when we talk about cutting on the light, it's
Speaker 1: the good and the bad, and you gotta receive you know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. Um. One of the people that has taught
Speaker 1: me to receive myself, to see myself is my mother.
Speaker 1: And you know it's Women's History Month. And to be told,
Speaker 1: I have avoided the whole idea of just talking about
Speaker 1: how amazing my mother was is because she resides in me. Um.
Speaker 1: I tried to record the episode and I got some
Speaker 1: emotional so crying, like all this kind of stuff, breathing
Speaker 1: the whole shebang bang. Um. But I wouldn't be where
Speaker 1: I am and who I am if it wasn't for her.
Speaker 1: And when you think about the whole idea of Women's
Speaker 1: History Month and celebrating every woman that has uh been
Speaker 1: affected or has touched your life. And I don't care
Speaker 1: where you are, where you live, A woman has affected
Speaker 1: your life because you are here. You're here and that's
Speaker 1: what my mother has taught me about my existence of
Speaker 1: being here and understanding that it matters. And that's when
Speaker 1: I do this check in about like Dawn, you matter,
Speaker 1: Your dreams matter. You knowing what you really want matters.
Speaker 1: You walking into yes and lifestyle matters. It matters that
Speaker 1: you want abundance, It matters that you want a family,
Speaker 1: It matters that you deserve love. And that's what I
Speaker 1: want you to see that it matters. You matter. But
Speaker 1: you can only matter if you choose to see yourself,
Speaker 1: see that those don't matter, they don't mind. Do you
Speaker 1: mind yourself? Because if you don't, why would your dream,
Speaker 1: why would that relationship, why would that house? Said that
Speaker 1: what you want, that car, those clothes? If you don't matter,
Speaker 1: how can you not matter when you are a piece
Speaker 1: of matter? So stop acting like you don't, Dawn. I
Speaker 1: said that to myself because you know, when we go
Speaker 1: opposite of what our dreams are, when we stand opposed
Speaker 1: to our word and our integrity. We're saying that we
Speaker 1: don't matter. And I'm here to tell you what Janice
Speaker 1: Hill told me is that you matter. You matter enough
Speaker 1: to take time to get to know yourself. Back up,
Speaker 1: You matter enough to take time to see yourself, see
Speaker 1: yourself in every season, the good, the bad, and the indifferent.
Speaker 1: You matter enough to have patience with yourself. Did you
Speaker 1: hear me to know to forgive yourself, to know that
Speaker 1: you don't have to be in the inside of a box,
Speaker 1: you know, being defined by someone else's definitions or measurements
Speaker 1: of who you are, because guess what you matter? That
Speaker 1: matter comes in all shapes and sizes, all types of forms, speaks,
Speaker 1: all types of languages, and all types of cues for
Speaker 1: it isn't just a reflection of you. Can you see yourself?
Speaker 1: You know? I think about um back in the day,
Speaker 1: there's this radio personality or media personality. Uh, probably doing
Speaker 1: a lot of what I'm doing, or I should say
Speaker 1: I'm doing a lot what she's doing. And my aunt
Speaker 1: she said, don you gotta check out Martha Jane the Queen.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to Jeremiah about it, and I
Speaker 1: was saying that she has this excerpt that was out,
Speaker 1: and she said, do you really want to make it?
Speaker 1: And it's like, do you really want to live? Do
Speaker 1: you really want to see yourself? Do you really think
Speaker 1: you matter? She goes, I want to talk about how
Speaker 1: life has its ups and downs and how basically, uh,
Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with receiving where
Speaker 1: you are right now, understanding where you want to go,
Speaker 1: and being patient with time because all you can is grow. See,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. We try to dictate a lot of things,
Speaker 1: and when it comes down, do you really want to
Speaker 1: make it with your dreams? Do you really want to
Speaker 1: make it with the relationship? Do you really want to
Speaker 1: make it to the point of your fitness? And oftentimes
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that we dig deep enough to unravel
Speaker 1: who it is that we are because we put these
Speaker 1: these uh structures on ourselves about what it is that
Speaker 1: we want. But if you are in the state to
Speaker 1: understand that you matter, why would you achieve it? Again?
Speaker 1: If you matter, you're going to mind yourself. Right. So
Speaker 1: with Martha Jane the Queen talked about do you really
Speaker 1: want to make it? I thought to myself, I said,
Speaker 1: don do you really want to make it? That's a
Speaker 1: true question. And I only say that because oftentimes we
Speaker 1: can find ourselves seeking something that we're not going after.
Speaker 1: And that's where the trickery comes in. It's almost saying like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to lose weight, I want to be in shape,
Speaker 1: but you're not eating the food. And and like I say, everything,
Speaker 1: depending on what kind of context you take it in.
Speaker 1: Faith without works is dead. You can't say that you
Speaker 1: want things to happen if you aren't taking the first step.
Speaker 1: You can't say that you want to lose weight and
Speaker 1: you and are not eating properly, you're not working out.
Speaker 1: You can't say that you want to be this multimillionaire
Speaker 1: and you aren't shaping your mind to put your investments
Speaker 1: in there to surround yourself around the white people. So
Speaker 1: that's what it means, Like do you really want to
Speaker 1: make it? Do you? Because that frustration that you may
Speaker 1: feel inside of you one you haven't done the check
Speaker 1: in to see what you really want because you've been
Speaker 1: running from yourself and you haven't had a chance to
Speaker 1: see yourself. And then there's this thing where you're telling
Speaker 1: a story to yourself. And I say storytelling this fiction
Speaker 1: of what you think the life is that you want,
Speaker 1: because your actions aren't saying that, and then you get
Speaker 1: frustrated because now you made these false promises and they
Speaker 1: become broken, and therefore you become broken, and now you're
Speaker 1: trying to spend all your life of trying to put
Speaker 1: the pieces back together. But you know, sometimes things fall
Speaker 1: apart so they can come back together again, and sometimes
Speaker 1: you realize that it's peace by piece that you can
Speaker 1: find your peace. Peace by peace, so that you can
Speaker 1: find your p E A c E. While you know,
Speaker 1: we can get hard on ourselves and not having the
Speaker 1: whole picture together, but sometimes it takes us to put
Speaker 1: the pieces together because we're not defined by the other
Speaker 1: people's lins. And just because we appear here does not
Speaker 1: mean that we stay here, and it does not mean
Speaker 1: that we don't evolutionize and grow. You're ready to grow
Speaker 1: because life got more for you. So that's what my
Speaker 1: check in has been, is just like it has life
Speaker 1: has for me and what it looks like, what it
Speaker 1: feels like, and my got the work that it takes
Speaker 1: to just believe and to breathe. And that's what I
Speaker 1: want for you, and that's what I'm hoping that vitamin
Speaker 1: D is doing for you just stop being scared in
Speaker 1: a moment. Understand that your reflection is all that you
Speaker 1: need to see. That's how you set yourself free. If
Speaker 1: you think about it, you know who you are and
Speaker 1: who you aren't. And and notice that you know I'm
Speaker 1: saying reflection and I'm not just talking about the whole
Speaker 1: idea with the physical in front of you. I mean
Speaker 1: what's inside. I mean, Beyonce said in her song she
Speaker 1: said find my way back. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: people be like, Dawn, I got these dreams, or Dawn,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I really want. And then people
Speaker 1: are like, hey, sit, sit, sit with yourself, take time
Speaker 1: to breathe, because it's all about finding your way back.
Speaker 1: Finding your way back is just being that joy. Let
Speaker 1: me say something, you know, I say it all the time,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say it again. I'm coming to the
Speaker 1: understanding of what the Bible has mean to me, as
Speaker 1: far as um, the scriptures, as far as uh, the
Speaker 1: the metaphors, the analogies of how two really receive it.
Speaker 1: So even in there when it says be an instrument
Speaker 1: of my piece, well, if we're made in the image
Speaker 1: of likeness, right my piece, I give something peace beyond
Speaker 1: to you, whatever the case may be. But if that
Speaker 1: pieces inside and if you notice people that are uber successful,
Speaker 1: and I'm not just talking about monetary I'm talking about
Speaker 1: just has a piece. They have a glow. They're doing
Speaker 1: what they love, they're being with who they love, and
Speaker 1: they're exercising that. See what do you do with an instrument?
Speaker 1: You play with it. So then it becomes what's your song?
Speaker 1: Is your song writing? Is it dancing? Is it volunteering?
Speaker 1: Is it technology? Is that recording? Is a singing? Is
Speaker 1: it acting? As it being a doctor? What is your song?
Speaker 1: Just play your song? And that's what it means to
Speaker 1: be the instrument of your peace. Just mind your peace.
Speaker 1: Like I said, piece by peace. So Dawn, how do
Speaker 1: I know what I want to do? Just find your
Speaker 1: way back, find the things that you love, the thing
Speaker 1: that you want to do, and see it. Stop judging
Speaker 1: and stop putting any type of restrictions on it. Remember
Speaker 1: I told you about the plant. It's just meant to
Speaker 1: be freaking you imagine. Okay, let's go back to the
Speaker 1: whole strip scripture moment for Jesus, God is saying, I
Speaker 1: am the light in the way. Could you imagine if
Speaker 1: your light was constricted m and honestly, truth be told,
Speaker 1: that's what I feel that religion does. Oftentimes you're trying
Speaker 1: to restrict the light. You're trying to tell me how
Speaker 1: I can get to the light. Who do you think
Speaker 1: that you are? Who is it? But wait, you forgot
Speaker 1: that the light was already inside of me? So who
Speaker 1: is it that you think that you are? But more importantly,
Speaker 1: who is it that you don't know who you are?
Speaker 1: I was also watching this new Disney film. It's called
Speaker 1: Riya and the Last Dragon, and it's so beautiful. I
Speaker 1: realized that that's my thing. Like when I'm having a
Speaker 1: stressful moment, I'm turning on a Disney animated film that
Speaker 1: just makes me feel good. But just as we're talking
Speaker 1: about the light, that's what the film was all about.
Speaker 1: It was about this girl in our realm. Let's just
Speaker 1: say she's going to all four corners of the earth,
Speaker 1: but she's going into her um, her village, trying to
Speaker 1: get Kamandra, and that's to get everyone together, all the
Speaker 1: pieces together. And this dragon ball it got bursted, and
Speaker 1: it comes with this light, and there's this plague of
Speaker 1: darkness that keeps coming and it comes by and turns
Speaker 1: people to stone. But when you have a piece of
Speaker 1: that light, she casts the light and anyone that has
Speaker 1: it and they run away. Could you imagine what will
Speaker 1: happen if you cast that you're light? Be an instrument
Speaker 1: of your peace. Find your way back. See when you
Speaker 1: are the source, you don't really have to seek the source.
Speaker 1: That's what it means when they say you are enough.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean by what I say. Do the
Speaker 1: check in and see yourself reflection, because this life will
Speaker 1: have you in a situation because falling just for your eyes,
Speaker 1: you're looking at what's in front of you, where you
Speaker 1: have to go, but not realizing where you are an
Speaker 1: already what you have. Truly when they say everything you
Speaker 1: want is inside of you, be an instrument of your peace.
Speaker 1: Play your song. The only thing that you're designed to
Speaker 1: do is to fine tune it. And if you got
Speaker 1: the light, no matter where you step, it will be light.
Speaker 1: Think about it. You can flash a light a star
Speaker 1: millions of miles away, can be seen through all the
Speaker 1: darkness and still managed to twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Speaker 1: How I wonder what you are? What are you? More importantly?
Speaker 1: Can you see it? Well, that's the check in. I
Speaker 1: just had to say, Hey, everything's going good in my way.
Speaker 1: Um ups and downs and all the way arounds, but
Speaker 1: it's good. And I'm in reflection season. I'm seeing a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm noticing what Dawn needs to do and I'm in
Speaker 1: the yes and and I hope you are too. And
Speaker 1: I just want to encourage you to keep listening in
Speaker 1: and checking in. In fact, if you have anything, shoot
Speaker 1: me an email Vitamin D at Dawn day speaks dot com.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You know, we take
Speaker 1: advice letters. I'm giving advice and you know I got
Speaker 1: my quick doses up where I'm taking the lyrics of
Speaker 1: music and inspiring people. So just hit me up. We
Speaker 1: got more. It's evolving, m I told you it's a
Speaker 1: new Dawn, It's a new day. Hi. Hi, So you're
Speaker 1: ready to play? Huh? You're ready to go on this
Speaker 1: journey because I believe in you. You know, when I
Speaker 1: was in eighth grade, I had this quote. It was entitled,
Speaker 1: I make myself what I am. I'll make it. Did
Speaker 1: you hear me? You make yourself who you are? What
Speaker 1: do you want? You better go check out Martha Jina
Speaker 1: queen and find out do you really want to make it?
Speaker 1: Because that make it could just be here coming in
Speaker 1: another day, adjusting your mind, setting your viewpoint, taking a
Speaker 1: minute to see yourself and say, hey, I see you,
Speaker 1: and you're worth it. You're worth it. I bet if
Speaker 1: a lot of people realized how much they're worth it,
Speaker 1: there's nothing they wouldn't do. There's nothing they wouldn't have,
Speaker 1: because when you know what you're worth is you know
Speaker 1: what you deserve, and then you'll know that if it
Speaker 1: doesn't serve you, what doesn't deserve you. Take a look
Speaker 1: at yourself, because you're beautiful. All right, Chiel, Let me
Speaker 1: get out of here, Let me get it going. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna how let you probably in a couple of days.
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